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AI doom fears overstated, global pause unrealistic: Zoho's Sridhar Vembu

Predictions that artificial intelligence could lead to catastrophic outcomes are overstated, and a global pause in AI development is unlikely, Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu said on Wednesday, while urging India to keep its strategic options open and invest heavily in foundational R&D across sectors. Vembu said India should pursue an independent approach to AI, building on partnerships without becoming locked into the emerging technology rivalry between the United States and China. "We must be friends with everybody, enemies with nobody and keep our options open," Vembu, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Zoho, said in an interview with PTI. Vembu argued that any big tech company genuinely wanting to slow AI development is free to do so on its own; nothing stops one player from pacing itself without demanding the whole industry follow, he pointed out. Vembu was skeptical of calls by AI labs for an industry-wide pause, which, as per him, appeared to be less about safety and more a bid .

As AI agents grow more autonomous, India faces a safety-regulation test

Recent incidents involving autonomous AI systems have sharpened debate over whether India's principle-based framework needs binding rules for frontier models and stronger independent testing

Why human oversight remains crucial as AI agents become more autonomous

AI agents can browse, shop and make calls for users, but changing websites, unexpected human responses and real-world uncertainty mean human intervention remains part of the process

Agentic AI widening cyber risks even as defence tools improve: Trellix MD

Frontier AI models are rapidly improving vulnerability detection but also giving threat actors greater scale, making contextual intelligence and faster action critical, warns Trellix's Ganesh Iyer

Anthropic and OpenAI roll out cheaper models amid intensifying AI race

Anthropic and OpenAI have launched cheaper AI models, Opus 5.5, and GPT-6 Sol and Luna, as the US firms face growing price pressure from Chinese rivals and demand for lower-cost AI rises

The AI party house where Silicon Valley networking has a dark side

The mansion is one of the most prominent - and notorious - tech group homes, which have proliferated across Silicon Valley and San Francisco amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.

From handset to hub: Smartphone's quiet reinvention in the AI ecosystem

AI is spreading computing across watches, earbuds, glasses, cars and PCs, changing the smartphone from the primary interface into the hub connecting a growing ecosystem of devices

What is Jev? Inside the new AI model built to make software decisions

Jev is designed to make structured AI decisions for software, focusing on classification, scoring, routing and verification rather than generating conversational responses like conventional LLMs

OpenAI, Anthropic weigh cross-testing deal as AI safety concerns grow

The proposed pact could allow OpenAI and Anthropic to independently test each other's commercial AI models as concerns grow over increasingly capable systems

No reason for India to slow AI push, focus is on applications: IT ministry

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 ..

Why consumers are choosing simpler gadgets as technology gets smarter

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

OpenAI's Astra for Law: What its AI push for legal sector means for rivals

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

UPI Above Rs 2,000: Why Charge If Only 4% Are Affected? | Rohit Mahajan

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

Trump announces US 'AI Force', plans to appoint AI czar for regulation

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

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, SpaceXAI face lawsuit over 'AI slowdown pact'

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 central bank adviser says AI could deepen supply-demand imbalance

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

Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps up AI drug programme

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

Rising cyberattacks push Indian SMEs to boost security spending: Report

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

AI agents are turning past work into test beds and reusable knowledge

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

Discovr AI launches AI-Native Creator Advertising Platform; targets $25 Million+ creator spend in next 12 months

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