מיורי מ. פסקר | Mayuri M. Pascar

All things IR, emerging tech & security; sometimes through a Hindu lens. Lapsed Edit-Oped-walli. PhD @HebrewU. Contributing Editor @CoHNAOfficial.
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[מיורי מ. פסקר | Mayuri M. Pascar @mmayuri]

My take on the Kanishka bombing: this was Babbar Khalsa's signature atrocity; what 9/11 was to Al Qaeda, Munich to Black September.
But Canada wrote it off as a community tragedy. The repercussions are now evident on the streets of Brampton & Vancouver.
https://t.co/Xe9H3O7XlW

[CIGI @CIGIonline]

#ICYMI: Canada’s AI strategy focuses on innovation, economic growth, and trust, but it misses a critical piece of the puzzle. Foreign policy.

CIGI senior fellow @brankamarijan argues that as AI increasingly shapes global power, security, and diplomacy, Canada needs more than a domestic AI agenda. It needs a strategy to help shape international AI governance, strengthen partnerships with allies, and protect its interests in a changing geopolitical landscape.

Read the full article: https://t.co/vnf8khrvzZ

[Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman]

June 15, Meprolight says that "the Indian Army has selected Meprolight’s MEPRO X6 telescopic sight as the dedicated daytime optic for its in-service NEGEV machine guns following a comprehensive multi-year tender process. Selected after extensive operational evaluations and environmental testing, the MEPRO X6 delivers enhanced target identification and engagement capabilities at extended ranges for one of the world’s largest military forces."

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[India in Israel @indemtel]

Indian music lit up the Jerusalem International Jazz Festival! 🇮🇳🇮🇱 Israeli artist Shye Ben Tzur and his ensemble Rajasthan Express, featuring exceptional Indian artists from Rajasthan, enthralled audiences with a unique fusion of Indian and Israeli music. Performing in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Hebrew, they showcased the power of culture to connect people. Amb. J.P. Singh hailed the role of the arts in strengthening India-Israel ties. 🎶✨
#IndiaIsrael
#IndiaIsrael
#jazz
#musicforlife

📷: Meital Izbicki

[מיורי מ. פסקר | Mayuri M. Pascar @mmayuri]

Fascinating! Looking forward to reading this.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

History is now. The new Ottoman imperialism: if you wonder whats happening here with President Erdogan, the rise fall and maybe return of Ottoman rule of Syria Lebanon Jordan Arabia and Holy Land is told in The Cauldron the making of the modern Middle East 1900-2026. Out in august.

[HindolSengupta @HindolSengupta]

A lot of global news escape India. But the revival of the Sagrada Familia, and the blessing of the @Pontifex coming soon after the note on AI and Catholicism, is showing a new level of seriousness for global influence. Other traditions should note.

https://t.co/OU7sLT5IpJ

[EJIR (European Journal of International Relations) @EuroJournIR]

📚 Out in EJIR: new open-access article by Swati Srivastava on how “platform rule” governs networked publics and why the Global South bears the costs.

Read it here: https://t.co/auxzhKyrbi

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Today, our government introduced new legislation to protect our kids online. Canada's Safe Social Media Act will hold social media and AI platforms accountable, make them safer, and restrict access to social media for children under 16.

More and more kids are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and exploitation. To keep our kids safe, we have to ensure that our laws keep up with technology.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Congratulations, Prime Minister @narendramodi on becoming India’s longest-serving continuous Prime Minister.

As Canada and India renew our partnership, I look forward to continuing our work to deliver greater prosperity for both our peoples.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Agree and India’s new strategic doctrine is clear, there will be accountability for cross border terrorism. A massive change from 26/11.

[Pranay Kotasthane @pranaykotas]

The AI for Public Policy directory now has 21 projects. If you are doing something at this intersection, please submit a PR to add your project. Make these public goods travel far and wide.

[Amar Govindarajan @amargov]

India has cracked the hard engineering of making a chip. It can now be designed, fabricated and packaged on Indian soil - capabilities built in under four years.

But then the harder half is just beginning, and it's got to do with the commerce of chips.

For example
- Vervesemi asked Dholera's own tech partner PSMC for a quote. It came back 20% above the Taiwan/Korea fabs they already use.

- Indian packaging houses quoted 3x foreign prices; one needed 6+ months just to build the tooling.

Founder's verdict:
Indian packaging is off by 3–5x - "not ten or fifteen per cent."

Where Indian semi story is stalling:
- India installs 50 million smart meters a year. Every chip inside is imported.
- Vervesemi has a qualified Indian alternative, already shown to the Power Ministry. No mechanism exists to get it into the meter.

Why? Product companies - the Qualcomm/Broadcom/MediaTek layer that turns a design into a line on a manufacturer's bill of materials - doesn't exist in India yet.

A single fab needs $4–5 billion of volume to break even. We're not sure India is putting that on the table yet.

What the next phase has to fix:
- Preferential foundry pricing until Indian fabs scale
- An L1-tender carve-out so Indian chips aren't auto-disqualified for costing 2x in the early years
- A BIS rule counting active-component content, not just resistors and connectors
- Expected in policy form before July 2026

This @swarajyamag deep-dive by @dikshayadav_ & Ankit Saxena is a slightly LONG read but it kinda gives you the inner picture of where India stands today.

https://t.co/tsD1dWcHa7

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

There are few people more responsible for modern AI than @Yoshua_Bengio. He’s written many of its foundational papers—and more recently has become one of the industry’s most articulate critics.

We’ve just released my podcast with him, where we discussed some of the biggest questions the technology poses to daily life and our institutions. The whole conversation is worth watching, but here are some key points. 1/ https://t.co/tudeRWY2eS

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We just launched Canada’s new AI Strategy: AI For All. 

We’re taking control of our future — with AI that’s governed by Canadian values, AI that’s accountable to Canadians, and AI that serves all Canadians.

[HindolSengupta @HindolSengupta]

In a war-torn world, economic uncertainity and desperation is growing. Alongwith it, algorithmic warfare which can trigger mass civilian unrest. Is India prepared?

https://t.co/kccc3uwgVC

[CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America) @CoHNAOfficial]

Did anyone else do a double take at the Hindu art references at this year's Met Gala?

Isha Ambani dropped pichwai from Nathdwara. Ananya Birla channeled Chola bronzes and mapped the Shaiva cosmological axis in precious stones. Karan Johar's cape was literally a walking exhibition of Raja Ravi Varma paintings — Krishna Shishtai, Damayanti, Urvashi, all of it. Pacho showed up with his Suryavanshi lineage embroidered into his coat. And Sudha Reddy wore the entire Telugu Hindu cosmos in Kalamkari cloth.

Full breakdown by @mmayuri exclusively for CoHNA
https://t.co/AHuagdJOuX

[מיורי מ. פסקר | Mayuri M. Pascar @mmayuri]

We were Jyoti Babu's orphans; forced out of a Bengal that had been bled dry by Communist rule. Then Mamata scorched the earth behind us.
Hoping the BJP will now stem the rot and bring new life, so our children will still have a home in the land of their ancestors.
Joy Ma Kaali!

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

My Globe op-ed on the U.S. heads-they-win, tails-you-lose approach to digital sovereignty concerns. The US CLOUD Act asserts jurisdiction over data wherever stored. Countries that respond to it with sovereign AI initiatives are told that's a trade barrier.
https://t.co/8L2cXy9NLw

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

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