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...
John Burge a man who has been suffering from poly cystic kidney disease for the last 16 years was told two years ago that he needed a transplant. when a kidney was not found by mid-september. Burg's son turned to Facebook for a second time Less than 30 minutes after making his post on Sept 18th, a 24 yr old friend, Nick Eaton responded. After testing it was confirmed that it was a match and the surgery was confirmed and successfully completed on Thursday morning at Iowa hospitals and clinics in Iowa city. "It's incredible that he stepped forward" said John Burge. "It's pretty scary, but I'm pretty proud of him" said his mothing. Nick is expected to be out of hospital and spend Christmas with his family. Image courtesy of the Globe Gazette An original post by Sociolatte