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 hopes to elevate the interest in the game with the return of Robbing. To start robbing you need to click the 'Fight' tab in New York. Clicking on the 'Fight' tab allows you to score some nice loot from New York Properties as you work on completing the robbing grid. If you have something to settle with someone specific you can rob from their personal page also. The difficulty of each robbing job is set up by comparing your attack skill to the defense skill of the defender. Also the Mafia size used to fight varies for each property, as does the stamina cost. Even if you do not have the Mafia size you can proceed to loot a property with the cost of your odd being reduced so proceed with caution. You may also notice that the robbing formula is not 100% static like the fighting formula. However, your attack skill and any boosts are static, as is a portion of your mafia strength (NOTE: the Diamond Collection alters these percentages). So, having better weapons, a...