Elon Musk calls Mukesh Ambani a monopolist; Ambani’s Jio warns of foreign control. Meanwhile, 12,347 villages continue to be unconnected, and rural internet penetration lags far behind cities.
A discussion paper from the Principal Scientific Adviser proposes a middle path for AI data flows: keep strategic data in India, while allowing other data to cross borders under safeguards tailored to its sensitivity and identifiability.
Direct reporting to the cybercrime portal could speed up urgent cases, but its impact will depend on the quality of the information, investigators’ capacity and safeguards for users’ privacy.
The government is asking ISRO to focus on its hardest missions while allowing the infrastructure and expertise needed for those missions to move out of its control.
Meta’s apology for wrongly restricting Modi’s video leaves the real problem untouched: its opaque moderation system gives users no way to know why content was restricted, who made the decision, or whether it was automated, human, or state-directed.
Academic freedom, evidence-based policymaking, social inclusion, and transparent governance are the foundations of a scientific nation. India has neglected each of them.
They should be audited and safety-tested in advance, judged by their worst possible failure rather than average accuracy, and not investigated only after a notice like the one the government just sent Meta.
For the first time, the human species is confronted with a technology that can produce output resembling thought. AI is no longer an augmenter of human creativity; it can become a substitute for it.
The true threat of AI is not that it will eliminate human labour but that it will take us to the top of a ladder we will no longer remember how to climb.
The controversy over the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has exposed how AI has embedded itself into both the writing and judging of literary fiction—and the implications this holds for human creativity.
India’s digital rise depended on foreign infrastructure and supply chains. AI is pushing energy, chips, and compute to the centre of the race, and India still lacks enough of all three.
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