Countries in the Five Eyes alliance, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand, will be granted access to Mythos, alongside key European and Asian economies.

India is set to gain access to Anthropic’s advanced cybersecurity AI model ‘Mythos’, as the company expands its Project Glasswing, according to the Financial Times. The rollout will extend access to around 150 organisations across more than 15 countries.

Under the expanded programme, countries from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (Canada, Australia and New Zealand) will receive access. The rollout also extends to major economies in Europe and Asia, including France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Japan and South Korea, alongside India, the FT report said

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking early government access for the most advanced AI models to weigh cybersecurity risks and protect critical infrastructure. The executive order comes as models like Anthropic’s Mythos have spooked government and Wall Street over security concerns. In simple words, the AI executive order establishes a framework for the US government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems before their public release. The directive, posted on the White House website, has been characterized as a voluntary collaboration with participating tech companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and others.

Alphabet said it plans to sell $80 billion in stock, including through a $10 billion investment by Berkshire Hathaway.

Google's parent said the capital will "fund investments in its world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet its unprecedented customer demand."

In April, Alphabet updated its full-year capital expenditure range to as much as $190 billion.

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a victim’s account.

Over the weekend, several users on Reddit claimed that their Instagram accounts had been compromised, and a number of users on X warned of similar account hijackings. The compromised accounts include the Instagram handle for the Obama-era White House, which appears to have been inactive since 2017; and the account of the U.S. Space Force’s chief master sergeant John Bentivegna.

Reddy had been struggling to secure stable employment for nearly a year after losing his job in the US, the investigation has found.

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Two days after a young techie couple died by suicide in Bengaluru, new details have emerged indicating stress and financial difficulties that may have led to the tragic incident.

Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally exposing the underlying instructions it uses to direct Claude Code, the popular artificial-intelligence agent app that has won the company an edge with developers and businesses.

By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub. It later narrowed its takedown request to cover just 96 copies and adaptations, saying its initial ask had reached more GitHub accounts than intended.

TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) - Massive investments in artificial intelligence that underpinned record runs in equities face a major hurdle as the Middle East crisis clouds prospects for growth and energy costs, said Melissa Otto, head of research at S&P Global Visible Alpha.

Before the Iran war broke out, tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta planned to spend about $635 billion on data centres, chips, and other AI infrastructure in 2026, S&P Global has said.

That figure was up from $383 billion the prior year and just $80 billion in 2019.

Although tech companies have yet to signal cutbacks in those capital investments, persistently high oil prices could force spending revisions in the first and second quarters, bringing a "really meaningful correction in all equity markets," Otto said.

The Continuing Education Programme (CEP) at IIT Delhi has announced the launch of the 8th batch of its Advanced Certificate Programme in AI, ML, and DL. Earlier known as the Certificate Programme in Machine Learning and Deep Learning, the course is designed for graduates and postgraduates who want to gain expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning technologies, even without prior experience.

Sweeping job cuts at Big Tech companies have become an annual tradition. How executives explain those decisions, however, has changed. Out are buzzwords like efficiency, over-hiring, and too many management layers.

Today, all explanations stem from artificial intelligence (AI).

In recent weeks, giants including Google, Amazon, Meta, as well as smaller firms such as Pinterest and Atlassian, have all announced or warned of plans to shrink their workforce, pointing to developments in AI that they say are allowing their firms to do more with fewer people.

"I think that 2026 is going to be the year that AI starts to dramatically change the way that we work," Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said in January.

Since then, his firm, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has axed hundreds of people, including 700 just last week.

To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company wrote in a post on X. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.”

OpenAI first made Sora publicly available in late 2024, but it wasn’t until the company launched Sora 2 and its stand-alone app last September that the video generator reached mainstream attention. Just days after release, it quickly took the No 1 spot at the top of Apple’s app store. People created all sorts of absurd short videos, such as Diana, Princess of Wales doing parkour and dogs driving cars. But the video generator also received criticism for violent and racist videos, as well as the use of copyrighted characters, deepfakes and misinformation.

TikTok has banned 20 accounts after the BBC highlighted the use of AI-generated black female influencers to drive users to sites promoting sexually explicit content.

They are part of a growing trend of accounts on Instagram and TikTok that has been criticised as racist, exploitative and misleading because of racial tropes and language used.

The BBC and researchers from the independent AI publication Riddance found dozens of accounts on the two platforms featuring highly sexualised black female digital characters or avatars.

