On today’s show Ben and Andrew begin with initial reactions to Meta’s settlement with 29 states, including behavioral remedies that will impose restrictions on teens using Facebook and Instagram. From there: Reactions to a report that Nvidia is set to acquire HuggingFace, including why a robust open source ecosystem looks increasingly urgent for Nvidia, and why OpenAI’s surprisingly impressive jalapeño chip underscores the point. At the end: Netflix pivots from a longstanding refusal to funnel customers to rivals, F1’s declining ratings on AppleTV, ESPN abandons the bottom line for college football, Stanley Druckenmiller uses AI for his Wall Street Journal op ed, a vibe coding question (and more adventures with Ben’s over-engineered psychosis), a coffee pot question, parameter sizes and the mysteries of model performance, and a hurling PSA yields an appreciation for various sports on TV.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm

@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube

@Stratechery Channel — YouTube

Meta to Pay up to $18 Billion in Settlement With States Over Social-Media Addiction Claims — Variety

Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Sure His Competitors Share His Pain — New York Times

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup — Slate Star Codex

Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source AI Platform Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion — The Information

The Biggest Dogs in Streaming Want You to Use Only Their App — New York Times

Analysis shows F1 viewership on Apple TV down significantly from ESPN — Awful Announcing

ESPN Removing BottomLine Ticker on College Football Games — Front Office Sports

Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI — NOTUS

The Magic of Hurling — YouTube

Get all episodes of Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Greatest of All Talk, Asianometry and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $15/month or $150/year.