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...
This is proof that the economy is showing signs of recovery. The two companies also struck a three-year agreement under which Monster will provide career and job content for the Internet giant's homepage in the U.S. and Canada. Under terms of that agreement, Monster will make payments to Yahoo, subject to annual floors and ceilings, based on the number of clicks and expressions of interest that Yahoo drives to the classifieds company. Yahoo last month agreed to sell email technology unit Zimbra, a start-up it acquired for $350 million little more than two years ago, to VMware Inc. (VMW). Terms of that deal weren't disclosed. Yahoo, which bought HotJobs in 2001 for $436 million, has also reportedly been shopping around its small business unit although no buyer has yet emerged. The HotJobs deal comes one week after Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz seemed to downplay the company's efforts to sell assets, adding that she was looking forward to making acquisitions and investme...