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    CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi says AI ‘not challenge, but opportunity’ after Rana Daggubati warns it will ‘replace us’

    • 16.02.2026
    • Mint

    After Rana Daggubati warned that artificial intelligence could quickly replace artistes and pose risks to creative professions, CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi offered a contrasting view, saying AI should be seen as an opportunity for India and a platform for deeper global discussions on humanity’s future.

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    AI India Impact Summit: Jitin Prasada says AI must not create ‘haves and have-nots’, signals inclusive growth model

    • 16.02.2026
    • StoryBoard18

    Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and Electronics and Information Technology Jitin Prasada said India wants artificial intelligence to raise productivity, incomes and living standards.

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    AI Impact Summit 2026: Ashwini Vaishnaw urges OTT platforms to respect India’s cultural context, Constitution

    • 16.02.2026
    • StoryBoard18

    Responding to a question on how governments and industry can provide guardrails in an era of AI-driven content, Ashwini Vaishnaw flagged the growing influence of OTT platforms and the risks of cultural insensitivity.

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    ProtonVPN Fights French Pirate Site Blockades, But Court Rejects Overblocking Fears

    • 13.02.2026
    • TorrentFreak

    ProtonVPN has fought back hard against a pirate site blocking request in France, but without result. In two separate cases, the Paris Judicial Court rejected the company's arguments, including violations of the EU's Open

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    150 government websites receive quality certification; 8 applications rejected for non-compliance

    • 13.02.2026
    • Storyboard18

    The certified list includes high-traffic and critical government platforms such as the Prime Minister’s Office, President’s Secretariat, CERT-In, UIDAI, CBSE, TRAI, Press Information Bureau portals and multiple Ministry websites. The inclusion of e-voting platforms and financial institutions also indicates that the certification framework extends beyond core ministry portals to digital service infrastructure.

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    India’s AI choices at the 2026 AI Impact Summit amid structural drifts in global markets

    • 13.02.2026
    • Times of India

    As we approach the AI Impact Summit 2026, global AI exosystems are undergoing a brutal yet necessary recalibration. Those calibrations are driven by the realisation that current AI systems, especially large language models, are powerful pattern recognisers but still brittle tools when treated as general problem solvers rather than as narrowly scoped components in wider systems.

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    UN chief to attend AI Impact Summit in India as Global South shapes AI governance

    • 13.02.2026
    • United Nations

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will travel to India next week to participate in the AI Impact Summit 2026, a major global gathering on artificial intelligence that will be held in the Global South for the first time at this scale.

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    Space, Trade And A New Orbit: US-India Ties Lift Off With Commercial Space Push

    • 13.02.2026
    • NDTV

    Peter Tichansky noted that cooperation between NASA and ISRO has existed for decades, but commercial engagement has often lagged behind institutional collaboration

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    Don’t regulate AI like social media, says OpenAI’s Pragya Misra

    • 12.02.2026
    • Storyboard18

    Pragya Misra, Head of Strategy & Global Affairs, India, acknowledged that AI dependency among young users is a growing concern. “We may not get it right each time, but we are thinking about it a lot,” she said, noting that psychologists and therapists now advise the company on sensitive response design.

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    Research: Major Pirate Site Shutdown Boosted Visits to other Pirate Sites (and Netflix)

    • 12.02.2026
    • Torrent Freak

    Does shutting down major pirate sites simply drive people to other sites, or can it also increase legal consumption? According to a new study from researchers at Chapman University and Carnegie Mellon, the answer is both.

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