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...
Mafia Wars has announced the upcoming Memorial Day weekend sale. Items will be heavily discounted and up to 50% off on all previously sold merchandise. There will also be a special mastery event being held by which you stand to win a WWII M4 Sherman. The sale starts at 12 am PST. We see that the hawk eye and B52 will also be going on sale and a host of other items. 50% of all proceeds from the sale will be donated to Fisher House a non-profit that assists families of wounded veterans. [Image Courtesy Zynga Mafia Wars] An original post by Sociolatte