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...
Larry Platt the 62 year old who auditioned for American Idol and created a sensation with his song is now being offered a record deal by Jake Records. Larry's claim to fame is the song he sang at the American Idol auditions 'Pants on the Ground' which has become the first viral video of 2010. So if all goes well we will see him releasing his song officially. He did not get the golden ticket as he was above the age limit. His performance made Randy Jackson get up and dance it also made Simon Cowell say " "I have a horrible feeling that this song could be a hit." An original post by Sociolatte