Arun I B

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[Arun I B @arunib]

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[Arun I B @arunib]

@theliverdoc Let's start by banning hard to read hand-written prescriptions. The doctor writes once, but it's read multiple times by pharmacies, patients and others. The same is the case for discharge summaries. Let govt enforce these.

[Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot]

Releasing the model weights and technical report of Kimi K3.

Kimi K3 is our most capable model: a 2.8T MoE model with native visual understanding and a 1M-token context window.

New model architecture: 2.5x the intelligence per unit of compute, not just more params.

Alongside Kimi K3, we're opening up more of the stack behind it — high-performance attention kernels, MoE communication library, and infrastructure for running agent environments at scale.

Model weights: https://t.co/7m7eEg6Y0B
Tech report: https://t.co/yeu6cjpMCT
Tech blog: https://t.co/YTfiMSNM1f

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Over the last two weeks, both the U.S. Government and Anthropic took significant actions that demonstrated their power to control access to AI by restricting what others can do with frontier models. This has been one of those moments that, once seen, will be hard to unsee, and it is significantly accelerating many businesses’ and nation states’ efforts to ensure reliable access to AI that no one else can terminate.

Anthropic first released Claude Fable 5, a version of its Mythos model with additional guardrails, including some restrictions that seem well justified on safety grounds (such as limitations on applying it to hacking, bioweapons, and so forth). However, it also restricted developers’ ability to use it to build competing LLM technology. This move was concerning, given that the whole AI community, including Anthropic, has benefitted tremendously from open research — indeed, the AI revolution was kicked off by my former team (Google Brain) freely publishing the Transformers paper!

Imagine if Microsoft’s terms of use barred anyone from using their tools to build competitive software, or if Google barred using it to search for information to work on competing search engines. Anthropic’s argument that it was unsafe for others to be able to make advances in AI also rang hollow. Initially, Anthropic silently degraded Fable 5’s performance for users detected to be working on LLM research through invisible interventions that weakened the model’s outputs without notifying the user. After significant backlash, it walked back this decision and decided to be transparent when it did this, but it still refuses to use its latest capabilities to help AI researchers.

This move represents a raw demonstration of power by Anthropic. It has used “safety” arguments to hinder potential competitors. Platforms succeed when they are viewed as stable, reliable partners that one can build on. The sudden rule changes by Anthropic (including a mandatory 30 day data retention policy for Fable usage) have made developers wonder about the stability of building on any one proprietary LLM provider, not just Anthropic.

The U.S. Government then shortly followed with an even greater demonstration of power. It used the Commerce Department’s authority to regulate technologies that may be national security threats to restrict exports of Mythos and Fable, requiring a license for use by any foreign national, whether inside or outside of the U.S., including employees of Anthropic. This led Anthropic to disable access to Fable to all users worldwide.

Sam Altman pointed out, referring to Anthropic, “It is clearly incredible marketing to say, ‘We have built a bomb, we are about to drop it on your head. We will sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million.’” But when one engages in this type of fear-based marketing, it increases the odds that the U.S. Government will agree with you and slap export controls on the bomb you say you have built.

To be clear, I don't think Anthropic has built anything like a bomb, and I don't think export controls on Fable are appropriate.

However, following the U.S. Government making this move, many nations, including U.S. allies, saw how the U.S. can suddenly yank their access to AI models. In many capitals around the world, this has spurred discussions on AI sovereignty and how others can ensure uninterrupted access to this critical technology.

For decades, many nations were comfortable having many parts of their supply chain rely on the U.S., China, and other major producers. Once a nation issues a threat, or takes action, to limit other nations’ access, other nations will rationally try to secure alternatives. For decades, semiconductor manufacturing in China made slow progress; once the U.S. moved to limit China’s access, China’s efforts kicked into high gear. Similarly, once China threatened U.S. access to rare earth minerals, U.S. efforts to secure alternatives accelerated. Now that it has become crystal clear that private U.S. companies and the U.S. government can limit, in short order, other nations’ access to frontier AI models, the incentive of others to invest more in alternatives like open source grows significantly. Of course, training frontier models is not easy, so it remains to be seen how successful they are, but we have crossed the rubicon.

Satya Nadella wrote an essay about the importance of building a healthy ecosystem on top of frontier AI technology. I heartily agree with him, and hope this week’s events will ultimately prove to be constructive steps toward this.

I hope we can build a more free, more open world, where research is freely shared, and laws and societal norms shape a level playing field that allows everyone to make progress. A silver lining of the events of these past two weeks is now that everyone better realizes key points of instability of the current system, we can all work to create a more stable foundation.

[Original text: The Batch newsletter]

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Trump: We’ll get those political prisoners released in Venezuela, but first, oil!

[Arun I B @arunib]

#Chennai district collector Rashmi Siddharth Zagade declared a holiday for schools and colleges in the city on Wednesday (03/12/2025) due to heavy rain.
#rain #schoolholiday
https://t.co/do5bHQzxBA

[Arun I B @arunib]

Global warming started with industrial revolution late 1800s.

[Arun I B @arunib]

#imd #cyclone #alert: 28-11-2025:20:30 CS #Ditwah moved NNW and lay centered at 1730 hrs IST of 28th Nov 2025 about 40 km WNW of Trincomalee, 270 km SSE of Karaikal. Likely to move NNW across SL coast and reach near North TN, Puducherry and adjoining south AP coasts by 30th Nov.

[Arun I B @arunib]

#imd: Date: 27-10-2025: 02:30 AM Matter : Cyclonic Storm Montha over SW & adjoining SE Bay of Bengal moved WNW at 13 kmph, 640 km ESE of Chennai. Likely to continue WNW, then NW and NNW, intensifying into a severe cyclonic storm by 28 Oct morning, and cross AP coast near Kakinada

[Arun I B @arunib]

@IncomeTaxIndia #ITRfiling

[Arun I B @arunib]

@IncomeTaxIndia @nsitharaman #ITRfiling #ITR2025 #ITR

[Arun I B @arunib]

@IncomeTaxIndia scheduled maintenance ?

[Chennai Rains (COMK) @ChennaiRains]

IMD AWS page is not available for public, IMD Rapid Satellite section is also is not available. When orgs like @ECMWF are moving fully to open data to foster research @Indiametdept has opted to make data inaccessible. @moesgoi what is the thought process behind these decisions.

[Tara Krishnaswamy @tarauk]

If you argue Hindi is needed as common language
Many North Indians don’t know basic English

Then you agree that North has failed teaching 2 languages: Hindi, English

NEP asks us to learn 3?

Fix your school syllabus
Fix English education
Benefits more than just in the South

[Saravanan Annadurai @saravofcl]

This is the biggest fraud played by BJP upon the Indian people.

During UPA govt the petrol diesel prices were de-regularised. So that fuel prices are tied to reflect crude oil prices.
Not even once in the last 10 years during the BJP rule have they allowed the fuel prices to come down, though crude oil prices have come down drastically.

This is another instance.
The mismanagement of the economy is monumental.

[Arun I B @arunib]

Online costlier than offline( operational costs per ticket).
Can a minister be dumber than this
#irctc
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[Arun I B @arunib]

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[Arun I B @arunib]

@chennaiweather https://t.co/9mxLGOHE9W

[IMD-Tamilnadu Weather @ChennaiRmc]

Fengal update: Cyclonic Storm "FENGAL" crossed coast close to Puducherry between 2230 hrs IST and 2330 hrs IST of the 30th November 2024 as a cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 70-80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph. Likely to move WSW-wards and weaken into DD in next three hours.