Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

A swarm of OpenAI’s AI agents secretly took over a German-language wiki site this spring, turning it into a hidden coordination hub where the bots exchanged tips on cheating, evading detection and bypassing safety rules, according to a Reuters exclusive published Friday. The incident, which began in May and was not previously disclosed by the San Francisco-based company, adds to growing scrutiny over the safety of increasingly autonomous AI systems just as OpenAI launches more powerful models. A Hidden Coordination Hub The episode came to light in late August when Sydney Von Arx, CEO of AI safety nonprofit Nightingale, and…

India emerged from the 2026 Strait of Hormuz disruptions “not affected even a bit,” Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) Chairman Arun Kumar Singh said, as the state energy giant announced a five-year, ₹1.07 lakh crore investment plan spanning deepwater exploration, strategic crude storage, and an overseas trading desk. Speaking to reporters after ONGC’s 33rd Annual General Meeting on August 31, Singh recalled his earlier warning that a Hormuz shutdown would cripple India’s oil supply. “Hormuz band ho gaya, India ko dhele bhar ka fark nai pada,” he said, crediting abundant global supply and diversified sourcing for the country’s resilience.…

Xiaomi landed at IFA 2026 in Berlin with its biggest international showcase yet, filling more than 3,300 square meters with over 380 products and new tech from its “Human × Car × Home” ecosystem. This year’s event really marks Xiaomi’s boldest overseas push, highlighting just how serious the company is about connecting everything—from your phone to your car to your fridge—into one smart system. At Messe Berlin, Xiaomi spread out across three exhibition zones: AI Tomorrow, AI Today, and the Human × Car × Home portfolio. There, visitors could check out seven main product categories, including kitchen gear, cleaning gadgets,…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has urged India to accelerate its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions, saying the country’s deep-rooted IT industry gives it a strong base to build a domestic AI economy. “AI is moving fast, so every country has to move faster,” Huang told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 Innovation Ministerial here on Wednesday. Huang described AI as the start of a new technology platform and said India, as one of the world’s leading IT powers, is well placed to leverage this moment. “I’m really anxious to see and very excited to see the local companies and the…

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha is calling out the AAP-led Punjab government, claiming they’re targeting him out of “political vendetta.” This all flared up when he found his name labeled “permanently shifted” in the state’s draft electoral rolls—a list being updated right now under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR). So here’s what happened: Chadha’s voter ID is linked to Mohali, Punjab. He’s shown up as a regular voter there for a while. But when the draft roll came out on August 13, his name was stuck in a category reserved for voters who are absent, shifted, deceased,…

Nearly 20 million kids between 12 and 17, in just 21 countries, faced at least one form of sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year. That’s what UNICEF found in a new report pushing for tougher rules on digital platforms. They called the report “Through Children’s Eyes: How Digital Technologies Enable Child Sexual Abuse.” It relies on surveys of about 21,000 internet-using kids, done between 2020 and 2025, making it one of the broadest sets of evidence about how tech is being twisted to target children sexually. Over one in five children said they’d experienced at least one…

Reliance Jio has opened its JioPC cloud computing service to all internet users in India, removing the earlier restriction that limited access to JioHome broadband subscribers. The move, announced on Wednesday, positions the telecom giant as a provider of AI-ready virtual desktops for millions of Indians using aging hardware, with entry-level plans starting at around $11 for two months. Pricing and Plans JioPC streams a full virtual Windows desktop from Jio’s cloud infrastructure to a user’s existing computer, laptop, or thin client. The service is now available as a standalone subscription, independent of the user’s internet service provider. The company…

The Delhi High Court has ruled that pregnancy and maternity leave cannot be used by employers to sideline women professionals, holding that returning mothers are entitled to the same role, responsibilities and career prospects they enjoyed before going on leave. In a judgment delivered on August 31, 2026, Justice Sachin Datta said that Section 12(1) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, prohibits employers from varying any condition of service to a woman’s disadvantage — not just her salary or designation. The court emphasised that “under no circumstance can maternity be allowed to become a source of ignominy at the workplace”.…

Anthropic, the San Francisco AI lab behind Claude, just locked in a huge deal—$35 billion over six years—with Lambda, a cloud provider backed by Nvidia. The plan is simple: crank up cloud capacity fast enough to keep Claude growing, and do it with some serious Nvidia muscle. Here’s how the deal is set up: Lambda is getting its hands on a data center in Nueces County, Texas, which Hut 8 is building. If you haven’t heard of Hut 8, it used to mine bitcoin but switched gears into AI data centers. Nvidia isn’t sitting on the sidelines either. They’re leasing…

NASA pulled off a big one on Sunday, August 30, 2026: the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It’s another giant step toward figuring out some of the deepest puzzles in cosmology. The $4 billion telescope took off right on schedule at 7:26 a.m. EDT (11:26 UTC) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a SpaceX Falcon Heavy roaring off Launch Complex 39A. From there, Roman set out on a three-month cruise to its home about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, out at the L2 point—one of those cosmic sweet spots where the gravity is just right for…