In an interview with Mint on October 13, 2026, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, director of the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), said global guidelines are needed to manage AI risks, but geopolitical tensions between the US and China could make it difficult for countries to agree on slowing its development. Shukla explained how advanced AI could help detect software vulnerabilities that decades of human expertise have failed to uncover. The same capabilities, however, could make cyberattacks easier and enable malicious actors to develop dangerous technologies. He said governments should focus on regulating the use of AI in military operations rather than on preventing individual countries from developing AI systems.

Medical AI tools are increasingly being used in medical imaging, where radiologists rely on them as a second pair of eyes to flag possible abnormalities in scans. However, a study by International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) – Hyderabad researchers cautioned against blindly trusting output from such medical AI models. The research team led by Prof. Parameswari Krishnamurthy, with Dr. Syed Faizan as principal investigator, at the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), audited four vision-language models — MAIRA-2, MedGemma-4B, LLaVA-Med-1.5 and LLaVA-1.5 — on thousands of publicly available chest X-rays. The team also conducted a reader study in which two radiologists assessed anonymised overlays, providing a human reference for the models’ localisation.

IIIT Hyderabad has launched BrainLab, an advanced human electroencephalography (EEG) research facility to enable cutting-edge research into how the human brain processes information, attention, perception and behaviour. The new facility has been established with support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, under the Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (DST-FIST) programme. The Cognitive Science Lab (CSL) received the grant in 2024 under the Life Sciences FIST (FIST-LS) programme. The grant-winning team comprised Prof. Bapi Raju, Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar, Dr. Bhaktee Dongaonkar, Dr. Vinoo Alluri, Dr. Priyanka Srivastava, and Dr. Kavita Vemuri.