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...
PayPal has teamed up with Zynga to offer Mafia Wars players a 15% discount on any reward point package, 21 reward points and higher purchased with PayPal. Comes to players as a limited time offer. PayPal seems to want to stamp it's presence as an online pay master in the fastest growing online payment market, Social Games. So players looking to get a discount had better hurry as both Zynga and PayPal say that this is a limited time offer. We feel that we are going to see more of these offers across other games by Zynga like FarmVille and PetVille as PayPal seeks to establish themselves in the online gaming market. An original post by Sociolatte