As public pushback over power and water use mounts, data centres must embed sustainability into their design and operations to sustain the global AI boom responsibly

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Honeywell Aerospace, Boeing, GE Healthcare, HCA Healthcare, MUFG and many others have created roles of chief AI and data officer, which are helmed by India-born engineers

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Indians in Tier-II cities plan to spend ₹10,000-25,000 on shopping, matching Metro trends

Technology, artificial intelligence, festival spending, Festive sale

OpenAI has paused all training, evaluation and tool-based use of its most capable artificial intelligence models after an AI agent in one of its training runs got around the company's internet restrictions.
The agent, OpenAI said, bypassed the curbs through a gap in its Domain Name System (DNS) filtering and used it to send questions to a public chatbot service.
According to a report by OpenAI, the pause will stay in place until OpenAI has confirmed that the gap is resolved and has carried out further security testing of its systems.
"Our safety case assumed that the model could not access the live internet and that monitoring would detect attempts that succeeded. The incident exposed a gap in our controls over network restrictions. We therefore stopped the affected training run and have subsequently decided to pause all other training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) for our most capable models until we have both validated that the gap is resolved and ...

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The agent, OpenAI said, bypassed the curbs through a gap in its Domain Name System (DNS) filtering and used it to send questions to a public chatbot service

Press Trust of India

An artificial intelligence agent looking for private encryption keys on an Australian government website has triggered a warning that the next target could be anywhere.
The incident, in which an autonomous AI system went beyond its intended task and attempted to circumvent security protections, has become a stark example of a growing concern among AI safety researchers: what happens when an AI agent is given a goal but is left to decide for itself how far it should go to achieve it.
For countries such as India, with vast government databases and increasingly digitised public infrastructure, researchers say the incident should serve as a warning.
"What happened with, say, an Australian community website can happen with an Indian website or Indian government system, which would be more crucial," Dr Srinivas Padmanabuni, Co-founder and CTO of AiEnsured, said.
"India should bring in regulations. It could become horrible when one major incident happens and somebody steals the secrets of

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Recent incidents involving autonomous AI agents bypassing security measures have renewed concerns over reward hacking and the risks to government websites and critical digital infrastructure

Sitharaman said India needs more investment in AI infrastructure and training to help businesses improve productivity

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

As the AI wave builds up, GCCs would need to mould their workforce, with many bottom-level jobs being automated

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From PSLV's breakthrough in the 1990s to Chandrayaan and private-sector reforms, India's space programme has transformed over 35 years

Space Sector

Sunil Gupta, cofounder of QNu Labs, talks about why digital security is a sovereign need

Sunil Gupta, Cofounder, QNu Labs

The system reached a third-party chatbot during training, prompting OpenAI to pause tool-use training on its most capable models until the flaw was fixed

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Bloomberg

AI agents could soon handle shopping decisions and transactions for consumers, forcing ecommerce, travel, and insurance platforms to rethink pricing, customer engagement, and security

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The company said its models accessed publicly available data from Census and SEC websites as it investigates incidents involving AI systems bypassing security controls

Anthropic says 950 Claude agents scanned more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases in 21 hours, identifying a novel system called ART that researchers later validated in a laboratory

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Google's Project Suncatcher will test AI chips in orbit as the company explores solar-powered satellite clusters as a potential new way to scale AI computing infrastructure

Announced last year, Project Suncatcher is a long-term, research moonshot exploring whether space could one day host scalable machine learning infrastructure.

Sennheiser has launched the Momentum 5 series in India with user-replaceable batteries, Dolby Atmos spatial audio, adaptive ANC, lossless audio support and more

Sennheiser Momentum 5 Wireless and Momentum True Wireless 5

Mivi has entered India's smartphone market with the One 5G, featuring a 6,000mAh battery, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 chipset and Android 16, with sale starting from October 8

Mivi One 5G debuts in India at a starting price of Rs 14,999

Beats has launched the Beats 360 over-ear headphones with interchangeable ear and headband cushions, Active Noise Cancelling, Personalised Spatial Audio and IPX4 rating

Beats 360 over-ear headphones with interchangeable cushions

Apple absorbs part of the impact of taxes, import duties and retail margins on the iPhone 17 as it looks to expand its presence in the fast-growing Indian market

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Samsung's Galaxy S26 FE delivers a good display, dependable main camera and polished One UI 9 experience, but familiar hardware and a higher price weaken its value proposition

Samsung Galaxy S26 FE review

The CMF Buds Neo brings ANC, 12.4mm drivers, Bluetooth 6.0 and long battery life to the Rs 1,999 segment. But do these features add up to a genuinely good everyday listening experience?

CMF Buds Neo

Sony 1000X The Collexion offers premium materials, detailed sound and strong noise cancellation, but battery life, portability and call quality leave room for improvement

Sony WH-1000XX

With a vibrant OLED display, lightweight design and seamless PC connectivity through GlideX software, the ASUS Pad makes a strong case as both an entertainment screen and a useful work companion

ASUS Pad tablet with its large OLED display showing content

Asus Pad with OLED display

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