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In this issue

INDIA STANDS AT A DEFINING juncture in its technology journey. What
was once construed to be a digital revolution is now evolving into something
deeper and more structural – an intelligence revolution. The Global AI
Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, for example, was more than a highprofile
diplomatic gathering. It signalled India’s intent to transition from
a vast digital marketplace to a serious architect of sovereign, secure and
inclusive AI infrastructure. For years, India has demonstrated how
technology can scale across population levels. Digital public infrastructure,
from identity to payments, has shown that ambitious platforms can be both
inclusive and resilient. At the summit, that experience was reframed for
the AI age. Conversations moved beyond aspiration to implementation
– compute capacity, semiconductor ambition, multilingual models,
workforce skilling, and governance frameworks that reflect the realities
of the Global South.

Social Media Ban

KARNATAKA'S PROPOSAL to ban social media for children under 16 signals how seriously governments are beginning to view the impact of the digital world on young people.

1 mins

This War in West Asia Will Char the Global Economy

AS THE WAR IN WEST ASIA rages on and continues to escalate, familiar concerns return to haunt both policy-makers and media - higher energy costs, rising inflation and pressure on the current account.

1 mins

WPP's New Model

THE WORLD'S LARGEST advertising company, WPP, is undergoing a major transformation as it attempts to simplify its structure and strengthen collaboration across its globa network.

1 mins

The Welfare Spending, Fiscal Discipline Juggle

THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the 16th Finance Commission promise long-term fiscal discipline for states, but the near-term picture appears less comfortable.

1 mins

THE CONFIDENCE TRAP: THE MISPRICING OF INTELLIGENCE

IN MODERN PUBLIC LIFE, the most confident voice is often the least reliable.

3 mins

Why Social Progress Will Decide India's Future

THE ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26 marks a significant moment in how India understands its place in a rapidly changing world, amidst geopolitical tensions, trade and tariff uncertainties, climate stress and swift technological advancements.

5 mins

India Must Prepare for the Age of 'Water Bankruptcy'

The global conversation on water is undergoing a quiet but consequential shift.

3 mins

INDIAN EXPORTS: Need for a Relook

AMONGST ALL THE predators in our country's MSME sector, perhaps Prada's theft of our Kolhapuri chappals, without even an acknowledgement, made big news.

5 mins

YOUNG PEOPLE AT THE THRESHOLD: Challenges and Possibilities in a Changing World

RECENT CONVERSATIONS with students and young professionals reveal a paradox.

3 mins

The Invisible Shield: How ROCKWOOL Insulation Is Redefining Data Center Safety And Efficiency

As India's data center footprint expands rapidly, resilience, fire safety and energy efficiency are now critical design imperatives, with ROCKWOOL's non-combustible stone wool insulation safeguarding smarter, safer, sustainable digital infrastructure

5 mins

Freebies for Friends

IN A RECENT CASE, the Supreme Court reportedly \"chastised state governments for distributing freebies indiscriminately.....

2 mins

Leadership of Courage

“You cannot throw fear out of the car, but you can put it in the backseat,” said Breezy Johnson, Olympic Speed Ice Skating Champion, reflecting on performance under pressure.

3 mins

The Importance of Being the Man on the Spot

MILITARY COMMANDERS no doubt face exceptional dilemmas on the frontline when confronted with situations that have larger, geopolitical ramifications.

5 mins

THE AMBANI BROTHERS, A RIVAL, AND A NEW POWER EQUATION

As oil disputes mount and enforcement action intensifies, India's most powerful business dynasty confronts an uncomfortable question: who truly holds the leverage in today's political economy?

8 mins

OPTIMUM REGULATION AMIDST DERIVATIVES FRENZY

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chief talks to BW Businessworld about foreign portfolio investments (FPIs), high- frequency trading (HFT) profits, retail losses and why India's markets are at no risk of being held hostage

7 mins

INDIA'S AI MOMENT

The AI Impact Summit 2026 represents a strategic milestone in India's ambition to evolve from a large digital marketplace into a developer of sovereign, secure and inclusive AI infrastructure

6 mins

TECH TITANS MAP

Global CEOs highlight 6G, affordable AI, healthcare transformation and digital infrastructure as India positions itself at the centre of the AI revolution

1 mins

INDIA'S AI FUTURE

ARTIFICIAL intelligence represents one of the most significant platform shifts of our time, offering the potential to accelerate progress across industries and societies.

