Context: Meta has released an open-weight version of Muse Spark, an AI model designed for coding and tasks requiring AI agents to operate over extended periods, to regain lost ground in the open-weight AI race.Strategic Shift: Muse Spark had remained...

Context: With approximately 65 crore people below 25 years of age and a rapidly growing technology ecosystem, Indian youth increasingly use digital platforms for education, recreation and social interaction.Benefits and Concerns: Digital technology a...

Context: Elon Musk alleged that certain oligarchs were obstructing Starlink’s entry into India. However, the article states that regulatory approvals and security clearances are still under consideration, and the allegation of deliberate obstruction...

Context: AI companions are increasingly being used by children for conversation, emotional support and companionship because they are available 24×7, appear empathetic and provide continuous responses.This creates a new child-safety challenge: who be...

Context: UPI and digital payments have become deeply integrated into everyday economic activity in India, but their growing adoption has also expanded the potential target base for cybercriminals.The Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2026 hig...

Context: India’s nuclear doctrine has remained broadly unchanged for over two decades, while the strategic environment has changed significantly due to China’s military rise, Pakistan’s evolving nuclear posture, emerging technologies and multipolar g...

Context: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a domain of economic, technological and strategic competition, particularly between the United States and China.Recent US–China discussions indicate that AI is moving beyond technology an...

Context: The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered wearables such as smart glasses, AI pins and voice-recording devices is being promoted as a possible successor to smartphones.However, their ability to continuously see, hear and interpre...

Context: An Anthropic threat-intelligence report covering December 2025–August 2026 documented multiple categories of artificial intelligence (AI) misuse, highlighting the growing sophistication and scale of AI-enabled harm.Call for Slowdown: Anthrop...

Context: Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies increasingly rely on self-regulation and automated safeguards to prevent misuse of powerful models.However, safeguards may detect harmful activity only after sufficient behavioural patterns emerge, crea...

Context: The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, carried out by al-Qaeda, fundamentally transformed global counter-terrorism strategies.Over the past 25 years, terrorism has evolved in its organisational structure, instruments, targe...

Context: The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating risks that cross national borders and traditional sectoral boundaries, affecting finance, labour, elections, healthcare, climate and national sovereignty.The growing use of AI i...

Context: Recent research by Anthropic on its large language model (LLM) Claude Sonnet 4.5 has identified internal neural patterns that appear to correspond to concepts related to its eventual outputs. While this may resemble an internal thought proce...

Context: OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier Artificial Intelligence (AI) model claiming improvements in computer use, coding, long-running tasks and cybersecurity.Astra is the first OpenAI system classified as having crossed the company’...

Context: The rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasing the scale and sophistication of cyber fraud, prompting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to strengthen cybersecurity oversight.Eme...