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...
Five major publishers have announced they plan to join forces to develop an online storefront for their content. As more and more readers cancel their subscriptions to read stories online. Major publishing houses have needed to come up with ways to attract and retain the modern audience who has begun to spend more and more time online. Looking for and gathering information. "Five major publishers -- Conde Nast Publications, Hearst Corp., Meredith Corp., News Corp. and Time Inc. -- announced Tuesday they will join forces to develop an online storefront to rival Amazon.com Inc" They also hope to create software for devices that do not exist. Cell phones that are highly advanced compared to anything available right now in the market. e-readers that are more sophisticated that today's mostly black and white readers. The venture has still not been named but its outlines are visible. It was originally thought to be an online store to sell magazines but we now see that the f...