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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.
Anthropic has sued cybersecurity firm Abnormal AI over its ‘A/’ slash logo, alleging trademark infringement — but Abnormal’s CEO Evan Reiser is fighting back, calling the claims baseless. His company does over $10m business with Anthropic, he adds.
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 has announced its awards, recognising two outstanding papers, five honorable mentions, two position papers and a Test of Time Award. Diffusion models dominated the top honours, while a decade-old reinforcement learning paper — one that quietly shaped how today’s large language models are trained ,was named the year’s most enduring contribution.
Beyond the corporate scorecard, the numbers point to a quieter shift: open model families are becoming the default foundation on which academic AI research is now built, with one chip-maker sitting squarely at the centre of it.
Your AI chatbot may be polite, helpful — and terrible at keeping your secrets. A new study accepted at ICML 2026 pressure-tested 24 of the world’s leading AI models through 904 adversarial conversations and found that 17 of them fail to protect user privacy when pushed.
Large language models often change the direction of social media posts on controversial topics even when explicitly instructed to preserve the original meaning, an Oxford-led study finds.
For the first time in its history, the United Nations has convened all 193 member states to answer one question: who governs AI? Opening the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Secretary-General António Guterres put children at the centre of the answer — demanding that AI companies prove their systems are safe before a single child can access them, and warning that “the algorithm did it” can never be an acceptable answer when a child is harmed.
The AI triage tool in NHS app is part of £10 billion funding received by NHS to digitalize healthcare system.
The world’s premier machine learning conference opens in Seoul with record-breaking numbers — 23,918 paper submissions, more than double last year — and an unprecedented experiment: formal rules on whether AI can help review AI research, enforced by watermarks hidden inside the papers themselves.
An AI FrontPage analysis of all 536 spotlight-tier papers at ICML 2026 — the world’s premier machine learning conference — found 40 researchers educated at Indian institutions, including 14 whose papers earned the coveted Oral designation given to just 0.7% of nearly 24,000 submissions.
According to the survey by UNICEF, which is based on data from 10 countries, at least 20 million children have used AI and many are outpacing adults by adopting it at rates more than three times faster.
