Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm
“It's just timestamps”: the decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.
Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm
“It's just timestamps”: the decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.
CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning after taking over the federal AI testing institute in April; NIST Director Arvind Raman will serve as the acting director
Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is resigning just three months after taking …
An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date
In April 2026, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) evaluated the open-weight AI model DeepSeek V4 Pro ("DeepSeek V4").
NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse
The National Vulnerability Database will now only analyze vulnerabilities in critical software, systems used in the federal government and those under active exploitation.
Sources: NIST didn't publish an AI safety report and several other AI documents near the end of Biden's term for fear of clashing with the Trump administration
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term …
A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017
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The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of “AI safety” and “AI fairness” and prioritizes “reducing ideological bias” in models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to give the US AI Safety Institute early access to major new AI models to test and evaluate their capabilities and risks
which Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : There was no way governments (rightly or wrongly) were going to allow the next steps in AI that are going to fundamentally reshape society without having a massive say ...