The decision came just hours after rival AI company Anthropic withdrew from a similar deal.
His announcement comes after the AI startup refused the Pentagon's demand to agree to unconditional military use of its Claude models.
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.
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.
The company is the first electric aviation OEM in the region to leverage NVIDIA Omniverse for multi-physics digital twin modeling
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 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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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