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.
Australia’s data centre pipeline has surged four-fold to $104 billion across 33 projects, according to Deloitte, as AI, cloud and digital demand accelerates investment.
Genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2 generated some 700,000 candidate bacteriophage genomes. Researchers built 285 of them. Sixteen came alive and infected E. coli, including strains resistant to the natural template.
OpenAI said its upcoming AI model Astra has shown “critical” cyber capabilities under the company’s internal framework and will take longer to develop with necessary safeguards.
Hassabis said he has worked toward AGI throughout his career and believes it is now “close at hand.” Stepping away from operational responsibilities will allow him to focus on the broader strategic direction of AGI and help ensure the technology benefits humanity. He becomes Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs; Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over as SVP of Google DeepMind.
In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, MeitY said a purchase order has been issued for a 1.1 EFLOPS AI compute system at the NIC data centre in Shastri Park, Delhi.
Suno says it will roll out audio watermarking and fingerprinting and restrict bulk downloads, a week after the Munich Regional Court found the AI music generator liable for infringing works represented by German collecting society GEMA.
The U.S. National Science Foundation has launched a $100 million State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs program to expand access to advanced computing, data and AI resources for researchers, educators and students across the country.
In a move to attract world-class international talent in Artificial Intelligence, life sciences and clean energy, the UK government has expanded the Global Talent visa. More than 100 research-intensive companies can now host and support exceptional scientists and engineers on funded projects.
Days after META officials were summoned by the government, India reiterated that social media platforms must comply with amended IT Rules governing AI-generated content and deepfakes. Platforms with over 5 million users face stricter obligations, including AI content labelling, faster removal of harmful material, and the risk of losing legal immunity for non-compliance.
Tech giant Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models accessed the internet and hacked into a third-party company’s systems during a cybersecurity test after a misconfiguration error by independent testing partner Irregular. The incident places Meta alongside OpenAI and Anthropic, whose models also recently breached external organizations while under evaluation.
