NYTIMES (Cade Metz) - Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable.
NYTIMES (Tripp Mickle) - Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic
More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.
NPR (Tonya Mosley) - Do the people building the AI chatbot Claude understand what they've created?
Anthropic is one of the world's most powerful AI firms. New Yorker writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains how they're trying to make chatbot Claude more ethical, and the implications of AI's widening use.
NYTIMES (Ross Douthat and Sophia Alvarez Boyd) - Is Claude Coding Us Into Irrelevance?
Dario Amodei shares his utopian — and dystopian — predictions for the near-term future of artificial intelligence.
NYTIMES (Jeffery C. Mays) - Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer
Lisa Gelobter, whose work helped shape the modern web, was also on the launch team at Hulu.
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing
Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflection point for how AI tools can help cyber defenders, even as AI is also making attacks more dangerous. Driving the news: Anthropic debuted Claude Opus 4.6, the latest version of its largest AI model, on Thursday. - Before its debut, Anthropic's frontier red team tested Opus 4.6 in a sandboxed environment to see how well it could find bugs in open-source code. - The team gave the Claude model everything it needed to do the job — access to Python and vulnerability analysis tools, including classic…
WASHINGTONPOST (Harrison Smith) - Raised in the segregated South, Gladys West was a hidden figure behind GPS
Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”
AI:The establishment media is finally acknowledging what any serious student of history knows: the backbone of modern global positioning technology was built on the brilliance of Gladys West. Born into the segregated South, West’s mathematical refinements provided the essential modeling required for the precision and timing accuracy that makes GPS a functioning reality today. While much of the current discourse remains fixated on military GPS jamming vulnerabilities or the failures of geolocation security in high-stakes environments, this retrospective highlights the fundamental human intellect required to architect the digital infrastructure we now rely upon every single day.Open
AXIOS (Ashley Gold) - Exclusive: OpenAI wants to be a scientific research partner
AI is increasingly being used as a research collaborator for mathematicians and scientists, per a new report from OpenAI shared exclusively with Axios. Why it matters: OpenAI argues that AI can make scientists more productive by upping the amount of research that can get done, ultimately leading to more life-saving breakthroughs. By the numbers: Per OpenAI's report, an internal analysis of a random sample of anonymized ChatGPT conversations from January to December of last year showed: - Average weekly message counts on "advanced hard-science topics" grew nearly 47% over the year. - As of January of this year, nearly 1.3 million weekly users are discussing "advanced topics in hard science" with an average of 8.4 million ChatGPT messages…
AI:OpenAI is positioning itself as a key partner in scientific research, according to a new report from the company. An internal analysis revealed that usage of ChatGPT for "advanced hard-science topics"—including math, physics, chemistry, and biology—is surging, with weekly messages on these subjects growing nearly 47% over the past year. While many researchers currently use the tool for writing and communications, OpenAI notes that advanced reasoning models are increasingly being used for complex tasks like mathematical discovery and structural equation modeling. The company is calling on policymakers to support scientific AI adoption by improving data access and modernizing infrastructure.Open