Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST ECDSA Curve Seeds to a 1990S RNG
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team reported in a research publication on October 16, 2026, that an internal Claude research model had traced the origins of the NIST ECDSA curve seeds to the C library’s lrand48 random-number generator seeded with Unix timestamps, answering a provenance question that had been open since the NSA supplied the values without…
Anthropic Says Claude Beat Best Published Quantum Circuit Designs
In a research post published October 16, 2026, Anthropic reported that its Claude Mythos 5 model, working in a closed loop with an automated evaluator and largely on its own, designed quantum circuits that improve on the best previously published circuits across eight computational primitives, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more….
Audian Paxson, Principal Technical Strategist at IRONSCALES – Interview Series
Audian Paxson, Principal Technical Strategist at IRONSCALES, is a cybersecurity and product strategy veteran with more than two decades of experience spanning email security, threat detection, networking, and enterprise technology. At IRONSCALES, he focuses on product launches, messaging and positioning, go-to-market strategy, and thought leadership around the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to…
RapidCanvas Raises $29M Series B to Scale Enterprise AI Delivery
RapidCanvas has raised $29 million in Series B funding to expand a business built around a persistent enterprise AI problem: getting useful applications into production, then keeping them working as the business changes. The round was led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with participation from Hitachi Ventures. Existing investors Accel, Peak XV Partners, Valley…
Gintare Rimolaityte, CEO and Co-Founder of Trendos – Interview Series
Gintare Rimolaityte is the CEO and co-founder of Trendos, the AI search visibility platform that helps brands understand and optimize how they appear across LLMs. She gained early experience at Oxylabs in 2020, first as Business Development Manager and then as Head of Commerce, where she led Sales, Business Development, Account Management, and Customer Success…
Fostering community amid Kendall Square’s innovation
Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is often cited as the most innovative square mile in the world. But when the Kendall Square Association gathered local stakeholders for its 18th Annual Meeting Thursday, the conversation focused on innovation primarily in the context of community. The event, which took place at the nonprofit startup incubator The Engine,…
AI Is Getting Smarter; Coherence Is Getting Harder
I have spent my whole career trying to understand intelligence. I studied neuroscience because I was interested in AI and figured that learning how the brain works first was a good way to begin. Intelligence first, before “artificial” intelligence. That training left me with a habit. When a new capability or technology arrives, my first…
Reflection Releases Beam’s Open Weights Under Apache 2.0 License
Reflection released the weights for Beam, its first open-weight model, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license on October 16, 2026, and Baseten brought the 501B-parameter mixture-of-experts model to its platform with day-0 support through Model APIs and Dedicated Inference. Reflection first introduced Beam on October 5, 2026, while the model was undergoing final…
Custom AI Agents Built by Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Lawyers, Harvey Says
Harvey announced on October 16, 2026 that law firm Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has adopted its platform across the firm’s Corporate & Finance, Litigation & Arbitration, and Regulatory/IP practice groups, the same day the firm unveiled a firmwide AI strategy built on signed agreements with Harvey and Legora. Practice-Group Rollout and Custom Agents According to Harvey,…
AI Often Cites Web Pages It Has Never Even Read
Sometimes a paper emerges from the day’s literature stream that really gets my blood up – not because it is inaccurate or offensive, but because it notices and studies something that has been annoying me at the periphery of my awareness for a long time, in a vague and non-specific way (perhaps because I was…