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India eyeing $200 bn AI investments across stack layers in 2 yrs: Vaishnaw

India-AI Impact Summit 2026: India is expanding AI compute, talent training and clean energy capacity, with new GPUs and skills programmes to strengthen its AI ecosystem, said Ashwini Vaishnaw

AI powering next phase of digital infrastructure: Reliance Jio official

The convergence of connectivity and compute will reshape how citizens, enterprises and governments interact in India, with artificial intelligence poised to amplify the country's already robust digital public infrastructure, a top executive at Reliance Jio said on Tuesday. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit, Shyam Prabhakar Mardikar - CTO, Mobility, at Reliance Jio, said India stands nearly a decade ahead of many developed economies in building population-scale digital platforms from digital payments and online banking to Aadhaar-based identity systems and paperless air travel through Digi Yatra. "India's digital infrastructure is already a humongous success story," Mardikar said at the five-day summit, which began on Monday. "Now imagine putting intelligence on top of it, making it aware, inclusive and accessible to the last citizen in the last village," he added. He said putting AI into existing nationwide digital rails could expand the government's reach and improve decision-makin

Vaishnaw apologises for disruptions on Day 1 of India AI Impact Summit

Speaking on the second day of the summit, Vaishnaw extended an apology for the inconvenience that the stakeholders had to face on the opening day

UN Women calls for greater female participation in building AI tools

Women account for just 30 per cent of AI professionals worldwide and hold only 16 per cent of AI research roles, UN Women said on Tuesday, calling for greater female participation in building artificial intelligence tools to better reflect women's needs in health, finance, climate resilience, and safety. Speaking at the launch of the AI Casebook on Gender and Agriculture at India AI Summit here, UN Women Regional Director for Asia Pacific Christine Arab said the underrepresentation of women in AI development was creating systemic bias in the technology. Arab noted that a "persistent design gap" remains globally, warning that fewer women building AI systems means fewer products that reflect women's realities. "When women are missing from design tables, the test labs, the term sheets -- bias doesn't emerge by accident. It becomes the default," she said. Arab praised India for its efforts to address the gender gap in AI, saying the country "stands among the very few globally who are .

AI won't replace journalism; trust, accountability are key: Media leaders

India-AI Impact Summit 2026: Media leaders said while AI is changing newsrooms, human judgement and accountability remain essential, as AI should support journalists, not replace them

AI will play pivotal role in realising the vision of Viksit Bharat: Pradhan

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday urged India's youth to harness the full potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), asserting that the technology will play a pivotal role in realising the vision of a Viksit Bharat. Speaking at the AI Impact Summit, Pradhan called on the next generation to deepen their engagement with AI, strengthen teamwork, and explore the vast possibilities the technology unlocks. Pradhan said that AI presents a significant opportunity for India, as he cited the country's multi-dimensional, multicultural and multilingual facets, alongside its rich history and legacy. He noted that AI can be a powerful tool in understanding and navigating the complexities. "AI is giving us an important opportunity. We have a multi-dimensional, multi-cultural and multi-lingual, complex society, with a rich history and legacy... AI can be an important tool in understanding its complexity and multi-dimensionality," Pradhan said. The minister exhorted India's yo

'Double helix' approach needed for AI and climate action, say experts

Participating in a panel discussion at the ongoing AI India Impact Summit, energy expert Arunabha Ghosh said the two technologies should converge to save the planet

Panchayat Ministry highlights 'Sabhasaar' at India AI Impact Summit

Organised under the aegis of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, the cultural presentation underscored how AI is being integrated into the Panchayati Raj system to strengthen village-level democracy

Adoption, not innovation, biggest gap in AI rollout: Experts at AI Summit

Experts at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 said the biggest hurdle in using AI for development is not technology but adoption, weak capacity and lack of investment in digital public infrastructure

Involving educational institutions at early stages necessary: Zoho's Vembu

Vembu stressed that stronger and earlier partnerships from the educational institutions industry would help India build practical and scalable AI solutions

Gnani.ai unveils 5B-parameter voice-to-voice AI model at India AI Summit

Gnani.ai's Inya VoiceOS, a 5B-parameter voice-to-voice model built under the IndiaAI Mission, is being released as a research preview ahead of a larger 14B-parameter system

India AI Impact Expo powerful convergence of ideas, innovation: PM Modi

India AI Impact Expo 2026 was a powerful convergence of ideas, innovation and intent, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. PM Modi on Monday inaugurated the Expo here featuring more than 600 high-potential startups and 13 country pavilions showcasing international collaboration in the AI ecosystem. "India AI Impact Expo 2026 was a powerful convergence of ideas, innovation and intent. It showcased the extraordinary potential of Indian talent in shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence for global good," PM Modi wrote on X. The prime minister also said that above all, the Expo reaffirmed India's commitment to harnessing AI responsibly, inclusively and at scale for human progress. The Expo brings together global technology firms, startups, academia and research institutions, central and state governments and international partners. Spread across 10 arenas covering more than 70,000 square metres at Bharat Mandapam, the Expo brings together global technology firms, startup

Meta secures patent to let deceased users' accounts remain active: Report

Meta's patent reportedly details how AI could simulate a deceased user's online presence - though the company says it has no plans to launch it

India AI Impact Summit Day 1 marked by overcrowding, organisational lapses

Day 1 of the summit saw long queues, overcrowding, technological failures, including Wi-Fi disruptions and UPI connectivity issues, organisational lapses, and even allegations of theft

India AI Impact Summit 2026 enters Day 2: Key sessions to watch today

Day 2 of the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam will see key talks on AI in healthcare, rural livelihoods, defence and economic growth, along with the launch of major AI casebooks

Tech sovereignty goes beyond just data, says IBM India head Sandip Patel

IBM's Sandip Patel says sovereignty today means controlling not just data but also AI models, inference and technology operations, as enterprises and governments seek resilient, sovereign-ready system

Anthropic's India revenue up 2x in last 6 months, says Irina Ghose

Anthropic's India revenue run rate has doubled in six months, with the country emerging as Claude.ai's second-largest user base, driven by strong adoption in coding, maths and enterprise AI tasks

Nadda to launch key initiatives at India AI Summit on Tuesday

Union Health Minister J P Nadda will launch two key national initiatives, the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH), at the India AI Summit at Bharat Mandapam on Tuesday. The SAHI is a national guidance framework to enable safe, ethical, evidence-based and inclusive adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across India's healthcare system. It aims to provide a strategic direction on governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment and monitoring of AI solutions, while supporting states and institutions in responsible adoption aligned with public health priorities, the health ministry said in a statement on Monday. The BODH, developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in collaboration with the National Health Authority, is a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform that enables rigorous evaluation of AI models using diverse, real-world health data, without sharing underlying ..

AI adoption needs urgency and national commitment: CEA Nageswaran

CEA V Anantha Nageswaran said India must urgently align AI adoption with education reform and skill development, calling for political will and national commitment to harness its benefits

India-AI Summit Day 1: Sovereign AI, jobs, global ties dominate talks

Day 1 of the India-AI Impact Summit, which is being held in New Delhi, saw policy urgency, sovereign AI push, and signals on jobs, skills, regulation and infrastructure shaping India's AI ambitions