New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- Why sovereignty in the 21st century will be defined by intelligence, not territory

For most of modern history, geopolitical power followed a familiar sequence: land, industry, finance and then information. Artificial intelligence is ending that progression. Power is migrating again-this time into intelligence itself.

The significance of the IndiaAI moment lies in a simple but unsettling implication: the future architecture of intelligence may not remain confined to a small group of technologically dominant nations. It may instead be shaped by societies that understand scale, constraint and human consequence in ways theory alone cannot teach.

India is one of those societies.

Three competing AI futures are emerging...