Andy Halliday

And that's just one of the methods.

And I'm sure there are comparable methods in the other frontier models, but now the actual details of how anthropic does that have been revealed.

Yeah.

It was an internal mistake.

I think Axios had some kind of tangential opportunity to lay claim to it, but there was just a publishing error by an employee inside Anthropic is what I understand.

Gotcha.

Yeah, on the subject of security, I have news from a publication yesterday by Google Quantum, the Google Quantum team, that they've now, through their research, determined that the number of physical quantum qubits that are necessary to break Bitcoin and Ethereum encryption

it has been reduced in their mathematically proven methods algorithmically from 9 million qubits, which is a kind of a, you know, way out there future possibility that there might be 10 order of magnitude, 10 million qubit, uh, quantum systems down to 500,000, which is a 20 X improvement roughly.

Right.

So, uh,

They're saying that a future machine and they've accelerated the timeline for arrival at that future machine to 2029.

It was previously out beyond 2030.

It could break.

Quantum, not quantum resistant encryption, but it could break the current methods of encryption that are protecting crypto and lots of other banking transactions.

And, you know, there's some...

gobbledygook that I don't understand about what that encryption methodology is.

But they could break it in nine minutes, which is relevant because a crypto transaction takes about 10 minutes to propagate through the blockchain.

And so it doesn't get settled completely for 10 minutes.

So what could happen is even before completion of a transaction that's transferring funds from one to another, even before that's completed, a quantum system of this design could break that and figure out how to intercept it and basically steal that money.

No such machine exists today.