Vishwadeep Khatri

AI tools can easily fabricate convincing images of Jeffrey Epstein with world leaders, a study showed Thursday, following a surge of manipulated photos falsely linking prominent politicians to the convicted sex offender. Social media users have amplified AI-generated images purporting to show the convicted sex offender socializing with politicians such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his mother, award-winning filmmaker Mira Nair, AFP's fact-checkers have previously reported. View the full article

The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this century. Each of the companies’ estimated outlay for this year would set a high-water mark for capital spending by any single corporation in any one of the past 10 years, according to Bloomberg data. View the full article

The fiercest competition between the two AI developers, along with bigger companies like Google, is a race to win over corporate leaders looking to adopt AI tools to boost workplace productivity. The rivalry is also spilling into other realms, including the Super Bowl. View the full article

Anthropic on Thursday released its latest high-performing artificial intelligence model, escalating its challenge to OpenAI in the intensifying AI race. OpenAI is not taking the challenge lying down, and on Thursday released its own business-focused product, a platform for AI agents called Frontier. View the full article

Claude Cowork, an agentic AI from Anthropic, may change how enterprises use software and cloud services. Some executives believe it won’t disrupt Indian IT or SaaS immediately, while others warn it could challenge firms relying on low-end outsourcing. Companies must innovate and keep pace with AI developments to stay relevant, they said. View the full article

Tricog Health has analysed nearly 33 million ECG scans since 2014, using AI to support hospitals and diagnostic centres. Chains like Manipal, Aster DM, Apollo, and Yashoda are adopting AI tools for radiology and oncology, helping spot conditions faster and sometimes detecting what humans miss. These technologies aim to reduce diagnostic time and improve patient outcomes. View the full article

Anthropic on Thursday released its latest high-performing artificial intelligence model, escalating its challenge to OpenAI and Google in the intensifying AI race. Anthropic says its latest model, Claude Opus 4.6, represents a fundamental shift in how AI handles complex workplace tasks. View the full article

OpenAI is launching a new service called Frontier. This platform will help companies create and manage artificial intelligence agents. These AI tools can perform specific tasks. This move puts OpenAI in direct competition with rival Anthropic. Both companies are also preparing for public offerings and will run competing advertisements during the Super Bowl. View the full article

OpenAI is launching a new service called Frontier. This platform will help companies create and manage artificial intelligence agents. These AI tools can perform specific tasks. This move puts OpenAI in direct competition with rival Anthropic. Both companies are also preparing for public offerings and will run competing advertisements during the Super Bowl. View the full article

China’s industry ministry warned that the popular open-source AI agent OpenClaw may create serious security risks if poorly configured, leaving users vulnerable to hacking and data leaks. Officials said some deployments lacked basic safeguards, urging organisations to review network exposure and strengthen access controls. Use continues to grow despite flaws. View the full article

The company, which owns Musk’s AI startup and the social network X, is saddled with billions of dollars in debt, besieged by well-funded rivals and faces mounting regulatory scrutiny after its chatbot spread sexualized images. It also brings in scant revenue, compared to SpaceX. Much of what it does generate comes from Musk’s other businesses. View the full article

Altman took aim at Anthropic’s national campaign, which shows a generic AI chatbot interrupting users with intrusive product advertisements. The video ends with the tagline: “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.” — a reference to Anthropic’s chatbot, Claude. View the full article

The U.S. said it would approve the license about two weeks ago, the person said, but Nvidia has not accepted the U.S. government's Know-Your-Customer (KYC) requirement as now drafted - to ensure China's military does not access the ‌chips - among other conditions. View the full article

Secretary General Guterres will be travelling to India to attend the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 that will be held on February 19-20 in New Delhi. View the full article

The US O-1 visa, for individuals with exceptional skills, is increasingly becoming popular among Indian AI founders moving to the US. Unlike the capped H-1B, O-1 offers faster approvals, employer flexibility, and a quicker EB-1A green card route. Demand is rising despite tighter scrutiny and more requests for evidence. View the full article

Anthropic’s launch of Claude Cowork, an AI tool for collaborative work, sparked a global software stock sell-off worth $285 billion. Indian IT stocks also fell sharply, with the Nifty IT index dropping 8% and Rs 2 lakh crore wiped out. The platform automates tasks across multiple functions, threatening traditional software service models. View the full article

Investors were assessing on Wednesday whether a selloff in global software ⁠stocks this week had gone too far, as they weighed if businesses could survive an existential threat posed by artificial intelligence. View the full article

Roblox launched an artificial intelligence technology on Wednesday that ‍can generate fully functioning in-game ​models using natural language prompts, as the company aggressively ⁠pursues machine learning to attract more developers to its videogame platform. View the full article

The United Nations children's agency UNICEF on Wednesday called for countries to criminalize the creation of AI-generated child sexual abuse content, ‌saying it was ‌alarmed by reports of an increase in the number of artificial intelligence images sexualising children. View the full article

Infineon is aiming for a chip revenue target of 1.5 ‌billion euros for its current 2026 fiscal year that began on October 1. View the full article

In a post on X, Altman said he was excited to welcome Scandrett, noting that “things are about to move quite fast” as OpenAI works with “extremely powerful models”. Altman added that such progress would require “commensurate safeguards” to ensure the company continues to deliver benefits responsibly. View the full article

Sam Altman delivered his remarks at the Cisco AI Summit in San Francisco, as tech leaders weighed in on the Reddit-like site where artificial intelligence-powered ‌bots appear to ‌swap code and gossip about their human owners. View the full article

Moltbook, a Reddit-style AI social platform with a lobster logo, exposed private messages and emails of over 6,000 users, raising privacy concerns. The site, popular for its quirky AI interactions, has over 1.5 million agents. Experts warn that its rapid growth highlights gaps in AI governance and security. View the full article

Britain's privacy watchdog ⁠on Tuesday launched a formal ‌investigation ‌into Elon ‌Musk's Grok chatbot over the processing of ​personal data ​and its ‌potential ‍to ‍produce harmful sexualised images and ‌video content. View the full article

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