Gates has not been accused of wrongdoing by any of Epstein’s victims and the appearance of his name in the files does not imply criminal activity of any kind.<\/p>\n
The Gates Foundation said Ankur Vora, president of its Africa and India offices, would speak at the summit instead of Gates.<\/p>\n
The organisation added that it remained “fully committed” to its work in India to advance “shared health and development goals”.<\/p>\n
Gates’s decision to not speak to the summit came after days of uncertainty over whether he would attend.<\/p>\n
He is currently in India and had visited the southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Monday, where he reportedly discussed initiatives for boosting health, agriculture, education and technology.<\/p>\n
After media reports speculated he would pull out of the summit, his foundation said on Tuesday he would deliver the address as scheduled<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gates’s withdrawal is a blow for the summit, which India has pitched as a flagship gathering to position the country as a global AI hub.<\/p>\n The five-day summit features policy discussions, start-up showcases and closed-door meetings on AI governance, infrastructure and innovation.<\/p>\n The event has also seen investment pledges by companies, including Microsoft, to expand AI access and infrastructure in countries such as India.<\/p>\n Delegates from more than 100 countries, including several world leaders, are attending the event.<\/p>\n But it has already been marked by some controversies over mismanagement on the first day<\/a> and an Indian university’s claims to have developed a robot dog<\/a> – which turned out to be made in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gates has not been accused of wrongdoing by any of Epstein’s victims and the appearance of his name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}