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 have given their flower pots a makeover. There are new flowers to choose from. There are also brand new flower vases. Every day when you change the flowers a golden butterfly will come and sit on the flowers which you can click for bonus points. User however do not seem to like the idea to much. Feedback has been that the vases are too big. Users want the old flowers and vases back. Changes to the basic element of the game always seem to bring about an uproar. Since players are used to the way things are and do not really want any big changes. [Photo: PetVille] PetVille starts you off with a new green flower pot for every pot you had in your pet's rooms. Instead of buying flowers and waiting them to wilt to drop a bonus, the objective of this new system is to arrange flowers each day so that when the Golden Butterfly makes its daily rounds, it'll be the one to drop you a bonus. This Golden Butterfly Reward is totally dependent on how many flowers you have in your v...