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...
President Shimon Perez launched his own YouTube channel yesterday in an effort to communicate with Israelis and citizens of countries with which Israel does not have diplomatic ties. " Peres announced his new channel at a press conference at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, alongside YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley , who is currently visiting Israel". The channel will also be used to launch web conferences where people can talk with the president directly. " Peres has uploaded to his channel important speeches, such as his acceptance of the Nobel Prize; key events, such as Hillary Clinton’s first official visit as U.S. secretary of state; and comedy films, including a few satires ." There was also comments on YouYube's profitability by Chad Hurley. Who said... " Hurley said YouTube continues to grow in terms of traffic, reaching more than 1 billion views a day , while receiving nearly 24 hours of video every minute." An origi...