India signs the US-led Pax Silica Declaration, joining a strategic alliance to secure AI, semiconductor, and critical mineral supply chains while advancing its own chip ambitions.
Reliance Industries will invest 10 trillion rupees over seven years to build renewable-powered AI data centers in India, aiming for the world’s lowest AI inferencing cost and positioning the country as a global artificial intelligence hub.
OpenAI has chosen Tata Group as its anchor AI infrastructure partner in India, starting with 100 MW of data center capacity that could scale to 1 GW. The deal spans ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex deployment, and co-developed agentic AI solutions, aligning with Tata’s $1 billion HyperVault push and India’s data center boom.
NPCI and Anthropic are piloting an “agentic commerce” experience that lets users shop via Claude AI and pay with UPI, extending UPI Circle to autonomous AI assistants while building on prior ChatGPT and Gemini collaborations.
Microsoft’s Project Silica encodes data in borosilicate glass using femtosecond lasers, aiming to preserve information for up to 10,000 years and reshape archival storage for government, scientific, and data-center use.
India partially relaxes restrictions on Chinese power and coal equipment imports, granting limited waivers to state firms to ease supply gaps and protect energy goals.
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Narendra Modi unveiled the MANAV vision, a human-centric AI framework, as India targets over $200 billion in AI investments and aims to become a top-three global AI superpower.
India and the UK are deepening cooperation in AI, 6G, Open RAN, cybersecurity, quantum communications and fraud prevention, aligning research and large-scale telecom deployment.
India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi extends its expo by a day after over 70,000 first-day visitors, as Narendra Modi, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, and Bill Gates join a record-setting AI responsibility campaign and global leaders push inclusive, ethical AI growth.
Google.org launches a $30 million AI for Science Impact Challenge, expanding its earlier $20 million fund to support global research in health, sustainability, and crisis response with funding, cloud access, and mentorship.
