Tuesday (December 9) would have been an eyesore for US President Donald Trump. Months after Trump urged tech giants to halt heavy investments outside the US and issued an America First diktat, Silicon Valley's biggest players, from Microsoft's Satya Nadella to Intel's Lip-Bu Tan, were photographed smiling beside Prime Minister Narendra Modi and pledging billions of dollars in AI and semiconductor manufacturing .

In fact, over the last few weeks, tech giants have pledged investments of more than $68 billion (about Rs 6.12 lakh crore), mostly in AI. It is hardly the picture of a "dead economy" that Trump painted as Big Tech doubles down on India, thumbing its nose at the US President.

Perhaps, the biggest irony played out a day earlier in Hyderabad when Trump's business venture itself an

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