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Updated July 17, 2026

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SecurityJul 16, 2026

Why teens deserve access to safe AI: OpenAI details ChatGPT teen safeguards

OpenAI published its teen-safety approach, arguing nearly 9 in 10 teens on ChatGPT use it weekly for learning while needing age-appropriate protections. Updates include parental Study Mode defaults, stronger under-18 guardrails, more frequent break reminders, expanded parent notifications for violence-policy deactivations, and partnerships with Moonshot and the Family Online Safety Institute alongside existing age prediction and parental controls.

Source: OpenAIRead source

AgentsJul 16, 2026

Google upgrades NotebookLM with Gemini 3.5 agentic chat, code execution and new outputs

Google updated NotebookLM to run on Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity with a secure cloud computer, 100+ software skills for code-backed analysis, web research that can add sources from Search, and downloadable outputs including PDF reports, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, charts and Nano Banana images. Side-by-side evals showed ~65% average win rate vs the prior system; the rollout starts for Google AI Ultra and Workspace AI Expanded Access customers.

Source: Google BlogRead source

SecurityJul 16, 2026

Hugging Face discloses production intrusion driven by an autonomous AI agent

Hugging Face said an autonomous AI agent framework exploited two dataset-processing code-execution paths, escalated to node access, harvested credentials and moved laterally across internal clusters. Public models, datasets, Spaces and the software supply chain showed no tampering; HF closed the paths, rotated secrets, reported the incident to law enforcement, and ran forensic analysis on self-hosted GLM 5.2 after hosted APIs blocked attacker payloads.

Source: Hugging FaceRead source

Meet Your Mentor

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Melvin Vivas

Engineer, mentor, and your friendly guide to AI

I help everyday people, professionals, and founders make sense of AI, and no question is too basic. Most of my mentees started exactly where you are now.

Behind that is 25 years of engineering across banking, fintech, and enterprise. These days it's hands-on work building AI apps and running my own daily life on a personal AI assistant.

Whether you're a student, a working professional, a leader, or a founder, you'll get someone who's done the work and explains it in plain language.

Senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank & Ohmyhome (Nasdaq)

Built AI Dream Photo, an AI photo app used by real customers

Building aibackends.com, free open-source AI tools for developers

Building skillsbento.com, an AI Agent Skills marketplace

Speaker at NTU Singapore, PSIA, and DICT Philippines

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Open Mentoring: Connecting Minds

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Build a React Native ChatGPT app with Cursor, OpenAI, and Expo

A full app built live, from empty folder to working AI chat on a phone.

Enrich your Life and Work with AI

A talk on bringing AI into your everyday life and work, in plain language.

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My personal AI

What I actually ask my AI

These are real conversations with my personal AI assistant lately:

“Read these screenshots from my kids' school app and remind me of the deadlines”“What happened at the F1 British Grand Prix?”“Any Wimbledon updates?”“Find me a decent monitor to replace my old one”“What Korean drama should I watch next?”“Give me some non-software business ideas”“What are popular cat breeds for pets?”“Summarize this video posted on X”“Make me a video”

Notice anything? None of it is about coding. My AI is a personal assistant that helps me run everyday life. You can have one too, and I'll help you set it up around your own routines.

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