When AI Gets Affordable: Sam Altman’s Forecast and Jio’s ₹10 Trillion Investment

The India AI Impact Summit in Delhi crystallized a striking convergence: a global prediction about rapidly falling AI costs paired with one of India’s largest private investments in the technology. OpenAI’s CEO observed that the expense of obtaining difficult answers from advanced models has plunged by orders of magnitude in just over a year, and he expects further dramatic declines

OpenAI for India: Building AI Infrastructure, Skills, and Sovereign Capability

Today marks a pivotal moment for India’s AI journey as a major global AI organization launches a country-focused initiative to expand access, build local infrastructure, and accelerate economic and societal benefits. The program aims to pair advanced AI models with domestic partners to meet India’s unique needs: lower latency, data residency, security, and large-scale workforce adoption. A cornerstone of the

When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity

The landscape of cyber threats has shifted decisively toward financially motivated crime. Extortion and ransomware now drive more than half of attacks with known motivations, as opportunistic criminal groups scale operations with automated tooling and AI. Speed, automation, and deception combine to inflict outsized damage on vulnerable organizations and public services. Why extortion and ransomware dominate Ransomware and extortion target

Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic’s powerful model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows is now available in Microsoft Foundry

Claude Opus 4.6 represents a clear evolution in applying frontier language models to mission-critical enterprise workloads. By combining Anthropic’s latest reasoning and long-context capabilities with Microsoft Foundry’s governance, identity, and operational controls, organizations can transition from isolated experiments to production-grade, agent-driven systems. This release is significant because it is not merely about raw model performance; it is about enabling sustained,

When Plugins Move Markets: Lessons from a Single-Day “SaaSpocalypse”

Anthropic’s rapid rollout of open‑source plugins for Claude Cowork—especially a legal workflow plugin—triggered a market shock that erased roughly $285 billion in software, legal‑tech, and related stocks in a single day. The episode is less about one technical breakthrough and more about a strategic shift: model providers are moving from offering raw capability to delivering vertical workflows. That marginal step