Anthropic's Claude Traces NIST Curve Seeds to a 1997 Unix Clock
Anthropic says Claude traced the seeds behind the NIST elliptic curves to a Unix-timestamp-seeded random number generator in under half an hour, and the same post lists what it still can't explain, so the tension is how much comfort a recovered timestamp can actually buy. The rest of the day covers a minor-labeled DeepSeek update with vendor-reported agent benchmark jumps, a reported ten-percent-plus yield on Anthropic's $60B TPU debt, persistent cloud agents and how Anthropic reviews agent-written code, a proposed bill on blocking model releases, and a handful of shorter stories.
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