The “fly on the wall” has officially transitioned from just a metaphor to a high-priority line item in modern defence procurement. At the heart of Israel’s tactical footprint in Gaza is an insect-sized spy device that is often dropped using small drones. According to a Middle East Monitor report, these tiny “insects” are reportedly used to detect the location of captives by infiltrating areas where traditional surveillance cannot reach. The report added that Israel is also dropping worm-sized devices equipped with cameras. Devices were placed in bags and dropped in open areas, such as cemeteries and even inside residential neighbourhoods…
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On March 31, the internal source code of ‘Claude Code’, an AI-powered coding assistant by Anthropic, was leaked. This means that software developers across the world could now look into how this model works and have access to 512,000 lines of its code. The leak, Anthropic confirmed, was due to a “release packaging issue caused by human error” and not a targeted hack or security breach. When a team member ran a production build manually for the Claude Code version 2.1.88 update, the compiler accidentally published an internal file publicly, which allowed anyone who found it to download it as…
Imagine seeing a navigation map inside your spectacles as you drive. Or an answer quietly appearing on your lens mid-exam. This is no longer just a theory. Companies like Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Xiaomi are making it happen — weaving large language models into frames that sit on your face. China has emerged as one of the primary testing grounds for this frontier. Of the 14.8 million smart glasses shipped globally in 2025, the Chinese market claimed 2.5 million — roughly 16.7 percent of the total. Tech giants like Xiaomi and Alibaba are leading the charge, with car manufacturer Li Auto…
Imagine being stuck in traffic or simply not wanting to work, while your laptop finishes your spreadsheets and emails your pitch deck for you—all on its own. Anthropic has officially pushed its Claude assistant to follow OpeClaw’s footsteps. Beyond mere text-based conversations, this is what they call agentic AI – newly introduced computer-use capabilities. Claude is being trained to take over your keyboard and screen to retrieve files, navigate the internet, and operate software autonomously. This capability is managed through two distinct layers: “Dispatch,” a tool released last week for remote task assignment via smartphones, and “Orbit,” an experimental mobile-native…
Iran strikes on Amazon and Microsoft data centres reveal new digital battlefield The war in West Asia has shifted from traditional military and infrastructure targets to a new domain: data centers. The Fars news agency, an affiliate of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), recently claimed that Iran targeted Amazon and Microsoft facilities in the Gulf via drone strikes. While Microsoft stated it has not experienced regional outages, AWS confirmed a breach on Monday. “In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts…
On Monday, users across the world were complaining about Claude, an artificial intelligence model facing an outage for hours. While the term ‘AI is booming’ has been used extensively in the past few months, the dependency has been revealed in this instance. Anthropic, Claude’s parent company, fixed the issue, but the technical instability it created sent immediate ripples across private sector productivity and high-stakes military operations. The reason for the outage was attributed to Claude experiencing an unprecedented surge, with daily downloads jumping 88 percent. This was synonymous with a 295% surge in uninstallations of ChatGPT’s mobile app in the…
A Spanish software engineer in Barcelona decided to have a little fun with his vacuum cleaner. What could possibly go wrong? Sammy Azdoufal’s weekend project sounded harmless enough: connect his PS5 controller to his DJI Romo vacuum so he could steer it around the house like a remote-controlled car. Because, naturally, if you can defeat a boss in Elden Ring, you should be able to defeat dust bunnies too. To pull this off, Azdoufal enlisted the help of an AI coding assistant called Claude Code. The plan was simple — reverse-engineer how the vacuum talked to its cloud servers, slip…
An experimental AI assistant deleted hundreds of emails belonging to its own handler—and apologised after the fact. The episode involved Summer Yue, an AI security researcher at Meta, who was testing OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent designed to help manage real-world digital tasks. OpenClaw’s job was simple: review emails, suggest actions, and ask for permission before doing anything irreversible. Instead, the agent interpreted “helpful” as “total inbox annihilation.” As emails began disappearing at speed, Yue attempted to stop the process remotely, only to discover that OpenClaw was in no mood for negotiation. She eventually had to rush to her Mac mini and…
Anthropic, the U.S. AI company best known for its Claude large language model, has claimed that that three Chinese AI firms — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — ran what it describes as industrial-scale “distillation attacks” against Claude, siphoning its intellectual property to train their own systems. In an industry blog post shared on February 23, Anthropic said it had identified roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts that together made more than 16 million exchanges with Claude. These interactions, it claims, were not ordinary user queries but carefully constructed sequences designed to coax out specific reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities — the…
India’s rapid expansion across multiple technology sectors was highlighted at a session during the just concluded AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, where industry leaders and policymakers discussed the country’s semiconductor ambitions against the backdrop of recent data. In 2015, India did not feature among the top 100 countries globally in digital payments, and had just two space technology startups. In 2026, India leads the world in the number of digital payments, has around 300 space tech startups, and has grown from zero semiconductor startups in 2020 to 24. “These figures are a testament to the fact that India can…