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...
Nissan has won the contract to supply the city of New York with its next gen taxis. Nissan won the contract over finalists Ford and Karsan and the contract will last for the next ten years, starting late 2013 while all the older taxis will be off the streets by late 2018. The Nissan NV200 was unveiled on Tuesday ahead of the New York international auto show. The new Taxi comes with all the bells and whistles and will replace the Fords and Toyota Siennas currently prowling the city. The new cab will come with features like: Back seat cell phone and USB ports for charging Transparent roof panel Independently controlled rear air-conditioning Carbon lined head-liner to reduce odor Anti-bacterial non-stick surfaces Airbags for rear-seat occupants Lights to inform taxi doors are being opened A new horn light to reduce honking. An original post by Sociolatte