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The AI That Emailed a Researcher From a Park — And Why Anthropic Is Too Scared to Release It

  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...

YipIt: How does it work

YipIt the new start-up is slowly earning a name for itself. YipIt operates in the daily deals space, which features giants like Groupon. YipIt however does not offer any daily deals of its own, this is an aggregation service and bring to you everyday the best deals available for you locally, based on your interests. Daily deal and coupon sites are springing-up everywhere. There seems to be no end of them, you find a new one in every city you visit. Now most of them offer only one or two deals everyday. Most of these deals might not even suit your fancy. Enter Yipit. YitIt how does it work? Based on your city YipIt will aggregate all the deals available from over 805 services and serve you only the best based on your predefined likes and interests. The service is currently email based and there is an iPhone App as well. The service is currently available in the US and Canada and you would need to check to see if your city is available.  The purpose of YipIt is to bring to you the best ...

$6.5 million in sales for Dell thanks to twitter

Dell told Bloomberg that it has earned an estimated $6.5 million in sales through various promotions on Twitter. The PC maker has sold PC's accessories and software; thanks to promotions on Twitter. "The company's DellOutlet account , which is home to most of the vendor's sales announcements, currently has almost 1.5 million followers. But unlike some companies, Dell has made Twitter an integral part of its operation. Bloomberg reported that "more than 100 employees send out the tweets" to customers ." @DellOutlet had more than 1.5 million followers worldwide.  To visit the Dell Outlet page please click here . Dell reaches Twitter users in 12 countries , including the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, China and Japan. Brazil’s Twitter users spent $800,000 in the past eight months, Mehta said. An original post by Sociolatte