South Korea will provide every citizen free, uncapped access to premium generative AI under a program called "AI for All," with three tech consortia delivering services and the government distributing…
The European Union's AI Omnibus, which entered into force on July 27, revises the AI Act by extending deadlines and trimming compliance duties for high-risk systems, marking a structural correction ra…
Larsen & Toubro has rebranded its data center unit as Larsen & Toubro-Vyoma and partnered with Nvidia to build gigawatt-scale AI factory infrastructure in India, aiming to own part of the compute laye…
India could join the front ranks of global artificial intelligence within a year if it makes a $10 billion investment in AI infrastructure, talent, and research, according to Pankaj Kumar, AI entrepre…
India has not enacted a standalone AI statute, governing AI indirectly through the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), which was passed in August 2023 with implementing Rules notifi…
Sarvam AI raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, becoming India's newest unicorn as sovereign AI moves from slogan to necessity after US restrictions on Anthropic models highlighted foreign …
The U.S. government ordered restrictions on access to frontier Anthropic models, prompting Anthropic to disable global access to its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, cutting off Indian developers …
Avataar launched Varya, a distilled AI video model, at a New Delhi event on June 12, 2026, attended by IT Secretary S Krishnan. The company claims a 95% cost reduction to ₹0.48 per second by compressi…
India and Nepal deepened AI collaboration at a seminar in Kathmandu, where a memorandum of understanding was signed between Digital India Bhashini and Kathmandu University to advance language-AI work.…
Avataar AI launched Varya, an open-weight video generation model priced at $0.005 per second, 27 times cheaper than competitors. Built under India's $1.2 billion AI Mission, Varya is distilled from Al…
AirTrunk, a Blackstone-backed hyperscale data center operator, announced it will invest over $30 billion in India by 2030 to build more than 5 gigawatts of AI-ready data center capacity across multipl…