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 announced via a blog post that their browser Chrome will get instant translation to facilitate the web's multilingual platform. So now people can watch their favorite Arabic gameshow or read tech blogs written in other languages. The feature works without the need for any plug-in's or extensions. This multilingual tool begins it's work when a users is browsing a webpage that is not on their preferred language settings. A prompt will be displayed by Google asking you if you would like to read this webpage using Google Translate. Here's a demo from Google on how the feature will work An original post by Sociolatte