The search giant’s new AI feature reads your inbox to answer questions, and its updated policy lets those inferences tune ads, all under one consent click. India’s data privacy rules may soon challenge that.

Incidents in Australia, Singapore, and Bengaluru show how AI errors reach the public, and why India needs auditable systems with a way to appeal.

Elon Musk calls Mukesh Ambani a monopolist; Ambani’s Jio warns of foreign control. Meanwhile, 12,347 villages continue to be unconnected, and rural internet penetration lags far behind cities.

A discussion paper from the Principal Scientific Adviser proposes a middle path for AI data flows: keep strategic data in India, while allowing other data to cross borders under safeguards tailored to its sensitivity and identifiability.