AI Just Cracked a Quantum Problem — And Cloudflare Moved Its Doomsday Clock
Every few months someone claims AI is going to “accelerate science.” It usually means a marginally better protein fold. This week is different. This week, an AI system took a quantum algorithm that its own human authors had nearly thrown in the trash, rewrote it, and handed back a result that made the people who secure most of the internet publicly move up their doomsday clock by six years. If you read one AI story this week, make it this one. ...