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...
Shashi Tharoor, Indian ministry of state of external affairs has used Twitter account once again to show his displeasure of the new visa norms. Under the previous rule foreigners with a 5 or 10 year visa could stay in the county for 180 days before the have to leave and allowed to reenter. They would simply fly to a neighbouring county and fly back in again. The rule remains the same except after the 180 day limit. Foreigners would need to leave and not return before two months. Foreign ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said last week the new guidelines were issued "to facilitate bonafide tourists" and that immigration authorities could still allow tourists who leave India to re-enter if they produced a "detailed itinerary" and ticket bookings. The ministry is probing why its Chicago consulate granted multiple visas to a Pakistani-American, David Coleman Headley, who is accused of helping plan the Mumbai siege in which 166 people died. Tharoor said the new visa...