New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) There is an urgent need to close the artificial intelligence (AI) divide between the Global North and South, Microsoft Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith, said here on Wednesday.Speaking at a session during the ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ here, he said the economic divide was created by unequal access to technology, specifically electricity.”Technology, for over a century, drove industrialisation and prosperity across the Global North before it really took off in…
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New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) US tech giant Microsoft on Wednesday said it is on pace to invest $50 billion by the end of the decade to help bring AI to countries across the Global South.Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft and Natasha Crampton, Vice President and Chief Responsible AI Officer of Microsoft, said in a blog post that AI usage in the Global North is roughly twice that of the Global South. “And this divide continues to widen. This disparity impacts not only national and reg…
Davos, Jan 21 (IANS) India clearly belongs to the first group of AI nations as AI architecture comprises five layers — application, model, chip, infrastructure, and energy — and we are actively working across all five, Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, has said.Outlining India’s approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) the minister emphasised large-scale AI diffusion, economic viability, and techno-legal governance, during a panel discussion at the World Economic Foru…