Tracking Code, Truthful AI, and Quantum Threats

Okay, so there is this steganographic code that has been detected inside of some Claude models, and so we'll talk about that.

And we'll talk about a brand-new FTC policy that is interesting for a variety of reasons.

And then we've got some developments in quantum and questions now about whether we have already a situation on our hands where anything online might be at risk of no longer being able to stay secret.

So let's go ahead and start with our, you know, door number one.

Sounds great.

And so that's the Anthropic topic.

An- the Anthropic topic.

Say that three times fast.

That's good.

And that, [laughs] and that relates to Claude Code.

But honestly, you know, I can't remember the last time that we kicked off an episode without some news about Anthropic.

So that's-- we're, we're staying strong on theme.

They're doing a lot between that and, uh, OpenAI and five, six, and everything else.

Things are happening.

And by the way, we haven't even talked about China and what China's doing with its own models, going back the other way and switching away from American models.

We'll have to save that for next week.

But let's-- talking about now Claude Code, you know, Claude Code is the Anthropic coding assistant, which is agentic, and it can do so much and is wildly popular with not just developers but a variety of people who are now able to develop through vibe coding and everything else.

And Claude Code can run files, read your files, run your files, run commands, edit your code, suggest modifications to code, test code, and access repositories directly.

And we've got this Claude Code out there, and on June thirtieth, there was an independent researcher who published a reverse engineering writeup of the code, and he was looking at the code for s- various purposes.

And he set off a firestorm because he claimed that Anthropic, through Claude Code, was actually secretly tracking Chinese users.

And the technique that's at the center of this writeup is called?

Steganography.

It's denial-

Thank you.

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