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Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/2…

Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…

Meta reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $60.8B and family daily active people up 3% to 3.6B on average for June 2026; META drops 4% after hours (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/202…

Meta Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. "AI is accelerating our core business today, powering our next generation of products, and opening the door to entirely new enterprise opportunities," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The results are already showing, and I'm optimistic about the potential ahead." Second Quarter 2026 Financial Highlights Three Months Ended June 30, % Change In millions, except percentages and …

"General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian"
When people don’t understand a system, they try to regulate it.
#ai #debian #opensource

An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

Prediction Markets Should Be Regulated as Gambling, Appeals Court Says
The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision. Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.

Sen. Blumenthal-led report: Tether's USDT is central to Iran's shadow banking system; 87% of 757 "terrorism"-related wallets predominantly transacted in USDT (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/20

Tether’s USDT at center of Iran’s shadow banking network, new Senate Report says
In the 28-page report, Sen. Blumenthal said the panel's Democratic investigators analyzed blockchain transaction data from 846 crypto wallets that had been sanctioned and associated with Iran.

Sources: some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trump-admi…

Trump Administration Executive Order for New AI Regulator Stalls
The Trump administration has internally circulated a draft executive order in recent weeks, calling for the creation of a self-regulatory organization for AI companies that produce state-of-the-art models, according to two people who have viewed a draft. Drafting of the order represents a ...

After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new federal AI rules, says "we automatically have regulation" via DOJ and FBI but "self-regulation is very important" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Florida AG James Uthmeier files for an emergency injunction against OpenAI and ChatGPT, asserting the company cannot adequately self-regulate its tech (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/28/florida-openai-chatgpt-injunction-uthmeier

Florida asks for emergency order to halt ChatGPT development
Florida's attorney general says the company doesn't have the ability to properly regulate its own technology.

Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/u-s

Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a "noindex" tag (Maddy Varner/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-expo…

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.