News for today:
- Update from Check Point and Wiz. Check Point rolled out an integrated cloud network security offering that encompasses Wiz’s cloud application security technology. Enables cloud and application security with real-time visibility and risk-aware remediation. It’s in global availability today. Check Point
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 released. Anthropic released version 4.5 of Claude Sonnet, its model for coding and building complex agents. Anthropic says it is their most aligned frontier model yet. Claude’s improved capabilities and our extensive safety training have allowed us to substantially improve the model’s behavior, reducing concerning behaviors like sycophancy, deception, power-seeking, and the tendency to encourage delusional thinking. For the model’s agentic and computer use capabilities, we’ve also made considerable progress on defending against prompt injection attacks, one of the most serious risks for users of these capabilities. Anthropic also updated its other products, including Claude Code and Claude for Chrome. Anthropic
- In memory of Leon Battista Alberti. Cryptography is a way to create and bottle trust for movement across untrusted networks, devices, and AI models – an approach championed by Alberti in 1466 (“only ciphers [can] safeguard secrets, because people [can] not“). DataKrypto