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...
Soon you will no longer need to leave your inbox to reply to your friends status update. Facebook has apparently been testing a new feature that allows you to reply to a status update directly from your inbox. It is currently being tested by a very few subset of users and will be rolled out for everybody pretty soon. Convenient you say; yes it will be real easy with not having to login to FB every time you want to comment. There are no answers from them right now with how they plan to manage the spam that could be associated with something like this. Will be available across the network in the coming few weeks . An original post by Sociolatte