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India’s antitrust landscape has entered a more assertive phase in FY 2025–26, with the Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) significantly sharpening its enforcement approach. For multinational companies, this shift has direct implications for legal risk management and internal governance. A key development is the CCI’s increasing reliance on an “effects-based” framework when assessing abuse of dominance.

India does not intend to observe the AI revolution from the margins. That much is now clear. The India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi marked a turning point — for the first time, a global AI summit shifted decisively to the Global South. For international stakeholders, the implication is equally clear: engagement with India's evolving AI legal framework can no longer be passive or peripheral.