Experts say AI can drive India’s productivity and GDP, but wider digital inclusion is essential to ensure the benefits reach everyone.
Author: Aishwarya Parikh
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India had directed the WhatsApp’s parent company Meta to pause the rollout, warning that the username feature may increase the risk of online fraud and scams. The tech firm is yet to respond.
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…
At the India Space Congress 2026, hosted by SIA-India at Le Meridien, New Delhi, a session, conducted on June 17th, on “Secure SATCOM for Air, Naval and Tactical Operations” was one of the more candid conversations at the event. Six speakers, a mix of veterans and executives, laid out where Indian satellite communications actually stand, and the gap between ambition and reality was clear. Lt Gen Anil Kapoor (Retd), who chaired the session, set the tone. As India’s former Director General of Information Systems, he said the gap he tried to close within the Army two decades ago still exists,…
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…
Since January last year, Pakistan has launched no less than six satellites with the help of ‘Iron Brother’ China, and there can be little doubt the satellite program will boost its coverage of India. The disquieting point here is that India, in roughly the same period, has not launched a single satellite. The payloads are there and ready, according to various reports, but two successive failures of ISRO’s workhorse rocket the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in May last year and January this year, has pushed Indian scientists back to the drawing boards. This is not to suggest Pakistan has taken…
India’s AI program, valued at nearly $1.25 billion is diversifying from dependence on US tech majors. And no, it isn’t looking at China. The new player in the game is UAE. Abu Dhabi-based G42, a tech holding company focused on AI and cloud computing, and backed by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, signed an agreement on May 15 to deploy an AI supercomputer in India. It formalized the framework and the commercial terms deployment of Condor Galaxy India, an 8-exaflop AI supercomputing cluster comprising 64 Cerebras CS-3 systems. The Condor Galaxy India supercomputer will be one of the largest…
Germany recently just lost nearly 9,500 litres of diesel in Antarctica — and the Weddell Sea is now paying the price. In January, seven shipping containers were staged a few hundred metres from the coastal edge of Germany’s Neumayer Station III. One of them held Arctic diesel. Four carried non-hazardous waste. Two more housed a generator with fuel and a worker shelter. However, a week-long blizzard led to a 500×300 metre slab of ice to drift into the Sea with seven containers aboard. Satellite imagery, that looks almost like a white paper with a few ants on it, confirmed the…