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Sources: the White House is preparing an executive order formally instructing federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tools (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/09/trump-white-house-anthropic-executive-order

Scoop: White House readies executive order to weed out Anthropic
The move would escalate the administration's fight with Anthropic and formalize a broader push to remove Claude.

When Anthropic’s AI isn’t being used to mass murder schoolgirls in Iran, it’s helping Mozilla improve Firefox.
So it’s not all bad, surely.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team  | The Mozilla Blog
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,

KI-Firmen duellieren sich bei Super-Bowl-Werbung
OpenAI und Anthropic haben ihre Rivalität in teure Werbespots beim Super Bowl getragen. Anthropic stichelte gegen Werbung in KI-Software.
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A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creation and AI product promotion (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/super-bowl-60-ai-ads-svedka-a…

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-claims-business-is-…

Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions
Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning that the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.

KI-Update kompakt: Rückendeckung für Anthropic, Firefox, Urheberrecht, Netflix
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
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Source: Spark Capital, the first VC firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising about $3B in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-backer-spark-c…

Anthropic Backer Spark Capital Targets $3 Billion in New Funds
Spark Capital, the first venture firm to back Anthropic, is in the process of raising about $3 billion in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fundraise. The fundraising target will test investor demand in a ...

A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creations and AI product promotion (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/super-bowl-60-ai-ads-svedka-…

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-deepmind-employees-file-amicus…

OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government
Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.

a16z raises over $15B across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund and $3B for unspecified "other venture strategies" (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/09/andreessen-horowitz-15-billion-for-new-funds

Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion for new funds
It's a major boost for the U.S. VC market, after its weakest fundraising year since 2017.