4 mins

SHAPING INDIA'S AI ECONOMY

From enterprise boardrooms to research labs and policy corridors, the BW AI Impact 100 maps the leaders shaping India's fast-evolving artificial intelligence economy

3 mins

Ethics As The Backbone Of AI

As AI scales at unprecedented speed, leaders must wield the responsibility to build a durable and inclusive ecosystem

1 mins

AI STARTS AT THE TOP

Leaders whose boardroom decisions, capital commitments and strategic clarity are shaping India's AI trajectory

3 mins

Infrastructure Behind India's AI Ambitions

The infrastructure builders supplying compute, cloud and data centre capacity that enable India's AI models to scale into real-world applications

2 mins

IT In Times Of AI

India's IT services leaders are repositioning themselves as AI-driven transformation partners, embedding intelligence into enterprise operations at global scale

2 mins

PLATFORM POWERHOUSES OF THE AI ERA

How global platform leaders are shaping India's AI ecosystem through strategic commitment, infra capability and enterprise transformation

3 mins

Government Architects Behind India's Al Revolution

These leaders are steering India's Al ecosystem towards scale and responsibility

2 mins

Architects Of Intelligence

Inside the startup ecosystem where India's artificial intelligence capabilities are being built, scaled and deployed By Team BW

1 mins

CAPITAL BEHIND THE CODE

From early-stage conviction to sector shaping capital, investors are quietly financing the technologies defining the next economic cycle

2 mins

Advancing India's Al Knowledge Base

Researchers and academic leaders shaping the intellectual and societal foundations of India's Al ecosystem

1 mins

"AI IS NOT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. IT IS APPLIED INTELLIGENCE"

In conversation with ANNURAG BATRA, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld, CP GURNANI, Co-founder & Vice Chairman, AIONOS, decodes India's AI moment and opportunity. Excerpts

3 mins

"MAN AND MACHINE TOGETHER WILL CREATE A SMARTER WORLD"

JAGDISH MITRA, Founder and CEO, humanizetech.ai and Board Member, National Skill Development Corporation, speaks with BW Businessworld's Annurag Batra on AI adoption, competitiveness and skilling.

3 mins

"AI MUST MAKE WHAT YOU'RE ALREADY GOOD AT MORE COMPETITIVE"

SAURABH MISHRA, Co-founder and CEO, Taiyo.Al, in conversation with ANNURAG BATRA, Chairman & Editor-inChief, BW Businessworld, on AI sovereignty, inequality risks, China vs US, and why competitiveness, not hype, will define India's AI decade

3 mins

INDIA'S POPULATION SCALE AI PLAYBOOK

Beyond the big bucks on AI models and infrastructure, India is looking to engineer AI into its farms, factories and classrooms, to enable adoption at scale, benefitting 1.4 billion people

6 mins

SAMAAJ, SARKAAR, BAZAAR, ROZGAAR: INDIA'S AI RECKONING

The summit was spectacular. The framework was right. The hard part starts now

5 mins

SCALING THE INTELLIGENCE ECONOMY

India's AI ecosystem has entered a transformative phase that materially strengthens the operating environment and signals a coordinated national bet on cohesive infrastructure

3 mins

"Governments And Private Sector Must Come Together"

AS Bengaluru continues to thrive as India's buzzing hub for technology and startups, Kharge reflected on the current AI inflection point, highlighting the state's forward-looking policies, rapid cross-sector adoption, and the pressing need for ethical, responsible deployment.

1 mins

India's Data Sovereignty Imperative

Pratyush Kumar, Co-founder of Sarvam Al, outlines how indigenous large language models can power data control, inclusive access, and the next wave of Indian Al-led growth

2 mins

"Applied AI Will Define India's Future"

Mihir Shukla, Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Automation Anywhere reflects on why applied AI, not just frontier research, will define the country's global standing

1 mins

"India Is A Great Case For Sovereign AI"

Raj K. Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder and CEO of KOGO Tech believes that the future of AI is private and asserts that enterprises cannot rely on borrowed intelligence

1 mins

REBUILDING INDIAN ENTERPRISES FOR AI AGE

How Indian enterprises can redefine capital, leverage AI, and finally reach the billion people they were always meant to serve

3 mins

AI, PRODUCTIVITY AND NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS

For India, the question is simpler, how do we close the productivity gap with developed economies while scaling sustainably?

3 mins

RAZORPAY'S THREE-FRONT AGENTIC AI PUSH

Razorpay is moving fast on a generational shift, and Harshil Mathur, CEO and Co-founder, believes the country that cracked UPI is poised to write the next chapter of Al-powered commerce

3 mins

"We Invest In Founders, Not Startups"

Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, warns that by 2030 there will be no such thing as IT services and BPOs

1 mins

WHY THE NEXT DECADE WILL BE WON OR LOST IN THE APPLICATION LAYER

The infrastructure is being laid. The models are being built. The sovereign positioning is happening. What is needed now is execution

3 mins

INDIA'S AI INFLECTION POINT

THE YEAR has opened with unusual clarity of intent. India enters it as the fastest-growing major economy, with real GDP for FY26 projected at 7.4 per cent and nominal growth at 8 per cent.

