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The best Stratechery content from the week of June 8, 2026, including Apple finally shipping Intelligence, Anthropic's fable, and the future of European industry
An interview with Ben Bajarin about WWDC and the status of the AI compute industry
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Ten years since the MP was assassinated, our political climate has only worsened
Armed Forces minister Al Carns and a couple of junior frontbenchers followed the Defence Secretary John Healey in resigning from government last night. Healey's accusation was a stinging one - that Keir Starmer is failing to commit to keeping the nation safe from attack. That, after Starmer pledged only a few months ago to put "petty politics" to one side and be bold on British defence. He now faces a testing week like no other. His Defence Investment Plan, long delayed. is due to be launched...
Around lunch time today, as The News Agents were battling their own excitement in the shape of a fire drill, the Defence Secretary suddenly resigned without warning. He left with a devastating critique of the Starmer government failures in his wake. The loyal and highly regarded Healey resigned out of frustration that promises made on defence spending weren’t being kept. And that the Prime Minister wouldn’t even set a date for the increases to happen. Has Starmer “failed to keep the country s...
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