Author name: Zin Lwin

BBC Could Bill Gates and political tussles overshadow AI safety debate in Delhi?

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Amanda Brock, chief executive of tech industry body OpenUK, thinks the answer is to force the AI companies to share how their products work so that others can build their own versions, make improvements and properly scrutinise the tech. She argues, “For this summit to have any real impact for the Global South, there needs

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Factly and Meta – AI Commons for the Global South: Data, Models & Compute for Half of Humanity, New Delhi

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Panel will examine how AI resources can be democratized across the Global South through shared infrastructure, open collaboration, and public interest design. The culminating event of the series, bringing together insights from Hyderabad and Chennai roundtables into actionable recommendations. Features high-level plenaries, hackathon finalist presentations, and formal adoption of policy recommendations. 17 Feb 2026, 4:30

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OECD – Democratising trust: Open source tooling for safe, secure and trustworthy AI, New Delhi

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Date and time: 17 February, 1:30 PM to 2:25 PM (IST)Venue: Room 16, Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre, New Delhi, India Overview As AI systems grow in sophistication and scale, the tools we use to ensure their safety should be equally robust and, crucially, universally accessible. The India AI Impact Summit emphasises that meaningful innovation depends

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OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: MCP, Open Standards and Data Workshop

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Workshop session exploring open source AI approaches Hosts: 1 Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK, OpenHQ2 Karan MV, Developer Relations, GitHub Workshop Leaders:1 Simon Hansford, Chief Commercial Officer, Civo2 Saiyam Pathak, Founder, Kubesimplify3 Rohit Ghumare, Ambassador, OpenUK; Founding Developer Relations, motia.dev4 James Lovegrove, Head of Policy, RedHat5 Naresh Vyas, Founder and CTO, TwoCents.ai6 Anil Madhavapeddy, Professor, Cambridge University7

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