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.
The order to establish a new World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO) is seen as a counter move to US led Pax Silica alliance.
Xi Jinping showed up at WAIC in person for the first time since the conference began in 2018 and used the stage to pitch China as the AI partner the Global South has been waiting for.
A Stanford HAI report finds that sovereignty solutions sold by Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, AWS and OpenAI reconfigure rather than eliminate dependence on US Big Tech.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs have set out a joint “bioresilience” approach aimed at stopping threat actors from misusing their AI models to develop biological weapons.
The individual contribution by Dario comes in the wake of Anthropic advocating for a globally coordinated pause on Frontier AI research by AI companies.
Delivering his ‘AI in Australia’s Interests’ address at the University of Sydney, PM Anthony Albanese announced an Office of AI within his department and a national AI standards framework, covering data centres, energy and water use, jobs and copyright, with legislation to be introduced early next year.
India’s Union Cabinet has approved Semicon 2.0 with an outlay of ₹1,27,500 crore ($13.23 billion), expanding beyond ISM 1.0’s fab-first approach to fund chip design, advanced packaging, materials, equipment manufacturing and R&D across the semiconductor value chain.
Anthropic has launched Claude for Teachers, offering verified K-12 educators across all 50 US states a full year of free premium Claude access.
India has 591 million gamers, most of them outside the metros — and platforms like STAN now lean on AI to keep tens of thousands of live voice rooms safe. In an exclusive interview, STAN CEO Parth Chadha explains why AI sits at the core of the platform, where it still falls short on moderation, and how it is helping small-town creators earn.
A new NBER working paper by researchers from Yale, Luiss and Rochester analyses 380 trillion tokens of realized AI consumption from OpenRouter to show that investors demand a premium of 64.1 basis points per week to hold companies most exposed to AI.
