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...
"Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan announced a deal to buy Friendster, a social networking site that still retains a strong following in Southeast Asia after losing in global popularity to Facebook and MySpace. Tan's online payment systems business will buy 100 percent of Friendster through an affiliate company, according to a joint statement Thursday." "Malaysian-based payment on line company MOL Global's purchase of social networking site Friendster has won praises from industry observers." The website that has mostly been forgotten around the world is till quiet popular in Southeast Asia. Friendster has 115 million members strong. " On one hand, Friendster investors are lucky the service is popular enough with Asian teenagers for the sale to happen at all, considering users elsewhere moved on to MySpace, then Facebook and Twitter. On the other, as All Things Digital points out, if then-white-hot Friendster had sold to Google in 2003 for $30 million i...