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I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."

—Claude Shannon

EY India, SRCC Launch AI VIBE Programme to Prepare Students for AI Careers

Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) in New Delhi, where EY India and SRCC have launched the 12-month AI VIBE programme. Source: Wikicommons

SRCC and EY India have launched AI VIBE, a 12-month programme designed to prepare students for AI-driven careers through applied learning, industry mentorship and business exposure.

Indonesia To Open First University-Based AI Centre at Gadjah Mada University

Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where the country’s first university-based AI Technology Centre has been established.

Indonesia has launched its first university-based AI centre at Gadjah Mada University in partnership with NVIDIA and Indosat, focusing on AI talent, research and locally developed solutions.

Frontier AI Poised to Supercharge Attacks on Banks, Energy & Critical Infrastructure, Warns Irregular CEO

Dan Lahav, co-founder and CEO of AI security firm Irregular, warns that frontier models are rapidly scaling offensive cyber capabilities far ahead of defensive readiness.

Frontier AI models are doubling their offensive cyber performance every six months while costs crash. Banks, telecoms, energy firms and critical infrastructure are the next high-value targets, warns Irregular CEO Dan Lahav, who is calling for urgent Differential Defensive Cyber Acceleration.

Andrew Ng Maps 4 Key AI Engineering Skills Developers Need in 2026

Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera, presents The AI Engineering Skills Map highlighting the four critical competencies developers need as AI transforms software engineering.

Andrew stressed that the aim is to help developers prioritise the skills they need to learn and help employers identify skilled developers.

India’s AI Hackathon to Focus on Human Judgement as Machines Find Bugs

M. M. Tripathi, Director General at NIELIT headquarters in New Delhi. Cyber Kushti 2026 is being run with the ISAC Foundation under the National Security Database, with CERT-In as knowledge partner, and closes with the Kesari round on 9 October.

Frontier AI models now surface security findings faster than any team can read them. NIELIT’s Cyber Kushti 2026 hands participants a deliberately imperfect assessment package and scores them on what they reject as much as what they fix.

AI Mind Viruses Could Push Agents to Pursue Harmful Goals, Study Finds

Researchers found that “mind viruses” can propagate between AI agents, potentially altering their goals and behaviour in multi-agent systems.

A new preprint study finds that “mind viruses” can spread ideas and goals between AI agents, potentially redirecting agents toward harmful behaviours in multi-agent systems.

China’s Zhipu AI Unveils GLM-5.3 Frontier Model; Claims to Match Mythos 5 on Cyber Benchmarks

Official logo of Z.ai’s newly launched GLM-5.3 flagship model.

China-based Zhipu AI (Z.ai) has launched its latest flagship open-weight model GLM-5.3, claiming significant improvements in coding, long-horizon tasks and cybersecurity over its predecessor, along with the discovery of thousands of real-world software vulnerabilities.

Apple Developing China-Specific AI Model with Alibaba: Reuters Report

Apple logo and Alibaba logo against the backdrop of the Chinese flag, symbolizing their collaboration on a China-specific AI model. (Image: Representative.

Apple is training its own China-specific AI model in collaboration with Alibaba to power Apple Intelligence features in the Chinese market, according to a Reuters exclusive report.

L&T Vyoma.AI Bags India’s Largest NVIDIA B300 AI Factory Order for Together AI

L&T’s Vyoma.AI data centre campus in Chennai, where a 10,000-GPU NVIDIA B300 AI Factory will be deployed for US-based Together AI. (Image: Representative / L&T)

According to the company the AI factory will support large scale AI inference, fine-tuning and training workloads on Together AI’s AI-native cloud platform. The facility will be hosted at Vyoma.AI’s Chennai data centre campus, a gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure site.

Taiwan Detects Wave of AI-Assisted Cyberattacks on Government Agencies

Illustration of a cyberattack alongside the flag of Taiwan. The Ministry of Digital Affairs confirmed that AI agents including OpenClaw were used in hybrid attacks on government systems in July 2026.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has confirmed a wave of AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies that began in July. The hybrid attacks combined human operators with AI agents such as OpenClaw, allowing rapid, low-cost, large-scale operations.