'Defining moment': Goyal links Lula visit to India’s FTA push and AI partnership play
India and Brazil seek deeper trade and AI ties as Lula visits Delhi, with Goyal highlighting FTAs, growth ambitions and expanding strategic cooperation.
India emerges as OpenAI's second-largest market, 18-24 age group leads ChatGPT usage: Report
Beyond professional tasks, TechCrunch reported that 35% of Indian users' messages seek guidance, 20% involve general information queries, and another 20% request writing assistance or content generation
India weighs fresh cyber law amid rising AI-led threat; Airtel-Zscaler set up research center
The announcement signals a broader policy pivot—from responding to cyber incidents to building proactive, AI-enabled defence systems
AI for agriculture to mother-tongue education: PM Modi's blueprint at big-tech roundtable
The meetings took place alongside the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam from February 16-20, which brought together more than 500 global AI leaders, 150 academicians and researchers, and 400 chief technology officers, vice-presidents, and philanthropists
India AI Impact Summit declaration expected on Feb 21; signatories cross 70: Ashwini Vaishnaw
Vaishnaw said that “all major countries that matter in AI” have signed the declaration as of now.
TCS, Infosys, HCLTech CEOs strike confident note amid AI fears
Their remarks come amid $300 billion global tech stocks correction and concerns that generative AI tools could automate large swathes of coding and enterprise software work.
AI could lift global growth by 0.8%, says IMF chief; India’s Viksit Bharat goal achievable
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI can lift global growth by 0.8% and back India’s Viksit Bharat goal, but warns 40% of jobs face disruption.
'Topless, brainless, shameless': BJP accuses Congress of 'embarrassing India' at global AI Summit
Hitting out at the opposition party for the protest, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said, "For the Congress, I have just three words -- topless, brainless and shameless."
Modi meets AI startup CEOs, pushes for India-first data governance and language tech
PM Modi meets AI startup CEOs, stresses data governance, vernacular AI and India-scale innovation; also holds talks with OpenAI and Qualcomm leaders.
Over-pivoting on building everything locally puts India at a disadvantaged position: Zscaler’s Jay Chaudhry
He argued for a combination of locally built technology combined with external software stack especially in critical and sophisticated areas like cybersecurity
Provocative but not accurate: Cisco's Jeetu Patel reacts to Vinod Khosla jibe about company
Patel defended Cisco after Vinod Khosla's jibe about company, saying the venture capitalist's remarks are 'provocative, but not accurate'
'Thank God there is AI': Tata Group chair N Chandrasekaran bets on AI to fix cities, inequality, healthcare
N Chandrasekaran says India’s 'AI moment' has arrived, urging technology to tackle inequality, healthcare and urban gaps at the AI Impact Summit.
AI Summit: Here's why Lightspeed’s Bejul Somaia sees India’s AI future in applications, not infrastructure
The venture investor said India’s advantage in AI lies in building context-driven applications rather than competing in large model development, as falling costs of intelligence reshape healthcare, education and startup building.
India can become one of world’s most consequential environments for AI applications: Wipro’s Rishad Premji
Premji highlighted how India working on AI would mean, “solving problems for a billion people”, making it a critical market for global tech enterprises with whom the nation already has strong ties with.
‘Jiska data, uska adhikar’: What PM Modi’s data sovereignty pitch really means
Modi’s ‘jiska data, uska adhikar’ links privacy law, jurisdiction and Budget 2026’s AI data-centre tax holiday. What it means for citizens and Big Tech.
India AI Summit: Biggest AI opportunity lies in bridging gap between LLMs and enterprises, says Vishal Sikka
India should go beyond simply adopting current AI and focus on building safer and more efficient systems, the former Infosys CEO and founder of Vianai Systems has said
TCS raises quarterly variable pay out to 80% for mid and senior-level employees in Q3
This is a big shift coming after nearly two years of quarterly variable allowance being slashed to 20-50 percent for the mid and senior-level employees
PM Modi to address India AI Impact Summit Opening Ceremony today
The India AI Impact Summit 2026, underway in Delhi from February 16 to 20, is the first global AI summit to be hosted in the Global South
Laser-etched glass can store data for millennia, Microsoft says
Since 2019, Microsoft's Silica project has been trying to encode data on glass plates, in a throwback to the early days of photography, when negatives were also stored on glass
Yotta Data Services to spend $2 billion on Nvidia chips
Yotta Data Services currently operates over 10,000 Nvidia GPUs, with another 8,000 set to go live next quarter, and plans to scale beyond 80,000 GPUs by FY27 as India expands its AI infrastructure footprint.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says India can be a full-stack AI nation
Google CEO says the country is entering a decade-long AI transformation that could reshape everyday life
AI-led GCCs expedite drug development cycles, lower costs, says report
In clinical trials, AI-led patient recruitment, trial design and real-time analytics are shortening development cycles by four to six years while improving success rates, KPMG in India and UnearthIQ have said in a report
India needs 20% global data centre capacity with increasing data needs, says RMZ
RMZ, though multiple public private partnerships with state governments such as Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka, is deploying around Rs 2.8 lakh crore towards the development of data centres in these states, over the next decade
Indian IT firms well placed for AI services, says Ashwini Vaishnav amid job loss fears
The focus on AI-driven modernisation of legacy systems creates a significant opportunity for Indian IT firms even as the industry navigates workforce transitions, the minister tells Moneycontrol
Why IIT-Madras Director Kamakoti believes AI disruption will be a blessing in disguise for core engineers
Kamakoti, who was recently awarded with a Padma Shri, said the type of IT jobs that attracted non-computer science graduates are increasingly vulnerable as AI automates routine and mundane work.
