Pulse of the Public
Pulse of the Public
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The Department of Telecommunications has issued a strict advisory against fraudulent SIM issuance, IMEI tampering, and misuse of telecom identifiers under the Telecommunications Act, 2023. The warning follows a cybercrime investigation in Chhattisgarh where a SIM sales agent illegally activated 25 mobile connections using citizens' documents without consent.
US President Donald Trump announced plans on September 19 to establish a dedicated 'AI Force' within the military and appoint an 'AI Czar' to oversee national artificial intelligence policy.
The fifth BeTCA Tech Meet 2026 highlighted Belagavi’s emerging technology ecosystem, featuring product launches and strategic partnerships in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
A new report by McKinsey & Company reveals that nearly 30% of enterprises faced a decline in developer productivity after deploying autonomous AI tools and agentic coding platforms.
AI research lab Anthropic and consulting giant Accenture have partnered to invest $2 billion over five years in independent AI safety evaluations. The initiative aims to conduct rigorous red-teaming and alignment testing on frontier AI models amidst growing global regulatory scrutiny.
OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a specialized legal AI platform powered by its GPT-6 Astra model and paired with a comprehensive search index covering over 230 million US legal documents.
The Indian Air Force has inaugurated the first Dronathon-2026 in Jaisalmer to evaluate cutting-edge unmanned aircraft systems and integrate them into operational service.
The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has urged the government to pass a dedicated AI Bill and set up a single statutory oversight body to manage severe human rights risks posed by artificial intelligence.
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has launched global sales of its indigenous 2nm 3D-stacked processor, FUJITSU-MONAKA, designed to power sovereign AI data centers with twice the inference speed and half the power consumption.
NVIDIA and Palantir Technologies have partnered to build a sovereign artificial intelligence stack designed to optimize complex enterprise supply chains, deploying it first across NVIDIA's global manufacturing operations.
Sony Bank and Fujitsu announced full-scale deployment of generative AI across Sony Bank's core banking system development, cutting delivery timelines by 30%.
Microsoft has released its September 2026 Patch Tuesday security update, fixing 972 software vulnerabilities across its ecosystem, including two zero-day flaws actively exploited in the wild.