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...
Yes it's here. Google has launched an opt-in beta program of YouTube Feather. Designed to make your videos load faster and better. "To help do so, the pared-down version of the site does away with many familiar features including the ability to rate and comment on videos, and also limits the number of loaded comments to ten " Found on the YouTube blog. " Introducing Feather: A Lighter Way to Browse Videos One of our priorities is ensuring that videos always load and playback quickly. However, a consequence of rolling out higher quality video, HD and, more recently, 1080p , is that playbacks might suffer if bandwidth or computer processing power is low. There are also a few countries where bandwidth is at a premium and videos can take several seconds to start playing. Take Feather for a test drive here . Google has said they are going to monitor how feather perform before rolling it out to a larger audience. This comes as a boon for those running slow PC...