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Bengaluru next month, with its vice president of engineering Srinivas Narayanan, to discuss issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) product and safety, the US-based company’s vice president of global affairs Anna Makanju said on Tuesday. “Countries like India are critical to AI’s future, and India has the most critical ingredients…some of the most impressive technology talent in the world, a track record of developing impressive technology businesses and a focus on competing on the global stage,” she said.

COP28 saw many firsts this year. From organizing the COP's first-ever "Health Day" to hosting "the first-ever COP ministerial dialogue on building water-resilient food systems" — there were many events and “landmark" moments that embraced the COP28 climate summit. On Saturday, several countries clashed over a possible agreement to phase out fossil fuels at the COP28 summit in Dubai, jeopardizing attempts to deliver a first-ever commitment to eventually end the use of oil and gas in 30 years of global warming talks.

NEW DELHI : India is negotiating an end-of-summit declaration with both member and guest nations for the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit on 12 December, said union information technology minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Monday. At a pre-summit press briefing, Vaishnaw said the declaration aims to advance talks on global AI regulatory frameworks, besides pitching for a digital public infrastructure (DPI)-like model that could be adopted by participating nations. “There will be regulatory aspects that are in line with past agreements and declarations.

China on its own terms. The summit between US President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping and the EU-China Summit underscores the reality that the West is no longer ready to budge on critical issues," he added. The expert mentioned China's failed strategy to create a divide between Europe and the US and its difficulties in dealing with them amid an economic crisis.

NEW DELHI : India will take a light-touch approach in regulating artificial intelligence to allow sufficient room for innovation, emulating how IT services companies were allowed to flourish in the 1990s. Despite recognizing key challenges to be resolved in the evolution of AI in India, the Union government sees AI as a sector where “the positives outweigh the negatives", S.

Nirmala Sitharaman while addressing CII Global Economic Policy Forum 2023 Summit said that the Union Budget 2024 scheduled to be presented on February 1 by the central government is unlikely to make any "spectacular announcements, on December 7." She added that the regular Budget will take place in July and “you'll have to wait until then." Speaking at the Summit in New Delhi, Sitharaman said, “I don’t want to be a spoilsport, but the 1st February Budget is just a vote on account; a budget to meet expenditure till the next government comes to power. No spectacular announcements. You will have to wait till after the general election." Additionally the FM talked about the need of centres for affordable medicines across the world, post-pandemic.

Reliance Industries (RIL), India's most valuable company, is in discussions with sugar mill operators to procure sugarcane press mud—a crucial raw material for producing compressed biogas (CBG), as per an Economic Times report citing internal sources. "RIL is actively seeking press mud from large sugar mills to support its CBG plants. The company has approached major sugar mills capable of supplying substantial volumes of press mud daily, spanning various locations nationwide," an executive involved in the discussions told the paper.

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of China, four years after signing the project, news agency AFP reported Wednesday citing a government source. Italy in 2019 became the first and so far only G7 nation to join the programme. Rome communicated the long-anticipated decision to Beijing three days ago, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which first reported the news, said.

Richard Teng, the newly appointed CEO of Binance, has faced a challenging debut during his first public interview. 

Polygon is back with the grants programme for the Web3 ecosystem that will be more focused and work with the founders, offering support they might need. While the company did not reveal details about the programme, speaking at the BUIDL for Web3 Summit in Bengaluru on December 4, Sandeep Nailwal, founder, Polygon, said that the core team of the Polygon Labs will work for the founders and will provide as much support as possible. Polygon had an aggressive grants programme till the end of 2022, he said. However, the programme which was launched to get more developers to build on Polygon and grow the ecosystem, was shut down early this year. Early this year, in its community forum, the company said that this was no longer necessary as it needed to move to more sustainable means of funding. A vouchers programme was launched, wherein startups building on Polygon will get vouchers from their partners, like cloud credits for project support. It also shut down initiatives such as Polygon DAO, which became a part of Polygon Village as an initiative to engage communities across India.

Polygon cofounder Sandeep Nailwal on Monday said he wants Indian developers in the Web3 space globally to spearhead protocol development. «I want Indian developers to be at the forefront of protocol development. If we want to attract the best and brightest of Indian talent into Web3, we need to improve education on a protocol level,» Nailwal said, speaking at the Build for Web3 Summit in Bengaluru.

Here is your weekly Pro Recap of the past week's biggest headlines in the electric vehicle space: Teslaholds Cybertruck event; China EV deliveries; Rivian launches leasing.

India is one of the bright spots in the global renewable and clean energy sector. Its RE portfolio is around 132 GW, with a target of 450 GW by 2030. India's energy basket is now 43% non-fossil fuel-based, which will be ramped up to 50% by 2030.

Narendra Modi and Maldives newly elected President in their maiden meet held in Dubai discussed the issue of presence of India’s military platforms in Maldives that are engaged in humanitarian missions and the bilateral core group set up by the two leaders will discuss operational matters of platforms. “We have seen reports about status of Indian platforms in Maldives engaged in HADR activities. The continued usefulness of the Indian platforms as it was recognised in discussions needs to be looked at in a proper perspective.

Safeena Hussain, founder of 'Educate Girls,' has become the first Indian woman to bag the WISE Prize worth 5 lakh USD for mobilising 14 lakh out of school girls in Indian villages to get back to mainstream education. The prize, awarded by the Qatar Foundation at the 11th Edition of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Summit earlier this week in Doha, is one of the most prestigious awards in education.

Narendra Modi met Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on the sidelines of the COP28 summit in Dubai on Friday, as they discussed bilateral partnership and the well-being of the Indian community in the oil-rich country. The meeting is significant as eight former Indian Navy personnel were on October 26 given death sentences by a court in Qatar and the Indian government has reportedly filed an appeal against the sentence.

Giorgia Meloni interacted with each other at the climate change summit 'COP 28' in Dubai. The interactions between the leaders have garnered attention online on all social media platforms. The two have been centre of attention when they were seen together at the G20 summit in Delhi.

Narendra Modi met his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of the United Nations' ongoing 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai on December 1. In a photo post on social media site X (formerly Twitter), Modi wrote in Italian: “Met PM Giorgia Meloni of Italy on the sidelines of the COP28 Summit. Looking forward to collaborative efforts between India and Italy for a sustainable and prosperous future." Also Read: Italy PM Giorgia Meloni applauds PM Modi calls him the ‘most loved leader’ of the world Meloni in turn also posted a selfie with the Indian PM saying, “Good friends at COP28.

Israel President, on the sidelines of the COP28 Summit in Dubai and emphasised on a two-state solution, dialogue and diplomacy for durable peace. “PM @narendramodi met President @Isaac_Herzog of Israel on the sidelines of #COP28 WCAS in Dubai. The two leaders exchanged views on the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in the region. PM expressed his condolences on the loss of lives in the October 07 terror attacks and welcomed the release of hostages,” MEA spokesperson posted on X. The PM reiterated the need for continued and safe delivery of humanitarian aid for the affected population.

Guterres on the sidelines of the UN climate summit here and highlighted India's initiatives and progress in achieving climate goals. During the meeting, Modi thanked Guterres for his support during India's G20 Presidency. «Both leaders exchanged views on priorities and concerns of the Global South related to Climate Action, climate finance, technology and reforms of the multilateral governance and financial institutions, including the UN,» a statement by the External Affairs Ministry said in New Delhi.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is making the headlines again, this time for an expletive-laden outburst on live TV at an annual conference hosted by The New York Times.