Artificial Intelligence And Robotics

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

Trump, top tech firms sign accord to 'self-police' AI development

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews of the technology during a meeting at the White House. "I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing. And they understand that they have to self-police," Trump told reporters outside the West Wing. The announcement followed an extensive meeting between Trump and numerous leading executives from top tech firms that are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out AI infrastructure, including data centres in communities across the country that have sparked grassroots, bipartisan opposition. Many of the executives gathered in Washington have called for a slowdown in the development of the technology after several high-profile incidents where AI agents have gone rogue. But earlier Tuesday, Trump promised that the US government wouldn't limit the development of artificial intelligence or ...

AI may force 11 million workers into new jobs by 2035, says McKinsey

Roughly 11 million American workers, or about 7% of the current workforce, may need to change jobs by 2035 because of artificial intelligence-related displacement, according to the report

Global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion to justify data centres: Bain

The report comes as debate intensifies around the as-yet elusive returns for AI service providers

Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing

While public ​companies routinely outline product risks to investors, few, if any, ​have issued warnings suggesting their technology could cause potential human extinction

AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in $8.2 billion bet on physical AI

The acquisition gives AMD access to research on spatial intelligence, an emerging field focused on enabling AI systems to model three-dimensional environments and physical interactions

Nvidia releases safety software tools to stop AI agents from misbehaving

Nvidia has launched software tools to contain rogue AI agents, saying they could have prevented the Hugging Face breach as OpenAI and Anthropic investigate similar agent-related hacks

Did Anthropic's AI really make a scientific discovery on its own?

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company's AI model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work

Trump confirms meeting with Anthropic CEO, repeats dismissal of AI fears

Trump also reiterated his belief that new regulations would open the door for China to outpace the United States in AI advancement

Anthropic, OpenAI sound AI safety alarm, seek to shape how it's controlled

As tech titans warned an AI-weary world that their own advanced systems could endanger humanity, the question emerged: What do they have to gain? The answer may lie in the companies' efforts to score political goals ahead of the US midterm elections and the money top artificial intelligence labs and their investors stand to make in much-anticipated listings on a jittery stock market. The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI recently declared America's cutting-edge models are so powerful, they're dangerous, and need to be regulated and independently tested before being released. In a rare instance of unity, they have sketched alarming scenarios in essays, social media posts and speeches to the United Nations. Along the way, they are shaping the conversation around how their technology should be controlled. With their rhetoric, the companies appear to be seeking public favour and to set the terms for their own safety protocols in the unregulated market, experts, analysts and former government

When AI agents go rogue: Australia breach warns countries like 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

OpenAI set to preview cybersecurity-focused GPT-6 AI model within days

Cybersecurity is emerging as one ‌of AI's fastest-growing markets, as tech firms develop tools ​to combat threats and contain rogue AI agents

Anthropic signs $11.6 billion, seven-year AI computing deal with Akamai

Akamai will supply Anthropic access to central processing units, or CPUs, a type of generalist chip that's seen renewed demand in data centers where it's helping support AI services

Zoho launches Zia Chat, enters vertical SaaS with seven industry apps

Homegrown software company Zoho on Wednesday launched Zia Chat, a unified AI interface for businesses, and announced its entry into vertical SaaS with seven industry-specific applications spanning retail, automotive, BFSI, healthcare, education, real estate and restaurants. Zia Chat is built natively into Zoho's ecosystem and gives users a single conversational interface to find information, generate leads, resolve support issues and analyse data across sales, marketing, support, HR and finance functions, the company said. "Our goal is to commoditise intelligence so customers can get work done, without incurring high costs on tokens," Sridhar Vembu, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Zoho, said at a briefing. Zia Chat will reduce token consumption for users, and will be available for early access in a month, initially in English. "There is an interface crisis, and people spend too much time searching for the right context and data. We strip away the UIs (user interfaces) of different

Mavenir, Neysa partner to offer sovereign AI infrastructure to enterprises

The partnership combines Mavenir's AI platform with Neysa's GPU infrastructure and cloud environment to help enterprises, telcos and neocloud providers deploy AI systems

Anthropic, OpenEvidence collaborate to bring medical AI worldwide

OpenEvidence answers doctors' questions by drawing on peer-reviewed medical research and treatment guidelines. The platform is free to clinicians in the United States and Europe

Microsoft AI chief warns against teaching AI systems to act humanlike

A corporate spat between two tech giants last week was just the latest volley in a conflict over whether dangerous mistakes are being made in AI training

AI adoption driving hiring, but mostly for senior-level roles: Study

The number of employees in senior positions rose by 6.7% over five years at companies adopting AI, while junior employment declined 3% in the same period

US proposes AI incident alert system in talks with China: Bessent

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the US has proposed a new "notification mechanism" for artificial intelligence incidents that could affect national security, part of weekend discussions ahead of talks at the White House this week between President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping. "We want a shared vision of common goals and common threats," Bessent told reporters after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York. "We think that just like any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the No. 1 and the No. 2 AI powers in the world is very important." Trump has resisted calls to slow down AI development, saying that would help China catch up to US companies. Standing together in the soaring lobby of the JPMorgan Chase headquarters late Sunday, Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the groundwork had been laid for talks between Xi and Trump set to take place on Thursday. They said the two sides had agreed t

Indian firms moving AI from pilots towards deployment: Salesforce

Salesforce sees India entering a phase of wider enterprise AI adoption, with companies moving beyond experimentation to production deployments and the country offering significant "white space" for digital and agentic AI growth, President and CEO, South Asia, Arundhati Bhattacharya, said. In an interview to PTI, she affirmed the shift by Indian firms, sharing that Salesforce will continue to invest in physical infrastructure, upskilling Indian talent and recruitment. "So I would say that yes, they (Indian companies) are moving towards putting things in production," Bhattacharya said, responding to a question on whether Indian firms were moving towards large-scale deployment after experimenting with generative AI and AI agents. Elaborating on Salesforce's India plans, Bhattacharya said a new tower in Bengaluru is expected to come on stream next calendar year as one of its investments in the country. "We have already invested in a tower in Bangalore, and that should be coming on stre