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...
PetVille has announced a new contest for Halloween. The design a pumpkin contest will have three winners chosen by the PetVille team.Top 3 images chosen by the PetVille team will be added to the game as Giftable/Coin Halloween Decorations. In addition each of the three winners will receive 100 pet cash and 1 of each pumpkin. This is a great chance for users to have their creations added to the game as giftable and coin Halloween decorations. The rules for the contest are simple and we are adding the rules below as a guide. The Rules: One design entry per person. You may submit up to 3 images of your single design . You must post your entry to this thread. Please[click here]to see this guide on how to post images You can submit your designs as a digital image that you created using paint or other design program, a scanned or digital photo of a carved pumpkin or even ASCII art. The submitted design must be owned and created by you. "Borrowing" other people's designs is...