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Google is putting the encryption industry on notice. The company has moved its post-quantum cryptography migration deadline to two thousand twenty nine, six years ahead of federal guidance, and it is now backing that commitment with a detailed product-by-product roadmap. Traditional digital certificates are effectively on borrowed time.
Shifting from the future of security to the future of computing power, OpenAI and Anthropic are quietly locking in smaller data center deals, targeting facilities in the twenty to thirty megawatt range, while their massive gigawatt-scale projects remain under construction. It is a practical stopgap, but it also reveals just how urgently both companies need capacity right now.
And in a quieter corner of the AI story, researchers have built a large language model designed to reconstruct damaged ancient Greek papyrus fragments, filling in text lost to centuries of decay. It is a reminder that the most compelling applications of this technology are sometimes the ones chasing the oldest questions about human life.
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