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Anthropic raised a $13B Series F led by Iconiq at a $183B post-money valuation, up from $61.5B in March 2025, and says it has a $5B revenue run-rate (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation

Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation
Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment reflects Anthropic’s continued momentum and reinforces our position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers, and power users.

Google stellt klar: Sideloading auf Android bleibt erhalten
Google sagt, dass "Sideloading für Android von fundamentaler Bedeutung ist" und nicht verschwinden wird. Unklarheiten bleiben dennoch. 
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Tipp: Datum konvertieren mit KI – oder anders
Ihr Text enthält Datumsangaben aus einer fremden Sprache? Mit etwas KI ist das schnell erledigt – oder alternativ auch mit anderen Tricks.
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Fire TV Sticks: Neues Betriebssystem Vega wohl nur Alternative zu Android
Amazon hat einen ersten Fire TV Stick angekündigt, der mit eigenem Vega-Betriebssystem läuft. Doch auch in Zukunft sollen Android-Alternativen verfügbar sein.

Q&A with Marc Andreessen and investor Charlie Songhurst on Silicon Valley's past, present, and future, AI, productivity, Stripe, crypto, Musk, media, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/marc-andreessen-and-charlie-songhurst

Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, sits down for a Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Charlie Songhurst to discuss the history of Silicon Valley, spotting bubbles in real time, the “Elon method” of management, and why the mistakes that haunt you are the companies you don’t invest in.

Anthropic details "persona vectors", patterns of activity within an AI model's neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Android: Millionenurteil gegen Google wegen Datenübertragung im Hintergrund

Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude
OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.

Autobranche: Stellenabbau bei ZFs Antriebssparte
Der befürchtete Verkauf der "Division E" des Autozulieferers ZF Friedrichshafen ist vom Tisch, doch auf die Belegschaft kommen "harte Einschnitte" zu.
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Anthropic hires former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new CTO, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/anthropic-hires-new-cto-with-focu…

Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure | TechCrunch
As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company's product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams.