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Build real agentic apps using CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harness
CUGA, IBM's open-source Agent Harness, simplifies building agentic applications by handling infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on tools and prompts. It offers pre-assembled components for planning, execution, and state management, significantly reducing development time. CUGA has topped agent benchmarks like AppWorld and WebArena.
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs
OpenAI has launched "Patch the Planet," a new initiative in partnership with cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, to enhance the security of open-source projects. This program aims to assist maintainers in identifying and patching bugs, utilizing OpenAI's AI-powered security tools while reducing the burden on project teams.
PP-OCRv6 on Hugging Face: 50-Language OCR from 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters
Baidu has released PP-OCRv6, an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) model supporting 50 languages. Available on Hugging Face, this version significantly improves accuracy and efficiency across various parameter sizes, from 1.5 million to 34.5 million, marking a substantial leap in multilingual OCR technology.
Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world
Daybreak is expanding to democratize automated patching of vulnerable software, with new AI tools and partnerships transforming cybersecurity. This initiative aims to accelerate identifying and fixing vulnerabilities at machine speed, shifting the focus from discovery to rapid remediation.
Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers
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Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Apple is integrating practical AI features into iOS 27 beyond a revamped Siri, focusing on enhancing existing apps and solving real-world problems. These features, powered by Apple Intelligence, include bill splitting, automated password updates, and smart suggestions in Messages.
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
In the Weights is a new AI-centric vanity search engine that measures how well AI models recall information about individuals without relying on traditional web searches. It queries various LLMs and assigns a "strength score" based on their ability to retrieve and describe personal data.
Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks
This tutorial guides users through an advanced workflow for Salesforce CodeGen, demonstrating how to generate Python functions from natural language prompts. It covers essential steps beyond basic inference, including function extraction, safety checks, unit-test-based validation, and candidate reranking for robust code generation. The article explains how CodeGen can be used to create comprehensive, evaluated, and filtered coding solutions, not just for code completion.
Tools & PlatformsManaging Downstream Dependencies with the AI Engineer
AI code assistants excel at generating code but struggle with understanding organizational dependencies, often leading to broken functionalities. This article explores how Postman can serve as a vital context layer, providing AI with the necessary dependency graph to make safe and effective changes.
Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT
GPT-5.5 Instant significantly improves ChatGPT's health intelligence, making it better at recognizing urgent care needs and explaining complex medical information. This advancement, driven by model capabilities and physician-led evaluations, benefits over 230 million weekly users seeking health advice.
The 5 Most Disastrous API Vulnerabilities
This article identifies five critical API vulnerabilities that, while not always the most common, can lead to severe business, security, and infrastructure damage. It details how issues like Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA) and Remote Code Execution (RCE) pose significant threats by exploiting legitimate processes or gaining deep system access. The piece aims to help API providers and security teams prioritize risks based on potential impact rather than mere frequency. It highlights that the most disastrous API vulnerabilities can result in large-scale data breaches, privilege escalation, compromised infrastructure, ransomware, or financial fraud, often by exploiting authorized methods, underscoring the need for advanced cybersecurity measures like identity-based access control and anomaly detection systems.
How to turn off AI in your Google Docs
Google Docs now features AI writing assistance, which some users find disruptive. This article outlines how to disable these features to restore a seamless writing experience in Google Docs.
Is it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own tooling
This article introduces a new methodology for benchmarking open-source models, focusing on the efficiency and effort required by AI agents to achieve a task, rather than just the final outcome. It highlights the importance of designing APIs and documentation to be "agent-friendly" to optimize performance and reduce computational costs for agents.