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...
Rupert Murdoch most certainly was the first media mogul to air his dissatisfaction at Google. He accused the company of "theft" and "misappropriation" of content it indexes from his news sites. Google news which has fast become the most favored destination for people looking for news, with its indexing of over 25,000 news sites and blogs . Has been accused by Murdock of indexing content and gaining traction and not paying for the content it indexes. This has been the hear of the matter. Google has now made an announcement that news publishers will be able to limit free content and decide which parts of their content the search engine needs to index . WSJ reports that "For several years, Google has allowed publishers to make individual articles that are behind a pay wall free through Google, through a service called "First Click Free." Previously, users could access an unlimited number of stories this way. Now, it will allow publishers to impose a cap...