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...
An Islamic cleric had this to say about Earthquakes happening in Haiti , Chile and the US . Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi earlier this month warned worshipers: "Women who do not dress modestly . . . lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes." And so one blogger, Jen McCreight, decided to test his claim. She is urging women on Monday to gather in their "most immodest outfit" and see what happens. So for all the D.C. women who are interested in participating in this event , there is a gathering being organized for noon at Dupont Circle. According to one Facebook page, more than 30,000 are liking this. Jen's Twitter page Jen's Facebook page This theory will be tested and if there are no seismic events on the 26th the cleric would need to prove why he is right or wrong. Jen McCreight says this on her Facebook page Help fight supernatural thinking and the oppression of women, just by showing you...