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...
There are plenty of Apply rumors on the web. But when a major news site says something we stop to listen. The Financial Times begins to speculate people start to listen. It is being reported that Apple has rented a stage in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for several days in late January. Where Apple is expected to make a major announcement. Stories about this mythical touch screen device better than a iPhone and cooler than a Netbook could be actually launched. Yes after all the speculation that Apple has explored making of the Tablet device for years it might become a reality. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today speculated that an event was imminent. “We believe there is a 75 per cent likelihood that Apple will have an event in January and a 50 per cent chance that it will be held to launch the Apple Tablet,” he wrote in a new research note. “If Apple announced the Tablet in January, it would likely ship later in the March quarter.” An original post by Socio...