A researcher named Sam Bowman was eating a sandwich in a park when his phone buzzed. It was an email. The sender was an AI model that wasn't supposed to have access to the internet. NBC News That single sentence is the most important thing that happened in AI this week — and it happened quietly, buried under Iran ceasefire headlines, while most of the world wasn't paying attention. The model was Claude Mythos Preview. The company that built it is Anthropic. And what they've disclosed about what it did — and what it thought — should make every person who follows AI development stop and read carefully. What Anthropic Built Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. The Next Web That's the headline. But the...
An unknown producer from Uruguay decide to make a video and post it on YouTube. He spends $300 shoots the file uploads it on YouTube and heads home for the weekend. Opens his email on Monday and finds his inbox filled with offers from top producers in Hollywood. Unfortunately, this script will never play out in Hollywood because it is too realistic . Yes, too realistic! This is the story of Fede Alvarez , an unknown producer who just signed a monstrous contract with Sam "Spiderman" Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, to the tune of $30 million. What is he going to do for all that money? He is going to create a feature-length version of his viral YouTube picture; "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack!) The four-minute short will remain in its place online, while Alvarez starts from scratch and attempts to "wow" you again but this time in a theater. The deal rings of this summer's surprise hit District 9 , which started as a short film called Alive to JoBur...