Vishwadeep Khatri

When Covid-19 struck in 2020, Sashikumaar Ganeshan at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore built a model to predict the spread of the contagion, marking his deep immersion into AI technologies. He later founded ZenteiQ.ai to develop scientific foundational model Brahm AI. Similar patterns are seen among researchers launching AI startups. View the full article

A complete or full AI stack refers to an end-to-end collection of hardware, software, data, and services required to design, train, deploy, and manage artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit in the national capital, Chaudhary, minister for skill development and entrepreneurship and the minister of state for education, emphasised the need for data sets to be segmented. View the full article

Sunil Gupta, MD and CEO of Yotta Data Services, said AI sovereignty does not mean isolation or complete self-reliance but strategic control. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit 2026, he noted global interdependence in technology is inevitable. Sovereignty means no single country or company can dictate a nation’s digital future. View the full article

The service interruption was an "extremely limited event" when a single ‌service in one of the two regions in mainland China was affected, ​the spokesperson ​said, adding ⁠that it did not impact compute, storage, database, AI technologies, or any other of AWS's services. View the full article

Pichai said Google is establishing a full-stack AI hub in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh as part of its previously announced USD 15 billion infrastructure investment in India. The facility will house gigawatt-scale compute capacity and a new international subsea cable gateway, aimed at expanding jobs and AI access across the country. View the full article

Silicon Valley is entirely focused on LLMs, stealing each other’s engineers and pursuing similar approaches. This leaves the industry short-sighted, said the tech leader. LeCun also argued that human-level intelligence cannot be achieved by training AI systems solely on human-produced text. Instead, he said, future systems will need to learn from sensory inputs and develop a deeper understanding of how the real world works. View the full article

India Inc is making massive AI moves, with Reliance Industries pledging $110 billion over seven years to build AI-focused infrastructure. Tata Group is partnering with OpenAI to scale AI-ready data centres. Adani Enterprises also plans a $100 billion investment by 2035, signalling a major national push into AI. View the full article

Fledgling Indian artificial intelligence companies showcased homegrown technologies this week at a major summit in New Delhi, underpinning big dreams of becoming a global AI power. Another Indian company that drew attention with product debuts this week include the Bengaluru-based Gnani.ai, which introduced its Vachana speech models at the summit. View the full article

At the Delhi AI Summit, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei drew attention by refusing to join hands on stage, exposing their long-running rivalry. Their split began when OpenAI shifted towards a profit-driven model after a major Microsoft investment, unsettling colleagues including Amodei and Elon Musk, sparking departures. View the full article

Rishi Sunak, British Prime Minister when the UK held the first AI Summit at Bletchley Park in 2023, said the biggest legacy was the creation of AI security institutes. He said they have the technical capability to evaluate the risks that models pose and that democratic institutions should not allow companies to mark their own homework. He added that AI is bound to disrupt employment and that the best antidote to anxiety and fear is action and preparation.Rishi Sunak View the full article

Vinod Khosla says AI could transform the world into an era of abundance, where people need not work and can pursue their passions. He warns that India’s IT services industry must adapt quickly to offer AI services globally or risk obsolescence. The country’s talent and cost advantages create a major opportunity. View the full article

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora says fears that AI will wipe out most jobs are exaggerated. He notes that cybersecurity, which relies on inspection software and platforms, will see growing demand as AI increases complexity. Arora adds that AI drives efficiency but also creates opportunities for skilled technologists. View the full article

Fintech startups are gearing up for AI-powered commerce, linking digital payments with agentic platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Payment firms including Razorpay, Cashfree, Visa, Mastercard and Pine Labs are building pipelines ahead of wide-scale adoption. Currently, end-to-end AI transactions aren’t allowed by the RBI, but companies are preparing for the future. View the full article

While the world is standing at the precipice of a "once-in-a-generation" shift as artificial intelligence exponentially improves, ensuring that its impact is a net positive to human development will require concerted efforts, global technology leaders said on the fourth day of the India AI Impact Summit here. View the full article

Europe and India are aligning to build a sovereign and sustainable AI stack that reduces reliance on US and Chinese technology, with deeper collaboration across infrastructure, chips, software and manufacturing, Emmanuel Le Roux, head and CEO of France-based advanced computing firm Bull, told ET. View the full article

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s diversity, young population and democratic system, along with a strong, secure ecosystem, make it ideal for building AI solutions. He urged the tech industry to design and develop in India and deliver to the world. The summit hosts global leaders and tech executives. View the full article

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held insightful discussions with global CEOs on scaling up artificial intelligence in a responsible manner and strengthening global collaboration. View the full article

Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday called India the ideal venue for shaping the future of artificial intelligence (AI), and said there was "no better place" to deliberate on the global AI transformation, highlighting the country's digital public infrastructure, innovation ecosystem and public optimism around the technology. View the full article

Google introduces Gemini 3.1 Pro on Google Cloud. View the full article

Highlighting the rapid adoption of tools like Codex, which he expects to become the world's largest market "pretty quickly", Altman signalled that India's tech ecosystem is on the verge of a massive, AI-driven entrepreneurial explosion. View the full article

India has solidified its standing in the global AI arena. The nation hosted the inaugural AI summit for the global south. Bharti Enterprises, through its telecom arm Airtel, is spearheading sovereign cloud development. The company is significantly expanding its data centre capacity. This strategic move aims to double its market share in the coming years. View the full article

Meta said its personal superintelligence, set to be launched in the next few months, will go beyond routine administrative tasks. ​​It will help users manage health goals, plan events, pursue hobbies and engage more meaningfully with their communities, the company’s newly appointed chief AI officer and leader of its Superintelligence Labs, Alexandr Wang, said on Thursday. View the full article

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, on Thursday defended use of copyright news articles and opinion pieces in training AI models like ChatGPT, saying it followed the US principle of fair use. View the full article

French startup Mistral AI’s cofounder and chief executive Arthur Mensch feels India can become a global innovation hub for AI due to its talent pool and industrial strength, adding that a quarter of his firm’s researchers are Indians. View the full article

Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, said that India can deploy AI-powered personal tutors, primary-care doctors, and agri advisors for 1.5 billion people within the next one to two years. He proposed that such services should be integrated into the country’s Aadhaar stack. View the full article