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...
Lenovo has had an announcement ahead of the Annual Consumers Electronic Show being held in Las Vegas this week. China-based PC maker Lenovo is the world's No.4 PC maker. Who have sold more than 30 million Thinkpads to date. With the addition of AMD Neo Chips they will be able to offer lower price points. Thinkpads running Intel will still be available. The Thinkpad Edge is what is being offered slated for sales from Jan 5th through to the 7th and comes with a 13" screen. Up to 7.8 hours of battery life , a dual-core CPU, Windows 7, Bluetooth and WiMAX options, integrated WWAN / GPS, WiFi, a spill-resistant keyboard, three USB ports, a 5-in-1 media card reader and an option for a red paint job. There's also a sub-3 pound ThinkPad X100e ultraportable with an 11.6-inch display, AMD processor and an only-available-overseas Arctic White color option. Then we've got the X100e , which has an 11.6" HD display, full-sized keyboard, AMD processor, and a weight of just 3...