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Trying to make sense of the world...On a post-facto basis :)

[Manasa Manjunath @ManeeManjunath]

I wonder Ms. Nilekani, with your wealth, how many kids you have. If you send them to a government school and your family goes to a government hospital. How about you lead by example and show people how to be satisfied.

[Manasa Manjunath @ManeeManjunath]

Your argument was for people having more kids. When a woman pointed out how expensive education and healthcare is, you pointed out that free education & healthcare exist. If the quality of either isn’t upto the mark, why make the statement at all? You cannot talk about policy in a vacuum. It needs to take in ground realities which yours don’t. So you’re rightly being called out.

[Swati Chaturvedi @bainjal]

The main stream media is so lame in India that instead of being a watchdog of democracy it is celebrating the breaking of parties by the ruling party using every trick in the book. When this chapter of our history is written our profession would be the most debased

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Today's Telegram ban is proof of why an indigenous social media or messaging app can never grow in India.

If @durov was Indian, he would be in jail along with his entire team and his entire infrastructure seized because a question paper was supposedly leaked on Telegram. It would have taken a few months to get bail. Line of FIRs stretching to Kanyakumari. Court cases dragging on for a decade or more. TV channels would have gone to town with all kinds of consipracies of how Soros is involved.

We have vaguely written laws, open to the worst interpretation and bureaucratic overreactions. It's not a stable foundation for anyone to build on.

The same applies to now AI. Anyday someone will be offended in this country by anything an indigenous AI generates in text or images and the founders can find themselves in jail and fighting court cases.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Forget social media or messaging apps, no deep tech can be developed in India because the govt of the day can simply torpedo anything you build if they wake up in the morning and don't like your face. And given the state of the judiciary, you have no legal recourse.

[R@. @ByTheTons]

@jasveer10 @durov The problem with this take is that you can apply it to the entire internet and ban the whole websphere.

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Indian elites want western aesthetics without western value systems.

Farmers' markets but no farmers. European-style parks and skateboarding arenas but restricted to residents of their gated communities. Western style protests but against Trump, not Modi. Rap music but with lyrics that have no angst about caste. Pride parade but with the KJo/Orry aesthetic.

You don't get a Paris or New York like this. You only get a Hiranandani or DLF.

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

Who’s fooled by this breathtaking hypocrisy, I wonder. BJP/RSS lost many to militancy and terror. BJP backed Op Bluestar. It’s known that Deoras’s RSS silently backed Rajiv Gandhi in Dec 1984 polls ‘in the national interest.’ This dangerously undermines mainstream forces in Sikh politics

[Its_I💫 @I44945572]

I've never seen any other country's PM doing all this nautanki. I mean what even is the point of all this?

[Rohan @Rohan7187]

I hope that everyone is aware by now that all such events happen at public expenses.

Those dancers are booked through some company and have to be paid(They didn't come on their own to welcome the joker as the post claims). The hall is booked at a substantial cost for all this drama. The cameraman too.

One of the basic rules of leadership is leading by example. So what happened to austerity push and difficult times? Sab theek ho gaya kya?

#justasking

[R@. @ByTheTons]

RT @ManishTewari: No regret , No remorse, no empathy, no sympathy. Abrupt, abrasive confrontational .

@SecRubio could not have been more…

[Swati Chaturvedi @bainjal]

Dear @vineetjaintimes are you really happy with employing the “KACHRA of media” India’s national joke Ms Imma Bounce as your @TimesNow Editor?

[Grouchy Maxx @softgrowl]

Still recall your the names of the PLA soldiers assumedly killed by our forces at Galwan

One of the names really stood out-

Ho Lee Fuk

[Supra | スープラ @supurasensei]

It's bad enough that this photograph was taken the way it was. It's worse that it was released publicly and is now seared into public memory.

The worst aviation tragedy in years, and you have the non-biological being there surveying the damage dispassionately like he's Batman. People have called it 'a pose' - however, I think it's quite likely a candid shot taken by a slightly overzealous photographer.

Any reasonable person would look at this picture in a camera roll and conclude it wasn't fit to be released to the public in the wake of the tragedy. But then, there seem to be very few reasonable people in the Indian government. Just a narcissist and a bunch of yes men, with absolutely no idea of what constitutes propriety and good taste.

[Bhaumik Gowande @bhaumikgowande]

Flawed point! Have you ever heard any European/Americans say such stuff? No right, because thats how equity works when every citizen is treated equal & gets same municipal services. It’s exactly why, ur budget trip in europe offers better experience than a premium trip in India.

[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.

[Parth Chaturvedi @_mrchaturvedi]

You all must realised these numbers that product managers of streaming services are peddling only to fool you, nothing else. Earlier, Hotstar was acting with integrity and was showing how many people concurrently watching the streaming.

Now if you click play, they count a view, if you rewind 5 sec and then go live again, bang another view, if you pause and play, one more view, if you just checker scope and went back, one more view.. nobody now really knows how many people are watching together concurrently.

[R@. @ByTheTons]

"Journalism isn't stand up comedy"...but you're still very much a clown (& the evil kind at that).

[Navika Kumar @navikakumar]

Mr Das, agencies investigated, built the case, and when the case collapsed, that was reported too.
Journalism isn’t stand-up comedy, we don’t improvise facts for applause.
Also, you don’t get to decide when I can or cannot speak on women. The FoS brigade often seems to have a problem with other people’s freedom of speech.
I recommend yoga and meditation for a calmer mind. Also, keep your gyan to yourself.

[Mr. Chaudhary @saukgp]

@navikakumar @thevirdas This women brought a side bag full of secrets against Rhea Chakroborty in Studio....

Thr was no secret, she was just trying to manipulate the audience for applause.

She is a motley colored clown. Don't confuse her as Journalist.

[Surbhi @SurrbhiM]

@VishnuNDTV Didn't your hand tremble while writing this ? And you are telling us about rules right now? At a time like this? 3 innocent people have lost their lives, and you are trying to justify the killings by quoting laws to us.