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GitHub now offers structured private vulnerability reporting. The default form requires four fields, including a reproducible proof of concept. According to GitHub, the change is meant to make it easier to assess low-quality reports, including those generated using AI.
The Live Data in Apps feature allows Amazon Quick applications to query Amazon Quick Sight datasets every time they are opened. According to AWS, the queries are executed with the user's permissions and respect row-level and column-level access restrictions.
The ChatGPT product now lets you virtually try on clothing and accessories using your own photo and save selected products using the Favorites feature. OpenAI announced the global availability of both features.
The computer use feature is in public preview in the GitHub Copilot CLI and GitHub Copilot app tools for macOS and Windows. According to GitHub, it allows control of desktop applications. It requires user consent, and organizations can disable it.
The automations feature in GitHub Copilot in the VS Code editor allows running agent tasks hourly, daily, weekly, or on demand. A task definition can be created from a template or using a custom prompt. The feature is available in preview.
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The Wall Street Journal names the laid-off researchers as Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni. OpenAI has not confirmed the names; it cites violations of rules on handling sensitive information as the reason for ending the collaboration.
New: The Wall Street Journal names the laid-off individuals as Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni.; Tomek Korbak worked on the security team.; Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni worked on alignment.; OpenAI has not confirmed the names of those laid off.; Korbak was OpenAI's technical point of contact for METR and Redwood Research.
The US Senate Subcommittee held a hearing on 30 September on cyber threats associated with AI agent-type systems. It invited five witnesses. In his opening statement, Senator Josh Hawley raised the question of manufacturers' liability for damages caused.
The company Tavus has introduced the Griffin model for live audiovisual conversations. According to its study, 48% of participants considered it human after a one-minute call. The Griffin-Lite model is available to selected testers; a more powerful version is to follow after safety questions have been resolved.
Australia is considering two reforms: the right to delete personal data and an obligation for online services to manage foreseeable risks. The protection could also cover people whose data was entered into conversational AI services by someone else.
AWS has published a guide on connecting the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit with the Amazon S3 Vectors service for persistent agent memory. The described solution assumes deployment on Amazon EKS with automatic saving and retrieval of context.
The Ideogram 4.5 model is available on the Ideogram platform and via API. According to Ideogram, it changes only the requested parts of an image. It offers four quality tiers at native 2K resolution for 0.8 to 22 cents per image.
Judge Amit Mehta dismissed the antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media Corporation against Google. The plaintiffs claimed that the AI Overviews feature diverts traffic and forces publishers to provide content for free. According to the judge, their claims did not hold up under antitrust law.
Amazon Payments tested personalized content selection using contextual bandits on Amazon SageMaker AI. In a seven-week A/B test, according to the company, final conversion increased relatively by a higher single-digit percentage for one group; for the other, it did not improve.
The authors of a commentary on the AI Snake Oil website acknowledge that warnings about existential AI risk can be sincere, but consider many of the arguments flawed. They support evidence-based preparation for catastrophic risks and question the benefit of extreme warnings for safety.
AWS's guide describes a shared subscription for the Claude Platform on AWS service with separation of production and development. For applications in AWS environments it uses SigV4 and cross-account roles, for developers restricted API keys, and for external environments OIDC federation.
The dynamic workflows feature is available in public preview in Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot SDK on all GitHub Copilot plans. It allows defining sequential and concurrent steps and agent involvement in code.
The Claude Status status page marked the incident of delayed crediting of purchased credits as resolved on 1 October at 22:36 UTC. Due to the unupdated balance, some requests failed for lack of credit.
GitHub's new dashboard, previously available as a preview, has become the default view for all users. The previous view can be restored at any time.
The Guided Vision feature is also available in Google TalkBack. On devices running Android 9 and later, an accessibility shortcut can be set up. The audio description of images from the camera helps with reading text and recognizing objects; according to Google, it is not intended for navigation.
New: Guided Vision is also available in Google TalkBack.; On devices running Android 9 and later, an accessibility shortcut can be set up for Guided Vision.; Google warns against using the feature for navigation and obstacle detection.
Albertsons Companies uses ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API. According to OpenAI, this speeds up the work of its teams and makes grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
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