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Android: Sideloading unverifizierter Apps wird aufwändiger
Android-Apps können offenbar auch ohne Entwickler-Verifizierung bei Google per Sideload installiert werden. Der Ablauf soll aber aufwändiger werden als bisher.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk,
a designation usually reserved for foreign adversaries,
which bars companies that work with the Pentagon from working with Anthropic as well.
Anthropic is challenging this designation in court.
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Anthropic to challenge DOD's supply-chain label in court | TechCrunch
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he plans to challenge the Department of Defense's designation of the AI firm as a supply-chain risk. He claims most Anthropic customers are unaffected by the label.

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.

Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Rolling-Stones-Songs: BMG verklagt Anthropic wegen Verwendung für KI-Training
Der Rechteverwalter BMG wirft dem Anthropic umfassende Urheberrechtsverletzungen beim Training des KI-Chatbots Claude vor und reicht in den USA Klage ein.

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/anthropic-house-homeland-security-ai

Scoop: Anthropic meets with House Homeland Security behind closed doors
Anthropic is speaking with lawmakers on national security and AI as it sues the government over its "supply chain risk" designation.

Kindergeld per Mausklick: Wenn die Steuer-ID den Antrag überflüssig macht
Die Bundesregierung bringt das antragslose Kindergeld auf den Weg. Hinter der digitalen Bequemlichkeit verbirgt sich ein Ausbau staatlicher Datennutzung.

Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is "different" from other companies' (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/pentagon-anthropic-foreig…

Pentagon: Anthropic's foreign workforce poses security risks
The Defense Department is raising red flags about a key element of the AI industry — its reliance on global talent — as it moves to dismiss Anthropic's lawsuit.

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.

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.