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...
As Santa nears North America Norad will be tracking his progress. The North American Aerospace Defense follows Santa each year. Using Radar and other technology to track his progress and report it on the world wide web. This year they can also check out Santa's village and see how well the elves are getting on with making presents. Norad volunteers are on hand on Christmas Eve to answer e-mails about Father Christmas's journey at noradtrackssanta@gmail.com. Norad is a military organisation that is responsible for the aerospace and maritime defence of the US and Canada. The tradition of tracking Father Christmas goes back to a misprint in a Colorado newspaper advertisement in 1955. The hotline to Santa promised by the paper actually connected to what was known then as the Continental Air Defense Command (Conad). As more phone calls came in, the commander on the other end of the phone started to pretend he was Santa and the tradition continued in 1958 when Conad became Norad. ...