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Highlights of 23 January 2026 Current Affairs
- At the World Economic Forum 2026, India presented a five-layer, end-to-end AI strategy focused on application-led deployment, cost efficiency, indigenous capability, and sustainability.
- India’s AI approach prioritises real-world use cases such as governance, agriculture, and public services, with initiatives like Kisan e-Mitra and Bhashini demonstrating AI for public good.
- The strategy emphasises smaller, domain-specific AI models, with around 95 percent of current workloads handled by compact models that reduce compute costs and dependency on large GPU clusters.
- Indigenous semiconductor development is being strengthened through custom silicon and manufacturing in the 28nm–90nm range to support sectors such as EVs, railways, and industrial systems.
- Nearly USD 70 billion of confirmed investment is being rolled out to expand AI infrastructure, including data centres, cloud services, and compute capacity.
- Energy readiness for AI growth is being addressed through integration of clean energy and private participation in nuclear power under the Shakti Act to support data centres sustainably.
- At WEF 2026, the Canadian Prime Minister proposed the “Third Path” or Carney Doctrine, advocating middle-power–led, flexible multilateralism as an alternative to rigid bloc politics.
- The Third Path framework stresses value-based realism, cooperation among middle powers, and variable-geometry coalitions, aligning closely with India’s strategic autonomy and issue-based partnerships.
- A Pixxel-led consortium signed an agreement with IN-SPACe to build and operate India’s first privately run national Earth Observation satellite constellation under a public–private partnership model.
- Spain joined the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, expanding European engagement in a free, open, and rules-based Indo-Pacific and reinforcing issue-based multilateral cooperation.
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