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...
The Australian government has announced compulsory internet filtering. Rejecting arguments that it will trifle free speech. " Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said new laws would be introduced to ban access to " refused classification " (RC) sites featuring criminal content such as child sex abuse, bestiality, rape and detailed drug use." " Under the Chinese-style system, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country would be legally obliged to filter out banned material . The move would mean more than 1,300 sites that show child pornography, bestiality, sexual violence or give instructions about committing crime would be blocked. The government says such a system would help protect people, especially children, from harmful material found online. Telstra Australia's leading Internet Service Provider had this to say . " Telstra, Australia's largest Internet service provider, said blacklisting ...