India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes a group photo with AI company leaders at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes a group photo with AI company leaders at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. The world's largest-ever AI summit took place in India this week, with hundreds of thousands of people, including world leaders and CEOs of AI companies, descending upon New Delhi for five days. It was the fourth in a series of summits that were initially designed as a place for governments to coordinate global action in the face of threats from advanced AI. But the India summit, like one in Paris before it, functioned more as a trade fair and an advertisement for the host nation's AI prowess than a venue for meaningful international diplomacy.

India casts doubt on Trump's claim Modi will stop buying Russian oil India's foreign ministry has said it is not aware of a phone call in which US President Donald Trump claimed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop purchasing Russian oil. On Wednesday, Trump said his Indian counterpart had assured me today that it would end Russian oil imports, a move the US has pushed for in a bid to increase economic pressure on the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine. But asked about the call on Thursday, an Indian government spokesman cast doubt on Trump's account, saying he was not aware of any conversation between the two leaders taking place the previous day. The Indian government had earlier said discussions were still ongoing with the US over its Russian oil purchases. India has become a key energy customer for Russia since the outbreak of the war, partly allowing the Kremlin to withstand the impact of Ukrainian allies slashing oil and gas imports, the country's biggest export market.

When Elon Musk met Narendra Modi in Washington DC in February, the SpaceX and Tesla chief presented India's prime minister with a gift and introduced him to his family. Modi described the meeting as "very good". Modi was in the United States to see President Donald Trump. In Modi's meeting with Musk, the two talked about collaborating in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), space exploration, innovation and sustainable development, according to India's Ministry of External Affairs. But almost a month later, Musk's social media platform X has filed a lawsuit against the Indian government, alleging that New Delhi is unlawfully censoring content online. The lawsuit comes as Musk edges closer to launching both Starlink and Tesla in India.

As Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, addressed his shareholders during a much-anticipated yearly address last Thursday, he also unveiled "JioBrain," a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and applications that he says will transform a spate of businesses in energy, textiles, telecommunications and more that form his multinational conglomerate, Reliance Industries. "By perfecting JioBrain within Reliance, we will create a powerful AI service platform that we can offer to other enterprises as well," Ambani said during his speech. The Reliance Chairman's latest offering comes as India emerges as a crucial player in the global AI ecosystem, boasting a high-powered IT industry worth 250 billion, which serves many of the world's banks, manufacturers and firms. As the world's most populous country, India also has a robust workforce population with nearly 5 million programmers at a time when AI talent is in short supply globally, with analysts predicting that India's AI services could be worth 17 billion by 2027, according to a recent report by Nasscom and BCG. Puneet Chandok, the President of Microsoft India & South Asia, points to research that finds India has one of the highest AI adoption rates among knowledge workers, with 92% using generative AI at work--significantly higher than the global average of 75%.

The Indian government has asked tech companies to seek its explicit nod before publicly launching "unreliable" or "under-tested" generative AI models or tools. It has also warned companies that their AI products should not generate responses that "threaten the integrity of the electoral process" as the country gears up for a national vote. The Indian government's efforts to regulate artificial intelligence represent a walk-back from its earlier stance of a hands-off approach when it informed Parliament in April 2023 that it was not eyeing any legislation to regulate AI. The advisory was issued last week by India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) briefly after Google's Gemini faced a right-wing backlash for its response over a query: 'Is Modi a fascist?' It responded that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was "accused of implementing policies some experts have characterised as fascist", citing his government's "crackdown on dissent and its use of violence against religious minorities".

Are the longstanding robustness issues in NLP resolved by today's larger and more performant models? To address this question, we conduct a thorough investigation using 19 models of different sizes spanning different architectural choices and pretraining objectives. We conduct evaluations using (a) OOD and challenge test sets, (b) CheckLists, (c) contrast sets, and (d) adversarial inputs. Our analysis reveals that not all OOD tests provide further insight into robustness. Evaluating with CheckLists and contrast sets shows significant gaps in model performance; merely scaling models does not make them sufficiently robust. Finally, we point out that current approaches for adversarial evaluations of models are themselves problematic: they can be easily thwarted, and in their current forms, do not represent a sufficiently deep probe of model robustness. We conclude that not only is the question of robustness in NLP as yet unresolved, but even some of the approaches to measure robustness need to be reassessed.

Telcos are hoping that 5G will transform enterprises the way 4G helped consumers. For instance, watching Fifa World Cup 2022 would have been a delight for many with 5G networks. The first rollouts took place in 2019 in South Korea and the US, but since then 5G has been rolled out in over 70 countries. In India, 5G services were launched by Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio in October. According to a GSMA Intelligence report, published in October, 5G can contribute $455 billion to the Indian economy between 2023 and 2040.

Ireland has appointed Dr Patricia Scanlon as its first AI Ambassador to facilitate the Government's AI adoption strategy launched last year. Patricia is the founder and former executive chairperson of the speech recognition tech firm called SoapBox Labs. Ireland's'AI – Here For Good' strategy focuses on how technology can be utilised in human-centric and ethical ways to improve the lives of its citizens. Dr Scanlon, a member of the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum (EDAF), will work closely with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. She will work on demystifying AI and promoting the positive impacts it can have in areas such as transport, agriculture, health and education.

The Indian Ministry of Science and Technology said this unique approach uses the predictive power of AI to identify road hazards and a collision warning system to communicate timely alerts to drivers, to make various safety-related improvements. Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions may soon make roads in India a safer place to drive. The Indian government announced on Tuesday that an AI-powered technology could reduce the risk of road accidents in the country, which have killed more than a lakh people in 2020. In a bid to prevent this from happening, the Indian government said the AI approach will use a first-of-its-kind dataset consisting of 10,000 images. He said that this dataset is finely annotated with 34 classes collected from 182 driving sequences on Indian roads obtained from a front-facing camera attached to a car driving through the cities of Hyderabad, Bangalore and their outskirts.

"Everything we love about civilization is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our human intelligence has the potential of helping civilization flourish like never before -- as long as we manage to keep the technology beneficial" Artificial intelligence (AI) is based on the notion that human thought processes have the ability, which can be replicated and mechanised. It is not a new word and not a new technology. The technology is much older as there are stories of mechanical men in ancient Greek and Egyptian myths. Philosophers thought over the idea that artificial beings, mechanical men and other automatons had existed or could exist in some fashion. Electronic Brain AI became more tangible throughout the 1700s and beyond. Philosophers contemplated how human thinking could be artificially mechanised and manipulated by intelligent non-human machines.