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...
A Louisiana man who bet against New Orleans Saints, has lost his 60-inch-high-definition TV to a firing squad. which has also made him an internet star. "Wayne A. Spring told his friends that if New Orleans beat the Washington Redskins on Sunday, anyone who wanted could come to his house and shoot his television . "I was a Saints fan, but used to be they never could win and I admit I was a fair-weather fan," Spring said on Thursday. "And there was all that 'Who-Datting' going on, online, so I just decided to go against the grain." Things were looking good until the Saints tied the game and sent it into overtime. As every football fan knows by now, the Saints tied the game and sent it into overtime before kicking the game-winning field goal. About a dozen Saints fans , toting firearms and a case of beer, showed up at Spring's home in Albany, some 50 miles northwest of New Orleans, and shot up his TV in the back yard. Spring put the video on YouTub...