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5 storiesThe short versionMostly Anthropic research, plus Amazon shutting Grok Bot's orders out.Full rundown
Anthropic published four things in a day. Claude traced the NSA's unexplained NIST curve seeds to a 1990s random generator and the time of day. Claude Mythos 5 designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones on all eight tasks. Its own hiring data shows junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of technical hires, and a survey found 91% of its staff expect a Nobel-level AI discovery by 2030, against 39% of Americans.
Grok Bot users said Amazon was blocking their orders, and Musk floated starting an Amazon rival. Jay Clayton said Trump's AI task force set up three subcommittees at its first meeting.
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Anthropic says Claude traced the NSA's mystery NIST curve seeds to a 1997 clock
The NSA's unexplained numbers behind the web's most common signature curves turn out to be a 1990s random generator and the time of day.
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Anthropic says Claude designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones on eight tasks
One design for the quantum attack on elliptic-curve keys needs 17 times fewer gates than the best one published, after a 53-hour run.
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Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires
The company that sells the agents says its own engineers now produce five times the code, and it needs fewer of them starting out.
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91% of Anthropic staff expect a Nobel-level AI discovery by 2030, but 39% of Americans do
Asked to forecast unemployment, Americans and Anthropic employees reason the same way, and only their sense of what AI will do differs.
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Grok Bot users say Amazon blocks their orders, and Musk floats an Amazon rival
Amazon's own terms let it shut any shopping agent out of its store, and say agents must name themselves when they come in.
Running stories2
Photo: Biodin, CC BY-SA 4.0Grok Bot, Musk's shopping agent
- Oct 17Grok Bot users say Amazon blocks their orders, and Musk floats an Amazon rival
- Oct 15Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot's purchase mistakes, but its terms say customers pay
- Oct 11Musk says Grok Bot can shop for you from a photo of your credit card
Trump's Super Intelligence Force
- Oct 17Jay Clayton says Trump's AI task force formed three subcommittees at its first meeting
- Oct 4Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force, reporting to him and Wiles
- Sep 20Trump is forming an AI Force, but he calls the push to slow AI a hoax
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DeepSeekNew model repo: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
DeepSeek posted V4.1-Flash-1017 on Hugging Face under the MIT license, a minor update to V4.1 Flash that it says lifts its Terminal-Bench 4.0 score from 31.2 to 42.3. huggingface.co →
From the labs' own feeds5
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