The 100 Pathways Plan: India’s Blueprint for AI at Scale India has spent a decade exporting its digital platforms—Aadhaar, UPI, ONDCOK. The 100 Pathways initiative is an attempt to export the same trick for artificial intelligence. Launched at the recently hosted AI Summit in New Delhi this year, discussions with Google, Athropic, UNDP, and others brought out one uncomfortable truth: while AI models continue to grow bigger in size and develop week after week, the muscle to deploy them to the grassroots is low. Twelve countries are reportedly part of this collective already. https://youtu.be/Qk37I9NpLa4 David Menezes, Director (Programs) EkStep Foundation’s…
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In a week, Google lost two senior members to rival organisations. John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold and 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, announced his departure from Google DeepMind on June 19, to join Anthropic. This announcement follows a day after Noam Shazeer decided to make a switch from Google to IPO-bound OpenAI. He is the vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models. The tech world is seeing these announcements as a big blow to Gemini and Deepmind model’s AI-ambitions. However, Shazeer’s shift may not actually work against the search engine firm, but instead…
It has become increasingly clear to India’s strategic community that modern challenges rely on space-based assets. Military and civil telecommunications, even finance now depend significantly on satellites. The issue in India is with space infrastructure seen as critical to national security. Col KV Kuber (Retd), Director of Aerospace and Defence at EY (formerly Earnest & Young) , a well known professional services network, underscored at the recent Indian Space Congress in Delhi that space security resilience isn’t about active preparation for war, but rather about readiness. “Space capabilities must be built without being driven by immediate concerns because their destruction…
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India’s approach to artificial intelligence is centred on adoption rather than homegrown product development, according to legal scholar Nikhil Naren, who argues that the country’s flexible regulatory framework is better suited to fostering innovation than sweeping AI legislation. As generative AI tools become increasingly common in Indian households, calls for dedicated AI regulation are growing. Unlike the European Union, which enacted the AI Act, India has so far relied on guidelines, frameworks and sector-specific rules rather than a comprehensive AI law. Speaking to StratNewsGlobal Tech, Naren — a Chevening Scholar and Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School — said…
India and France have unveiled a roadmap to deepen technological and scientific cooperation through 2030, placing innovation at the centre of their bilateral partnership. https://youtu.be/GCTOUxeGLsc?si=ked2eC-i-TH0Q6bs The initiative, announced as part of the India-France Year of Innovation 2026, follows the elevation of ties to a Special Global Strategic Partnership during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Paris. The roadmap seeks to expand collaboration across artificial intelligence, digital technology, cybersecurity, research and innovation. Both countries have emerged as advocates of safe, secure and trustworthy AI systems, having hosted major international AI summits in consecutive years. They also support privacy-preserving data-sharing frameworks aimed…