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...
With Facebook all set to unveil Geo-location to their status updates in April, Twitter has gone ahead and started rolling out their new feature. This feature has already started rolling out to a number of users. How this works is when you login to your account there is a prompt asking you to 'Tweet Your Location' you can either choose 'Turn Location On' or choose 'Not Now'. If you choose to turn your location on Twitter will use Google gears to find your location and a small pin icon will appear beside your Tweet to tell other users your location. The good thing is users aren't forced into this service and it is only an opt-in. An original post by Sociolatte