India Receives US Assurance on Continued AI Access

India's IT secretary, S Krishnan, said the United States assured New Delhi that access to artificial intelligence technologies, once provided, will not be cut off, the media reported (PTI; Hindustan Times). Krishnan was speaking on the sidelines of the Pax Silica summit, where he said US officials expressed concerns about how advanced AI models could be used and were considering an internal review mechanism before releases (PTI; Economic Times). Krishnan also reiterated that India currently favours space for innovation over immediate regulation, while remaining open to regulation if the time is right (PTI; Hindustan Times). Reporting by the South China Morning Post notes the assurance came days after US restrictions affected access to Anthropic's most advanced models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (SCMP).