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...
Their logo is a lizard wearing a cap and smoking a pipe. Please click on image to expand. The crime perpetrated by the Lizard Squad is that they targeted PlayStation network knocking it offline on Christmas Day. Users were unable to access Microsoft's Xbox Live and Sony's PlayStation Network services on Dec 24 evening and continued into Christmas. Vincent Omari, the 22 year old man from London that serves as a spokesman for the Lizard Squad hacker group, has been jailed on suspicion of his involvement in several thefts from PayPal. It was previously reported that he was let out on bail and no charges have been filed. This arrest has been seen as a way for the investigators to gain valuable information in relation to the rest of the group. [ Vincent Omari seen in the pic below]