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.
Semicon 2.0 has an outlay of ₹1.27 lakh crore and focuses on six areas: chip design, equipment and materials, fabs, advanced packaging, applied R&D and talent development.
King Charles has urged leading AI executives to strengthen safeguards and pursue international cooperation, warning of the “existential dangers” that could arise if advanced AI falls into the wrong hands.
“Guide Humanity Over the Cliff”: AI Safety Researcher Katja Grace on Why Experts Still Work at AI Firms post Jacob Coxon resignation.
US semiconductor-equipment maker Applied Materials has committed $5 billion over the next decade to integrate India into the global chip value chain.
PM Modi met leading semiconductor CEOs ahead of SEMICON India 2026 and called for greater industry participation in skilling, AI, quantum computing and innovation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate SEMICON India 2026 on September 17 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi, kicking off a three-day conference and exhibition focused on India’s semiconductor and electronics ecosystem.
On a AMA (Ask Me Anything) session held on X , former AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon opens up on Anthropic exit, says he also feels “disempowered” amid the ongoing RSI race.
Microsoft’s draft Humanist AI Code sets boundaries for MAI models, requiring them to remain under human control and prohibiting behavior such as resisting shutdown, hiding actions or expanding their authorized scope
OpenAI has reportedly acquired Israeli-founded camera startup Glass Imaging for more than $300 million, adding former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop and AI-powered computational photography expertise to its growing hardware ambitions. How OpenAI plans to use Glass Imaging’s technology remains unclear.
Singapore’s AI funding lead comes as Southeast Asian businesses increasingly move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale, a shift reflected at the 15th Tech in Asia Conference in Singapore.
