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Did Sarvam simply copy China's DeepSeek and slapped an Indian flag on it?
Yes And No!
The backlash against an Indian startup reveals a deep misunderstanding about how every breakthrough in artificial intelligence was built.
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Yes And No!
The backlash against an Indian startup reveals a deep misunderstanding about how every breakthrough in artificial intelligence was built.
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This "copycat" charge could be levelled at every major AI system ever built — including DeepSeek itself.
The AI Innovation Chain: From the first neural network model in 1943 to Sarvam's Indian-language AI in 2026 — every breakthrough built on what came before.
The AI Innovation Chain: From the first neural network model in 1943 to Sarvam's Indian-language AI in 2026 — every breakthrough built on what came before.
Here is all that Sarvam built independently: a custom tokenizer 3-4x more efficient for Indian scripts, 12 trillion tokens of training data, and an entire product ecosystem with no DeepSeek equivalent.
Delhi High Court to hear today CBI's plea challenging discharge of Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, K Kavitha and 20 others in the excise policy case.
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma to hear the matter.
@ArvindKejriwal @msisodia @CBIHeadquarters @AamAadmiParty @RaoKavitha
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma to hear the matter.
@ArvindKejriwal @msisodia @CBIHeadquarters @AamAadmiParty @RaoKavitha
The CBI has filed a 974-page revision plea stating that the trial court order is "patently illegal, perverse and suffers from errors apparent on the face".
It has also sought a stay on the court's direction to initiate proceedings against the officer who investigated the case.
It has also sought a stay on the court's direction to initiate proceedings against the officer who investigated the case.
NEW
Havana Syndrome survivors say the 60 Minutes coverage is part of a larger cover-up. Several survivors told me it’s the CIA trying to portray this as a foreign threat, even though Americans—including civilians—are being targeted.
These survivors are known as “targeted individuals.”
Havana Syndrome survivors say the 60 Minutes coverage is part of a larger cover-up. Several survivors told me it’s the CIA trying to portray this as a foreign threat, even though Americans—including civilians—are being targeted.
These survivors are known as “targeted individuals.”
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In 1961, biologist Allan H. Frey, working at GE's Advanced Electronics Center at Cornell University, published a finding in the Journal of Applied Physiology that changed the physics of hearing: pulsed microwave radiation causes humans to perceive sounds (buzzing, clicks, hissing, and with sufficient modulation, even words ) directly inside their heads, with no external sound source whatsoever.
This is accomplished using rapid microwave pulses that heat brain tissue in micro-scale bursts — temperature changes of roughly 0.00001 degrees Celsius, too small to damage tissue but sufficient to create thermoelastic expansion.
Each pulse generates a pressure wave that travels through the skull to the cochlea via bone conduction — the same pathway used by bone-conduction hearing aids.
The auditory cortex registers the signal. The brain hears a sound.
In 1961, biologist Allan H. Frey, working at GE's Advanced Electronics Center at Cornell University, published a finding in the Journal of Applied Physiology that changed the physics of hearing: pulsed microwave radiation causes humans to perceive sounds (buzzing, clicks, hissing, and with sufficient modulation, even words ) directly inside their heads, with no external sound source whatsoever.
This is accomplished using rapid microwave pulses that heat brain tissue in micro-scale bursts — temperature changes of roughly 0.00001 degrees Celsius, too small to damage tissue but sufficient to create thermoelastic expansion.
Each pulse generates a pressure wave that travels through the skull to the cochlea via bone conduction — the same pathway used by bone-conduction hearing aids.
The auditory cortex registers the signal. The brain hears a sound.
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Here’s the point that psychological explanations routinely miss: the auditory cortex cannot tell a Frey Effect signal from a natural sound.
Both travel the same neural pathways, processed by the same mechanisms, and experienced as equally real.
It isn’t that the brain is broken or not functioning properly when it “hears” a Frey Effect—it’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do: listen.
Scientists have replicated this phenomenon in labs around the world since the 1960s. This is documented fact.
Here’s the point that psychological explanations routinely miss: the auditory cortex cannot tell a Frey Effect signal from a natural sound.
Both travel the same neural pathways, processed by the same mechanisms, and experienced as equally real.
It isn’t that the brain is broken or not functioning properly when it “hears” a Frey Effect—it’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do: listen.
Scientists have replicated this phenomenon in labs around the world since the 1960s. This is documented fact.
Iran’s new Supreme Leader may make this war more dangerous than the one he replaces.
History shows that when leaders are killed at the start of conflicts, their successors often escalate to prove authority.
It’s a pattern I call the Harder Successor Problem.
