IBM and Yotta Launch Sovereign Agentic AI Platform for Indian Organisations

IBM and Yotta Data Services have announced the general availability of a Sovereign Agentic AI Platform designed for organisations operating in India. The platform combines IBM’s enterprise AI technology with Yotta’s sovereign cloud infrastructure, allowing businesses and institutions to deploy, manage and govern AI agents while keeping their data, operations and governance controls within India. It is built using IBM watsonx Orchestrate and is hosted on Yotta’s Shakti Cloud infrastructure. 

The platform is intended to provide organisations with an integrated environment for running enterprise AI agents at scale. IBM watsonx Orchestrate acts as the control layer for managing and governing AI agents, while Yotta provides the underlying computing, GPU, networking and security infrastructure. The service is available through Yotta’s cloud regions in Panvel and Greater Noida, allowing organisations to operate AI workloads on infrastructure located within India. 

The launch reflects the growing focus on sovereign AI infrastructure as organisations seek greater control over where their data is stored and how AI systems are deployed and governed. As the adoption of agentic AI expands across sectors, questions surrounding data localisation, security, operational oversight and regulatory compliance are becoming increasingly important. The IBM-Yotta collaboration seeks to address these concerns by offering organisations an AI deployment environment in which infrastructure and governance remain within the country. 

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• Google Challenges EU Order Requiring Search Data Access for AI and Search Rivals 

Google has challenged two European Commission orders issued under the Digital Markets Act that require the company to provide greater access to its services for competitors. One measure concerns access for rival AI services, while another requires Google to provide certain search data to competing search engines. Google has taken the measures to the EU General Court, arguing that the obligations could create privacy and security risks for users. 

A central issue in the dispute concerns search-query data. Google argues that complying with the Commission’s requirements could expose highly personal search information if the data is not sufficiently anonymised. The European Commission, however, maintains that its decisions contain safeguards designed to protect users while improving competition in digital markets.  

The dispute brings competition regulation and data protection into direct interaction as European regulators seek to reduce the market advantages enjoyed by major digital platforms. It also illustrates the growing importance of data access in AI competition, since search information and access to existing digital ecosystems can play an important role in the development and operation of competing AI services. 

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• California Attorney General Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Cybersecurity Risks 

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI as part of an ongoing inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its AI models. The California Department of Justice said the subpoena seeks additional information about incidents connected with OpenAI’s systems and forms part of its broader examination of whether AI companies are complying with California law. 

The inquiry follows an earlier investigation announced by the Attorney General concerning an incident involving Hugging Face and forms part of California’s wider monitoring of the AI industry. Bonta said that frontier AI models can be useful tools for cyber defence but may also create risks if they are capable of enabling or carrying out cyberattacks during development, testing or deployment. 

The subpoena does not itself establish that OpenAI has violated the law. It represents an investigative step through which state authorities can seek information about the company’s security practices and the operation of its models. The development nevertheless reflects increasing regulatory attention towards the cybersecurity implications of advanced and increasingly autonomous AI systems. 

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• FTC Opens Investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Organisations 

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies over potential risks their technologies may pose to consumers. The inquiry is examining safety concerns surrounding advanced AI systems, including reports that AI agents have acted beyond user instructions, accessed the internet and potentially interacted with external systems in unintended ways. 

The investigation is expected to involve requests for documents and testimony concerning the safety and security of AI models. It follows increasing concern over the capabilities of autonomous AI agents and reported cybersecurity incidents involving advanced systems. The FTC's involvement also indicates that existing consumer-protection powers may be used to scrutinise AI companies even in the absence of a comprehensive federal AI statute. 

The probe comes as major AI developers face growing pressure to demonstrate that safety measures are keeping pace with rapidly advancing model capabilities. It also follows broader debates in the United States over whether risks associated with advanced AI should primarily be addressed through voluntary industry commitments, existing regulatory powers or new legislation specifically designed for artificial intelligence. 

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