3 mins

BUILDING INDIA'S STRATEGIC EDGE

India's diversity is not just demographic, it is industrial. Healthcare, manufacturing, climate, mobility, each produces unique datasets underrepresented in global foundation models

3 mins

A DEFINING MOMENT FOR INDIA'S AI FUTURE

For India, the strategic mandate is clear, we should not chase the 'model war', we should win the 'application war

3 mins

INVEST. INNOVATE. EVOLVE

VIVEK MOHINDRA, Special Advisor to the Vice Chairman & COO of Dell Technologies Global, lays out a three-pillar blueprint for India's sovereign Al ambitions and warns that regulatory agility is a must

2 mins

AI ADOPTION AND WORKFORCE GAP

As automation accelerates, India faces a high stakes race to skill missions, or risk deepening inequality in its biggest job engine manufacturing

3 mins

"I SEE THREE CHANGES IN TERMS OF AI ADOPTION"

Vijay Balakrishnan, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Godrej Enterprises Group, in an interaction with BW Buisnessworld's Urvi Shrivastav on the sidelines of the India AI Summit, talks about the trajectory of AI adoption, AI-driven transformation, workforce capability building, and much more.

3 mins

INDIA'S EDGE IN THE AI ERA

Why deployment, data and digital scale, not just capital, will define India's Al leadership

3 mins

INDIA'S AI TALENT GAP

Without deep-tech researchers and patient capital, India runs the risk of staying as an AI services company

3 mins

AI and the Future of Work in India

Linkedin data reveals how augmentation, not replacement, will define India's AI transition

2 mins

"Unemployment Is The Biggest Problem"

Sharanprakash R. Patil, Minister for Medical Education, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, and Livelihood in the Government of Karnataka, calls for a shift from theory-heavy education to skill-based training aligned with real market and industry needs

1 mins

“AI SET TO RESHAPE EURASIAN RAIL CONNECTIVITY”

In an interaction with BW Businessworld, Texmaco Defence Systems MD & CEO, Chairman, National Part of SCO Business Council Secretariat, India, and Texmaco Rail & Engineering Chief Executive (CBD) Tribhuvan Darbari discusses how AI in Indian Railways aligns with the strategic connectivity, security and integration goals of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

3 mins

HOW AI IS RESHAPING FARMING

From fields to forecasts, AI is revolutionising agriculture through smarter, data-driven decisions that boost productivity, efficiency, and certainty

4 mins

AI, CAPITAL, CLASSROOMS

How global capital, Indian research and public institutions converged at the Al India Impact Summit 2026

3 mins

IS ALGORITHM RUNNING THE SHOW NOW?

From brands generating AI-crafted ads to non-metro cities running performance campaigns with a focus on hyper-personalisation, AI is no longer an experiment. It is now the engine but at what cost and to whom?

6 mins

HOW AI IS CHANGING THE WAY INDIA SHOPS

From voice-led searches to Al-generated video ads, India's retail ecosystem is undergoing an intelligent reinvention powered by artificial intelligence

3 mins

"Al infra to fuel boom in power, data centre sectors"

In a chat with BW Businessworld's Reema Bhaduri, RAJAT ABBI, Vice President of Marketing for Greater India at Schneider Electric discusses AI tools, data ownership and responsible innovation.

2 mins

India's AI Shift Hits the Ground

KPMG India's PURUSHOTHAMAN KG emphasises that beyond enterprise efficiency, it is social-impact use cases that will decide whether India's AI ambitions deliver real, measurable change for the common citizen

2 mins

'BRING AI TO THE DATA, NOT DATA TO AI'

As nations race to secure their digital borders, ROHIT TANDON, Managing Director - Al & Insights Practice Leader at Deloitte speaks to BW Businessworld's Reema Bhaduri on why keeping Al infrastructure within a country's boundaries is no longer optional.

3 mins

SUPERCHARGED JOBS, SILENT DISRUPTION

The next workplace crisis won't be unemployment, but unemployability in an AI-driven economy

3 mins

WHERE WERE THE WOMEN?

The much-viewed group photograph of AI industry leaders and government heads taken at India's AI Impact Summit 2026 showed up that the fourth industrial revolution too may find women at its fringes. Joelle Pineau, chief AI officer at Cohere was the only woman industry representative in the photograph. Will India's ambitious plans for artificial intelligence collide with stark gender imbalance?

5 mins

THE HIDDEN INFRASTRUCTURE OF AI

As AI enters real economies, ethics stops being philosophy and becomes growth infrastructure, stabilising trust, scale and legitimacy in markets

5 mins

WHEN BANKING OPERATES AT THE SCALE OF A NATION

Institutions that survive for over two centuries do so not by resisting change, but by repeatedly re-engineering themselves for the moment they are in. At population scale, digital transformation is less about speed and far more about judgment

4 mins

MEMOIR OF A RELUCTANT STOCKBROKER

Shripal Morakhia belongs to a generation of Indian entrepreneurs who built before there was a venture capital ecosystem to cushion failure, or before the startup culture made risk fashionable. The grit the author describes as Never Say Die was not a brand positioning exercise. It was survival, says

2 mins

Beyond Intent - The Three Levers Of Scaling Decarbonisation

HARSH MARIWALA on the India Exchange 2026, the idea of an India-UK/ Europe Green Corridor and how we can scale the transition through three critical levers: capital, technology and markets

1 mins

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