I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."
—Claude Shannon
Vaibhav Jha is an Editor and Co-founder of AI FrontPage. In his decade long career in journalism, Vaibhav has reported for publications including The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, and The New York Times, covering the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Outside work, he’s usually trying to persuade people to watch Anurag Kashyap films.
UK cinemas are restricting Meta AI and other camera-enabled smart glasses over concerns that they could be used to record films and violate privacy, according to the UK Cinema Association.
Pope Leo XIV told the International Catholic Legislators Network that AI must never diminish humanity. He called for technology guided by wisdom, conscience and charity so it becomes a servant of the common good, while warning against algorithmic control, technological dependence and threats to workers’ rights and democracy.
Brazil’s government has announced investments of about R$2.3 billion ($444.2 million) to strengthen its artificial intelligence ecosystem. More than half will fund a R$1.3 billion supercomputing infrastructure project developed with China’s Huawei Technologies and iFlytek.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has urged organisations to put stronger safeguards around AI agents, warning that greater autonomy and access to networks and data can increase security risks.
Singapore has approved Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres to add 50MW of data centre capacity on Jurong Island.
Under the offer, students in the United States can get Google AI Pro free for 12 months. Students in India and other countries can get Google AI Plus free for a year. Google has also launched a dedicated student hub in Gemini with study notebooks, flashcards, quizzes and more.
Moderna and Merck say their personalised mRNA vaccine, given alongside Keytruda, met its primary and secondary goals in a Phase 3 melanoma trial — the first positive late-stage result for an individualized cancer vaccine.
“As Playful as Humanity, As AI Can Never Be”– why these activists chose comedy, not rage, to warn about Rogue AI.
Anthropic says the process is an early foundational step in drug discovery / development and they are now training Claude to run the entire drug development process end-to end
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company is temporarily pausing some frontier reinforcement learning (RL) training, including work on its upcoming Astra model, to ensure alignment, security, and monitoring standards keep pace with rapidly advancing capabilities. The move follows a security incident involving Hugging Face and preliminary findings that Astra may reach “critical” cybersecurity thresholds.
