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...
It's nice to see such a large and high-profile company taking to Twitter to try and help repair the damage after the negative backlash due to the recall of vehicles with safety issues. Toyota has decide to deal with it and using the services of TweetMeme and Federated Media have launched a channel to follow conversations and what's being said about them in real time. The site is called ToyataConversations . Most of the results being displayed on the site have a leaning towards the positive aspects of the company but the general feel is quiet negative. Shows that the results bing show are a little bit tweaked towards being more positive. Check out what TweetFeel has to analyze and say about real-time user conversations. It leans towards the negative. Tweet Feel analyzes conversations from twitter and tells you whether it is negative or positive. The good thing though is that large companies are learning the importance of social networking sites and the power behind them. Enoug...