Hemanshu S

Indian | Loyalist | Outright Frank |Tech & Psychology Savvy | Developer | Dreamer | Forever a Student

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Damn! Bus I know why I am suddenly seeing so many Anti-Messi, Anti-Argentina posts - even from folks who don't understand an iota of football!

[Winna F.C. @WinnaFC]

🚨| BREAKING: Rumors suggest a famous footballer has kicked off a coordinated media campaign targeting Messi and Argentina.😳💰

Our team received it too, we ignored it.❌

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[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

INDIA WINS FIRST EVER GOLD AT WORLD ROWING CUP IN LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE SCULLS 🥇

- Lakshay and Ujjwal Kumar Singh made History!

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@I_am_Vedvrat 💯

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@MKBHD My night sky shot on iPhone 18 Ultra Pro Max Plus ❤️

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This thought process itself is a problem, blaming the government for everything. @SarvamAI is doing a fantastic job, @GoI_MeitY GPU public-private partnership is helping smaller orgs push barriers. Ofcourse improvements are needed but these biased opinions are absolutely useless.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

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.

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@Rawtrutholog @petergostev Are you sure that will suffice?

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Well said.
@PMOIndia @AshwiniVaishnaw @narendramodi @svembu @SarvamAI
Take a note. Living at the mercy of the US may well be the end of the Indian software and tech market in general.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This is so significant for us here in India.

The US government just told Anthropic to cut off its two most powerful models from foreign nationals, inside or outside America.

Anthropic could not cleanly fence off foreigners from Americans, so it pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone.

Let me walk you through what happened & explain what this means for us.

This week Anthropic launched two new models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

Both sit on the same very capable base. Mythos is the heavy one. It is so good at finding software security holes that Anthropic kept it limited to a small set of trusted partners under a program called Glasswing.

Mozilla said it fixed hundreds of security bugs using an early version of it. That cyber skill is exactly what makes the model valuable, and exactly what makes a government nervous.

On Friday, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Anthropic's CEO putting both models under export control.

By one account, the trigger was another company claiming it had jailbroken Mythos. The government had also tried earlier to get Anthropic to delay the launch and failed. The letter came right after that.

Anthropic complied within hours but pushed back hard in public.

It says the so-called jailbreak is narrow. Other public models like GPT-5.5 already do this, and security defenders use it every single day.

Anthropic's argument is simple. If a minor finding like this can yank a model used by hundreds of millions of people, then no frontier model from anyone could ever stay online.

The company also built Fable with extra guardrails and a 30-day data retention rule specifically to catch and shut down misuse fast, so being recalled over this stings even more for them.

Now, what does this mean for you and me, building on these tools from Bengaluru or Pune.

Day to day, almost nothing changes right now. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are gone for everyone, but Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet and Haiku all still work. Your normal Claude usage is fine. ChatGPT and Gemini are fine.

But the deeper story is that the most powerful AI is now being treated like advanced chips. A controlled export.

The same way the US decides which Nvidia chips India is allowed to buy, it can now decide which AI models India is allowed to use.

And the word "foreign national" puts all of us in one bucket, friend of America or not.

Remember that Anthropic's own CEO was in New Delhi in February, talking up AI for India. That closeness did not stop the tap from being turned off.

So this can lead to interesting ramifications.

One. A two-tier AI world.

US persons get the top tier, the cyber-capable frontier. The rest of us get the model one notch below, and even that can vanish overnight. This order landed at 5:21 PM with zero warning and the model was gone the same evening.

Two. A massive reason for India to build its own.

Every minister and founder talking about sovereign AI just got handed proof. If a tool can be switched off from a foreign capital you do not vote in, you cannot put anything critical on top of it.

Not a bank, not a hospital system, not a government service, nothing.

Three. A lesson for builders.

Do not wire your product to a single model from a single country and assume it stays.

Keep a fallback model ready to swap in. Abstract your prompts so you are not married to one provider. Treat model access like a supply chain with risk.

Four. Slower, messier launches ahead.

If governments can pull a model over a narrow finding, every lab will get more cautious about what it ships and where.

Expect more launches that are geo-gated from day one, where India is simply not on the list at the start.

I use these tools all day and I am not about to stop. I am not panicking and neither should you. None of this breaks your workflow tonight.

But if you are building on American AI from India, treat today as the day to plan for access being pausable.

Keep a backup. Read the sovereign AI conversation a lot more seriously than you did last week.

[Hemanshu S @ashhem]

@letsblinkit, i am seeing the not available status for straight 4 days in a row at anytime of the day. What are you playing at?! Event at 12 midnight you have excess demand, even at 4 AM, 7 AM, 2 PM, 5 PM, any given time of day this is the same status!!

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@xadhish They found out about your new salary 🤣

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@I_am_Vedvrat Nicely done!

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@Neduszn8 Juan Mata

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@RaminNasibov @elonmusk Just 1? RoadRash
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@techyminati @MadhavSheth1 @aiplus_official As per my knowledge, you are partially - rather mostly right.
✅ Linux is GPLv2 so you kernel must be Opensource.
✅ Chinese ODMs have IP blobs/binaries as HAL between OS & Kernel
✅ AOSP is Apache

But,
❌ AOSP should be open source.
No, it's permissive, can have IP.

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