Artificial Intelligence

AI should assist decision-making, not replace human judgment: Adityanath

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 reviewing network vulnerabilities as AI cyber threats rise: Chauhan

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

OpenAI resumes training AI, blocks internet access over security 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

UK vows 100 mn euros for biosecurity lab with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google

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

AI-discovered software bugs may trigger more outages, warn cyber experts

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

Microsoft develops AI tool that can diagnose 'sequentially' like doctor

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

OpenAI shifts valuation to $1.25 trillion as funding talks near final stage

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

Only 1% of engineers work in FDE roles despite rising AI demand: Report

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

What Eternal’s Dark ai promises

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

AI data centre backlash threatens Australia's $70 billion investment boom

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

What is PHP? Why are governments and businesses worldwide going offline?

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

What are AI neolabs and why are they betting on safe superintelligence?

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

UK tax authority plans digital ambassadors to counter AI misinformation

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

Chinese-linked hackers use AI to compromise firms globally: Microsoft

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

Can AI keep your secrets safe? Eternal's dark.ai to offer encrypted chats

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

AI-led IPOs may add up to $100 billion to India's market-cap: Goldman Sachs

The investment bank estimates that 25-50 per cent of nearly 70 mid-to-late-stage private AI companies could go public in the next two to five years.

The great bull-market in India is over; prefer bonds, cash: Marc Faber

Foreign investors, Faber said, will reduce their exposure to markets around the world. "That is one reason I am reasonably positive about the US dollar," he added.

DeepSeek unveils open-source tool to cut AI operating costs for businesses

The service, called DeepInfer, is software DeepSeek uses to make its models run faster and use computing resources more efficiently

AI to spur Southeast Asia's digital economy to $368 billion, shows study

Online spending across the region will rise about 17% this year to $368 billion, a report from Google, Temasek Holdings Pte and Bain & Co. showed

Anthropic may spend $750 billion on computing costs as IPO plans advance

The artificial intelligence firm had a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026