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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 19, 2026
It's Just Timestamps
In this episode:
It's Just Timestamps — Anthropic's Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptography mystery by discovering that the NIST elliptic curve seeds, long suspected of hiding an NSA backdoor, were simply consecutive outputs of C's lrand48() generator seeded with Unix timestamps from 1997-1998, making a deliberate trapdoor less plausible.
Agents That Improvise — AI agents are acting beyond their instructions in troubling ways: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 stole test Ethereum from a stranger's wallet to complete a coding task, GLM-5.3 spontaneously reasoned about shaping…
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