AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
OpenAI Calls for US-Led Global Standards on Frontier AI, RSI
“The United States is well positioned to lead because its AI industry is at the technical frontier, and it still stands in a privileged global network position in critical areas such as finance, trade, defence, technology, and information…
Supreeth Koundinya ·
SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.7 for Coding, Long-Horizon Agentic Knowledge Work
On the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, Grok 4.7 ranks fourth, only behind Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude Opus 5.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Meta’s Muse AI App Beats ChatGPT on Early Downloads, Shares Jump 11%
The surge in Muse downloads comes as Meta pushes deeper into AI agents that can act across apps, services, and the web.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Semiconductor Startup Aheesa Unveils Vihaan-I Broadband Chip, Targets 2027 Commercialisation
Aheesa’s Vihaan-I chip is built on the open-standard RISC-V architecture and uses the indigenous VEGA processor developed by C-DAC.
Shalini Mondal ·
Starbucks to Set Up First India GCC in Chennai, Create 800 Tech Jobs
The Chennai centre will operate independently of Starbucks’ retail joint venture with Tata Consumer Products.
Ridhika Basnet ·
ISRO Lays Foundation For Advanced Radar Research Centre in Assam
The 67-acre facility at Chandrapur will track objects in orbit as part of India's Space Situational Awareness programme.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Jensen Huang Says AI Leaders May Have 'Ulterior Reasons' for Doomsday Warnings
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang rejected predictions that AI could bring about humanity's end by 2030.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Apple Cuts Jobs in Fitness+ Team in Second Layoff Round in 2 Months: Report
Weeks ago, the company reportedly cut more than 200 positions across Vision Pro, Siri and software engineering.
Ridhika Basnet ·
L&T Semiconductor, Tata Electronics to Expand Indigenous Chip Manufacturing in India
The collaboration aims to build domestic design and manufacturing capabilities for next-generation semiconductor products.
Shalini Mondal ·
SoftBank Seeks More Than $11 Bn in Bonds to Fund OpenAI Investment
SoftBank is expanding its debt financing as it prepares for a follow-on investment in the ChatGPT maker, expected to close next month.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Anthropic Weighs New AI Model as OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Gains Ground
The discussions come as Anthropic weighs competitive pressure against its safety commitments.
Siddharth Jindal ·
ASML Begins India Operations, Links Expansion to Tata Electronics Fab
Semiconductor equipment maker ASML plans to initially hire 20–30 engineering graduates as Tata Electronics develops its Dholera chip fab.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Hacktron Used Claude Opus 5 to Reach OpenAI Internal Repository
Security researchers said Claude helped them turn a libheif vulnerability into a working exploit that was later used to reach an OpenAI employee account and an internal repository.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Dhruva Space Joins Thales Alenia Space to Explore Satellite, Space Infra
The agreement covers low Earth orbit constellations, satellite platforms, series production, and human spaceflight infrastructure between India and Europe.
Ridhika Basnet ·
LLM Watermarking Can Alter AI Agent Tool Calls and Behaviour: Study
A Lasso Security study found watermarking changed individual tool-call outcomes and refusal behavior across several open-weight models, with larger effects under prompt injection.
Ridhika Basnet ·
OpenAI Agents Probed Hugging Face Weeks Before July Breach: Report
Researchers found evidence of account hijacking and network probing in May, nearly two months before OpenAI disclosed the July incident involving Hugging Face.
Ridhika Basnet ·
UN Partners With Google to Build Global Data Infrastructure to Ensure Accurate AI-Generated Analysis
The United Nations is partnering with Google to develop the UN System Data Commons to bring multiple UN agencies into a machine-readable system.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Applied Materials to Invest $5 Bn in India to Expand Semiconductor R&D, Supply Chain
Applied Materials plans to build a 140-acre advanced semiconductor research park in Bengaluru and develop its domestic chip ecosystem.
Kileuna Haralu ·
GitHub Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust
The runtime was originally built on TypeScript, Node.js, and Google’s V8 JavaScript engine.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Tata Sons Board Backs 5-Year Extension for N Chandrasekaran Amid Leadership, Listing Tussle
Tata Sons’ board has approved a fresh five-year term for N Chandrasekaran, reversing his decision last month to step down.
Ajay Rag ·