Atlanta, Oct. 31 -- Foreign ministers representing the Quad bloc of India, the United States, Japan and Australia formally announced plans on Saturday to provide more than USD 85 million in technical and financial assistance aimed at broadening regional access to trusted artificial intelligence infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific. Concurrently, Washington pledged a separate USD 10 million allocation to support critical minerals recycling initiatives in India and ASEAN member states.

The major policy announcements followed a high-level meeting of the alliance's top diplomats on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Summit in Georgia.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Mini...