AI Summit 2026 highlights: Piyush Goyal demands apology from Rahul Gandhi after Youth Congress's shirtless protest

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Some members of the Indian Youth Congress staged a protest at Bharat Mandapam and chanted anti-Modi slogans on Friday.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: As Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu arrived for AI summit, he said, “We are all very happy. Our Prime Minister is promoting India's AI globally. This is an inspiring time. Everything is happening in India. India will provide global leadership in AI and related industries.”

“Not just AI, integrated data centres, AI, quantum, you name it. We are very happy. Things are happening positively. We are living in an inspiring time. Everybody has to work in that direction,” he added.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit India very soon “in a matter of months”.

"Secretary Rubio will be travelling to India very soon, in a matter of months. And so that'll be part of the Quad, along with many other initiatives," Gor said.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Brazil’s Ambassador to India, Kenneth Félix Haczynski da Nóbrega said that Brazilian President Lula and PM Modi have a very good chemistry and they are not only colleagues but also friends.

“President Lula has come to India with the largest ever delegation, with more than 11 cabinet ministers, more than 300 businessmen, among them 50 CEOs. This is taking the bilateral relations historically to a new level,” he said.

“This is a historical summit in the Global South, and the Prime Minister Modi is really trying to include the Global South in this essential new wave of technology, which is AI, which will transform our lives. Yes, India definitely is becoming a new hub for AI,” he added.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Former Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Soumya Swaminathan, on Friday said artificial intelligence can have a significant positive impact on healthcare, especially in regions where specialist doctors are scarce.

"AI can have a lot of very positive impact in healthcare, particularly since we know that we have a lot of places in India as well as in other parts of the world like Africa where we don't have specialists, you don't have radiologists, psychiatrists, pathologists. One very simple solution of AI is image recognition or pattern recognition. So, reading X-rays, reading pathology slides, those things can be done quite well, provided the algorithm is trained well on a good data set," Swaminathan told reporters. (ANI)

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: As India formally joined US' flagship AI initiative Pax Silica on Friday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai congratulated both the countries and said, "Pax Silica focuses on making sure that the supply chains are safe and secure and encourages greater commercial partnerships across key technologies. So let me congratulate the US and India on this historic moment. Alongside the recent trade agreement, this will lay a strong foundation for a robust US-India tech partnership for many years to come."

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: US Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, on Friday said that a possible meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump will take place at the right time.

"Stay tuned, I'm sure it'll happen at the right moment," Gor told news agency ANI on the sidelines of India AI Impact Summit when asked about the possibility of a meeting between PM Modi and Trump.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: At the ongoing AI summit, António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, interacted with AI prodigy Raul John Aju.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: After India joined US' AI initiative Pax Silica on Friday, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that it was possible because India has conducted its foreign policy in a way which creates trust.

"Our PM Narendra Modi ji has created trust in our country. The entire world trusts India because we, we respect IP. We have a large talent pool and we have conducted our foreign policy in a way which creates that trust. And as a part of that, today the PAX SILICA was signed, which is very important for semiconductor supply chain, semiconductor manufacturing, chip design, for getting that entire semiconductor ecosystem well established in our country," he said.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: At India AI Impact Summit, Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav says, "This is an incredible opportunity to connect with AI and move forward with the world. I have come here personally with my officials to see how it can be beneficial for our state and how we can become partners in the world so that the state progresses."

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: US' ambassador to India Sergio Gor said on Friday during a panel discussion at the ongoing AI Summit in Delhi that the AI revolution is here and it is here “to stay”.

“The AI revolution is here. People can pretend it's not, but it is coming. It's one of those things the sooner the people can adapt, the sooner people can partner with like-minded individuals, that's a good thing," Gor said.

“You will see in other places of the world, not AI, other places where they are going to resist AI and this revolution, it is here, it is here to stay," he added.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: India on Friday formally joined Pax Silica – the United States' flagship effort on AI (Artificial Intelligence) and supply chain security, advancing new economic security consensus among allies and trusted partners.

India joined Pax Silica on the sidelines of the Global AI Impact Summit being held in New Delhi. Read more about the alliance here

AI Summit 2026 LIVE Updates: Pax Silica is a US-led multilateral initiative launched in December 2025. The initiative aims to create a secure, resilient supply chain for semiconductors, AI technology, and critical minerals.

It also aims to reduce dependence of the technology sector on China.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE: Speaking at the AI Impact Summit in India, US ambassador to India Sergio Gor has stated that Pax Silica will be a coalition of capabilities.

The US State Department announced that India will be signing into the initiative on Thursday night.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: On the day 5 of the ongoing AI summit in the national capital, the city continued to witness traffic snarls as the traffic police issued and advisory and diverted several routes.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said during his address that agriculture must sit at the heart of India's AI mission.

