India has enrolled 53,449 people in artificial intelligence job training through one of its flagship skills programs. The government has also acknowledged something more significant: it has not conducted a specific assessment of how much demand exists for those AI skills, or how large the country’s shortage of trained workers actually is. The disclosure came…
In May 2026, the UAE-India Business Council announced a strategic partnership targeting artificial intelligence infrastructure development and digital investment. The bilateral tech alliance aims to develop 8 exaflops of compute capacity alongside a 2 gigawatt data center buildout. Feasibility studies are scheduled to wrap up by mid-2026. The India-UAE Startup Corridor targets identifying 50 promising…
The U.S. government’s decision to suspend foreign national access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, on national security grounds, landed as a direct policy signal to every country that depends on American AI labs without owning frontier capability of its own. India is one of the largest such countries, and the suspension has…
Countries are increasingly viewing artificial intelligence as national infrastructure rather than simply a technology sector. Speaking at the VivaTech conference in Paris, **Prime Minister Narendra Modi** used one of the world’s largest technology gatherings to present India as an emerging artificial intelligence power. Reporting from the **Times of India** on June 18 described a message…