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Saturday, August 1, 2026
TopicArtifical Intelligence

Topic: Artifical Intelligence

In a twist, Anthropic asks ‘hard questions’ about AI in new ad

The 90-second film moves between unsettling images of disaster, surveillance, protest, and industry, and more hopeful scenes of families, healthcare, nature, and community.

Why US companies are ditching American AI models for Chinese ones

In June, US-based AI startup Lindy shifted 100 per cent of its traffic from Anthropic's Claude models to DeepSeek.

India’s banks show how AI is impacting jobs. Govt must focus on skilling

At HDFC Bank, the number of non-supervisory staff has declined by close to 5 per cent at the end of March 2026. But the strength of supervisory staff has increased by 11 per cent.

AI can lead to widespread joblessness, warn 200 economists, tech leaders in joint statement

The signatories of the statement include former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Indian-origin venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, among others.

People trust AI faces more than real ones, says new study

According to Lancaster University in the UK, this is the first time researchers have examined the trustworthiness of AI-generated faces.

AI content has taken over LinkedIn and X, finds Pangram report. Reddit more human

Pangram’s Chrome extension has created a dataset of over 10 lakh social media posts. On Substack, 78.3% of all posts were found to be human-written.

Govt to examine Meta’s Muse Image. Why its Instagram-specific feature has sparked privacy outcry

The govt says it will examine Muse Image feature that allows users to tag a public Instagram username to pull photographs from that account into AI-generated image.

ChatGPT gets more human. OpenAI launches new voice model for natural conversations

With GPT-Live, as users explain a problem to ChatGPT, the chatbot will respond with 'mhmm' or 'yeah' mid conversation, like a human would do.

What’s on Claude’s mind? AI model keeps a private list of unspoken thoughts, Anthropic finds

The company calls the collection of patterns the J-space, which it says was not built by researchers, but formed on its own as Claude was trained.

100 authors sue Anthropic for pirating books, demand $75 million

Anthropic allegedly used over 500 pirated books for its AI models, which include Tiffany Aliche’s New York Times bestseller Get Good with Money and Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate, an international bestseller.

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What makes India so fascinating is that no one can prepare for it: German Ambassador

Philipp Ackermann, the Ambassador of Germany to India since 2022, writes that it was Vikram Seth's novel 'A Suitable Boy' that first brought him to India in 2007.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

Gen VN Sharma, who led Army in the turbulent late eighties, dies at 97

Hailing from an illustrious military family, he was son of Maj Gen Amar Nath Sharma. His eldest brother Maj Som Nath Sharma is the first recipient of the posthumous Param Vir Chakra.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.