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Anthropic Gives Employee-Like Access to Six Independent METR Evaluators
Anthropic announced that six METR researchers now have internal access to evaluate risks in its models, with the right to publish their conclusions.
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Artificial intelligence news: launches, tools and user projects, with a focus on reverse engineering and games.
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Anthropic: Claude works out how the NIST ECDSA curve seeds were generated
A 26-year-old cryptography mystery has an answer: per Anthropic, the seeds came from a pseudorandom generator started from a timestamp, not from a hashed phrase.
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decomp.dev shuts down: admin says AI broke the game decompilation community
decomp.dev, which tracked volunteers rebuilding the code of commercial games, announced its end. The admin says AI made decompilation too fast and hollowed out the community side.
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Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to developers and the Gemini app two weeks after its limited debut
Gemini 4 Argon, Google's frontier model, is now available on the paid Gemini API and in the Gemini app for Pro and Ultra subscribers. Its September 30 debut was limited to cybersecurity partners.
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AI has become a reverse-engineering tool: REA, Photoshop clones in Rust and old games rebuilt
Tools that connect AI agents to reverse-engineering software blew up on GitHub, and a developer released Photoshop clones in Rust built with Claude. The results are impressive, but the limits are clear.
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Super Smash Bros. Melee is 100% decompiled after six years, and AI's role divides fans
All 19,828 functions of the GameCube classic were rebuilt into code that produces an executable identical to the original. AI's part in the final stretch split the community.