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Portugal & Spain are too much overhyped . Sub par performance with a ultra defensive approach making a mockery of the world cup #worldcup2026#Ronaldo
@RShivshankar Something is fundamentally going wrong with our foreign policy , it needs to be addressed & fixed asap before the situation becomes irrepairable
You truly cannot make this stuff up. Global consulting giant KPMG just had to pull a massive report praising the future of AI because it was full of fake, AI-generated lies. NDTV’s AI Editor Ramarko Sengupta explains.
Banning Telegram altogether to prevent cheating in NEET is like using the IAF or something to safely transport question papers. Oh wait! They did that also.
The G7’s Crisis of Relevance
The relevance of the Western-centric G7 is frequently questioned, both within and beyond the West. It still operates as an exclusive and outdated “rich-country club” that no longer reflects the contemporary distribution of global economic power. Moreover, recurring disagreements among its members often expose divisions beneath its claims of unity.
To make matters worse, Trump’s transactional and extractive trade policies have encouraged other G7 members to reduce their dependence on Washington and diversify their economic and strategic partnerships.
The G20 has, in key respects, supplanted the G7 as the premier forum for global economic governance. This was not merely an organic evolution; it was formally recognized by leaders at the 2009 Pittsburgh Summit, where the G20 was designated the “premier forum for international economic cooperation.”
Collectively, the G20 accounts for roughly 85% of global GDP, 75% of international trade, and around two-thirds of the world’s population, making it far more representative of the global economy.
In response to growing concerns about its legitimacy and relevance, the G7 has increasingly sought engagement with major non-Western economies. Yet non-Western powers (like India, Brazil and others) are not invited to participate in a G7 summit’s core plenary sessions, where the seven members deliberate and coordinate policy positions. Instead, they typically take part in the subsequent “outreach sessions.”
From the G7’s perspective, inviting leaders from the Global South to these outreach sessions helps maintain channels of engagement with emerging powers, build broader coalitions on issues such as artificial intelligence governance, energy security and supply-chain resilience, and discourage these countries from aligning exclusively with alternative groupings such as BRICS.
In effect, the G7 has evolved from the world’s principal economic steering board into a more exclusive political coalition that relies on outreach mechanisms to try and preserve its global influence and relevance.
Ultimately, the G7’s outreach diplomacy is less a sign of renewed influence than an acknowledgment that the global balance of economic power has shifted in ways that make its loss of centrality increasingly difficult to reverse.
A future conflict with China will not resemble the 1962 Sino-Indian war. It will unfold simultaneously across land, sea, air, cyber and space domains, with success depending on rapid decision-making, integrated command structures, and the seamless fusion of intelligence, diplomacy and military operations.
Such requirements favor systems that elevate expertise and empower professional military judgment. They do not favor bureaucratic structures designed primarily to constrain military influence. https://t.co/qABjGpN0Cd
Japan doesn’t compromise on its discipline.
In Japan, fans wait for the red light to gather and celebrate in the streets of Shibuya. When it turns green again, they scatter so cars can pass.
So the US govt. has exercised the Kill Switch.
Latest Anthropic AI models now not available outside the US, which means India also.
Five straight lessons for India
1) All frontier technologies are now geo-weaponised.
India leads in not one of these.
2) Indian R&D in frontier tech is negligible, and private firms are least bothered. Expect no sudden change.
3) The national mood now is anti-science, pro-superstition, at all levels. Frontier Tech is a social product, an outcome of scientific temper + science investments + science institutions + progressive mindset. We are in reverse gear.
4) RSS BJP don't understand science. Have no understanding of (and need for) science as a national weapon. They cannot bring change. They don't want to.
5) We are a near-total American digital colony already. US can use the kill switch on anything any day - imagine Google products and Microsoft products going dark one fine morning.
We have just wasted 13 years doing other things.
Now there's a sudden panic.
But Science & Frontier Tech is not what Modi or RSS can give India. First accept that truth.
This is your wakeup call.
Anthropic just took down Fable 5. It's over.
Here's the thing tho: no company or government will EVER be able to take away your local models.
There are Opus level models you can run right now on your home GPUs, and nobody can ever stop you from using them
This is only the beginning of events like this. Day 1. More government overreach will happen. This will only keep happening more and more as models get closer to AGI
Become sovereign. Buy your own compute. Before even that becomes illegal