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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.
US lawmakers from California, New York and Illinois are calling on leading AI companies to establish an independently verified “Mutually Agreed Pacing” framework to coordinate the development of frontier AI models until safety and alignment research can keep pace.
US Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would prohibit the development and deployment of superintelligent AI and pause advanced AI development until federal safety regulations are established.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its latest frontier AI model, claiming unprecedented capabilities across coding, mathematics, cybersecurity, science, computer use and personalized agentic task execution.
India and the US explored deeper cooperation in AI, semiconductors and data centers during a bilateral meeting at the G20 Innovation Ministerial.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. CEO Jensen Huang said the open-source AI platform will stay independent of NVIDIA hardware, while NVIDIA scales its infrastructure for more than 18 million developers sharing millions of models and datasets.
NITI Aayog Member Abhay Karandikar chaired a closed-door meeting in New Delhi with AMCHAM India and representatives from Meta, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Apple and AWS.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said research has been unable to tell if AI is really beneficial for students in elementary and middle schools.
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra AI model has crossed the “Critical” cybersecurity capability threshold, with evaluations showing it can discover previously unknown vulnerabilities and develop exploit chains without human intervention.
Anthropic said Fable 5.1 can reduce costs by about 25% for typical token-billed workloads because of lower cache-read pricing, with savings of up to about 45% for highly agentic workloads.
A new position paper from Hugging Face and Data & Society researchers argues that AI agents don’t just need human oversight, they’re actively eroding the human skills that oversight depends on.
