weird move , i think EU did same . only people this will benefit is US/china .
the guy who runs openai sam altman is also pushing for regulation , goal is to keep us/openai no 1 in this field.
Total BS Tweet (stuffs like these shd immediately invite a PM gulag cess for motivated rumor mongering). Gormint is doing stuff like this;
Speaking in Delhi a day before the groundbreaking of a semiconductor packaging and assembling plant by Micron in Gujarat's Sanand, Chandrasekhar said the project will serve as a signal to other chip companies and investors to take India more seriously in the global electronics value chain.
www.moneycontrol.com
They brought a deeptech policy and proposed research linked incentives for AI/deeptech in the interim budget. Ain't no way, they are going to 'kill' homegrown start-ups - especially since, MEITy, the Ministry under consideration, is known for its light touch approach to tech companies. MEITy was also bitterly opposed to the updated taxation policies adopted against the fantasy gaming platforms (read betting apps) and is fighting back aginst the FinMin.
The said approval is not even mandatory and atm, metely an advisory of sort. It targets Big Tech and Big Tech only. The least these 'commentators' and 'entrepreneurs' could do is to shut up because clearly, they cannot read between the lines and has no idea how the GoI functions.
MEITy is locked in an ongoing tussle with Google over their play store policies as I write this. It does not take one to be a rocket scientist to understand GoI's stand.
Similar rumor mongering and negative PR was unleashed back when the GoI released the draft data sharing policy and proposed the digital rights bill. Sadly, the incumbent government got shit scared (after phoren media started publishing articles after articles detailing how the proposed policy of keeping the data of Indian users confined to India was a non starter and how it would affect investments worth US$ 12362786938 billion annually) and backtracked.