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...
Image Credit: BillBoard Jennifer Lopez has announced Friday that she is quitting as an American idol judge after two seasons - Steven Taylor has also made the same announcement. There is a lot of speculation as to who will their replacements be. Mariah Carey has been confirmed as one of the replacements. This was announced on Ryan Seacrest's radio show. Randy is Mariah's manager and since he is bringing her in - things might work out in terms of time management. JLO had an acting career before this and now that she is out, this is a path she can return to. Ryan of course will have to be around for another two years as stipulated by his contract. Randy Jackson will remain the only steady judge on 'Idol'. Source: ShowBizz411 via Freep An original post by Sociolatte