If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
—Albert Einstein
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.
Large language models often change the direction of social media posts on controversial topics even when explicitly instructed to preserve the original meaning, an Oxford-led study finds.
For the first time in its history, the United Nations has convened all 193 member states to answer one question: who governs AI? Opening the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Secretary-General António Guterres put children at the centre of the answer — demanding that AI companies prove their systems are safe before a single child can access them, and warning that “the algorithm did it” can never be an acceptable answer when a child is harmed.
The AI triage tool in NHS app is part of £10 billion funding received by NHS to digitalize healthcare system.
The world’s premier machine learning conference opens in Seoul with record-breaking numbers — 23,918 paper submissions, more than double last year — and an unprecedented experiment: formal rules on whether AI can help review AI research, enforced by watermarks hidden inside the papers themselves.
An AI FrontPage analysis of all 536 spotlight-tier papers at ICML 2026 — the world’s premier machine learning conference — found 40 researchers educated at Indian institutions, including 14 whose papers earned the coveted Oral designation given to just 0.7% of nearly 24,000 submissions.
According to the survey by UNICEF, which is based on data from 10 countries, at least 20 million children have used AI and many are outpacing adults by adopting it at rates more than three times faster.
HCLTech has signed an AI-led contract worth an estimated $1.14 billion with a Europe-headquartered Fortune Global 50 company, one of the Indian IT major’s biggest deals in recent years.
Backed by an investment of $2.5 billion the company will provide a unique combination of skills inclusive of deep industry knowledge, change management and continuous improvement experience, and enterprise-grade AI engineering expertise.
“A country is not sovereign because it owns every technology it uses. It is sovereign when it is not dependent on a single provider, a single geography or a single political decision”, says Amitabh Kant in an exclusive interview with AI FrontPage.
The 40-member Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa — released its first report on July 1, warning that AI safeguards are failing to keep pace with capabilities and that the Global South remains locked out of both AI development and governance. Guterres to governments: “Do not wait.”
