India: New Technology

The AI agent may query the user’s calendar and contact list, shortlist and book a venue, arrange catering, order a cake, book a DJ, send invitations to contacts, collect their dietary preferences, and process payments across multiple merchants/vendors.

On 26 April 2026, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued an advisory titled, “Defending Against Frontier AI Driven Cyber Risks” (Advisory), categorised as high severity. While framed as an advisory, it reflects a clear regulatory shift. Artificial Intelligence (AI) incident preparedness is no longer a matter of best practice, it is increasingly a baseline compliance expectation against which organisational readiness may be assessed.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems generate paintings, compose music and draft novels with increasing sophistication, intellectual property law faces a reckoning it was never designed to handle.

India's new online gaming framework introduces a game-by-game regulatory approach that requires each operator to independently register their titles with the Online Gaming Authority, even when offering identical gameplay. The rules establish broad discretionary powers for determining what constitutes prohibited real-money gaming versus permissible e-sports, while delegating substantial operational oversight to executive advisories that can reshape compliance obligations with minimal notice.

This edition of Defence Dispatch examines three pivotal developments from April 2026: India and Germany's ten-year defence industrial cooperation roadmap that advances the P-75I submarine deal, the newly published India-Russia RELOS agreement allowing unprecedented foreign military presence on Indian soil, and South Korea's state visit outcomes that shift the K9 Vajra partnership toward co-development and joint design of advanced military systems.

A senior partner at a global law firm is sitting with a forensic team, discussing a high-stakes investigation. There are millions of documents to review, timelines are tight, and regulatory pressure is building.

With India leading global enterprise AI adoption at a staggering 92 percent, and nearly half of Indian corporations actively running multiple artificial intelligence use cases in live production...

Sidhu Moosewala’s 2026 Sign to God Hologram tour is creating excitement among his fan base, but raises questions related to Intellectual Property laws.

Every leadership meeting today has the same theme: AI. It involves new tools, copilots, and layers of automation. On paper, it looks like progress. In reality, most companies are still struggling to get significant output from these investments.