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 United Nations’ Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence convened its first in-person meeting last week in Madrid
India’s cybersecurity agency CERT-In has issued a high-severity advisory against Anthropic’s frontier AI model Claude Mythos, warning that it can autonomously identify software vulnerabilities, plan multi-stage cyberattacks and simulate enterprise compromise at a scale previously requiring expert teams. The advisory urges organizations and MSMEs to adopt Zero Trust security, MFA, rapid patching and stronger incident response measures.
DeepSeek AI has launched its flagship open-source models DeepSeek-V4 Pro and DeepSeek-V4 Flash with a native 1-million-token context window, frontier-level coding and reasoning capabilities, and significantly lower API pricing, positioning them as major challengers to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in the global AI race.
OpenAI has released its latest AI model GPT-5.5 on Thursday, claiming it to be “smartest AI model” yet, adept at coding skills while consuming lesser tokens.
Following a high-level meeting over Claude Mythos AI model with regulators including the Reserve Bank of India, lenders have been directed to strengthen cybersecurity systems, report incidents immediately, and coordinate responses.
India and Japan held their first AI strategic dialogue under the Japan India AI Cooperation Initiative, focusing on policy convergence, talent mobility, and joint research, alongside signing an MoU between ONESTRUCTION and DataKaveri Systems
Singapore has proposed ISO/IEC 42119-8, a new international standard aimed at creating common methods for testing generative AI systems. The proposal will be discussed at a global AI standards meeting in Singapore attended by experts from more than 35 countries.
India’s IT Ministry wants AI-generated videos to carry labels visible for the entire duration — not just flashing disclaimers. Feedback open till May 7.
Over 80,000 people lost their jobs across the global tech industry in the first three months of 2026, with nearly half directly attributed to AI-driven restructuring, according to a new report by TradingPlatforms. Oracle, Amazon, Block and Meta led the cuts — but most of these layoffs are funding future AI, not replacing workers today.
NVIDIA has unveiled Ising, a new family of open-source AI models designed to tackle two of quantum computing’s biggest obstacles: qubit calibration and error correction. The company claims the system can cut calibration times from days to hours and make quantum error decoding up to 2.5 times faster and three times more accurate.
