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He also admitted that the company could have handled the announcement better.
Updated : Mar 4, 2026

OpenAI Pentagon deal triggers backlash; 1.5 million users sign up to quit ChatGPT

The decision came just hours after rival AI company Anthropic withdrew from a similar deal.

Trump vs Anthropic takes a new turn!
Updated : Feb 28, 2026

'Radical left, woke company': Trump blacklists Anthropic as Claude maker refuses Pentagon demands

His announcement comes after the AI startup refused the Pentagon's demand to agree to unconditional military use of its Claude models. 

Singh said India faces structural challenges in education, including uneven learning outcomes, teacher shortages and language diversity, where AI tools can help deliver scale.
Updated : Feb 19, 2026

People-centric use cases crucial for India’s AI push: USISPF’s Rohit Kumar Singh

Rohit Kumar Singh cautioned that AI, like any powerful technology, carries dual potential. “You can either empower the consumer or exploit the consumer,” he said, underscoring the need for regulatory oversight when misuse emerges.

During the panel discussion, Amodei said India’s combination of high technical talent and growth potential could boost economic numbers.
Updated : Feb 19, 2026

India AI Impact Summit 2026: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts India’s 25% growth with AI

Amodei said that India is not just the market, but it is the ultimate “test lab” for how AI can contribute to a country's economy. 

ePlane will create a high-fidelity “Digital Twin” of its e200x, setting a new benchmark for aerospace simulation.
Updated : Feb 19, 2026

India AI Impact Summit 2026: ePlane to build the digital twin of India’s first electric air taxi with NVIDIA

The company is the first electric aviation OEM in the region to leverage NVIDIA Omniverse for multi-physics digital twin modeling

Bengaluru’s leadership in AI hiring is closely tied to its status as the Global Capability Centre (GCC) capital of India.
Updated : Feb 18, 2026

AI jobs: Bengaluru leads, Delhi-NCR follows as AI hiring clusters in two key Indian hubs, says report

Bengaluru leads AI hiring with a 25.4% share, closely followed by Delhi-NCR at 24.8%, based on an analysis of over 64,500 AI-tagged job listings on Naukri.com.

The nationwide AI Responsibility Pledge campaign sought to mobilise citizens across the country to commit to the ethical, inclusive, and responsible use of AI.
Updated : Feb 18, 2026

AI Impact Summit: India sets Guinness World Record with over 250,000 AI responsibility pledges in 24 hours

The AI Responsibility Pledge campaign was part of the IndiaAI Mission and was conducted in partnership with Intel India. Launched on February 16, the initiative encouraged citizens across the country to commit to the ethical, inclusive, and responsible use of artificial intelligence by submitting pledges through the aipledge.indiaai.gov.in portal.

Google DeepMind said it would partner with Indian government agencies and institutions to deploy AI tools for scientific research and education, including providing access to advanced models for researchers and students.
Updated : Feb 18, 2026

Google deepens India strategy with subsea cable, DeepMind science partnerships and AI funds

The “America-India Connect” project will create new fiber-optic routes to improve connectivity between the United States, India and parts of the Southern Hemisphere. 

Former British prime minister Rishi Sunak and Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang at India AI Impact Summit in Delhi on Wednesday.
Updated : Feb 18, 2026

Enormous optimism in India vs anxiety in Western countries: ex-UK PM Rishi Sunak at India AI Impact Summit 

In a fireside chat with Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, Sunak said New Delhi’s growing role reflects its strategic importance in the global AI landscape, describing India as “a country with huge digital ambitions and capacity”.

NPCI has said that any AI models developed as part of this collaboration will be aligned with India’s regulatory framework and data sovereignty requirements
Updated : Feb 18, 2026

NPCI, NVIDIA partner to build scalable sovereign AI layer for India’s digital payments ecosystem

As part of this next phase, NPCI is collaborating with NVIDIA to strengthen sovereign AI capabilities that can support population-scale, real-time payment systems.

A key pillar of the L&T–NVIDIA initiative is the development of a gigawatt-scale AI data centre factory, designed to deliver AI-ready capacity for high-density, next-generation workloads.
Updated : Feb 18, 2026

L&T, NVIDIA announce sovereign AI factory venture under India AI Mission

Larsen & Toubro has announced a proposed sovereign AI factory venture with NVIDIA under the India AI Mission, aimed at building large-scale, production-ready AI infrastructure in India. The initiative seeks to position India as a global hub for AI compute, data centres, and enterprise-grade AI deployment.

