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...
Image Credit: Terminal Studio This is part of a Halloween series called Halloween Tips. These posts are meant more for fun and info to better enjoy Halloween. One of the frequent questions that come up during Halloween is how to book a room and stay in a haunted Hotel, Inn or house. There are many resources on the web and when you search online you get a lot of sites with Haunted Hotel room listings and bookings. many of these are found in the UK and it is always a wonder to note why many ghosts choose to stay in England. Maybe has a lot to do with the climate. We have all heard about haunted castles and no castle is worth its salt if it does have have a ghost or two in residence. Well that statement might not be entirely true but it sounds kinda nice. Ghastly places to stay in is where you might like to find yourself this Halloween. So to find a haunted place to stay in is simple, search online and you can use the search terms 'haunted places to stay in' and you can also menti...