“The India AI mission is about using technology to deliver inclusion, transparency, and scale. Today, agriculture must sit at the heart of this mission. Over half a billion Indians depend directly or indirectly on agriculture. Yet, smallholders face fragmented information, rising input costs, climate uncertainty, and limited access to credit and markets... Artificial intelligence changes this equation. AI can provide hyperlocal weather predictions, early outbreak warnings, precision irrigation and fertiliser guidance, credit scoring based on crop intelligence, transparent traceable supply chains, real-time market advisories... AI must be built on trusted data, ethical governance, and public accountability,” he said.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: During his address ahead of a panle discussion on ‘AI for Agriculture: Scaling Intelligence for Food and Climate Resilience’, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said, "Across the world, food systems are under strain. Climate volatility is intensifying. Water tables are falling. Soil health is deteriorating. Supply chains are fragile, and global markets are unpredictable. For countries from the global south, agriculture is not merely an economic sector. It is livelihood, social stability and national security. India understands this very deeply. Under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has placed digital public infrastructure and responsible AI at the centre."

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Prince Dhawan of REC Limited, while addressing a panel on the US-India partnership powering the AI era, said, “AI essentially would not scale unless your power is programmable.”

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: The national capital witnessed a significant gathering of global leaders, policymakers and technology experts at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, where discussions centred on shaping Artificial Intelligence to benefit humanity while strengthening international partnerships.

At a panel discussion organised by the RUSSOFT Association and Akis Tech, President of RUSSOFT Association, Valentin Makarov, underlined the long-standing ties between India and Russia and the scope for deeper collaboration in emerging technologies.

Reflecting on his early engagement with India, in an interview with ANI, he said, "I first visited India in 1995. Russia and India have an opportunity to create a new centre of competence, a new big market, and a pool of talented innovators. Trust remains the foundation for our future endeavours. PM Modi's vision and AI's impact are crucial in this context. Collaboration brings us much more benefits." (ANI)

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: While talking about the India AI Impact Summit, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, "... These first couple of days have gone extremely well. There have been some glitches, but these things happen in a large event. What has been impressive is the attendance of Presidents, Prime Ministers, and world leaders, and they've come with a strong message of wanting to see a newly integrated world in AI development, where the impact upon society would be the Principle. Preoccupation in India has clearly led the drive in this area. As far as the French Rafale is concerned, parts of it are being manufactured in India, and that is a very important aspect of the deal because it is part of strengthening our defence, but also increasing our self-reliance in the defence sector... Defence is important for India not because we want to go to war, but because we don't want others to think that we are so weak that they can be tempted to go to war. It is a defensive defence literally, and I support the government on that." (ANI)

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: An awkward moment occurred at the India AI Summit stage this morning when Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, CEOs of rival AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic, refused to hold hands for a group photograph

Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude.

Amodei has a contentious history with OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman. He spent over four years at OpenAI before leaving the startup to launch Anthropic.

While at OpenAI between 2016 to 2020, Amodei went from team lead of AI safety to Vice President of Research. He led the development of large language models like GPT-2 and GPT-3.

Before joining OpenAI, he worked at Google Brain as a Senior Research Scientist (until July 2016), and as a Research Scientist at Baidu. Read more.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: During the session dedicated for Brazil's perspective on AI, the country's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will speak. Along with him, other Brazilian ministers who will speak are-

Mauro Vieira, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Brazil

Alexandre Padilha, Minister of Health, Brazil

Frederico de Siqueira Filho, Minister of Communications, Brazil

Esther Dweck, Minister of Management & Innovation in Public Services, Brazil

Camilo Santana, Minister of Education, Brazil

Luciana Santos, Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation, Brazil

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Global technology giants and Indian innovators on Thursday signed the ‘New Delhi Frontier AI Impact Commitments’, a dual-pledge framework designed to track artificial intelligence adoption and enhance its performance across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.

The pact, announced by IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the AI Impact Summit in the capital, includes Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta, alongside Indian firms Sarvam, BharatGen, Gnani and Soket AI.

“Today, leading AI frontier companies, along with India’s own innovators such as Sarvam, BharatGen, Gnani and Socket have come together to make a set of voluntary commitments that reflect a shared vision for inclusive and responsible AI,” Vaishnaw said. He stated that the initiative positions India at the forefront of building a “Global South-led perspective on AI governance, one that balances innovation with equity and real-world impact”. Read more.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa will address the AI Summit today during a session named 'Fueling India's Economic Growth via State-Level AI Adoption'.

AI Summit 2026 LIVE updates: During his address on Thursday, Mukesh Ambani announced that he will invest ₹10 lakh crore in artificial intelligence over the next seven years.

He also pledged to make AI more affordable and accessible for people across India, like what his group had achieved with making mobile and internet data.

"Jio connected India to the Internet Era. Jio will now connect India to the Intelligence Era...India cannot afford to rent intelligence. Therefore, we will reduce the cost of intelligence as dramatically as we did in the case of data," he said.