The beautiful thing about AI and robotics is that you're never done."
— Manuela Veloso
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.
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.
HCLTech has signed an AI-led contract worth an estimated $1.14 billion with a Europe-headquartered Fortune Global 50 company, one of the Indian IT major’s biggest deals in recent years.
Backed by an investment of $2.5 billion the company will provide a unique combination of skills inclusive of deep industry knowledge, change management and continuous improvement experience, and enterprise-grade AI engineering expertise.
“A country is not sovereign because it owns every technology it uses. It is sovereign when it is not dependent on a single provider, a single geography or a single political decision”, says Amitabh Kant in an exclusive interview with AI FrontPage.
The 40-member Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa — released its first report on July 1, warning that AI safeguards are failing to keep pace with capabilities and that the Global South remains locked out of both AI development and governance. Guterres to governments: “Do not wait.”
In a post on X, the company said AI sovereignty determines an institution’s future, adding that sovereignty is the precondition for choice — and slammed “tokenmaxxing,” the pursuit of high AI token usage that it says creates an addictive feeling of false progress.
The report titled “From Agentic Risk to Human Wins” has revealed that 55% of employees admit to using unapproved AI tools, while 1 in 10 knowingly entered sensitive information into AI platforms despite understanding the risks.
On June 12, U.S. government had put Claude Fable and Claude Mythos under export control citing national security.
He Watched His College Run Out of Water. Now He Wants Data Centres to Make It.
A profile on Uravu Labs CEO Swapnil Shrivastav.
