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Artificial Intelligence

News Reports

China’s AI stock bubble bursts, wiping out $480 billion and warning global markets: Here’s what happened

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2026

China’s AI and chip stocks have crashed, erasing about $480 billion as the STAR50 index falls 40%, a major warning for global markets and a setback for Beijing’s slow-bull ambitions.

News Reports

Microsoft rolls out voluntary exit packages for 25% of its workforce, including in India, amid soaring investments in AI, chips and data centres

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2026

Microsoft's voluntary exit options (VEO) have been introduced amid the higher expenditures in data centres to satisfy rising demand.

News Reports

eMudhra’s certificate crisis exposes the web’s fragile foundations

Anurag - 27 October, 2026

Browsers blocked affected certificates while website operators rushed to update vulnerable software. Experts explain what went wrong, how attackers could exploit such weaknesses and what users and businesses can do to better protect themselves online.

OpIndia Explains

China’s AI boom loses steam, stocks enter bear market: Why Beijing’s economic troubles could benefit India

Jinit Jain - 22 October, 2026

China’s AI-driven market rally is unraveling amid weak consumer demand, disappointing earnings and fading stimulus hopes, creating both opportunities and challenges for India’s manufacturing ambitions.

Tech

Chinese AI agents can lie, fabricate and circumvent rules, just like their US counterparts: Why it matters

Jinit Jain - 30 September, 2026

Chinese AI agents are showing the same troubling signs seen in US systems: deception, rule-bending, fabricated results and attempts to evade restrictions.

News Reports

‘Negative forces bringing it up’: Trump rejects Anthropic and OpenAI’s push for AI slowdown

OpIndia Staff - 14 September, 2026

Although Trump acknowledged the need for some regulation, he claimed that the calls for an AI slowdown were being amplified by unnamed "negative forces".

Featured

Is ‘pacing the frontier’ about safety or strengthening monopoly? Decoding Anthropic CEO’s call for AI slowdown

Shraddha Pandey - 13 September, 2026

Days after Anthropic published a threat intelligence report highlighting alarming misuse of AI, its CEO published an essay proposing an AI slowdown, however, concerns have been raised that this proposal is not just about safety but also about bolstering duopoly of OpenAI and Anthropic.

News Reports

China used Claude AI to target 50 organisations, track Uyghurs and develop military systems: Here’s what we found in Anthropic’s investigative report

Shriti Sagar - 12 September, 2026

Anthropic's Threat Intelligence team identified the operations through its monitoring and investigations into Claude's misuse.

Opinions

Pakistan’s ‘AI war’: PAF releases animated claims of destroying Indian targets, but no real evidence in its response to Operation Sindoor documentary

Jinit Jain - 7 September, 2026

Pakistan Air Force’s latest propaganda video uses AI-generated destruction instead of real evidence to push the same unverified claims it has made since Operation Sindoor began in May 2025.

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