The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"
—Pope Leo XIV
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.
Artificial Intelligence is changing lives of ordinary Indians, remarked the IT minister Vaishnaw at the launch of World Bank Group’s 2026 Development report.
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s Grok Bot will no longer rely exclusively on its own AI models and will instead select the best available model for each task, including Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno.
ElevenLabs has opened a Singapore office as its Southeast Asia hub and plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in India to expand AI model development, Indian language capabilities and local operations.
Abu Dhabi has launched AiNative, an AI training programme developed with OpenAI, Microsoft and MBZUAI, targeting 20,000 government employees by the end of 2026.
“Did AI just commit a felony?”,
asks Netflix in this new documentary ‘Instadocs: AI Gone Wild’ based on the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 across ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, allowing the AI chatbot to generate interactive graphics, charts, forms and visual experiences alongside text.
Nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the Mistral Large 4 AI model was trained from scratch on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs at Mistral’s European datacenters.
The agreement includes cross-licensing of the companies’ patent portfolios and Qualcomm’s planned purchase of certain Huawei-owned US patents, subject to regulatory approvals.
India is expanding its role in sovereign AI through Project Tapestry, with BharatGen contributing to the initiative’s first major technical milestone involving distributed AI training while participating institutions retained control of their data.
OpenAI has published a collection of mathematical results generated by an internal frontier AI model, along with Lean-formalised proofs, reasoning summaries and details about the computing resources used to produce the work.
