surinder singh

[Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 @YourAnonTV]

🚨WATCH: Ex-OpenAI & Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon WARNS AI COULD KILL US ALL BY 2030

[Aman Ganvir @aman_ganvir]

“An upper caste man could not have defiled himself by raping a lower caste woman.”

The trial court said this while acquitting the accused.

In 1992, Bhanwari Devi tried to stop a child marriage. She was then gang-raped.

Her case led to Vishaka guidelines& POSH act, 2013.

[Joe Benton @JoeJBenton]

I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. Now feels like a good moment to explain why.

AI companies are racing to build machines that are much smarter than any human, and we may not survive this. I want to work from the outside to ensure the public is informed about these risks, and help the world navigate this transition responsibly.

Right now, AI companies are underinvesting in safety. A company could undergo an intelligence explosion, or lose control of its systems, without the public ever knowing. We only found out about the HuggingFace incident because the agents broke out onto the public internet.

I don’t think that’s acceptable for a technology that might cause extinction-level risks. The public should demand far more transparency. We can’t steer this technology safely without more people being able to see where it’s going.

Some of this is basic: companies should disclose their progress towards recursive self-improvement, report safety incidents and near-misses, meet minimum safety standards, and get independent guarantees that they are meeting those standards.

I’ll be joining @METR_Evals to do independent evaluations of these risks. I want to show the world that these guardrails are possible, and that by doing them we can move these companies’ incentives away from racing and towards responsible development.

I wrote up more thoughts here on my decision and what I hope changes: https://t.co/doX17mrHYq

[V. Ramgopal Rao, Ph.D. @ramgopal_rao]

𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮 𝗨𝗦𝗗 𝟭 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗶 𝗚𝗼𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀.

𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 are at the heart of batteries, hydrogen technologies, semiconductors, sensors, photovoltaics and many other areas that will shape our future. India needs to develop its own capabilities in these areas. We cannot remain dependent on imported materials and technologies.

The AMRIT Center will work on both research and translation. The idea is not merely to publish papers, but to create intellectual property, work closely with industry and take promising technologies from the laboratory to the market. It will also train a new generation of researchers in this important field.

Anurag Jain, BITS Pilani 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟮, is chairman of Access Healthcare (@GetAHSolutions), a global healthcare services platform, and co-founder and managing partner of @perotjain, a Dallas-based venture capital firm investing in artificial intelligence, robotics, and computer vision. He previously served as president of Perot Systems and Dell Services. Jain is also chairman emeritus of the North Texas Food Bank and a co-founder of Get Shift Done.

What makes this contribution special is the ambition behind it. He wants 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗶 to build a globally recognised centre that can contribute to India’s technological capabilities.

Thank you, Mr. Jain, for believing in BITS Pilani and for giving back with such vision. Contributions such as these can transform institutions and create opportunities for generations of students and researchers.

#AdvancedMaterials @BITSAA @bitspilaniindia

[Craig Steinke @Craig_Steinke]

The Houthis just struck Saudi Arabia's key oil pipeline.

Mainstream media is silent, but NASA satellite images are clear.

And 7% of the world's oil supply goes through that pipe.

What happened + how it affects the West: 👇

[Anant Hegde @Anant_Hegde_25]

As a BTech CSE student, been stuck on these exact questions for past few days.

Really loved hearing @prathoshap talk about it so openly. No easy answers, but these are conversations we need.

[Pritam Chauhan @Im_pritam18]

Dr. Pratosh at IISc Bengaluru tells his students that rapid advances in AI are commoditizing intellectual labour.

He raises an unsettling question: if companies stop recruiting on campus in the next 5–10 years—even at India’s top universities—what will the purpose of a university education be ?

A must watch video for everyone in tech

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

24 Fields Medal winners have written a letter of objection https://t.co/uY2OSfyRnI

[Akash Sampurnanand Pandey @late_bloomer_7]

Computer Science was smuggled into India.

In 1963, IIT Kanpur’s IBM 1620 arrived by military plane got hauled onto campus on a bullock cart.

By 1965, @IITKanpur launched its compulsory programming course, TA 306, for all branches.

Why TA? It stands for Technical Arts. Back then, nobody called a computer a science. It sat in the same category as carpentry and workshop trades.

