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...
Pete Cashmore It is being rumored at SXSW that CNN will acquire Mashable. This according to Reuters blogger Felix Salmon. The announcements he says according to one insider is going to be announced on March 12. The deal he says is upwards of 200 million and is quiet big a deal considering that previous deals ended in tears especially the one when AOL bought TechCrunch. Mashable however is known by the masses and rose to fame covering Social Media. The blog has over 50 million monthly page-views and whose regular followers login at least once a day. This will be a huge deal - this marriage of old and new media. So we need to wait and see if this really is true and Felix seems quit confident about it you can see from the video below. The Blog was founded by Pete Cashmore in his home in Aberdene, Scotland in 2005. This blog has changed the entire landscape of social media with its constant cheer-leading of social media and related markets that have emerged. From a one-man writer blog t...