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India's central government will take a 1-2% stake in AI unicorn Sarvam once its $300 million funding round closes, converting compute subsidies provided under the IndiaAI Mission into equity. The move sets a precedent for how the government accounts for public support given to homegrown AI startups.
A proposed amendment to India's IT Rules, Rule 3(4), would make MeitY advisories and circulars binding on digital intermediaries by tying compliance to safe harbour protections. Legal experts say this lets the executive create enforceable obligations without Parliament or courts, and could affect every category of digital business from social media to cloud services.
MeitY's IndiaAI Mission has selected 10 startups for the second cohort of its Global Acceleration Programme, run in partnership with Station F and HEC Paris. The cohort spans healthtech, climate tech, edtech, satellite intelligence, and cognitive AI, with each startup entering a three-month Paris residency aimed at
MediaNama's April 23 Delhi event will examine MeitY's draft amendments to IT Rules, 2021, which expand executive compliance conditions for safe harbour, extend oversight to user-generated news, and compress synthetic-content takedowns to three hours. The changes affect intermediary liability for every major platform
India launched the AI Governance and Economic Group, chaired by IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, to centralize AI policymaking across ministries. The body will align regulatory frameworks, assess job displacement risks, and guide AI deployment over the next decade. Its formation coincides with tightened IT rules mandating
Amnesty International has urged MeitY to withdraw India's draft 2026 IT Amendment Rules, warning they would extend government content oversight to ordinary social media users and tie platform safe harbour status to compliance with executive directives. The rules also mandate open-ended data retention, conflicting with
MeitY is proposing to allow users and intermediaries to present arguments at Inter-Departmental Committee content-blocking hearings. The move follows draft IT Rules amendments that extend blocking authority over individual user posts on news and current affairs, expanding MIB's remit. A former MeitY official has raised
MediaNama will host a hybrid policy forum in Delhi on April 23, 2026, examining MeitY's proposed IT Rules amendments and their effect on platform safe harbour, content takedowns, and government oversight of online news. The sessions cover Rule 3(4) intermediary liability, the MHA's Sahyog takedown portal, and MIB's bid
Developer aloshdenny published an open-source GitHub tool that bypasses Google's SynthID watermark with enough accuracy to defeat Google's own detector. The tool directly undermines watermark-based synthetic content detection, the primary technical mechanism platforms rely on to satisfy India's IT Amendment Rules 2026
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India's central government will take a 1-2% stake in AI unicorn Sarvam once its $300 million funding round closes, converting compute subsidies provided under the IndiaAI Mission into equity. The move sets a precedent for how the government accounts for public support given to homegrown AI startups.
4d ago · 4 min · Technology
A proposed amendment to India's IT Rules, Rule 3(4), would make MeitY advisories and circulars binding on digital intermediaries by tying compliance to safe harbour protections. Legal experts say this lets the executive create enforceable obligations without Parliament or courts, and could affect every category of digital business from social media to cloud services.
2mo ago · 3 min · Policy & Government
MeitY's IndiaAI Mission has selected 10 startups for the second cohort of its Global Acceleration Programme, run in partnership with Station F and HEC Paris. The cohort spans healthtech, climate tech, edtech, satellite intelligence, and cognitive AI, with each startup entering a three-month Paris residency aimed at
2mo ago · 1 min · Technology
MediaNama's April 23 Delhi event will examine MeitY's draft amendments to IT Rules, 2021, which expand executive compliance conditions for safe harbour, extend oversight to user-generated news, and compress synthetic-content takedowns to three hours. The changes affect intermediary liability for every major platform
2mo ago · 2 min · Policy & Government
India launched the AI Governance and Economic Group, chaired by IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, to centralize AI policymaking across ministries. The body will align regulatory frameworks, assess job displacement risks, and guide AI deployment over the next decade. Its formation coincides with tightened IT rules mandating
2mo ago · 2 min · Policy & Government
Amnesty International has urged MeitY to withdraw India's draft 2026 IT Amendment Rules, warning they would extend government content oversight to ordinary social media users and tie platform safe harbour status to compliance with executive directives. The rules also mandate open-ended data retention, conflicting with
2mo ago · 2 min · Policy & Government
MeitY is proposing to allow users and intermediaries to present arguments at Inter-Departmental Committee content-blocking hearings. The move follows draft IT Rules amendments that extend blocking authority over individual user posts on news and current affairs, expanding MIB's remit. A former MeitY official has raised
2mo ago · 1 min · Policy & Government
MediaNama will host a hybrid policy forum in Delhi on April 23, 2026, examining MeitY's proposed IT Rules amendments and their effect on platform safe harbour, content takedowns, and government oversight of online news. The sessions cover Rule 3(4) intermediary liability, the MHA's Sahyog takedown portal, and MIB's bid
2mo ago · 2 min · Policy & Government
Developer aloshdenny published an open-source GitHub tool that bypasses Google's SynthID watermark with enough accuracy to defeat Google's own detector. The tool directly undermines watermark-based synthetic content detection, the primary technical mechanism platforms rely on to satisfy India's IT Amendment Rules 2026
2mo ago · 2 min · Policy & Government
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