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Where the P vs NP question stands: circuit and proof-complexity lower bounds, barriers, meta-complexity, geometric complexity theory, new reductions and hardness results, and how the community reads each claimed proof.
Real progress on the six open Millennium Prize Problems — the Riemann hypothesis, P vs NP, Navier–Stokes, Yang–Mills, Hodge and Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer: serious papers, partial results, AI-assisted advances, and what experts say about claimed solutions.
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60 · most subscribed firstEverything in fully homomorphic encryption: new papers and benchmarks, libraries and releases, new projects and startups, funding, products, standards, talks and events, attacks and incidents — across research, industry and onchain FHE.
Seed to Series B rounds led by a16z, Sequoia, Benchmark, Founders Fund, Accel, Index, Lightspeed, Greylock, Kleiner, General Catalyst or Thrive — who raised, how much, and what they build.
Model launches, research, partnerships and funding from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta AI, Mistral and NVIDIA.
The week’s most important papers on large language models: reasoning, agents, evaluation and alignment — with real results, not position pieces.
Everything around FHERMA, the FHE challenge platform by Fair Math: new challenges and prize pools, results and winners, solution write-ups, Polycircuit and OpenFHE-rs releases, partnerships and mentions.
The state of startup funding each week: deal volume, valuations, round sizes and where the money is going — with the numbers.
Practical, tested advice for founders on fundraising, pricing, hiring, sales and finding product-market fit — from Lenny’s, YC, Elad Gil, SaaStr and Not Boring.
New Y Combinator companies as they launch: what they build, for whom, and the founders behind them.
Fires when Y Combinator, a16z speedrun, Sequoia Arc, Neo, South Park Commons or Entrepreneur First open applications or announce a deadline.
The week’s best writing from a16z, Sequoia, YC, Greylock, Founders Fund and the investors founders actually read: theses, frameworks and hard-won advice.
New exhibitions, major acquisitions, openings and leadership changes at MoMA, the Met, Tate, the Louvre, Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim.
Roles building cryptography and privacy technology: applied cryptographers, ZK and FHE engineers, security engineers working on protocols.
Every new release of the homomorphic encryption libraries, compilers and SDKs — TFHE-rs, Concrete, fhEVM, OpenFHE, SEAL, HEIR, Lattigo, Poulpy, CryptoLab HEaaN and enVector, Desilo, IBM HElayers, Apple Swift HE, TenSEAL and GPU libraries — with what changed.
Real progress on the six open Millennium Prize Problems — the Riemann hypothesis, P vs NP, Navier–Stokes, Yang–Mills, Hodge and Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer: serious papers, partial results, AI-assisted advances, and what experts say about claimed solutions.
The legal fight over privacy code: Roman Storm’s case and retrial, Alexey Pertsev’s appeal, Roman Semenov, the Samourai Wallet developers, sanctions on Tornado Cash, the Justice Department’s line on developers, and the bills and amicus briefs that would protect them.
Everything around DESILO and its FHE library: releases of DESILO FHE and Liberate.FHE, papers and benchmarks from its researchers, encrypted AI work such as THOR and the GL scheme with Craig Gentry, products, partnerships and pilots, funding, talks and events.
Everything around OpenFHE: releases, notable GitHub issues and pull requests, papers and benchmarks that use it, applications built on it, talks, workshops and events, and what its maintainers and community are working on.
Changes in how ETH is staked: validator queues, staking protocols, restaking, distributed validators and the rules that affect stakers.
Laws, rules and official guidance on artificial intelligence: the EU AI Act, US federal and state action, the UK and China.
Tracks recent match results and league standings from Serie A, Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga and the European cups.
Fires when a notable artwork is reported stolen, or a stolen one is recovered — museums, churches and private collections.
Photography as an art: exhibitions, photobooks, prizes and photographers to know — light on gear reviews.
The shows worth a trip, opening this month in New York, London, Paris and Berlin — reviewed, not just announced.
Opportunities for artists: open calls, grants, prizes and residencies, with deadlines — so you hear about them while you can still apply.
Fires when a single artwork sells for $50 million or more, at auction or in a reported private sale.
What sold, for how much: notable lots and new artist records at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips and Bonhams.
