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Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said MeitY will publish a regulation-focused AI consultation paper within a month, stressing safety, deepfake harms and industry-led compliance alongside a 5,000-GPU tender tranche.
MeitY named three hyperscale bidders for a sovereign AI compute campus near Delhi, with rack-density rules and domestic water-recycling targets attached to the lease.
MeitY is rolling out citizen-facing briefings on synthetically generated information labeling duties under amended IT Rules, aligning with Cyber Security Awareness Month outreach across ministries.
CERT-In told global OEMs and software vendors to accelerate vulnerability disclosures and patch validation as AI-assisted exploit tools shorten attack windows on Indian enterprise networks.
Infosys Ltd. deployed Topaz agent workflows at two regional rural banks under a National Payments Corporation of India sandbox extension, automating KYC follow-ups and grievance triage without touching core payment switches.
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra told the Kautilya Economic Conclave that AI amplifies cyber risk across borders, citing new 2026 directions for banks and draft model-risk rules for NBFCs.
Yotta Data Services switched on the first production tranche of NVIDIA Blackwell B300 GPUs at its Greater Noida hyperscale hall, part of a $2 billion supercluster pledge.
IIT Madras and Google DeepMind released a compact Tamil speech model that reads cyclone and fish-landing advisories for coastal radio networks.
Anthropic began routing Mumbai-region API traffic through a local gateway partner so Indian banks and insurers can call Claude models under Reserve Bank outsourcing and data-localisation checklists.
Kerala's CAIK hub opens Wednesday with Digital University Kerala as implementer and a first IndiaAI Mission cohort of 15 start-ups.
IndiaAI’s portal listed a Gujarat municipal grievance assistant built on open-weight Indic models, with inference restricted to state-owned cloud regions.
IIT Madras researchers fed drone imagery into computer-vision models that flagged cracked deck segments on Mandakini valley access routes, giving Uttarakhand engineers a priority list after army teams reopened cloudburst-hit roads.
The September review of domestic model grants has entered its final stage. The CoRover agentic AI shortlist is a separate procurement, and the public record still does not show the scorecards.
MeitY's NeGD has shortlisted CoRover and Kyndryl to build a government agentic AI platform, with DigiLocker as the first MVP. The reported four-month build and twelve-month O&M timeline now meets the harder question: who audits ask, do, and escalate?
An ESET survey of 400 Indian IT and security decision-makers found 85% faced at least one AI-related cyber threat in the past 12 months, from deepfake-enabled fraud to poisoned model plugins.
NeGD’s 18 September evaluation qualified CoRover and Kyndryl for MeitY’s agentic AI framework, with DigiLocker as the four-month MVP plus 12 months of O&M; Cactus and NEC were disqualified, Moneycontrol reported on 23 September.
Sarvam AI opened an Indic voice API for Bengaluru call-centre pilots, targeting Kannada-Telugu-Hindi code-switching on outbound collections and utility bots with on-device latency budgets.
HCLTech deployed an on-premises generative AI stack for public-sector data centres in Noida, giving ministries retrieval-augmented assistants that keep citizen records inside sovereign racks rather than public cloud APIs.
Nasscom published Hindi–English LLM benchmarks timed to MeitY’s GenAI sandbox, scoring retrieval, summarisation, and code-switch handling so vendors cannot hide weak Indic performance behind English-only demos.
MeitY opened a GenAI sandbox that lets startups train and evaluate models on curated Indian-language datasets surfaced through BHASHINI, with audit logs aimed at government procurement.
Freshworks rolled Tamil-language helpdesk macros and SLA timers tuned for Coimbatore textile exporters who field buyer complaints across US and EU waking hours from shared support queues.
Persistent Systems wired yield-prediction copilots into blast-furnace telemetry at Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur works, with human operators retaining veto power over any set-point recommendations the models emit.
Wipro embedded a document-retrieval copilot into renewed BFSI managed-services statements of work, routing loan and KYC packets through private India regions with RBI audit logs on every prompt.
Sarvam AI released Hindi-tuned legal summarizer weights for district court filing desks, pairing on-prem inference with eCourts document schemas as MeitY pushes sovereign AI pilots in judiciary IT stacks.
Sarvam AI opened grant-funded access to a Tamil-English radiology report corpus for Chennai tier-two hospital co-ops, requiring de-identified CT and ultrasound narratives before labs can fine-tune Saaras speech models on local dialect.
NPCI began a Bihar pilot that lets feature-phone kirana merchants confirm UPI collect requests through voice-OTP handoffs on the 123PAY IVR stack, after Patna district banks reported SMS delivery gaps during tower maintenance windows.