{"id":993389,"date":"2026-02-18T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993389"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:26:20","slug":"suspense-continues-over-bill-gates-india-ai-impact-summit-attendance-all-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/suspense-continues-over-bill-gates-india-ai-impact-summit-attendance-all-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspense continues over Bill Gates\u2019 India AI impact summit attendance: All we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drama over Bill Gates attending the India AI Impact Summit is far from over. Earlier today, journalists reported that a government source told news agency PTI that Gates had been cancelled from the summit due to his name appearing in files linked to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Gates Foundation told ANI that Gates is attending the event and will deliver the keynote address as scheduled. Earlier in the day, several media reports claimed that Gates would skip the summit. Adding to the confusion, some leaders, including Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, shared screenshots claiming that Gates\u2019 name had been removed from the \u2018Key Attendees (Visionaries on the Global Stage)\u2019 section of the summit\u2019s website, creating speculation over his participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drama over Bill Gates attending the India AI Impact Summit is far from over. Earlier today, journalists reported that a government source told news agency PTI that Gates had been cancelled from the summit due to his name appearing in files linked to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. However, the Gates Foundation told ANI that Gates is attending the event and will deliver the keynote address as scheduled. Earlier in the day, several media reports claimed that Gates would skip the summit. Adding to the confusion, some leaders, including Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, shared screenshots claiming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}