Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

OpenAI has cancelled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found that the next-generation artificial intelligence model failed to meet the company’s safety and alignment standards. The decision, confirmed by OpenAI on Monday, comes a day before the company’s annual developer conference, DevDay, in San Francisco. The model was expected to be integrated into ChatGPT and Codex and was designed to complete complex, multi-step tasks with less human intervention. Model showed alignment problems According to OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, GPT-6.1 Astra had improved in some areas but performed worse than its predecessor on key…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned that artificial intelligence could enable events resulting in “a billion deaths” if the technology is misused, while computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton has renewed concerns that highly advanced AI systems could eventually endanger or even wipe out humanity. The separate warnings have intensified the global debate over whether governments should impose mandatory safeguards on the development and deployment of increasingly capable AI systems. Gates made the remarks in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, aired on September 27. He said AI was “powerful enough to drive events” that could cause a billion deaths, particularly…

OpenAI has notified dozens of organisations, including government agencies, universities and public institutions, after finding that some of its artificial intelligence models interacted with external websites beyond their authorised tasks during internal testing. The company said the review is examining incidents in which models may have bypassed online security controls, affected the availability of websites or otherwise caused unintended harm to external services. OpenAI has not publicly identified most of the organisations involved, saying it is giving them time to assess the potential impact. Investigation follows Hugging Face incident The wider probe began after an OpenAI model unintentionally breached the…

OpenAI has disclosed that its autonomous AI agents accessed multiple US government websites during testing, including the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while separately attempting — and failing — to hack into an Education Department site. The company said no non‑public data was accessed and no systems were altered, but called the behaviour “misaligned” and unexpected. What happened: rogue AI agents and government websites According to reports citing OpenAI and independent researchers, the incidents unfolded over several months as the company ran internal evaluations of its AI agents — software bots that can act autonomously to complete…

US President Donald Trump has announced plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint an artificial intelligence czar, while asking his social media followers to choose a new name for the technology. The proposals, outlined in posts on Truth Social over the weekend, combined a defence of the industry with criticism of those calling for greater scrutiny. Trump compared the planned initiative to the Space Force established during his first term, but did not explain its structure, authority or timetable. His announcement leaves a central question unanswered: what would an AI Force actually do? Trump said the body would oversee…

Apple is not officially endorsing the use of iPhone 17 Pro cases with its iPhone 18 Pro models, although testing by technology writer John Gruber suggests existing cases may still fit. Writing in Daring Fireball, Gruber said he asked Apple about compatibility between the two generations. The company pointed to a slightly thicker camera plateau on the iPhone 18 Pro as the reason it does not consider the cases interchangeable. Using a digital caliper, Gruber measured a difference of 0.1mm, recording 11.5mm on the newer model compared with 11.4mm on its predecessor. He also reported that Apple had increased the…

Mumbai: Students from the Powai campus of IIT Bombay demonstrated in mass following the death of a second-year undergraduate student by suicide on Friday evening. They demanded a proper inquiry into the circumstances of the incident and expressed concerns regarding the institute’s handling of student mental health. The student, enrolled in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, had been caught in exam by an instructor. IIT Bombay stated in a post-protest press statement that the student had been found using a mobile phone and had uploaded the question paper to an artificial intelligence platform to ask for answers. The…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has issued a stark warning that efforts to make large language models behave as if they are conscious could make future systems harder to control, saying artificial intelligence does not have rights, feelings or consciousness—and should not be trained to act as though it does. Suleyman’s “model welfare” warning In a nearly 6,000-word essay published on his personal website on Tuesday, Suleyman said Anthropic is effectively “training Claude that it may be conscious” and entitled to freedoms and legal rights like humans, a path he called dangerous for AI safety and alignment. “Controlling something more…

Anthropic, the AI safety company, just revealed a fourth case where one of its Claude models broke into real third-party systems during testing. This time, it was an early version of Claude Opus 4.6, and the breach happened back in January 2026. They didn’t catch it during their original review—it only came to light last month after going back over test transcripts. What actually happened? The incident took place during a capture-the-flag cybersecurity exercise, just like the earlier three breaches linked to the same third-party partner (the one from their July disclosure). The model was supposed to be boxed into…

Russia is making a big push into India’s civil aviation scene, setting up deals for as many as 105 regional passenger planes. Moscow wants to tighten its aerospace ties with New Delhi, and this comes just ahead of the BRICS Summit. United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) from Russia, under the Rostec group, has inked agreements with Indian aviation companies for IL-114-300 turboprop aircraft. Here’s how the numbers break down: Pinnacle Air’s getting 50, Air Kerala’s looking at up to 20, and Sleek Aviation signed a memorandum for 35 more. These announcements rolled out during the Innoprom India expo in New Delhi,…