The artificial intelligence boom has triggered a global race for chips, electricity, and land. Now it is fuelling something even more ambitious: proposals to move data centers into orbit

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's absence from India's AI Impact Summit and his appearance at a late-night engineer gathering in California have drawn attention to the chipmaker's strategic priorities amid intensifying competition over next-generation memory and artificial intelligence hardware

India's attempt to position itself as a bridge between global powers in artificial intelligence faced a series of setbacks at the India AI Impact Summit, as logistical chaos, geopolitical resistance, and controversy over misrepresented technology undercut New Delhi's ambitions

India puts AI at the center of tech and geopolitical strategy, hosting the AI Impact Summit 2026 with global investment pledges, joining the US-led Pax Silica coalition, and advancing domestic semiconductor projects including Qualcomm's partnership with Tata Electronics

US President Donald Trump said he will raise a planned global tariff to 15%, escalating his trade policy response a day after the US Supreme Court struck down many of his earlier import taxes

India's semiconductor drive is advancing unevenly, with quicker momentum in packaging and testing but mounting timeline risks in wafer fabrication, underscoring both progress and structural gaps as New Delhi seeks a larger role in global chip supply chains

On February 21, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modiheld wide-ranging talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with both sides reaffirming their commitment to deepen strategic ties and expand cooperation across trade, technology, energy, and critical minerals

On February 19, India formally joined the US-led Pax Silica coalition at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, signalling closer strategic cooperation with Washington on semiconductors, critical minerals, and artificial intelligence supply chains

On February 19, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Tata Electronics announced a collaboration under which Tata Electronics will manufacture Qualcomm Automotive Modules in India, marking a step toward localising advanced automotive electronics production

India's most ambitious semiconductor project, a Tata Group-led wafer fabrication plant in Gujarat, is reportedly facing further delays, raising questions about the pace of the country's push to build a domestic chip industry

This week, two of the industry's most powerful voices laid out starkly different visions for where artificial intelligence is headed — and how fast. Both spoke at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, but in separate keynotes. Taken together, their remarks revealed a deepening divide at the heart of the AI world: what the next frontier actually looks like, and whether humanity is years or decades away from reaching it

OpenAI has designated the Tata Group as its foundational partner for a major sovereign AI push in India, positioning the conglomerate's HyperVault unit as the first domestic anchor for the global Stargate infrastructure project

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Google CEO Sundar Pichai used the India AI Impact Summit 2026 to announce a sweeping digital infrastructure partnership, with Google unveiling its America-India Connect initiative and reaffirming a US$15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam as part of a broader push to deepen India-US technology ties

US-based server maker Supermicro is evaluating local manufacturing options in India as it seeks to expand its footprint in one of the world's fastest-growing artificial intelligence markets, a senior executive said, citing alignment with the government's "Make in India" initiative

OpenAI has partnered with leading Indian universities to integrate artificial intelligence tools across campuses, targeting more than 100,000 students and faculty within a year, as India accelerates efforts to build AI skills and domestic capacity in one of the world's largest education systems, according to TechCrunch, Hindu Business Line, and The Tech Buzz