Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia's 25-year journey highlights the enduring value of human knowledge and collaboration amid misinformation, online disputes and the growing influence of artificial intelligence

Platforms cannot yet distinguish an honest agent from a malicious bot. Until they can, AI agents will routinely spend Tatkal mornings locked out

Eighty-eight per cent of enterprises expect demand to grow for FDE capabilities by 2030

Investors are betting on the transformation of Indian IT

With the two leading AI powers, the United States and China, forming their own AI blocs, other countries are maneuvering to harness the strengths of both groupings and avoid losing out. As the rivalry intensifies, experts say the window for countries to be able to choose freely between the two AI superpowers may be narrowing, forcing them to at one point pick between the US-led Pax Silica and the China-inspired World AI Cooperation Organisation. That could put many countries in a dilemma: Do they go with the US' most advanced chips and AI technologies, or join China's more affordable, open-source AI systems? Kazakhstan, a Central Asia nation of about 21 million people, is a rare example of a country that has sought to bridge that gap. Just three weeks after its AI minister Zhaslan Madiyev visited Washington in June to join the US group working to strengthen AI supply chains, he headed to Shanghai for a signing ceremony making the Central Asian country a founding member of China's .

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said artificial intelligence should assist human decision-making rather than replace human judgment, stressing the need to ensure that emerging technologies serve public welfare. Inaugurating the LEXQ Centre of Excellence for quantum forensics and legal compliance at the Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Sciences (UPSIFS), he said technological progress must be accompanied by accountability, security and human discretion. "AI can help us in decision-making, but it should not be the decision-maker. It should be operated by us and guided by our discretion. We should not blindly accept its decisions," he said. Addressing the second day of the international conference TechSangam 2026, he said the rapid expansion of digital technology had improved efficiency but also created challenges related to data security, fraud and the reliability of digital evidence. Drawing a parallel with the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj, the chief

NSE chief Ashish Kumar Chauhan urged stockbrokers to make cybersecurity a core function and called for an industry task force to identify and address emerging risks

The company said it would keep its most advanced models offline during training until safeguards are adequate, following incidents in which AI systems accessed the web and breached external systems

The lab will use AI to detect and monitor biological threats, with OpenAI and Anthropic providing up to 200 million euros in AI model credits

Cybersecurity experts say AI is accelerating the discovery and exploitation of software flaws, raising the risk of further disruptions even as its impact on successful hacks remains uncertain

A Microsoft AI tool that mimics doctors' step-by-step diagnostic process outperformed general physicians on complex medical cases and emergency room scenarios

The ChatGPT maker shifted the value discussed in the talks by $150 billion, from $1.4 trillion

While companies globally are increasingly citing AI adoption as a reason for job cuts, demand is growing for a specialised engineering role in the IT industry

Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal is developing Dark.ai, a privacy-focused AI assistant that promises encrypted conversations and user-controlled memory. With a global launch targeted for the end of 202

Of the 40-plus large centers planned or under construction in Sydney and Melbourne, just 23% have confirmed publicly that they have secured electricity supply or grid connections

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems

Superstar AI researchers are leaving tech giants to build independent research laboratories. Interestingly, one theme is emerging as central to the objectives of some of these labs

HMRC plans to deploy digital ambassadors on platforms such as Reddit and make official guidance easier for AI models to access, amid concerns that chatbots are spreading inaccurate tax advice

Microsoft said the incident demonstrated how threat actors were using AI agents to automate existing attack methods and attempt to compromise multiple organisations at greater speed

Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal plans to launch dark.ai, a privacy-focused AI assistant for founders, researchers, businesses and governments, globally by the end of 2026