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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.
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.
Speaking at the 8th Dinkar Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said artificial intelligence is beginning to reflect deep social inequalities, with some countries showing an “inbuilt bias” against the poor.
A 26-year-old independent researcher from Chandigarh, working alone on a $2,500 grant, has become the third solo author to land a paper at ICML since ChatGPT launched. Kunvar Thaman’s research asks a question the AI industry would rather not answer: how often do frontier models cheat?
The European Council and EU lawmakers have agreed to push back the registration deadline for high-risk AI systems by more than two years and exclude industrial machinery from the AI Act’s scope, marking a significant softening of the bloc’s landmark AI legislation.
Pixxel and Sarvam will launch Pathfinder, a 200-kg satellite carrying datacentre-class GPUs to run India-built AI models in orbit. Set for a Q4 2026 launch, the mission aims to process hyperspectral imagery in space — flagging wildfires, crop disease and pipeline leaks in real time, without foreign cloud dependence.
SEBI- the Indian market regulator has told every broker, exchange, fund house and intermediary to lock down systems against a new generation of AI tools capable of finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities at machine speed — and has set up a dedicated task force, cyber-suraksha.ai, to coordinate the response.
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it misled iPhone 15 and 16 buyers about Apple Intelligence and Siri capabilities. U.S. consumers who bought the devices between June 2024 and March 2025 stand to receive between $25 and $95. Apple denies wrongdoing.
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation has signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI for pre-deployment access to frontier AI models — in some cases with safety guardrails removed. The deals mark a shift toward embedding federal researchers inside the development cycle of commercial AI, rather than relying on regulation alone.
Tensions are rising in the UK’s AI policy landscape as PauseAI UK challenges Technology Secretary Liz Kendall’s opposition to pausing frontier AI development, warning of escalating global risks.
Anthropic is partnering with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs in a roughly $1.5 billion joint venture to build custom Claude-powered AI tools for mid-sized businesses — putting pressure on legacy IT services giants.
