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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

Brazilian Prez Lula da Silva to visit India with 'largest-ever delegation'

The bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Lula on February 21 is expected to be the key highlight of the visit

CAG bets on AI, cyber audits and sovereign LLM to enhance public scrutiny

CAG officials said the institution has adopted a formal AI strategy framework making the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of India one of the few globally with a published AI roadmap

India's AI moment gets real as celebrities and robots share space

PM inaugurates 5-day summit; Vaishnaw says India in talks with over 30 countries for a pact to curb AI misuse

Shivraj Singh Chouhan to launch AI-enabled Bharat VISTAAR on Tuesday

This facility will be launched in Hindi and English in Phase One across several states, including Maharashtra, Bihar and Gujarat

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's DPI success, tech talent pool boost AI prospects: Senior Wipro exec

India has promising potential on AI given its proven success in scalable digital infrastructure, vast talent pool, and robust legal framework, making the nation a great partner for organisations globally in the Artificial Intelligence space, Ivana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, said on Monday. Wipro, she said, takes AI governance and responsibility "really seriously", and the approach of putting ethics first is rooted deeply in the company's values, she said. "India has fantastic potential. The major advantage is the scalability you (India) have demonstrated with digital public infrastructure, including UPI... of showing technological delivery at scale. This is really important because the big challenge with artificial intelligence is deployment at scale," she told PTI on the sidelines of India AI Impact Summit. She also highlighted India's tech edge in terms of the vast talent pool, and said it placed the country in a good position to compete .

Lower consumer power costs key to AI-renewable success: MNRE Joint Secy

The success of artificial intelligence and renewable energy convergence will be when the overall power cost comes down, and industrial competitiveness goes up, a government official said on Monday. India has been significantly adding renewable energy capacity, and the country's total capacity is around 520 GW. Also, there is around 35 GW of distributed renewable energy capacity. JVN Subramanyam, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), said Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to be a game changer, especially for distributed renewable energy. He was participating in a session on 'Global Mission on AI for Energy Scaling through citizen-centric India Energy Stack' at the AI Impact Summit in the national capital. "I think in the next two to three years' time, success in AI and the renewable energy convergence would be where the overall cost of power to the consumers goes down, our industrial competitiveness goes up, and consumer empowerment becomes prosume

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

PM Modi inaugurates India AI Impact Expo, interacts with startups

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the India AI Impact Expo here. He also interacted with startups participating in the expo. The prime minister visited various stalls and spoke with the companies participating in the expo. Expo features over 600 high-potential startups and 13 country pavilions showcasing international collaboration in AI ecosystem. Expo brings together global technology firms, startups, academia and research institutions, central and state governments, and international partners.

India AI Impact Summit 2026: ‘AI transition will not happen automatically’: CEA Nageswaran

Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran said India must act urgently to manage AI-driven labour shifts.

Watch: Visuals from inside AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam

The AI Impact Summit 2026, hosted by India at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, kicks off today (February 16) and will carry on till February 20.

India AI Impact Summit 2026 begins tomorrow: What the world can expect

New Delhi is set to host one of the world’s largest AI governance gatherings as the India AI Impact Summit 2026 begins tomorrow, on February 16.

India in talks with 30 nations on AI regulation framework: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Vaishnaw said misinformation and deepfakes are eroding the foundations of society, adding that social media platforms, AI developers and creators must ensure these technologies are not misused

'Don't chase tech, solve real problems': Bhashini CEO at AI Impact Summit

DIDB CEO Amitabh Nag said that building strong communities around AI development can help create a self-sustaining marketplace over time

AI effectively augmenting essential human capabilities, says Cisco India MD

Beyond agriculture, Krishnan pointed out the technology's diverse utility in governance and security, noting that "even in prisons like Tihar, AI is being used for vigilance of the inmates

Tech Wrap Feb 16: India AI Impact Summit, Android 17 beta, WhatsApp Status

India AI Impact Summit 2026. Google releases Android 17 beta update. WhatsApp Status preview. Google Pixel 10a specifications. iPhone 18 Pro series. Now playing for Pixel phones

China's DeepSeek moment to India's sovereign AI, what BharatGen CEO said

BharatGen CEO, Rishi Bal, explains why the government-backed programme is building its own foundational AI models, how PARAM 2 fits into the plan, and what sovereign AI means in India context

AI will reshape how humans work in the future, says Prasoon Joshi

On the sidelines of the event, ANI spoke with Prasoon, who shared his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on society