India and Japan sign pact to advance cooperation in AI, energy and metal security - press

**Insight: Extending the Japan-India AI Cooperation Initiative launched at the August 2025 leaders’ summit and the first Japan-India AI Strategic Dialogue held in Mumbai on April 21, 2026. The pact matters because it supports joint work in trustworthy AI, large language models, industrial AI use cases, research, talent, and AI infrastructure-areas tied to India’s digital-services sector and Japan’s semiconductor/automation ambitions. - - Today is Modi-Takaichi summit in New Delhi, where AI, chips, clean energy, defense and yen-rupee trade settlement were expected to be key agenda items. -