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...
With the recently released beta version of Firefox 4 . The browser now sports a whole new look. The add-ons section has been completely revamped and menu bars hidden. With the result, you now have more screen space to browse your favorite websites. Plus you now have the option to permanently “pin” frequently used web apps. Though still in it's beta release there seems to be one problem all pre-existing favourite add-ons may not work with Firefox 4 since they were written for Firefox 3.x releases. Using Old Add-ons with Firefox 4 Here are some ways by which you can get your old add-ons work with Firefox 4 even if they are listed as incompatible on the Mozilla site. Option #1 . Mozilla earlier created the Compatibility Reporter add-on for its users to test and report the compatibility of add-ons with various Firefox releases. The interesting part about this add-on is that it will automatically configure your Firefox to install and use add-ons that are otherwise incompatible with y...