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...
A user tweeted about a snowball fight in Washington D.C. and a crowd arrives and begin to enjoy themselves, in the melee threw a few snowballs on passing vehicles. Passing by is an under cover cop driving a hummer. A few of the snowballs make contact with his vehicle. Out jumps the cop pulling his gun to stop the fight. Cops admit to pulling the gun because as one of the cops says he got hit with a snowball. The second video is the longer one and clearly shows the cop with the gun in his left hand. When backup arrives another cop with a gun because he things someone else in crowd has a gun. This was a Twitter crowd and sure enough the tech savvy got the videos and the pics. Take a look and decide for yourself... An original post by Sociolatte