Trail of Bits announces the open-sourcing of Buttercup, their AI-driven Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) developed for DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). The article details how Buttercup works, including its four main components (Orchestration/UI, Vulnerability discovery, Contextual analysis, and Patch generation), provides instructions for getting started, and outlines future development plans.
This article discusses Aigo's approach to achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through 'First Principles Analysis'. It argues that understanding the core principles of human intelligence – conceptual learning, adaptability, incremental learning, and metacognitive control – is crucial. It critiques current approaches like scaling LLMs and advocates for 'Cognitive AI' based on their Integrated Neuro-Symbolic Architecture (INSA).
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing TRACTOR, a project aimed at using AI to automatically convert legacy C code into Rust for improved memory safety.
