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...
Google's annual developer conference has started and yes there are many of us who would like to know what's happening and what's the latest scoop. We know now that Google has apologized for the Google Wave confusion. They are also building an App store for web applications. The conference has 5,000 developers and over 100 developers will be showcasing their technologies. Google's largest developer conference of the year will feature technical content featuring Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, GWT, App Engine, open web technologies, and more. Follow @googleio or Buzz for the latest updates on I/O. (official hashtag: #io2010) Watch the I/O keynotes live on the GoogleDevelopers YouTube channel . To view the schedule for the keynotes, check out the Agenda page . I/O stands for according to Google innovation out in the open @googleio on Twitter (#io2010) Google I/O on Buzz An original post by Sociolatte