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 founder Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend said that online privacy is no longer the 'social norm'. With more and more people getting connected online and sharing information it is no longer something to be worried about. With the rise of blogs and other social mediums people are sharing all kinds of things. A lot of the information being shared is also quiet personal. Reflecting the state of the companies privacy outlook. Their recent change sparked a lot of angry protests online. But we did not see people leaving the site in their 1,000. It looks like everyone stayed and got on with things. These changes initiated on Facebook reflect the social norms as it is today and as Facebook see it. "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," he said. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time." Zuckerberg s...