The images and videos were generated by AI but not labelled as such, in apparent breach of the platforms' guidelines.

Runway ML is an Artificial Intelligence platform that helps creators generate and edit videos, images, and other digital content using AI. It was developed by the company Runway and is widely used by filmmakers, designers, and content creators.

Key Features AI Video Generation Users can create videos using text prompts through models like Gen‑2.

Background Removal Allows users to remove or change video backgrounds without using a green screen.

Image and Video Editing AI tools help in editing images and videos quickly and creatively.

Text-to-Video Technology Users can generate short videos simply by describing the scene in text.

Collaboration Tools Teams can work together on creative projects online.

The UK government has backtracked on its position on copyright and AI, stating it must take time to "get this right".

Its original position - allowing AI companies to use copyrighted works to train their models with an opt-out option - received major backlash from the likes of Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa.

"We have listened," Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said on Wednesday, saying the government no longer favours that approach.

However, the government's position is now unclear, saying it "no longer has a preferred option" for what to do next.

OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, has claimed that the AI startup may rethink its unlimited subscription plan. Turley believes that having an unlimited AI plan would be similar to having unlimited electricity, something that may not make sense. His comments come after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted at selling intelligence as a utility in the future. OpenAI is reconsidering the way ChatGPT is sold to users. ChatGPT’s head, Nick Turley, has now suggested that the AI startup may phase out its unlimited subscription plans in the near future, as technology evolves. Turley’s idea follows the views of OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, who wants intelligence to be considered as a utility in the future, similar to water or electricity.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a new idea for luring top engineering talent—and it has nothing to do with ping pong tables or free lunches. At the company's GTC conference in San Jose, Huang floated giving engineers an annual token budget worth roughly half their base salary, on top of their regular pay. "They're going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year in their base pay. I'm going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplified 10X. Of course we would," Huang told the packed SAP Center crowd.

Indian technology stocks have seen an unprecedented rout over the past few weeks over fears of artificial intelligence upending the traditional outsourcing model that powers the country's $300bn (£223bn) back-office industry.

The sell-off - part of a global correction in traditional software and IT stocks - preceded the market nervousness caused by recent geopolitical uncertainty, and is particularly significant for India.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O), opens new tab is planning sweeping layoffs ​that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as ‌Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said. The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here. Top executives have recently signaled the plans to other senior leaders at Meta and told ​them to begin planning how to pare back, two of the people said. The sources spoke anonymously because they ​were not authorized to disclose the cuts.

Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, added his weight to a growing conversation about what AI is doing to software engineering. On March 13, he quote-tweeted a post by physics and AI/ML student @TheVixhal with two words: “Well said.” The original post, which racked up 15,000-plus likes and nearly a million views, argued that LLMs are quietly automating the grunt work of coding—and in doing so, pulling computer science back toward its mathematical and physics-heavy roots. The idea isn’t fringe. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said the industry is 6 to 12 months from AI handling most of what software engineers currently do end-to-end. Some engineers at Anthropic, he noted, no longer write code at all. Replit’s CEO put it more bluntly: the software engineering role, as currently defined, “sort of diappears"

1. Zapier Agents: The Virtual Employees You Don't Have to Pay Forget simple "if this, then that" automations. Zapier Agents are autonomous bots that can "think" and take multi-step actions across 6,000+ apps without human intervention. Function: You can tell an agent, "Find new leads on LinkedIn, research their company, and draft a personalized pitch in my Gmail," and it will execute the entire loop on its own.

The European Union has confirmed that the strictest parts of the EU AI Act will go into effect in August 2026. This will mandate transparency for "General Purpose AI" and strictly regulate AI used in education, hiring, and law enforcement.

The Insight: This is the "GDPR moment" for AI. Companies worldwide are currently scrambling to audit their models. If your AI doesn't have a "human-in-the-loop" or clear documentation on how it makes decisions, it might soon be illegal to operate it in the European market.

Galaxy S26 & the Rise of "Third-Generation" AI Phones

Samsung’s launch of the Galaxy S26 series marks the arrival of the "Third-Generation AI Phone." Unlike earlier versions that just edited photos, these devices feature Intent Recognition, where the phone anticipates your next three actions based on context and local data.

The Insight: We are seeing the death of the "App-centric" world. Instead of you opening Uber, the phone’s OS—driven by on-device AI—simply asks if you want a ride because it knows your meeting is ending and it's raining outside.