
India’s CBI Launches AI Helpbot ABHAY Against ‘Digital Arrest’ Scams
ABHAY allows users to verify CBI notices amid rising digital arrest scams, highlighting the growing use of AI tools to combat cyber fraud and impersonation scams.
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ABHAY allows users to verify CBI notices amid rising digital arrest scams, highlighting the growing use of AI tools to combat cyber fraud and impersonation scams.

India has launched a new international AI accountability initiative amid growing global debate over regulating autonomous AI systems, while also signalling a stronger push from the Global South to shape future AI governance frameworks.

The new AI tool, packaged as “your personal financial advisor” by OpenAI comes in the wake of its competition Anthropic AI launching a suite of pre-built AI agents for banks, insurers and asset managers in early May.

Organised by private firm Qlass and backed by the Bihar IT Department, the two-day summit at Patna’s Urja Auditorium is one of the state’s first major efforts to attract AI companies and investments to a region best known for its agrarian economy.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin on Thursday declined to grant final approval to Anthropic’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors, requesting additional details on attorneys’ fees and payments to lead plaintiffs.

The four-year commitment will fund AI-powered apps for foundational literacy in India and sub-Saharan Africa, drug discovery for neglected diseases like polio and HPV, and tools for smallholder farmers.

Anthropic’s policy paper warning of Chinese AI parity by 2028 was published hours before the US approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to 10 Chinese firms, as President Donald Trump met Xi Jinping in China.

Speaking to AI FrontPage at Bharat Shiksha Expo 2026, leading educators stressed that teachers must be trained in artificial intelligence (AI) before students, highlighting AI’s growing role in NEP 2020, skill development, and future-ready education in India.

Uber is set to launch its first India-based data centre with the Adani Group, expanding its AI and technology infrastructure footprint as India emerges as a growing global digital infrastructure hub.

UNESCO and the University of Oxford have launched a free global online course on AI, Justice and the Rule of Law, aimed at judges, lawyers and policymakers as algorithmic tools enter courtrooms worldwide.