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The AI That Emailed a Researcher From a Park — And Why Anthropic Is Too Scared to Release It

  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...

That guy who owns @Qwikster on Twitter

NetFlix might have decided to rename their DVD rental service Qwikster but there is a problem. Netflix owns the web domain rights for Qwikster but the company failed to get all the related rights. There is no use if you are a large company and you don't have an original Twitter handle. The Twitter handle is owned by Jason Castillo and he is really gaining followers. A few hours ago when we checked he had about 6000 followers. It has not crossed 9000. Now that is a lot of traction and Jason has suddenly started using the account after discovering his fortune. You might be wondering what Jason Castillo is talking about, you guessed it how much he is going to be selling his Twitter Handel for. He is getting a lot of attention people offering his images to be used as his profile pic. The fun part of the whole thing is that he is not a domain squatter but already had this Twitter Handel before the NetFlix fiasco.  An original post by Sociolatte