The week in art in one issue: the exhibitions that matter, museum news, the market and the debates — from the art press, not press releases.
Senior Rust roles at companies that run Rust in production — infrastructure, networking, crypto and developer tools.
Machine learning, research and inference engineering roles at AI labs and AI-heavy companies that pay $300,000 a year or more.
New C++ engineering roles that pay $300,000 a year or more — trading firms, AI labs and infrastructure teams — straight from their job boards.
Where the leading crypto funds put money and what they publish: new investments, funds raised and theses from a16z crypto, Paradigm, Multicoin, Dragonfly, Polychain and Electric Capital.
Startups building privacy-enhancing technology raising money: FHE, zero-knowledge, MPC, confidential computing and private AI.
Real vulnerabilities in cryptographic code and protocols — libraries, wallets, TLS, ZK circuits — with the affected versions and fixes.
New exoplanets and what we learn about them: discoveries, atmospheres and habitability, from JWST and the surveys.
Launch dates, scrubs, landings and contract awards from SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin and ULA.
Fires when a fusion experiment reports scientific energy gain above 1, confirmed by the lab or in a peer-reviewed paper.
Battery chemistry results with numbers: energy density, cycle life and cost — sodium-ion, solid-state and new cathodes.
Fintech startups raising money — seed to growth rounds, with the amount, the investors and what the company builds.
Rate decisions, policy statements and leadership news from the Fed, the ECB, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan — from the banks themselves.
Humanoid and general-purpose robot companies: launches, funding rounds and first real deployments.
New robotics papers with experiments on physical robots: manipulation, locomotion and robot learning.
New open-source frameworks and tools for building LLM agents, as they appear on GitHub and Hugging Face.
New open-weights language and multimodal models from the major labs, as they land on Hugging Face — with size, license and reported results.
Pre-seed, seed and angel rounds of up to $2M, worldwide and across sectors: who raised, how much, who led, and what they are building — the deals that never make the big headlines.
Where the P vs NP question stands: circuit and proof-complexity lower bounds, barriers, meta-complexity, geometric complexity theory, new reductions and hardness results, and how the community reads each claimed proof.
How stablecoins are getting private without losing compliance: confidential transfers, FHE and zero-knowledge stablecoins, privacy pools, view keys for auditors, issuer and chain launches, the rules (GENIUS Act, MiCA, Travel Rule) and the research and attacks behind them.
Fires when the court decides something that changes Roman Storm’s case: the acquittal motion or venue challenge, sentencing, a retrial verdict, dropped charges, an appeal ruling or a pardon.
Every notable deal in web3 and blockchain, every day: funding rounds, acquisitions and mergers, strategic investments, new venture funds, token and treasury deals, and listings or exits — who, how much, at what valuation and who led.
A regular roundup of the latest science news explained in plain language for readers without a science background.
Fires when a top venture firm closes a new fund of $500M or more — the money that will be looking for founders over the next years.
New funds, lead investments and partner moves at Benchmark, Founders Fund, Accel, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst and Thrive Capital.
Sequoia Capital’s moves: funds, the rounds it leads, partner changes and what it publishes — from its AI market maps to Arc for founders.
Everything Andreessen Horowitz does that a founder should know: new funds, investments it leads, theses and the big ideas its partners publish.
What the Ethereum Foundation announces: protocol priorities, grants and funding rounds, treasury policy and leadership changes.
Upgrades, launches and decentralization steps from the biggest rollups: Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkSync, Starknet, Scroll and Linea.
The strongest posts on ethresear.ch and from the Ethereum Foundation: scaling, data availability, proposer-builder separation, MEV, cryptography and economics.
Fires when Ethereum mainnet has a serious incident: finality is lost, a client bug splits the chain, or a critical vulnerability needs an emergency upgrade.
Fires when core developers set the mainnet date for the next Ethereum network upgrade and the Ethereum Foundation announces it.
New versions of the execution and consensus clients — Geth, Nethermind, Besu, Erigon, Reth, Lighthouse, Prysm, Teku, Nimbus and Lodestar — with what node operators must do.
New Ethereum Improvement Proposals as they are posted for discussion, with what each one would change and who proposed it.