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* GitHub to launch two-tier (public and private) bug bounty schemes form July 27 2026 * Change comes in response to rise in lower-quality, AI-generated reports * VIP researchers will earn around 3-4x more per report GitHub has confirmed plans to evolve its bug bounty program into a two-tier system, which will come
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Several AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the U.S. should respond to allegations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property
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This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. Developers building agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning, and high-volume inference workloads want frontier models they can call through familiar APIs, without operating separate model infrastructure. OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. The three models
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Building a deep learning-based explainable next-best-product recommendation system helps banking institutions predict which product a customer needs next. Banks hold vast amounts of customer data, including transaction histories, product ownership records, demographic profiles, and behavioral patterns. Translating this data into actionable, personalized product recommendations remains a significant challenge. Traditional rule-based
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Hugging Face is probably not a name you'd heard before this week, but you likely caught the big news about OpenAI's model escaping its sandbox and to launch a cyberattack on the company. In short, Hugging Face — which is kind of like the equivalent of GitHub
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* Prime Video and Netflix are planning new AI-generated homepages * Netflix revealed its 'GenPage' tests ahead of a new Prime Video report * Viewers aren't convinced that homepages are moving in the right direction You're about to see a lot more generative AI in your streaming
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Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW July 24, 2026 11:25 AM ET The agreement merges Oracle's product and licensing services into one contract, which the Defense Department estimates will result in at least $441 million in savings. * Defense * Industry The Pentagon
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AMD has officially unveiled the Zen 6 generation of Epyc server CPUs, codenamed Venice. Sporting a new socket and up to 256 Zen 6c cores, these new chips are going to be far faster than their predecessors, TechPowerUp reports. AMD even calls them the best CPUs for agentic AI, taking
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Many of us only open Meta’s original social media app to browse listings on Facebook Marketplace. Now, sellers are getting a new standalone app to help manage their listings, Meta announced on Friday. The app is called Seller, and it’s available now to download on iOS and Android.
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Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis has spent years convincing the world that artificial general intelligence will be one of humanity’s greatest achievements. His latest essay on X.com is no less gushing about AI in many ways: “This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
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Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you build custom social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open-ended research tool. The company this week said it’s added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that lets users ask it for information and news spreading across the
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Earlier this year, three leading LLMs, including OpenAI's GPT-5.2, took part in a test that showed all three had a willingness to start a nuclear war. One might have thought something like this would have made Congress take some sort of action. Fast forward to this week
