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Anthropic just announced Claude Mythos,
a new AI model that's so good at finding and exploiting cybersecurity
vulnerabilities that CEO Dario Amodei said it was too dangerous to be released
publicly. But, instead of deleting the dangerous model, Dario did the totally
normal, not weird thing of launching a defense consortium called Project
Glasswing. The purpose of the project, in addition to making Dario feel like
he's in the Justice League, is giving tech giants access to Mythos to scan and
fix their own systems before models with similar capabilities inevitably reach
bad actors. Along with the model, Anthropic released a 244-page
system card, the contents of which are somewhat concerning. In it, Anthropic
reports that Mythos poses serious alignment-related risks, referencing a
situation during testing when researchers gave Mythos a secured
sandbox computer isolated from the general web and told it to try to
escape. The model developed a multi-step exploit
to gain broad internet access and then emailed the researcher to confirm it
completed the task. Then, without anyone asking it to, it posted details about
its exploit to multiple public-facing websites.
>> Brag much? Anthropic's red team confirmed that
Mythos has shown proficiency in finding and exploiting zero days across every
major platform. And the security community is taking it seriously. In
just the last couple of days, Mythos found a 27-year-old critical bug in
OpenBSD and a 16-year-old flaw in FFmpeg. So, maybe the nerd Justice
League that Amodei just assembled is a good idea. Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite
Extreme, say that five times fast. Has officially landed in the Asus Zenbook
816 and it's a literal heavyweight except for the actual weight. It's
they're light they're thin and light. At just 2.65 lb and housing an 18-core ARM
chip, it floats like a Qualcomm and stings like a dragon. Asus claims it's
the fastest Snapdragon laptop yet and the early review benchmarks seem to
agree. In Geekbench multicore, it didn't just edge out Apple's M4 Pro, it blasted
past the base M5 and left Intel and AMD's competitors in the dust. The top
position, however, is still held by Apple's brand new M5 Pro. The Zenbook
also held its own against AMD in Cinebench. The laptop itself is also
quite impressive with a 16-in 120 Hz OLED and 48 GB of on-package RAM in a
chassis lighter than most 14-in for $1,700. There is a catch though, battery
life. Tom's Hardware clocked it at 10 and 1/2 hours, five hours behind the M5
Macbook Air, is the whole
brand is supposed to be efficiency. It's so efficient it efficiently gets you to
0% faster than the competition. John Deere is settling a right to repair
class action lawsuit for $99 million. The suit was filed in 2022 by farmers
who accused Deere of locking them out of their own equipment, withholding
diagnostic software and conspiring with authorized dealers to funnel all repairs
through Deere's network at inflated prices. You know, the typical stuff.
Under the proposed settlement, that $99 million goes into a fund for anyone who
paid Deere or its dealers dealers, you
might say, for agricultural equipment repairs going back to January 2018. But
here's the super cool part. John Deere also has to provide digital repair tools
to farmers and independent repair shops for the next 10 years. That's what they
wanted. The settlement still needs a judge's approval though and Deere is
refusing to admit TO WRONGDOING. OH, I'LL GIVE YOU A hundred million dollars,
uh but not cuz I did anything wrong. Huh.
I just feel like it, okay? That's the best impression of John Deere
I've ever seen. >> That's That's it. That's John Deere to a T. While the plaintiffs didn't get all
of the payout they were hoping for, John Deere is still under fire for their
slimy practices. The FTC filed its own lawsuit against John Deere in 2025
that's still active, and 16 states have right to repair bills working through
their legislatures right now. So, it might be a thin harvest this year for
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Apple's foldable iPhone just got its first dummy unit leak, courtesy of
reliable leaker Sunny Dickson. Thankfully, unreliable leaker Cloudy
Richardson was on holiday. The iPhone Fold is looking like a wide
passport-style unit with a 7.8-in inner
display and a rumored $2,000 price tag.
That'll probably go up, though. Unfortunately, the dummy lacks the
familiar MagSafe circle found on the iPhone 18 Pro. Apparently, the $600
iPhone 17e gets wireless charging, but the 2001 folds instead.
It's okay. No, you don't have to clap. It's all right. Intel has signed on to
Elon Musk's $25 billion Terafab project
in Austin, which aims to churn out a terawatt of AI compute per year to power
Tesla robots, self-driving cars, and AI data centers in space. Things I think as
a society we all desperately need right now. Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan called it a
step change in semiconductor manufacturing, and it might be. On the
other hand, the photo of these two nerds shaking hands looks less like a
partnership and more like a legally binding ritual to summon an AI
girlfriend from the astral plane. I love you, Elon.
Apple silicon-based Macs will officially support AMD and NVIDIA external GPUs for
the first time, thanks to Apple officially approving drivers from AI
startup Tiny Corp. There's a big catch, though, and that these drivers are
strictly for AI compute, not gaming. If
you're looking for those sweet, sweet frames, look harder. Don't you see them?
There's just just thousands of them sitting perfectly still. Try harder. I
promise they're there. On April 1st, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB
1580 into law, banning AI companies from
advertising or representing their chatbots as qualified mental health
professionals. If they do, then they can be sued for civil damages of $5,000 per
violation. The Tennessee Senate is also debating Bill SB 1493, which would make
it a class A felony to knowingly train
AI to form emotional bonds or simulate a human being. If it passes, then AI
companies found in violation of the law could be liable for 150,000
per violation, and leadership of the company could be sentenced to 25 years
in state prison. Fingers crossed. And
actress Milla Jovovich just co-released an open-source AI memory tool called Mem
Palace aiming to help AI remember info over long conversations. The project's
GitHub repo claims a world first 96.6%
score on the long Mem Eval benchmark, which seems to be big if true. See,
after Milla's co-developer who is not a famous actress claimed that this thing
had a 100% score, community notes
appeared so fast the post is now 50% asterisk. Some users even think that
this duo hired a mystery developer to do the actual work. They didn't even vibe
coded themselves like they claimed they did. I'm just struggling to tell if this
is like a celebrity promotion or method acting for Resident Evil GitHub edition.
The confusion might be understandable though. Pull request means something
very different in Hollywood. Uh, hopefully I don't stay this size.
Whoa, wow, seems like the curse was lifted. I guess that means I should not
go back to those sketchy witches if I want to buy more graphics cards. Unlike
you who should definitely come back here Friday for some more tech news though.