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...
YouTube has launched an Adblitz challe that will air all those Ads that companies spend millions on to air during the Super Bowl. YouTube Ad Blitz 2010 It's that time of year. Watch the game. See the commercials. Find the commercials online. Or maybe you skipped the first 2 and are just going straight online to watch the ads. Well view freely, because we have the 2010 commercials in our annual YouTube Ad Blitz contest. Watch the commercials here the minute they air on Feb 7th. When the game ends, we'll let you vote for your favorite 2010 commercial until Feb 14th. The winning ad will receive ultimate video glory with YouTube homepage recognition. The best ad will be aired on the 14th on the YouTube homepage. People are already excited about this new channel as one member put it. Awesome. I think this is brilliant. I love the commercials. They are so cool. Usually I don't like commercials, but on the day when they spend millions on them, I know they will be funny. I can...