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...
Sabbath Manifesto: Put down the Blackberry. Stop with the Facebook status updates. Quit Tweeting. Sign out of Gmail. Unplug, unwind and power down. Join us in fighting back against the tidal wave of technology taking over society and our lives. The ancient Jewish manifesto that God made all things in six days and rested on the seventh is back. A group of Jewish hyper connected individuals want to slow things down and reconnect with the real. They are asking people to totally unplug from Technology on the National Day of unplug March 19 -20 sunset to sunset. Will you do it? It sounds good with all the Tweets and Facebook status updates and live feeds happening. Driving people to sit more in form of their computers and not with their real world friends. maybe it's time to reboot and unwind and touch the universe. The Sabbath Manifesto has 10 points to help you if you do want to reboot and connect with yourself and the real world that you once knew. 1. Avoid technology. 2. Connec...