Banks prepare for new model risk provisions

Gone are the days of treating model risk management as a checkbox exercise. On April 17, 2026, federal regulators, including the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC, overhauled existing guidance and replaced SR 11-7 and related issuances with a framework that requires a more integrated and risk-sensitive approach. This is more than just a technical update. […]

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LLM Reinforcement Learning | IBM

At the core of reinforcement learning, models are trained to prioritize outputs that yield stronger rewards, optimizing for quality as well as accuracy. In classic deep reinforcement learning, an agent operates within its environment and learns from its results. For LLM, the “action” is to produce text, and the reward signal reflects how good that […]

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MAXISIQ launches dedicated AI consulting services group

New group positions MAXISIQ at the forefront of government AI adoption – clear, compliant and mission-aligned MAXISIQ, a trusted technology and professional services company with deep defense and government contracting expertise, announced today that AI Consulting Service Group — A purpose-built practice designed to help federal agencies, Department of Defense (DoD) components, and commercial enterprises […]

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A hybrid grey wolf optimized eXtreme gradient boosting-based machine learning model for hospital pharmaceutical demand forecasting

This study proposes a Hybrid GWO–XGBoost model for hospital-level pharmaceutical demand forecasting. The model integrates real-world hospital dispensing data, standardized drug catalogues, meteorological variables, and temporal features to improve predictive accuracy and model generalization. The overall workflow of the proposed approach is illustrated in Fig. 1, consisting of three main stages: (i) Data Preparation, (ii) Model […]

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Fluid thinking about collective intelligence

Malone, T. W. & Bernstein, M. S. (eds) Handbook of Collective Intelligence (MIT Press, 2022). Flack, J., Ipeirotis, P., Malone, T. W., Mulgan, G. & Page, S. E. Editorial to the inaugural issue of Collective Intelligence. Collect. Intell. 1, 26339137221114179 (2022). Article  Google Scholar  Yang, X.-S., Cui, Z., Xiao, R., Gandomi, A. H. & Karamanoglu, […]

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