WASHINGTON, June 26 -- India came to the second Pax Silica Summit this week having just watched the United States disable AI models it had been integrating into government workflows without a day's warning. When India's top technology official sat down with the American architect of that coalition and asked what the episode meant for the partnership, he received something that no Pax Silica member had been given before: a direct assurance that it would not happen again.

The disclosure, made by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Secretary S. Krishnan on the sidelines of the two-day summit at the U.S. State Department in Washington this week, is the most direct acknowledgment yet that Washington's export control system carr...