India AI Summit 2026: Gnani.ai is expanding internationally, with customers in Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, and the US
Updated : Feb 18, 2026

Gnani.ai launches multilingual speech model Vachana STT as India pushes sovereign AI

The model, called Vachana STT, has been trained on more than 1 million hours of real-world voice data across 1,056 domains and is intended for large-scale deployments across businesses and government services. Vachana STT is the first model releases under Inya VoiceOS, the startups sovereign AI stack. 

Experts at AI Summit 2026 said digital knowledge work alone is a $30 trillion market, underscoring AI’s impact across industries and jobs.
Updated : Feb 18, 2026

AI Summit 2026: How Sovereign AI can help India drive growth, jobs and digital governance - experts weigh in

At AI Summit 2026, global experts discussed how India can leverage sovereign AI to balance innovation with returns, jobs, and national interest. The focus remained on aligning AI investments with productivity, governance efficiency, and long-term economic value.

 The initiative aims to create a sovereign AI infrastructure backbone and catalyse $150 billion in additional ecosystem investments over the next decade.
Updated : Feb 17, 2026

Adani Group to invest $100 billion in Sovereign AI infrastructure by 2035

The Adani Group has announced a $100 billion plan to build renewable-energy-powered, AI-ready hyperscale data centres across India by 2035, marking one of the world’s largest integrated energy-and-compute investments.

Despite Huang’s absence, Nvidia said it will maintain a strong presence at the event.
Updated : Feb 14, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to skip India AI Impact Summit next week; company says this

Huang was slated to be one of the headline speakers at the summit, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, and was also scheduled to address the media in New Delhi on Wednesday.

PE rules determine when a foreign company is considered to have a taxable presence in a country.
Updated : Feb 14, 2026

Do outdated PE tax rules risk slowing India’s smartphone manufacturing push?

India’s smartphone manufacturing push has delivered rapid export growth and job creation, but tax policy gaps may be limiting the next phase of expansion. Experts argue that outdated Permanent Establishment rules need urgent clarity to support component manufacturing and higher value addition.

The company’s research collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is aimed at building perception systems that are closer to biological sensorimotor learning.
Updated : Feb 13, 2026

CynLr raises the curtain on commercial-ready robotics platform

Bengaluru-based robotics startup CynLr has unveiled what it calls one of India’s first commercial-ready Object Intelligence (OI) platforms, positioning it as a missing foundational layer that could allow robots to learn and adapt in real time without months of retraining.

Developed in India, GenW.AI brings together a full suite of tools under a single, unified architecture.
Updated : Feb 12, 2026

‘By definition, we’re competing with nobody’: Deloitte’s Nitin Kini on GenW.AI’s entry into product market

Deloitte India’s GenW.AI, set to be unveiled at the India AI Impact Summit, integrates multiple large language models (LLMs) into a unified low-code platform, promising secure, scalable and cost-efficient enterprise AI deployment, says Nitin Kini, COO, Deloitte South Asia.

WhatsApp blocked in Russia
Updated : Feb 12, 2026

Russia blocks Meta’s WhatsApp, pushing its 100 million+ users to state-backed service

The Kremlin confirmed on 11 February that WhatsApp was removed from Russia’s internet directory managed by Roskomnadzor, the country’s communications regulator. Authorities said the block was due to Meta’s failure to comply with Russian laws, a justification that Meta strongly disputes.

Happiest Minds Executive Chairman Ashok Soota said the growing noise around AI-led disruption was misplaced.
Updated : Feb 10, 2026

Why Happiest Minds sees AI tools like Anthropic as an opportunity, not a threat

As AI platforms spark disruption fears, Happiest Minds argues that generative AI is expanding the IT services market by driving enterprise modernisation, integration and scalable transformation.

India’s gig workers grew 55% from 77 lakh workers in FY21 to 1.2 crore workers in FY25, as per the Economic Survey.
Updated : Jan 29, 2026

Economic Survey 2025-26 suggests minimum wage for gig workers

The goal of gig-economy policy should be to reshape the terms so that workers exercise real choice rather than being pushed into gigs due to weak demand, skill mismatch, or the absence of a safety net