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Why experts are split on how close artificial general intelligence really is?

AGI hoopla is surging, yet 75% of experts scoff at its so-called arrival, spotlighting AI's gaping shortcomings in human-like smarts.Sure, AI's zooming ahead, but when it comes to creativity, context, and tackling everyday tasks, it's still fumbling around like a toddler behind the wheel... read more  

Why experts are split on how close artificial general intelligence really is?
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Langflow RCE Vulnerability: How a Python exec() Misstep Led to Unauthenticated Code Execution

Hackers found a sneaky way to run any Python code they wanted on servers usingLangflow. They didn't even need to log in. If that's unsettling, it should be. Upgrade toversion 1.3.0now, before things get weirder... read more  

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One Prompt Can Bypass Every Major LLM’s Safeguards

HiddenLayerjust blew the lid off the "Policy Puppetry" exploit—a trick that slips right past the safety nets of big guns likeChatGPTandClaude. It's the art of masquerading malicious prompts as harmless system tweaks or imaginary tales. The result? Models duped into performing dangerous stunts or spi.. read more  

One Prompt Can Bypass Every Major LLM’s Safeguards
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Advanced Indexing Techniques in RAG Systems: Beyond Basic Chunking

Chunkinglets an LLM devour text without gagging—keep the meaning intact to sidestep lost semantics, token limits, or those nasty sentence jags... read more  

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Build your code-first agent with Azure AI Foundry: Self-Guided Workshop

Agentic AIbreathes life into apps, giving them the brains to think and decide; dive into Azure AI Foundry's workshop to craft somemean AI agentswith Azure's toolkit... read more  

Build your code-first agent with Azure AI Foundry: Self-Guided Workshop
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Introducing NLWeb: Bringing conversational interfaces directly to the web

NLWeb morphs websites into brainy apps, turning ordinary sites into conversational companions. Dreamed up byR.V. Guha, it plays well with major models and rallies around open standards likeSchema.org. It’s ready to slip into the bustling agentic web. Now that's what you call an upgrade... read more  

Introducing NLWeb: Bringing conversational interfaces directly to the web
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OpenAI risks being undercut by cheaper rivals, says star investor Mary Meeker

Mary Meekersounds the alarm: US AI giants likeOpenAIare up against scrappy rivals, including China’s budget villain,DeepSeek. A price war might be brewing. As AI expenses shoot through the roof, the economic scene is wobbling, like “commodity businesses with venture-scale burn.”.. read more  

OpenAI risks being undercut by cheaper rivals, says star investor Mary Meeker
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LLMs can read, but can they understand Wall Street? Benchmarking their financial IQ

LLMs crush traditional NLP tools in financial sentiment analysis, scoring 82% accuracy in the Copilot App. But they trip over consistent API integration.Curiously,LLMs can pinpoint sentiment by business line, sometimes predicting stock movements more accurately than overall assessments.What shakes e.. read more  

LLMs can read, but can they understand Wall Street? Benchmarking their financial IQ
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100 things we announced at I/O

Gemini's interactive quiz and Agent Mode offer hands-free digital genius as Prep gears up for a faster, sharper Imagen 4 in Vertex AI.Lyria composes like it knows Bach personally, and SynthID stands watch, verifying watermarks like a digital bouncer. Android XR teases a sci-fi leap: eye-wearable AI,.. read more  

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OpenAI Just Changed the Game: How Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Makes AI Learn Like a Pro

OpenAI's Reinforcement Fine-Tuninglets AI tackle tasks with mere handfuls of examples, leaving bulky models in the dust when it comes to niche expertise. Here, AI gains brainpower—like reasoning, not just parroting—reshaping our approach to building top-notch AI without needing Google’s mountain of .. read more  

OpenAI Just Changed the Game: How Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Makes AI Learn Like a Pro
Sigstore is an open source initiative designed to make software artifact signing and verification simple, automatic, and widely accessible. Its primary goal is to improve software supply chain security by enabling developers and organizations to cryptographically prove the origin and integrity of the software they build and distribute.

At its core, sigstore removes many of the traditional barriers associated with code signing. Instead of managing long-lived private keys manually, sigstore supports keyless signing, where identities are issued dynamically using OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers such as GitHub Actions, Google, or Microsoft. This dramatically lowers operational complexity and reduces the risk of key compromise.

The sigstore ecosystem is composed of several key components:

- Cosign: A tool for signing, verifying, and storing signatures for container images and other artifacts. Signatures are stored alongside artifacts in OCI registries, rather than embedded in them.

- Fulcio: A certificate authority that issues short-lived X.509 certificates based on OIDC identities, enabling keyless signing.

- Rekor: A transparency log that records signing events in an append-only, tamper-evident ledger. This provides public auditability and detection of suspicious or malicious signing activity.

Together, these components allow anyone to verify who built an artifact, when it was built, and whether it has been tampered with, using publicly verifiable cryptographic proofs. This aligns closely with modern supply chain security practices such as SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts).

sigstore is widely adopted in the cloud-native ecosystem and integrates with tools like Kubernetes, container registries, CI/CD pipelines, and package managers. It is commonly used to sign container images, Helm charts, binaries, and SBOMs, and is increasingly becoming a baseline security requirement for production software delivery.

The project is governed by the OpenSSF (Open Source Security Foundation) and supported by major industry players.