Google DeepMind launched an AI enabled pointer in Chrome that understands what a user points at, even as Meta employees protest their company’s mouse-tracking surveillance program, on the same day.
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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.
Google DeepMind launched an AI enabled pointer in Chrome that understands what a user points at, even as Meta employees protest their company’s mouse-tracking surveillance program, on the same day.
Demis Hassabis’s AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs has raised $2.1 billion in a Thrive Capital-led Series B, joined by Alphabet, GV, MGX, Temasek, CapitalG and the UK Sovereign AI Fund.
The Delhi government’s Department of Information Technology has asked startups, research institutions, industry bodies to showcase their artificial intelligence based solutions and use cases relevant to public service delivery and governance.
Logan Graham, head of Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, has warned that the cybersecurity capabilities demonstrated by Claude Mythos Preview “won’t stay rare, or stay in careful hands.” His post on X follows independent evaluations by the UK AI Security Institute and XBOW confirming the model’s step-change in autonomous offensive security capabilities.
Computer scientist Andrew Ng has called out the “AI jobpocalypse” narrative, arguing overblown unemployment fears serve AI labs, let SaaS firms charge more, and justify layoffs.
Senator Bernie Sanders has urged Trump and Xi to ban superintelligence and negotiate AI safety, invoking Reagan-Gorbachev nuclear arms control as precedent.
South Korea’s presidential policy chief Yongbeom Kim has proposed a ‘Citizen Dividend’ to redistribute AI-era excess tax revenue, warning the boom risks a K-shaped split.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the agency has made AI its “centrifugal force,” crediting the technology with a 30% jump in missing children recoveries and the arrest of 2,000 accused abusers in the past year. The FBI has partnered with OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Palantir, among others.
AI researcher Professor David Krueger in this exclusive interview tells AI FrontPage editor Vaibhav Jha why he puts humanity’s extinction odds at greater than fifty percent — and why no one is listening.
Cloudflare laid off 1,100 employees — more than 20% of its workforce — citing a 600% surge in internal AI usage over three months. The cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure firm’s co-founders framed the cuts as restructuring for the “agentic AI era,” even as the company posted $2.17 billion in 2025 revenue.