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...
Al Jazeera has been at the center of all thats been happening in Egypt and now the news channel has started using Twitter to promote itself. What they want is to convince American cable TV networks to now start broadcasting their English news channel. Although we see news and a lot of videos on the going-ons in Egypt a lot of that comes from their media coverage. They have also said that 50% of all traffic coming to their live stream is coming from the US. A spokesperson for the news network has said that they have come up with innovative ways to broadcast their news in Egypt, pamphlets have been distributed when their broadcast signal went down and these pamphlets had the latest news for people to follow. This according to Niemanlab.org When people couldn’t tune in because their broadcast signal went down , Al Jazeera distributed pamphlets with the latest updates and information about alternate ways to access its news coverage. It also published phoned-in reports using Scribble Liv...