This week TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad T The Next Web 5d ago This month Asia’s Economies Avert Energy Shock Via Fiscal Buffers, AI Boom B Bloomberg 7d ago India Offers Chip Design, Gear Subsidy From $13.4 Billion Fund B Bloomberg 10d ago How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B+ annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic tasks (Financial Times) T Techmeme 30d ago The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns R Rest of World Aug 6 India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them T TechCrunch Jul 31 OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor all localized pricing for India. Only two focused on value. T The New Stack (AI) Jul 29 Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing T TechCrunch Jul 28 ‘I thought, I’ve tried everything else, why not give AI a shot?’: the long-lost family reunited by ChatGPT T The Guardian Jul 25 AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market T TechCrunch Jul 17 India pledges $20 billion to boost chips and smartphones as Modi pushes for an Indian mobile brand T The Next Web Jul 15 Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US T TechCrunch Jul 13 India tells WhatsApp to pause its usernames feature pending consultations T The Next Web Jul 2 Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable T The Next Web Jul 2 Amazon to invest an extra $13bn in Indian cloud and AI by 2030 T T Covered by 2 sources Jun 25 Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support T T Covered by 2 sources Jun 22 Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom T TechCrunch Jun 17 Adani and Jabil plan to build AI data-centre hardware in India T The Next Web Jun 15 As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future T T Covered by 2 sources Jun 14 Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week T The Next Web Jun 12 Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale T TechCrunch Jun 12 Opendoor’s India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing T TechCrunch Jun 11 Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance T T Covered by 2 sources Jun 10 AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India T T Covered by 2 sources Jun 5 Silicon Valley VC Backs Startup That Gathers AI Datasets From Head-Mounted Cameras on Workers in India G Gizmodo May 27 This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots T TechCrunch May 26 India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million T The Next Web May 25 India’s first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality T TechCrunch May 5 ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet T TechCrunch May 1 Google brings its Gemini Personal Intelligence feature to India T TechCrunch Apr 14 Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India T TechCrunch Mar 26 Google brings Gemini in Chrome to India T TechCrunch Mar 11 Access Anthropic Claude models in India on Amazon Bedrock with Global cross-Region inference A AWS Blog Mar 9 Google looks to tackle longstanding RCS spam in India — but not alone T TechCrunch Mar 1 India orders social media platforms to take down deepfakes faster T TechCrunch Feb 10 Anthropic’s India expansion collides with a local company that already had the name T TechCrunch Feb 9 India has changed its startup rules for deep tech T TechCrunch Feb 8 That's everything we have on India right now