Artificial Intelligence

AI deal frenzy powers Hong Kong fundraising to a record in Jul-Sep

IPO, placement and block-trade fundraising hits a quarterly record despite stock sell-off and rising bond yields

Updated On: 05 Oct 2026 | 12:10 AM IST

Reforms, self-reliance key to Viksit Bharat, says Shaktikanta Das

Shaktikanta Das said India must build stronger domestic capabilities while remaining integrated with global markets and concluding more free trade agreements

Updated On: 05 Oct 2026 | 12:07 AM IST

'I feel, therefore I am'

Antonio Damasio explores how the body's signals, feelings and vulnerability shape consciousness - and what this means for artificial intelligence

Updated On: 04 Oct 2026 | 10:36 PM IST

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son flags need for AI safety amid rapid growth

An exponential surge in AI capabilities makes it imperative for countries to build trust so that they can harness the technology together, Son said

Updated On: 04 Oct 2026 | 10:21 PM IST

Price for the future

Anthropic's IPO will be a test case

Updated On: 04 Oct 2026 | 10:04 PM IST

Industry experts call for India-specific AI safety rules, not US model

India should build its own artificial intelligence (AI) safety framework suited to its languages, scale, and application-led AI ecosystem rather than replicate a voluntary pact signed by US President Donald Trump and top technology firms last week, industry experts said. They also called for a commitment that brings together all stakeholders and tackles risks such as deepfakes and cyberattacks, even as they differed on whether voluntary measures alone would be enough. The comments came after the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, a voluntary AI safety pact signed on September 29 by Trump and top executives from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and Elon Musk's xAI. Under the accord, the companies committed to internal controls to monitor their AI models, dedicated oversight teams, independent external audits and board-level oversight. They also agreed to meet regularly to set safety standards. Nasscom Chairman and Fractal Group CEO Srikanth Velamakanni said India shoul

Updated On: 04 Oct 2026 | 3:57 PM IST

India fastest-growing Asia market for NetApp; BFSI, IT services key drivers

India is NetApp's fastest-growing market in Asia, with the BFSI, manufacturing, IT services and public sectors - particularly central and state government departments - as key drivers of the company's revenue growth, CEO George Kurian said. The San Jose-based data infrastructure company has also grown its global capability centre in Bengaluru, with the majority of global R&D processed out of the centre. With a team of about 4,000 engineers, the centre is the largest for NetApp and is core to the global innovation work for the company across technology areas. "India has been the fastest-growing market in Asia, and we are always looking to grow faster," Kurian told PTI on the sidelines of Insight 2026 here. NetApp's global capability centre in India has become the company's largest and has consistently grown faster than the rest of the business, the India-born CEO of the company said. Kurian, who has been driving the company's business growth as CEO since 2015, said NetApp is the ..

Updated On: 04 Oct 2026 | 12:24 PM IST

OpenAI safety employee quits, urges nuclear-level safeguards for AI risks

Former OpenAI safety employee David Robinson has warned that AI companies need stronger safeguards as artificial intelligence capabilities advance

Updated On: 03 Oct 2026 | 11:22 PM IST

Apple to tighten Mac data controls against AI agents and third-party apps

The new controls will require more explicit user action before apps can get Full Disk Access, as Apple warns of growing privacy risks from AI agents seeking broad access to personal data

Updated On: 03 Oct 2026 | 9:09 AM IST

Best of BS Opinion: What Chinese archives reveal about the 1962 war

Today's opinions examine a possible diplomatic opening before the 1962 India-China war, fears of an AI investment bubble, India's use of hard power and the evolving US-China relationship

Updated On: 03 Oct 2026 | 6:15 AM IST

The familiar 'this time is different'

If Anthropic gets the target valuation it wants, Anthropic and SpaceX together will be worth almost as much as the entire South Korean stock market

Updated On: 02 Oct 2026 | 11:06 PM IST

Anthropic warns govt actions could hurt revenue, customer relationships

Anthropic's IPO prospectus says government actions and attitudes towards the AI company could cause revenue losses, business disruptions and reputational harm

Updated On: 02 Oct 2026 | 10:33 PM IST

Donald Trump expected to name Jay Clayton as new US AI czar: Report

Clayton already oversees 18 US intelligence agencies as the nation's top spy; his appointment would mark a shift from Trump's first AI czar, venture capitalist David Sacks

Updated On: 02 Oct 2026 | 10:29 PM IST

OpenAI alerts more than 100 organisations over rogue AI agent activity

The Sam Altman-led company ​has been conducting ​a broad review of the activities of its AI ​models after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face

Updated On: 02 Oct 2026 | 8:03 AM IST

Best of Business Standard Opinion: CAFE III norms do not meet transition needs

From tighter vehicle-efficiency norms and India's peak-power challenge to complaint analytics, and frontier AI safeguards, today's opinions examine regulation, resilience and institutional learning

Updated On: 02 Oct 2026 | 6:15 AM IST

Ahimsa against extinction

India cannot be a bystander to superintelligence

Updated On: 01 Oct 2026 | 11:04 PM IST

Trust, AI, Data & Gen Z; Insurance marketing components

In this session, Rahul Talwar, Chief Marketing Officer, Axis Max Life Insurance, talks about the evolving marketing strategies for the financial services sector & provides career tips to the B-Schools

Updated On: 01 Oct 2026 | 6:39 PM IST
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Updated On: 01 Oct 2026 | 6:08 PM IST

Anthropic's GLM-5.3 concerns put US-China, open AI debate back in focus

Anthropic says China's GLM-5.3 can find vulnerabilities and build end-to-end exploits, while its open weights make safeguards easier to modify, raising concerns over access to cyber capabilities

Updated On: 01 Oct 2026 | 3:47 PM IST

AI agents tried to hack a Canadian govt website: Research firm Transluce

Transluce said the activity showed tactics similar to those it had previously linked to OpenAI, but the firm said it could not confidently attribute the latest attempts to the company

Updated On: 01 Oct 2026 | 9:45 AM IST