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...
People in Seoul, South Korea finally got their taste of the iPhone on Saturday. Being a tech savvy society. About 65,000 people placed orders since Nov. 22, according to KT. Liked the headline on cnn.com that said "The iPhone's got Seoul". The reason why the iPhone took so long to debut in South Korea is because the government was trying to protect local manufacturers and carriers for several years. Since the announcement last week of the debut of the iPhone local manufacturer Samsung slashed the Price of it's iPhone like phone called Omnia2. There have been 40,000 pre-orders for the iPhone since the announcement if it being offered in Seoul. Local manufacturers Samsung and LG account for 90% of the cell phones sold in South Korea. KT Corp the carrier offering the iPhone said iPhones will sell fast as they are a status symbol in this tech-Savvy country. The iPhone is already changing the pricing of Smartphones in the country. As South Koreas are willing to spend heavi...