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…
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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…
Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, has said a new era of scientific discovery powered by artificial intelligence is approaching, with major advances expected in medicine, energy and space exploration. Speaking on Wednesday at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Hassabis described the moment as the beginning of an extraordinary transformation in science and healthcare. AI To Accelerate Scientific Breakthroughs Hassabis told the summit that artificial intelligence stands on the brink of delivering profound benefits. He said researchers now possess tools that could dramatically speed up scientific discovery and medical innovation. “We’re on the cusp of an absolutely…
Railways Cyber Security Measures Protect Tatkal Booking SystemThe Indian Railways reservation ticket booking system has successfully deactivated 3.03 crore suspicious user IDs and blocked 60.43 billion malicious bot requests in the last six months of 2025, safeguarding the integrity of its online e-ticketing platform. The Union Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting and Electronics & IT, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, provided the details in a reply to Rajya Sabha. Aadhaar-Based Authentication Ensures Fair BookingTo curb misuse and improve fairness in tatkal bookings, Indian Railways introduced Aadhaar-based One-Time Password (OTP) verification for online tatkal ticket bookings. This system ensures instantaneous verification of…
As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes economies, industries and energy systems across the world, a central question is gaining urgency – how can AI remain rooted in human values, equity and sustainability? That question was at the heart of an international symposium on Human-Centred AI and Sustainable Development, hosted in New Delhi by the CSIR–National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (CSIR-NIScPR). The event was positioned as an official pre-summit programme ahead of the India-AI Impact Summit 2026, signalling its policy relevance. The day-long symposium brought together experts from India and overseas to explore how artificial intelligence can strengthen energy…