Artifical Intelligence

India sees no reason to slow down its artificial intelligence efforts, as much of the work here is focused on developing applications tailored to the needs of its people, IT Ministry sources said on Monday, drawing a distinction from the global calls for a pause on AI that are largely targeting frontier models. The government is concerned about issues related to AI safety, the sources said, adding that the obligation to report such incidents to authorities, exists today. To a question on whether the mechanism for incident notification would now be tightened in the wake of recent cases of AI agents autonomously taking actions beyond their intended tasks, the sources said, "Cybersecurity threat and cyber incidents include an incident of this nature. As it is, an obligation to report exists. We will have to tighten the norms, timeframe and content of the reporting, we are already doing that." The position assumes significance as concerns have intensified after researchers and safety ..

Compact cameras, wired earphones and dedicated music players are finding new users as consumers seek fewer distractions and more control over their technology

OpenAI launched Astra for Law, while Thomson Reuters has built its own AI model for professional applications. Anthropic is also considering a new model as it faces growing competition from OpenAI

In this episode of Manager's Mantra, Rohit Mahajan, Founder and CEO of Plutos ONE, discusses the debate around UPI and MDR, and how AI is making it easier for people to build new products

US officials have said they will raise ​the topic of AI in talks with China as the US president prepares to meet ​with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week

A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions. The coordination largely took place on September 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industry-wide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favour of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI's Sam Altman, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei's proposals in agreement. It's clear that an agreement among the chief rivals in AI that their progress "should be slower than competition would otherwise produce has an anticompetitive effect on consumers," the

China's policymakers have been trying to revive domestic demand amid a prolonged ‌property downturn, local government debt pressures and ​cautious household spending

At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area

Indian SMEs plan to increase cybersecurity spending as cyber incidents rise, but limited monitoring, in-house expertise and employee awareness continue to leave gaps in their security preparedness

As AI agents take on more complex work, researchers are exploring ways to turn past tasks into reusable knowledge, procedures and testing environments for other agents

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Researchers using Anthropic's Claude uncovered vulnerabilities in OpenAI systems, while OpenAI has reported cases of its own models bypassing technical safeguards

More than 90 per cent of Anthropic's AI R&D work is now performed at a level where AI either collaborates with humans or leads the work, the company said

Coforge CEO Sudhir Singh says IT services firms can bridge the gap between AI adoption and operationalisation as the technology puts pressure on traditional businesses.

Google, Amazon, Samsung and Apple are connecting AI agents with smart home devices, making home platforms an increasingly important interface between AI and the physical world

What began as an AI evaluation effort has grown into an independent research organisation examining how advanced models behave and what risks their capabilities could pose

Dong also urged nations to "strengthen risk assessment, experience sharing, and the establishment of rules and governance."

Suleyman called ​for removing all speculation ​about consciousness from AI training documents, arguing such language could undermine humanity's ability ​to control superintelligent systems.

Manohar Lal and US Energy Secretary Chris Wright reviewed cooperation on clean energy, resilient infrastructure, nuclear power and emerging technologies during talks in Houston

As AI gives wearables the ability to listen, see and interpret their surroundings, the privacy question is expanding beyond the person wearing the device to everyone within its reach