Geopolitics

The biggest AI summit of 2026 just wrapped in New Delhi, and the headline isn’t a new model or a benchmark war. It’s this: 88 countries — including the US, China, and Russia — just signed a shared vision for how AI should be built and governed. That’s not supposed to happen. The Declaration Nobody Expected The India AI Impact Summit 2026 ran February 16–21 at New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam. Prime Minister Modi inaugurated it alongside Macron and UN Secretary-General Guterres. The guest list read like a tech industry yearbook: Pichai, Altman, Amodei, plus delegations from over 100 countries and 20-plus heads of state. ...

Five days in New Delhi. $260 billion in pledges. A new US-India tech alliance with China squarely in the crosshairs. The India AI Impact Summit 2026 wasn’t another safety-focused talkfest — it was a power grab, and India just pulled it off. The Numbers Are Staggering Reliance Industries led with $109.8 billion over seven years for AI and data infrastructure across India. The Adani Group followed with $100 billion by 2035 for renewable energy-powered AI data centers. Microsoft confirmed $50 billion by 2030 for the Global South, with India as the flagship market. Yotta Data Services announced $2 billion-plus for one of Asia’s largest AI computing hubs running NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra chips. ...

Stop watching Silicon Valley for a second. The most important AI event this week is happening in New Delhi — and the chaos tells you everything about where India actually stands in the global AI race. Every AI CEO on Earth Just Flew to Delhi Sam Altman. Sundar Pichai. Dario Amodei. Demis Hassabis. Yann LeCun. Brad Smith. Over 100 countries. Twenty heads of state. 3,250 speakers. 250,000 expected visitors across five days at Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam. ...