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So either the current or next generation of models is the last time the general public will ever get access to the frontier from the US labs, right?
This is a great question.
I, for one, have been using thousands of dollars per month in AI inference and I haven't been able to get it to turn a profit yet.
It's built me some *really cool* dashboards though.
You know how when you meet up with someone you haven't seen since high school and they're like:
Them: "What do you do for work?"
You: "Computer security"
Them: "Oh cool! Can you help me hack so-and-so's facebook?"
You: "No"
Well now those same people will just ask GLM 5.3 instead.
jfk
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Replying to @valkenburgh
I think that’s a very rude way to refer to AT&T’s core network.
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CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
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Hugely important point
a16z crypto's Eddy Lazzarin and Stanford's Dan Boneh on how AI's math leap could turn a decade of trust-building in cryptography into one month:
Eddy: "We specifically rely in some sense on time... We put these schemes out and we wait. And we wait because what we believe is happening is that experts, like cryptographers and mathematicians, are testing and trying to break these things."
"Because of the pace of progress on AI's mathematical abilities, there is a conspicuous absence of time... A whole new well of cognitive ability to scrutinize has appeared."
Dan: "In the past, when someone would make an assumption and build a system based on it, we'd have to wait like 10 years before that system could be deployed."
"Now we can just let a model run for a month, try to break it, and if the model can't break it, boy, do we have a lot of confidence that the assumption is valid."
Eddy: "The labs can say, 'We took our tip-top, totally unrestricted, most cyber-capable model, and we told it to go absolutely insane, and we spent $20 million, $50 million trying to break this scheme.'"
"We actually have the prospect to have more confidence in our security than ever before."
@eddylazzarin @danboneh
onewayfunction retweeted
Elon bought 140 characters and delivered flying cars. The future has arrived
This address has the largest native ETH balance of all unverified contracts on ethereum:
0xAFCD96e580138CFa2332C632E66308eACD45C5dA
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Replying to @Felbloodreaper @gadievron
I think Anthropic play here is:
1. Force western labs to keep frontier models private, gaining RSI cycles advantage and making it harder for China to catch up by distilling.
2. Heavily restrict open weights models as "unsafe".
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This is what I have been telling everyone who will listen.
The most valuable thing the frontier labs can now do for crypto (and math more broadly) is publish their *negative* results. What ideas they tried, how much compute they used, and what obstacles they found.
Replying to @matthew_d_green
And specifically for cryptanalysts who are working with models and for the labs:
Folks, what we need right now are *negative* results. Silence is the worst thing you could be publishing.
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Presenting: "Small, But Not Zero"
An opera explaining the integer multiplication math journey up to this point.
Validated and merged Rohan's PR. Big gain on a really difficult regime (that frankly I was stuck at). Incredible work.
κ = 2⁻¹⁵ (tightened from κ = 2⁻¹⁸²)
A 500 thousand fold improvement over the previous result and a 2 ^ 167 fold improvement over the original OpenAI result.
This result was a true community effort that combined techniques from a number of contributors. I want to take time to highlight each of them, but for now getting these results verified and published as fast as possible so everyone working on the problem is at the leading edge.
Should we hold an AI cryptographic competition? In the event that AI breaks crypto --- something we have no evidence for other than folks who don't know what they are talking about trying to sell you something or make it about them --- can AI make new cryptography? Can AI make new assumptions, hash functions, or symmetric ciphers?

























