New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- neither wants anyone telling their AI companies what to do.

not a framework, not a safety pact, not even a joint statement on AI, but a president declaring in advance that the two governments had already agreed not to regulate. Trump later called the overall talks "very productive," according to Al Jazeera, though the specifics he offered stopped well short of anything resembling an AI framework.

The official deliverables were thin. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two sides discussed a notification system so each government could warn the other about AI incidents serious enough to raise national security concerns, an idea first floated before the summit as an "AI hotline," reported by Al Jazeera in the r...