Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.

kept by eddie jun 04

University of Toronto researchers built an AI-powered worm that autonomously spreads by tailoring exploits to each machine's known vulnerabilities.

Is Anthropic’s New A.I. Really That Scary? It Depends Whom You Ask.
Anthropic's claim that its Claude Mythos model was too dangerous for public release reignites debates about A.I. safety and cybersecurity risks.
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Claude Mythos reportedly solves OpenAI's landmark Erdős problem with a "cute, simple proof"
Anthropic's Claude Mythos solved the Erdős unit-distance conjecture with a 'cute, simple proof,' indicating 'serious overhang' in AI-driven math discoveries.
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Anthropic’s Mythos Found Bugs in Apple’s MacOS - WSJ
Security researchers at Calif used techniques from testing Anthropic's Mythos AI to find a privilege escalation exploit in Apple's macOS, bypassing its advanced security.
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What I learned this week - Pretraining parallelisms, Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RL, On why pretraining runs fails
A set of rough notes exploring challenges in AI model distillation, cybersecurity offense/defense dynamics, and pipeline RL for training.
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