EU, India Push AI Rules
The European Council agreed a streamlined position on the bloc’s AI rulebook while India’s AI Summit produced the New Delhi Declaration — endorsed by 91 nations — as a shared principles framework reported. The meeting also underscored growing US‑India alignment on research and regulation, with the US ambassador calling for deeper collaboration, even as a new Global AI readiness ranking keeps the US well ahead of China (82 vs 59) — governance is racing to catch up with capability reported, reported.
The Council set fixed new application dates for high‑risk AI rules—2 December 2027 for stand‑alone systems and 2 August 2028 for systems embedded in products—and inserted an explicit ban on AI that generates non‑consensual sexual or child sexual‑abuse content [consilium.europa.eu]. The Council’s mandate also extends some SME exemptions to “small mid‑caps,” reinstates the obligation for providers to register high‑risk systems in the EU database, reinforces the AI Office’s powers and preserves a “strict necessity” standard for processing special categories of personal data for bias detection [consilium.europa.eu]. The New Delhi Declaration organizes action around seven “Chakras” — including human capital, trustworthiness, energy efficiency and democratizing AI resources — and formally notes a voluntary Charter for the Democratic Diffusion of AI plus a Global AI Impact Commons to document and share models and proven deployments [mea.gov.in]. The India summit drew roughly 600,000 in‑person participants and delegations from over 100 countries, coincided with roughly $240 billion in public/private AI investment commitments from players such as Reliance, Adani and Google, and included a government pledge to add 20,000 GPUs to India’s existing ~38,000 national compute pool [digitalindia.gov.in]. The U.S. used the summit to promote an American AI exports and partnership push [whitehouse.gov], while a USISPF‑led delegation of 100+ U.S. firms engaged Indian officials and U.S. Ambassador Sergio Gor publicly urged deeper India‑U.S. research and regulatory collaboration at USISPF events chaired by Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen [cnbctv18.com].
