I’m going to hold off on using the term artificial intelligence to describe this current generation of products and just call them what they are: language models. Until they gain mathematical and symbolic reasoning skills, the term “intelligence” is a stretch.

Fascinating House Judiciary hearing going on live right now: Influence on Americans' Data Through the CLOUD Act. Big focus on the UK and Apple's E2E backup system. youtube.com/watch?v=QJgwA8…

BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here's what Apple discovered: (hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)

On the other hand, mathematics is just a very rigorous language. scientificamerican.com/article/inside…

Did they fix text editing?

It’s great to see Cloudflare continue to invest in cutting-edge cryptography projects like this. This use case was one of the reasons I got involved with MLS years ago. Now, if only WebCrypto supported HPKE so Cloudflare could move away from this Wasm crypto that can’t be

Good read: a detailed and accessible report published on @chinafile by Jessica Batke and Laura Edelson on China's internet censorship system, known as the "Locknet" locknet.chinafile.com/the-locknet/in…

For those people asking for my slides from my recent post-quantum keynote, I’ve posted them on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/ntsulliv…

Racing the Quantum Apocalypse Can a band of mathematicians and engineers avert the technological crisis? Written by George Steptoe thearray.hitachivantara.com/en-us/feature/…

The digital identity space is approaching a dangerous precipice. newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2025/t…

Continuing our look at the Enigma track talks is "Fighting Fire with Venom: Adversarial Defense Against Unauthorized Web Crawling," presented by independent technologist Nick Sullivan. 1/3

Tomorrow on USENIX Security’s Enigma track, I’ll unveil Venom, a new tool framework to sting back at rogue AI web crawlers with some adversarial mischief. If you’re around Seattle, come say hi or ping me! usenix.org/conference/use…

My Brooklyn Nets season tickets might be filled with lot of hate watching this year now that MPJ is the team’s highest-paid player.

Intent matters in crawling. I’m glad to see the IETF stepping up to help websites and crawlers negotiate a shared future. research.contrary.com/deep-dive/deba… ietf.org/blog/ai-pref-p…

Thrilled to personally welcome Nick Sullivan as an advisor to Silence Laboratories . I’ve long admired Nick’s work at Cloudflare and Apple , and it’s inspiring to have him guide us as we build the next chapter of privacy-preserving cryptographic systems. Excited for the journey