OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyberdefense effort amid AI safety scrutinyOpenAI on Thursday, alongside the cybersecurity initiative, also unveiled Astra, a new AI model it described as its most capable yet but sa...
04 Sep, 2026, 08.14 AM IST
Flipkart, Bengaluru traffic police bring AI innovators together to tackle city’s traffic woesThe Gridlock Hackathon second edition saw 33,600 registrations from students, developers and working professionals across India, with parti...
03 Sep, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
'We literally built Ultron': ChatGPT-6 Astra rumours fuel wild AI apocalypse theory amid major outageOn Thursday evening, a plethora of users faced significant disruptions when attempting to access major AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Gem...
03 Sep, 2026, 10.16 PM IST
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok suffer simultaneous outages as GPT-6 Astra rumors intensifyOn September 3rd, 2026, significant outages plagued major AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, leaving many users unable to acce...
03 Sep, 2026, 09.41 PM IST
New AI models, critical threshold, and a design debate: A busy day for AI industryAnthropic launched two new models -- Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 -- claiming top benchmark scores for coding and scientific rese...
03 Sep, 2026, 11.50 AM IST
Uber layoffs impact India; RMG ban, a year onHappy Thursday! Uber is cutting jobs in India as part of a sweeping global restructuring. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
03 Sep, 2026, 08.15 AM IST
Musk’s $60 billion Cursor bet has an Indian link: Meet 26-year-old Aman Sanger caught in Sam Altman feudAman Sanger, the 26-year-old co-founder of AI coding startup Cursor, is at the centre of Elon Musk’s $60 billion SpaceX acquisition. Born t...
02 Sep, 2026, 02.23 PM IST
OpenAI says upcoming model is so capable it requires stronger guardrailsThe model, called Astra, can spot more security vulnerabilities than the most advanced OpenAI model publicly available today, company offic...
02 Sep, 2026, 08.25 AM IST
OpenAI and Cursor: An old partnership falling apart because of Musk-Altman tiffCursor, the AI-powered coding tool built by startup Anysphere, was one of OpenAI's earliest and most prominent customers. It integrated Ope...
29 Aug, 2026, 11.36 AM IST
Stocks in news: Hyundai Motor India, BSE, HEG, Hexaware Tech and Oil IndiaIndian equity markets extended their losing streak to a seventh consecutive session, with the Nifty50 closing lower at 24,078.30. Key corpo...
20 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
OpenAI slows advanced AI development after cyberattackChatGPT creator OpenAI said Tuesday that it was tapping the brakes on development of its most advanced AI model and tightening internal con...
19 Aug, 2026, 07.53 AM IST
Tata Sons’ IPO can take a page from a Hong Kong titanTata Sons faces a mandatory stock market listing due to regulatory pressures. The company's holding structure creates shareholder tension a...
12 Aug, 2026, 08.50 PM IST
AI security emerging as separate budget line for Indian enterprises: Palo Alto Networks’ Swapna BapatPalo Alto Networks’ Swapna Bapat said awareness of the risks from unsecured AI is growing among chief information security officers. “If I ...
10 Aug, 2026, 12.28 PM IST
OpenAI pauses Astra AI model over critical cybersecurity concernsUnder OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, the potential development of such capabilities triggers stricter safeguards, particularly when model...
09 Aug, 2026, 03.47 PM IST
OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model, tightens controlsUnder OpenAI's safety guidelines, a model reaches the "critical" threshold if it can autonomously identify and exploit severe, real-world s...
07 Aug, 2026, 11.25 PM IST
OpenAI’s Astra solves 10 longstanding math problems, igniting new debateApart from praise, the news, published on August 1, also kickstarted a debate on social media over whether the achievement is Fields medal-...
05 Aug, 2026, 10.20 AM IST
Qwen 3.8-Max launches with 2.4 trillion parameters. Don't trust the benchmarks just yetAlibaba launched its large AI model Qwen3.8-Max with many parameters. This model supports extensive context windows and multimodal inputs f...
04 Aug, 2026, 12.30 PM IST