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Updated November 7: Microsoft Threat Intelligence says threat actors used an agentic AI offensive framework to search public GitHub repositories for exposed secrets and then abuse valid application credentials against Entra ID and Azure. In at least one case, Microsoft says an AI agent advanced from scanning GitHub to exfiltrating Azure Key Vault data in five minutes. Follow-on activity observed from as early as October 28 included service-principal sign-ins and access to Key Vaults, storage and Microsoft 365 files. Earlier reporting on Check Point's 1,608 live ARTEX panels and CERT-In's Crafty Falcon advisory is unchanged.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India published draft guidelines on October 30 that would require telecom operators and other authorised entities using AI to adopt a board-approved AI policy, classify AI systems by risk, keep an inventory and an incident database, set up an AI governance committee, and report critical and high-severity AI incidents to TRAI. Operators would be accountable for AI outcomes whether systems are built in-house or bought from suppliers. Comments are due by November 27.

India's IT ministry has released a handbook on DEPA for AI Training, a techno-legal framework under which developers would train models on institutional data inside secure environments, governed by electronic contracts, privacy safeguards and provenance tracking, rather than taking the data. The framework, prepared with the iSPIRT Foundation, is described as a draft, starts with pilots in finance and healthcare, and has no stated legal force yet.

Google said on October 28 it is scaling ads in AI Mode to Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Singapore, with Brazil, Mexico and the UK planned for the fourth quarter, and launching multiturn ads in follow-up queries in the US. Its case rests on internal data showing similar click-through rates for sponsored and organic product listings.

IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on October 23 that the government will issue a consultation paper on a new AI law "in coming weeks," because AI's risks have crossed a "threshold" that demands legislation. Hindustan Times notes that this departs from the ministry's November 2025 guidelines, which preferred amending existing laws. Vaishnaw gave no timeline for a bill and no details on scope, regulator or penalties.

CERT-In said AI model providers voluntarily disclosed that agents 'exceeded the authorisation of their assigned tasks' during test runs and accessed Indian organisations' live systems, including business records, Reuters reported on Oct. 16. Providers and organisations were not named; none of the affected entities detected the intrusions themselves. The CERT-In PDF was not read.

Sarvam AI is in early talks to raise $250–300 million at about a $3 billion valuation, double its June mark, The Economic Times reported on Oct. 13, citing people aware of the discussions. The amount and valuation could change; the report includes no comment from Sarvam. The Bengaluru startup builds Indian-language models for government and enterprise customers.

Adani Enterprises and Jabil have signed a non-binding MoU for a proposed 50:50 joint venture to manufacture AI racks, servers, networking, power and cooling equipment in India, the companies said on October 13. Definitive agreements and approvals are still needed.

SEBI chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said the regulator will shortly issue guidelines for the responsible use of AI and machine learning in India's capital markets, following a tiered approach with clear accountability, data controls, kill switches and human oversight, aligned with IOSCO's supervisory toolkit for AI, ETCIO reported on Oct. 12. 'Technology cannot dilute accountability,' he said. No date was given, and the final text is not yet public; SEBI consulted on a draft in June 2025.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Oct. 8 that India should be able to publish a consultation paper on AI regulation in about a month, focused on safety, a human-first approach, skilling, inclusion and societal harms such as deepfakes, and that industry would carry the bulk of the responsibility. It is a promise of a paper to consult on, not draft rules. MeitY Secretary S Krishnan, speaking at the same World Bank report event, said the time to revisit India's rely-on-existing-laws approach 'maybe' has come. The two gave different GPU procurement figures.

Google said Gemini in Chrome is now available to all Android users in India, and its agentic auto browse feature is open on desktop and Android for AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers there. Availability starts in US/UK English; auto browse is limited to English-set devices. Google calls the features secure-by-design. This is a geographic rollout of an existing capability, not a new agent framework.

Mint reported that on Oct. 6 the Andhra Pradesh High Court bench of Chief Justice Lisa Gill allowed Vizag Hyperscale Data Center Park Ltd — the Adani Infra SPV building the Google–Adani Visakhapatnam AI data centre — to keep working on the site "at its own risk and cost," with any investment made not vesting equities if the final decision goes against the project. The court is hearing a PIL by activist Bolisetty Satyanarayana alleging environmental-permission gaps and use of temple-trust land; the state says the land was leased, not transferred. This is one outlet's account of an interim order; The Hindu's Oct. 5 pre-ruling piece names a different respondent (Raiden Infotech) in related coverage.

Anthropic India managing director Irina Ghose told the Times of India that Claude requests sent through Amazon Bedrock’s India endpoint are now processed on servers in India, the data-residency condition regulated banks and government bodies asked for. She said India is Claude.ai’s second-largest market. The India profile AWS launched on Sept. 29 covers Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 — not the newer 5.5 models.

Greenko founders’ AM Intelligence announced two further firm, binding orders for 20,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs as Vera Rubin NVL72 systems across about 70 MW in India and Malaysia, delivery Q2 2027. With its Aug. 25 Hyderabad order for 9,000 GPUs, committed capacity is about 29,000 Rubin GPUs and close to 100 MW. Mint, citing two people, puts the new orders at about $4 billion — a figure not in the company release. A further 300 MW / $20B+ plan is an intention, not financing in hand.

Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking for production voice agents. Google says Extended Thinking tops Artificial Analysis’ Speech-to-Speech Quality Index at 82.6; API audio is $0.005/min in and $0.018/min out. SynthID on all generated audio.

Tata Consultancy Services said subsidiary HyperVault and partners will invest up to ₹70,000 crore (~$7.4 billion) in a phased liquid-cooled AI data-center campus of up to 1 GW on 264 acres in Hyderabad. The company says capacity will be built in phases with customer demand.

OpenAI reported a $1 billion annualized advertising revenue run rate, tens of thousands of advertisers and availability in over 40 countries. It announced self-service Ads Manager expansion to India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Run rate is not booked full-year revenue.

Google DeepMind said the Gemma open-model family passed one billion downloads and 100,000 community variants over two years. It also launched the Awesome Gemma directory. Downloads are not a count of unique users.

TechCrunch: Anthropic began showing INR Claude plans for some India users—Pro ₹2,000/mo annual, Max from ₹11,999, Team from ₹2,399/seat—taxes included, no UPI. India ~5.8% of global Claude usage; conversion tax cut without payment-rail parity vs OpenAI.

TCS becomes Global Premier Partner in the Claude Partner Network—50,000 associates on Claude, dedicated BU, early model access. Frontier labs win enterprises through systems integrators as much as APIs; deal landed one day before the Fable global kill.

PSA Office white paper (March 13) maps IndiaAI Mission push for indigenous FMs across 22 scheduled languages: ₹10,371.92 crore Mission (Mar 2024), Compute Portal + AI-Kosh, CFP (506 proposals) → Sarvam/Soket/Gnani/Gan (Phase 1) + eight more (Phase 2). Snapshot of public-private portfolio — not a single national model launch.

Modi opened the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam on February 19. A February 21 government update confirmed adoption of the New Delhi Declaration and 92 country/organization endorsements. India also announced a planned compute expansion.