India’s AI Wedding Buffet: Generous Portions, Political Economy Heartburn
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India's AI Summit promises a revolution. The electricity grid, the tax code, and the literal ground beneath the chip fab have other plans.
India’s AI Wedding Buffet: Generous Portions, Political Economy Heartburn India's AI Summit promises a revolution. The electricity grid, the tax code, and the literal ground beneath the chip fab have other plans. Shruti Rajagopalan Feb 16, 2026 173 23 45 Share The AI Summit 2026 in New Delhi is structured like a good Indian wedding buffet, which is to say, it tries to be everything at once. There’s the main event, the side events, the offsite roundtables, and whatever happens in the hallways between them. The world’s largest gathering of AI stakeholders descends on New Delhi from February 16-2
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