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...
A Facebook book campaign started at the grassroots level and led to the humbling of Simon Cowell by deniying one of his new acts the No 1. Christmas spot. The Facebook campaign was organized by an English couple Jon and Tracy Morter in a concerted effort to break Cowell's recent stranglehold on the holiday No. 1 song, a traditional source of status and bragging rights inside Britain. "Rage Against the Machine was built for moments like this," the band's guitarist Tom Morello told The Associated Press . "We are honored to have the song that liberated the U.K. pop chart." Fed up with Simon and his cookie-cutter approach to stardom the English couple launched their Facebook campaign which has 1 million members. The group has delivered the blow that many were hoping to a bland sort of pop music which Xfactor always managed to push to the top of the charts every Xmas season. The Sydney Morning Herald had said. Killing in the Name, an expletive-heavy rock song f...