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Play-Systemupdate: Android synchronisiert optional Downloads in Google Drive
Google liefert mit dem Februar-Update neue Android-Funktionen über Play-Store und -Dienste. Unter anderem können Downloads in Google Drive gesichert werden.

Cenozoic evolution of earth’s strongest geoid low illuminates mantle dynamics beneath #Antarctica: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28606-1 -> Beneath Antarctica - the deep-time story behind Earth’s largest “gravity low”: https://www.ipgp.fr/en/news-and-agenda/news/beneath-antarctica-the-deep-time-story-behind-earths-largest-gravity-low/ -> Antarctica’s ‘Gravity Hole’ Has Been Quietly Growing Stronger: https://gizmodo.com/antarcticas-gravity-hole-has-been-quietly-growing-stronger-2000722955 - scientists aren't fully sure what this means for Antarctica's future, however.

Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and "Glimmer" UI design language (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/16/android-xr-glasses-ui/

Here’s how you’ll control and navigate Android XR glasses
Android XR glasses are coming in 2026. Here’s what you can expect from the user interface and experience...

KI für Waffen und Überwachung: Pentagon droht Anthropic mit Sanktionen
Das Pentagon und Anthropic verhandeln gegenwärtig, wie Claude beim US-Militär eingesetzt werden kann. Wegen der roten Linien der KI-Firma droht das Pentagon.

Filing: the DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its "red lines" (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/department-of-defense-responds-to-anthropic-…

Justice Department Says Anthropic Can’t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems
In response to Anthropic’s lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit how its Claude AI models could be used by the military.

Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft $80B total to run its models on their servers through 2029, plus an additional $100B for training costs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-sweetens-deal-cloud-providers

How Anthropic Sweetens the Deal for Its Cloud Providers
Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029, according to the startup’s most optimistic recent forecasts. That’s not the only way the tech giants can make money from Anthropic: They get a cut of the revenue ...

Anthropic releases a survey of 80,508 Claude users' views, hopes, and fears about AI, calling it "the largest and most multilingual qualitative study" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews

What 81,000 people want from AI
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, consistency, and more, for Free and Pro users; it features a 1M token context window in beta (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6

Introducing Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M; it passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025 (Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/andromeda-ai-compute-startup-raises-60m
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AI Compute Startup Andromeda Raises $60M At $1.5B Valuation
Led by Wil Moushey, the startup is backed by Paradigm and NFDG, the firm founded by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, and connects leading AI startups to GPU access.

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/anthropic-taps-for…

Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion | TechCrunch
Irina Ghose joins Anthropic as India managing director after 24 years at Microsoft.