Thursday, March 19
Detailed, extensive, and honest – that is how the 2025-26 Economic Survey described the Indian AI ecosystem, which has yet to make a global or domestic mark. In this context, the survey also acknowledged the global dominance of foreign AI systems. Their dominance, coupled with their rising expansion costs, high resource use, entry barriers, and environmental impacts is now forcing a realignment of India’s AI ambitions. Rather than chasing a global frontier AI model the survey recommends focusing on developing multiple sector-specific, customized AI models. While a late-mover advantage has helped India recognize the “unsustainability” of frontier AI model growth, this delay now limits domestic AI development.According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, by 2024 the USA had the highest
New Delhi: India has fully protected sensitive sectors such as agriculture and dairy in the trade deal with the US, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. Emphasising that ensuring energy security of Indians is the “supreme priority”, Goyal told the Parliament on Wednesday that the government aims to diversify energy sources keeping in mind the changing international dynamics.“Diversifying energy sourcing, keeping with objective market conditions and evolving international dynamics is a key strategy. All of India’s actions are taken with this in mind,” the minister said in his statement on the IndiaUS trade agreement. Both sides would now work towards completing the technical details and finalising the paperwork for the trade deal so as to expeditiously un
