Bill Gates abruptly backed out of giving the keynote address at a major AI summit in India on Thursday, in the wake of recently released emails shedding light on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaking at the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lauded India’s leadership in AI, calling it the world’s fastest-growing and most influential AI market.

AI's biggest power players showed up in India on Thursday. OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, Microsoft's Brad Smith, Scale AI's Alexandr Wang, and Mistral's Arthur Mensch spoke in succession at the AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi.

Sam Altman warns open-source AI could enable pathogens as leaders call for global guardrails at India summit - Big tech CEOs and world leaders come together in Delhi to discuss how to govern the techn

Are Sam Altman and Dario Amodei beefing? This video from the AI Impact Summit's stage in New Delhi certainly appears that things are sour between the AI leaders.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has partnered with top Indian institutions, including IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad, to foster AI talent in India. This collaboration aims to equip students and professionals with the skills needed to thrive in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, addressed worldwide concerns about how artificial intelligence (AI) may affect the future of work in an interview with ANI at .

Speaking at the AI India Impact Summit in New Delhi, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said early superintelligence could emerge by 2028, cautioned against centralised AI control, and called for global governance