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Tim Hudson, president of the cryptographic library that secures most of the public internet, on the architectural redesign for post-quantum (quantum-resistant) cryptography already underway, and the four shortfalls that will jam it.
A Nature paper describes a DNA system that solves small math by letting strands settle into their lowest-energy state, with biology as the real target, not faster silicon.
Jonathan Kanter, who led the DOJ's antitrust division through the Google search case, says the law already covers catastrophic-risk coordination. The harder question is who defines 'safety.'
Vals just raised $40M from Andreessen Horowitz to build private benchmarks that frontier models cannot train against, a bet that the next phase of AI evaluation has to move underground.
China's AI cloud sales force was given a 10 million yuan (about $1.4M) per-person quota. Half of one regional team quit rather than try.
Celestial was the third generation of Intel's Arc consumer graphics chip line and the only near-term pressure on Nvidia and AMD at the budget end of the market.
Tobi Lütke coined 'slop grenades' on a podcast this week for unchecked AI work his own April 2025 mandate produced, and a 2025 BetterUp/Stanford study pegs the cleanup at 3.4 hours per worker per month.
MILA (Quebec's Artificial Intelligence Institute) was vandalized during the Montreal AI summit, but the anti-AI graffiti still names data centers, not labs.
An SEC exemptive order (Release 34-106402) carves certain blockchain-based venues and the firms that provide their trading liquidity out of the law's definitions of stock exchanges and securities dealers for up to five years, and excludes
Companies pay a tax for every worker they hire, then get a write-off for the robots and software that replace them. RAND has a fix, and it is not the House bill being called a "robot tax."
A 450,000-prompt audit of 15 GPT models finds toxicity scores fall while a different kind of gender bias moves into safer territory, a pattern the authors call 'harm laundering.'
At Huawei Connect, Wang Tao framed AI training as a systems problem. The proof: a new Ascend 960DT chip, 4,096 of them wired into a single supernode training unit via 5,500 custom optical engines.