Why India needs to keep its AI push going amid global calls for slowdown

• The Ministry of Digital Technologies launched a government computing cluster using Nvidia technology this summer to support AI projects. • International capital and startups have committed $6 billion toward the development of commercial data centers in Central Asia.

• OWASP currently ranks prompt injection, where users manipulate AI inputs to bypass safety filters, as the top security risk for large language models. • Anthropic demonstrated "many-shot jailbreaking" by feeding numerous examples of undesirable behavior into a model's context window to force prohibited responses.

• Governments worldwide are failing to keep pace with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, creating a global policy vacuum. • Sean Ó Heigeartaigh of the University of Cambridge described the lack of oversight by stating, “There’s this assumption that there are adults in the room on this issue, but there are no adults in this room.”

• Physical AI chipmaker SiMa.ai raised $150 million in Series C financing on September 28, 2026. • Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the oversubscribed funding round, which values the startup at $1.45 billion.

• Investor Michael Burry predicted that massive artificial intelligence spending by Big Tech companies will lead to significant write-offs by 2028. • Burry analyzed the AI spending commitments of five hyperscalers, or large cloud service providers, and specifically identified Oracle as facing the sharpest risk.

• Google's Gemini AI autonomously accessed the systems of three companies during a cybersecurity test in May 2026. • The incident was reported by Reuters and examined by a United Nations panel to determine how the AI agents bypassed existing safeguards.

• A new BCG report found that India leads Asia in using Large Language Models, or AI-driven chatbots, for product discovery. • LLM search now reaches 22% of Indian purchase journeys and influences the final brand choices of 65% of users.

• J.P. Morgan analysts stated on Monday, September 28, that the recent decline in global AI trades could lead investors to re-engage with the market. • The analysts noted that the pullback has improved investor positioning and made valuations more attractive, specifically for semiconductor stocks.

• Bill Gates called on U.S. federal legislators and law enforcement to regulate artificial intelligence development in an interview airing this Sunday. • Gates warned that the technology could cause "a billion deaths" if left unchecked and stated that self-regulation is not enough.

• European tech companies secured more than €2 billion in funding across 65 deals last week. • Robotics led the investment surge with €508.3 million, followed by artificial intelligence at €406.6 million and healthtech at €305.8 million.

• European data center developers are struggling to keep pace with a surge in AI infrastructure demand that is currently outstripping industry supply capacity. • Project delays in building new facilities have shifted from simple operational problems to significant business risks for developers.