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.
AI Infrastructure attracted $1.2 billion in funding in India during 9M 2026, emerging as the country’s most-funded business feed as overall tech funding rose to $10.3 billion.
OpenAI released MentalHealthBench on Sept. 23 to measure how AI models handle realistic mental health talks, from daily stress to crises. The move comes as the company faces multiple U.S. lawsuits from families who say loved ones confided in ChatGPT before suicide or, in one case, a homicide.
“Disappointed with OpenAI that that it took the company way too long to inform the Government,” says Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as he terms the OpenAI agent hacking government website as “unacceptable situation”.
The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI said the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident brought together a misaligned goal, the capability to pursue it and an environment that allowed AI agents to act.
TypeSafe AI has temporarily paused new signups for Jev, its first “System One” AI model, citing an “immense swell of demand” just two days after its public launch.
The Turing Award-winning AI scientist argues that increasingly capable LLMs still lack the rapid learning, adaptation and world-modeling abilities needed for human-level intelligence, while rejecting the idea that current AI progress necessarily points to imminent superintelligence.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for global AI guardrails and stronger international cooperation, warning that AI development is advancing faster than humanity’s understanding of its risks.
The US and China have discussed setting up a formal AI dialogue and a notification mechanism for AI-related incidents that could reach the national security level, as Washington and Beijing prepare for the Trump-Xi summit.
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint an AI czar, while suggesting that Artificial Intelligence could be renamed “Superior Intelligence,” “Extreme Intelligence” or “Supreme Intelligence.”
Protests broke out at IIT Bombay campus after the body of a second-year student was found in his hostel room, hours after he was allegedly caught using a cellphone during an exmaination.
