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...
Facebook have announced something called the Antivirus marketplace or A V Marketplace, brought to you by the Facebook security team. Facebook have tied up with key Antivirus partners - McAfee, Microsoft Security Essentials, Norton AntiVirus, Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition and Trend Micro internet security for PCs and Macs. They hope to bring greater security to Facebook's over 900 million users. These Antivirus software can be downloaded to use free or 6 months or a year depending on what security system you choose to download. Facebook have said that one of the key trade-offs from this entire deal is the sharing of blacklisted URLs between the security partners and themselves. What this means is that - millions of links are being shared on Facebook everyday. Many of these links are actually malicious and are from spammers who are out to get you. There are 1000's of scams being launched constantly on Facebook everyday with hackers and spammers trying to rob and steal yo...