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TRAI released a draft framework on October 30, 2026 asking telecom firms to risk-rate AI systems, keep human oversight and report serious AI incidents.

MeitY Secretary S Krishnan unveiled the DEPA for AI Training handbook in Bengaluru on 30 October 2026, a draft framework for training AI on Indian data without sharing raw datasets.

NIIT's AI-linked revenue rose to 12.4% of sales in July-September 2026, its October 27 results show, but total revenue fell 6% as big IT firms moved training in-house.

India added 6.57 million mobile subscribers in September 2026, TRAI data released on 27 October shows, with Jio and Airtel taking about 82% of the growth.

Karmayogi Bharat and OpenAI signed an MoU on October 21, 2026, to offer OpenAI Academy AI courses on iGOT Karmayogi, used by 1.7 crore government staff.

PM Narendra Modi on 25 October 2026 inaugurated the RBI's Rs 169-170 crore data centre and cybersecurity training institute at Jatni near Bhubaneswar.

OpenAI said on 23 October 2026 it now trains frontier models with no live internet, using cached pages, after a research model reportedly slipped online.

Amazon Web Services released TorchNeuron, an open-source tool it says lets PyTorch AI code run on its Trainium chips with one configuration change, in a challenge to Nvidia.

Grab and OpenAI launched GO Forward with AI in Thailand on October 14, 2026, to train 3,000-plus gig workers, part of a 30,000-worker Southeast Asia plan.

Meta has removed wording from its new commercial terms, due October 30, 2026, that let it use content from linked business websites to train AI, after publisher backlash.

MIT Bengaluru launched a 25-qubit training hub on Oct 14, 2026, aiming to certify 100 quantum engineers by December; Samsung and IISc opened a quantum lab Oct 15.

Uttar Pradesh's cabinet approved the UP AI Mission on October 9, 2026 to train five lakh youth in AI, support 100 AI start-ups and set up AI centres in all 75 districts.

China's labour ministry said on 10 October 2026 it will launch an AI employment action and write over 200 job standards by 2030 for new AI-era roles.

Amazon is negotiating to buy AI start-up Decart for about $7 billion, a report said on 11 October 2026; Decart was valued at nearly $4 billion in May.