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Semiconductors, software, artificial intelligence, space and the Indian technology economy.
The largest technology investment cycle in decades has a deadline attached to it — the point at which the spending has to start paying for itself. European telecom groups are now publishing the savings they expect from it, which makes the return calculation public for the first time.
The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer's third-quarter revenue rose 47% year on year to about $95.4bn, beating market forecasts, with demand for AI hardware driving a record September.
Gujarat's first policy targets ₹6 lakh crore of investment and 7.5 GW of capacity. Uttar Pradesh has approved a successor aiming at ₹2 lakh crore and 2 GW. The incentives read like tax holidays; the constraints are power, water and land.
The electronics and IT ministry's secretary frames a standalone statute as an addition to, not a replacement for, the existing regime used so far on deepfakes and content labelling.
The headline was a rebuilt Siri running on Apple's own models, holding context across a conversation and acting on what is on screen. Everything else was an extension of that.
A study has found that Bengaluru's above-ground metro corridor could support a largely solar-powered operation. Turning that into a power supply runs into land law, storage economics and a regulator that has not been asked the question yet.
The cuts landed at the end of March and were reported in India on April 1. They arrive as Indian IT growth has slowed to 5-6 per cent a year from around 15 per cent.
The February Budget announced a second version of the India Semiconductor Mission and raised the electronics component outlay by more than 80%. The money is committed; the rules are not yet written.
The February 18–19 summit in the capital closed with a seven-pillar declaration on AI impact. Signatory counts differ between the government release and same-day news reports, and the two figures are not measuring the same thing.
Washington has invited India into a trusted stack spanning mines, fabs and AI compute. The binding constraint on Indian supply chains is not the signature. It is that the mines are not yet open.
