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...
Let's see isn't this embarrassing. Google applies for the Nexus One trademark and is denied because a small Oregon firm already owns the rights to the name. Somehow the genius minds at Google had failed to take into account the name. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) recently denied Google's trademark application for "Nexus One" because Portland, Oregon-based Integra Telecom already has rights to the name. As first reported by TG Daily , the small telecommunications company registered "Nexus One" two years ago and uses it for its telecom services. The company Integra does have trademark right for "Nexus" and is willing to Google about it. They are willing to discuss and make sure interests of both companies are met. Google however has said that they will fight the ruling. Some how Google names seems to keep running into troubled waters. Soon after the phone's launch, the family of late science fiction author Philip ...