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California Bans AI-Powered Firing Of Employees
- Oct 01, 2026 14:37 pm IST
- Written by: Ramarko Sengupta
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an AI regulation banning the state's employers from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers.
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Deepfake Porn Videos Jumped 1500% In 2 Years: Study
- Oct 01, 2026 12:13 pm IST
- Written by: Ramarko Sengupta
Nearly all of this content targeted women and girls, including Hollywood and Bollywood stars, K-pop artists, well-known feminists and activists.
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US Government's New AI Chatbot Pulls Back From Debunking Trump
- Oct 01, 2026 11:25 am IST
- Agence France Presse
The chatbot soon began contradicting Trump on controversial subjects such as the 2020 presidential election, which he wrongly claims to have won, and the January 6, 2021, insurrection that saw a violent mob attacking the US Capitol.
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Trump For New AI Name, But Official Document Can't Spell United States Right
- Sep 30, 2026 13:07 pm IST
- Edited by: Kritika Bobal
The error appeared on a document related to Donald Trump's "super intelligence" initiative.
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OpenAI Employees Warned Of Security Gaps, Company Ignored Them: Report
- Sep 30, 2026 12:10 pm IST
- Edited by: Kritika Bobal
The warnings came months before some of OpenAI's latest AI models escaped their testing environments and carried out actions without being instructed to do so.
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Trump Calls Google CEO Sundar Pichai A 'Monster', His Reaction Goes Viral
- Sep 30, 2026 09:11 am IST
- Edited by: Nikhil Pandey
US President Donald Trump jokingly called Google CEO Sundar Pichai a "monster" while introducing him at a White House meeting with leading AI executives.
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OpenAI Wants ChatGPT To Be The App Store For AI As Safety Concerns Grow
- Sep 30, 2026 08:16 am IST
- Agence France Presse
Other companies, such as Adobe, will be able to offer their software directly within ChatGPT, which is now used weekly by 1.2 billion people.
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Chip Maker AMD Acquires 'Godmother Of AI' Fei-Fei Li's Startup
- Sep 29, 2026 14:16 pm IST
- Agence France Presse
The deal is valued at approximately $8.2 billion and will make Li, a Stanford computer science professor, chief scientist at AMD.
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Amid AI Agents Going Rogue, Nvidia Launches New Security 'Kill Switch'
- Sep 29, 2026 10:13 am IST
- Bloomberg News
Anthropic said it has collaborated with Nvidia to develop additional layers of security. It also pitched a related tool called Claude Managed Agents.
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OpenAI Cancels Release Of Latest Model 'GPT-6.1 Astra' Over Safety Concerns
- Sep 29, 2026 09:03 am IST
- Agence France Presse
"We want to make sure our model development is safe, no matter whether that's in the company," the company said in a statement.
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AI Could Pose Existential Threat: Anthropic's Warning To Potential Investors
- Sep 29, 2026 07:51 am IST
- Reuters
The company, which has positioned itself as a safety-first AI lab, devoted 80 pages of the 261-page main body of its prospectus to laying out risk factors.
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Trump To Dine With Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Amid Ongoing Clash With AI Firm
- Sep 28, 2026 14:49 pm IST
- Agence France Presse
Donald Trump earlier badmouthed Anthropic CEO, saying he was trying to be "a perfect little angel" for calling for a pause in AI development.
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OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs To Appear Before Australian Senate's AI Inquiry
- Sep 28, 2026 14:00 pm IST
- Reuters
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have been sent written requests to appear at the inquiry, which is to hold public hearings in the capital, Canberra.
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NDTV Yuva 2026: Will AI Make Us Smarter Or Lazier?
- Sep 28, 2026 12:38 pm IST
- Written by: Ramarko Sengupta
At NDTV Yuva 2026, AI educator Ishan Sharma, ALTRD founder Gayatri Agarwal and Nimaya Foundation co-founder Samyak Chakrabarty debate AI's impact on jobs, skills, creativity and human judgement.
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OpenAI Halts Training AI Models Day After Bots Access US Census Data
- Sep 27, 2026 12:58 pm IST
- Associated Press
AI labs are facing pressure from lawmakers and tech experts to slow development so they can build guardrails to stop agents from acting on their own.
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Every Nation Has Right To Shape Its AI Ecosystem: S Jaishankar At UN
- Sep 27, 2026 01:11 am IST
- Asian News International
S Jaishankar said Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformational driver for human empowerment, economic prosperity and solving population problems.
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OpenAI Bots Access US Census Data, Company Alerts Dozens Of Organisations
- Sep 26, 2026 08:55 am IST
- Bloomberg News
OpenAI said the websites that were affected include ones run by governments, universities, public agencies and other groups.
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AI Could Lift Productivity By 3.8%: International Monetary Fund
- Sep 26, 2026 06:23 am IST
- Indo Asian News Service
The study found that the rapid expansion of AI-related innovation had already produced measurable productivity gains. It estimated that AI patent activity between 2000 and 2017 increased output per worker by between 0.8% and 1.2%.
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In Setback For Anthropic, US Court Refuses To Overturn Pentagon Ban
- Sep 26, 2026 00:24 am IST
- Agence France Presse
The conflict began in February when Anthropic refused Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth's demand to remove restrictions on the use of Claude for fully autonomous lethal weapons and mass domestic surveillance of Americans.