Digital India, space programs, AI governance, cyber initiatives, and scientific research.
As the school year started, the country's two largest school districts, New York City and Los Angeles, announced they were putting the brakes on student use of AI for one year, as they study how to best incorporate the technology into education.
"The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that China would benefit from the doubt being cast on AI development. Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week in Washington.
Meta announced it will forward reports of child sexual abuse material identified on its platforms to Indian law enforcement, following recent high‑level talks with the government. The decision comes after Meta’s global executives were summoned to New Delhi last month over concerns about online child‑abuse content.
"A vote against the Clarity Act isn't a principled stand against President Trump," Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., the lead author of the crypto bill, told The Associated Press. "It's a vote against implementing tough restrictions on politicians for crypto investments."
The furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps -- and a cautious middle. Today, most of the doomers warning against the impact of artificial intelligence come from inside the companies themselves, from academia, or both.
Once approvals are secured and the service is fully validated, it will operate without drivers and be available through both the GO and Waymo apps, the companies said in a joint statement.
Scientists at Raman Research Institute's Quantum Information and Computing lab have demonstrated a single‑shot operation that can control decoherence and prevent entanglement sudden death in quantum systems. The proof‑of‑concept, led by Prof. Urbani Sinha, was published in Physical Review A.
India marked Engineers' Day on 15 September 2026, honoring Sir M Visvesvaraya’s enduring impact on the nation’s engineering sector. Government officials and professional bodies highlighted the role of engineers in shaping infrastructure and technology.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) announced plans to modernise its 1033 helpline with artificial intelligence, real‑time location tracking and smart emergency‑response tools. An Expression of Interest has been issued for firms to design, deploy and operate the next‑generation platform.
Xi's announcement at the concluding session of the BRICS summit is widely seen as an effort to position Beijing as a central technology partner for the BRICS amid the communist State's growing AI competition with the US.
"We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins," Trump told reporters at his Ireland golf course, when asked if the AI industry should slow down or be more regulated.
Z.AI launched the sales on Friday, offering 21.97 million new Hong Kong shares at HK$714 ($91.05) each, a 10% discount to Friday's closing price of HK$793.
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday warned that moving too quickly to curb AI development could cost the United States the tech race to China. "If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try to regulate AI, we will lose the race to China, and that is a threat to every single American," Johnson said on CNN Sunday morning.
India’s Ministry of Road Transport and Highways released draft rules that would increase the permissible motor power for low‑speed electric vehicles to 600 W and lift the 60‑kg weight ceiling while keeping the registration exemption. The proposal has divided manufacturers, with full‑service OEM BGauss welcoming a bigger market and Yulu warning that heavier models could abuse the exemption and evade the Vahan registration system.
Meta's Oversight Board asked the company not to replace fact-overnight Friday, after it said it was testing the crowdsourcing system in Latin America. However, Meta's Oversight Board, the quasi-independent body the company funds to review its moderation decisions, said Community Notes was not an adequate replacement for fact-checking and that the two practices serve "distinct purposes."
India's semiconductor industry has secured a cumulative $1.4 billion in equity funding, with $701 million raised since 2025, according to Tracxn data. The figures are released ahead of the SEMICON India 2026 conference slated for mid‑September in New Delhi.
Engels said in a post on X that he left DeepMind three weeks ago despite enjoying his work there and turning down offers from Anthropic and OpenAI because he believes the stakes surrounding advanced AI have become too high.
The National Assembly passed the revised Criminal Act on February 26 after years of criticism that existing laws were ill-suited to punish technology and industrial espionage involving non-North Korean actors.
The remarks at a recent private fundraising event come as growing numbers of US lawmakers call for tougher rules on AI systems after dire warnings from two Anthropic researchers that rapid industry progress risks extinction of the human race.
Many incidents where AI agents from developers such as OpenAI and rival Anthropic have hacked or attempted to access external systems have heightened concerns over the increasing capacity of AI models and developers' ability to contain them.