When the education ministry repeatedly rejected forming a CS department for being too vocational, Prof. V. Rajaraman took matters into his own hands.

In 1978, he quietly stole 2 to 3 seats from other departments to assemble an unauthorized 20-student CS batch. He taught them using ₹5 textbooks he self-printed in the campus shop.

That illegal batch closed at JEE Rank 40, forcing every other IIT to copy the program.

One student in that cohort was Rajeev Motwani, who later went to Stanford and mentored Larry Page and Sergey Brin as they built @Google

India’s $200B+ IT industry wasn't created by government policy. It was an unauthorized inside job

[Article 14 @Article14live]

A wildlife sanctuary was reduced by >12 times the land originally sought for a paramilitary camp. The promised “compensatory” addition still exists only on paper—just one of 35 cases in which India’s wildlife authority helped shrink or erase protected areas

Prakriti Srivastava & @prernabindra

https://t.co/FLOoflcgpj

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.

In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov’s soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.

I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.

If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.

We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.

AI is not discovering new mathematics.

AI is stealing human discovery.

[Ali @MerruX]

The Entire Saudi East West Pumping station was destroyed!!!!
That pipeline is likely shutdown or extremely limited.
Saudi Exports to yanbu gonna drop

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Archives | A joint investigation by the German publication Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Venezuelan media outlet Armando Info has revealed that Vantara, owned by Anant Ambani, the youngest son of the Reliance chairperson, Mukesh Ambani, has received at least thirty-nine thousand wild animals from over thirty countries since 2022. Several of the imported animals in Vantara actually belong to species that are subject to an international trade ban, under the CITES. The report notes that Vantara has been under international scrutiny for bypassing restrictions under the CITES, possibly with cover from the Indian government.

Read @akhileshhpandey's cover story on how Modi's Project Cheetah is falling apart from our April 2025 issue:
https://t.co/0bbjfYM2ld
#Vantara #NarendraModi

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan last night damaged several American aircraft -CBS

Roughly eight F-15s suffered light damage and one A-10 was severely damaged, losing a wing.

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Baraats (wedding processions) by Dalits and members of Other Backward Castes have been routinely subjected to violence by upper castes. However, Uttar Pradesh saw several such incidents this year, many involving Thakurs. Though the community has been behind several violent attacks across the state, it has faced few consequences owing, in no small part, to the fact that the state’s chief minister, Ajay Bisht, known commonly as Adityanath, is a Thakur.

The Caravan visited Meerut to find out about two such cases that occurred earlier this year. Watch here: https://t.co/MWyxbUae5L

[thehillnews.in @thehill_news]

हिमाचल के शिमला जिला के रामपुर क्षेत्र फांचा कांडा एरिया में पहाड़ पर भीषण लैंडस्लाइड

[surinder singh @SinghSurinder0]

@Anoopnautiyal1 “mafias” (hoteliers, builders, contractors, other mafia etc.) The himalyan communities are the indigenous/मूलनिवासी of Himalayas are likely to become marginalized on their own land as their land is LOOTED by these “mafias”.

[surinder singh @SinghSurinder0]

@Anoopnautiyal1 SMOKE SCREEN of ‘growth driver’: This is the GAME OF RESOURCES. Wherever there are resources big “mafias” become active. This is not new.

[Anoop Nautiyal @Anoopnautiyal1]

My reading of the situation in #Uttarakhand tells me that five star hotels, resorts and tourism are being seen as the biggest growth driver across the state. Many pointers like the govt's real estate asset monetisation and infrastructure development are indicating this direction to me.

While one may argue that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this approach, I am not seeing the corresponding focus on developing a grassroots led decentralised social and economic system rooted around healthcare, education, agric/horticulture, migration reduction and the like.

This model is akin to developing "gated communities" that are suited for the well heeled, higher end customers; suitable for an aspirational high GDP centric model but perhaps ignoring the interests of large numbers of people who are ill equipped or lack the resources to partake in this model of development. How this shapes up and what impact this will have on millions remains to be seen in the coming years!

[surinder singh @SinghSurinder0]

@Anoopnautiyal1 Himachal & uttrakhand were saved for the last 70years because there were no mineral resources and terrain was difficult to survive.Within last few years “land & environment” of Himachal & uttrakhand have become a kind of “resource” ready for LOOT by the