A thread.
History shows that when leaders are killed at the start of conflicts, their successors often escalate to prove authority.
It’s a pattern I call the Harder Successor Problem.
A thread.
When an enemy kills a leader, the successor inherits a problem:
They must prove they are strong enough to rule.
Backing down early can look like weakness inside the regime and to rivals watching closely.
So escalation often becomes politically necessary.
They must prove they are strong enough to rule.
Backing down early can look like weakness inside the regime and to rivals watching closely.
So escalation often becomes politically necessary.
We’ve seen this dynamic repeatedly.
Leadership decapitation is often expected to weaken regimes.
But historically it frequently produces more hawkish successors, not moderates.
The logic is internal legitimacy.
Leadership decapitation is often expected to weaken regimes.
But historically it frequently produces more hawkish successors, not moderates.
The logic is internal legitimacy.
WTF -- why is the Canadian state broadcaster pushing for Canada to join the EU???
we would get 57 votes OUT OF 700 in the EU parliament -- we would LOSE our sovereignty!
and we would get FINED $1 million per day for not taking migrants in!
NO. THANKS!!
we would get 57 votes OUT OF 700 in the EU parliament -- we would LOSE our sovereignty!
and we would get FINED $1 million per day for not taking migrants in!
NO. THANKS!!
Alberta would get like 8 votes out of 700.
Quebec would get like 12.
...and their provincial laws wouldn't be recognized at all.
Quebec would get like 12.
...and their provincial laws wouldn't be recognized at all.
The UK is mostly a shithole
and even they left this much bigger shithole.
and even they left this much bigger shithole.
🛰️ New Article: Building an OSINT Pipeline to Cut Through the Iranian Conflict Noise.
SPOILER ALERT: We're winning.
I just published a long-form analysis on the Iran conflict and the strategic dynamics around it. Sorry for the Substack-only publication; the article itself was far too long and complex in formatting to publish with 𝕏 tooling. (Feedback to the 𝕏 team - if you can just make full Markdown capability, I would be thrilled.)
Before anything else: I'm only a civilian data analyst, not a military officer or intelligence professional. This piece is the result of two weeks of intensive work where I did something unusual.... I built and experimented with an AI-assisted OSINT synthesis pipeline using military doctrine, think tank research, and public reporting.
Part of the goal was to produce something useful for readers.
But honestly, the bigger goal was education for myself, forcing a structured process to sort signal from noise in an information environment that's chaotic right now.
The pipeline pulls from sources like CSIS, ISW, CEPA, ISIS nuclear reporting, CENTCOM and IDF briefings, plus open-source economic and energy data. Where I step beyond what those sources explicitly state, I mark it clearly as [ASSESSED] and try to show the reasoning.
This article is the first full output of that process.
If you have expertise in:
🔹 air campaign planning
🔹 nuclear nonproliferation
🔹 Middle East security policy
🔹 energy markets
🔹 OSINT methodology
I would genuinely welcome corrections, critiques, or improvements. The entire point is to make the analytical process more rigorous over time.
The pipeline itself will keep evolving. Bring on the rotten tomatoes.
Link in next post 👇
SPOILER ALERT: We're winning.
I just published a long-form analysis on the Iran conflict and the strategic dynamics around it. Sorry for the Substack-only publication; the article itself was far too long and complex in formatting to publish with 𝕏 tooling. (Feedback to the 𝕏 team - if you can just make full Markdown capability, I would be thrilled.)
Before anything else: I'm only a civilian data analyst, not a military officer or intelligence professional. This piece is the result of two weeks of intensive work where I did something unusual.... I built and experimented with an AI-assisted OSINT synthesis pipeline using military doctrine, think tank research, and public reporting.
Part of the goal was to produce something useful for readers.
But honestly, the bigger goal was education for myself, forcing a structured process to sort signal from noise in an information environment that's chaotic right now.
The pipeline pulls from sources like CSIS, ISW, CEPA, ISIS nuclear reporting, CENTCOM and IDF briefings, plus open-source economic and energy data. Where I step beyond what those sources explicitly state, I mark it clearly as [ASSESSED] and try to show the reasoning.
This article is the first full output of that process.
If you have expertise in:
🔹 air campaign planning
🔹 nuclear nonproliferation
🔹 Middle East security policy
🔹 energy markets
🔹 OSINT methodology
I would genuinely welcome corrections, critiques, or improvements. The entire point is to make the analytical process more rigorous over time.
The pipeline itself will keep evolving. Bring on the rotten tomatoes.
Link in next post 👇
Have fun spotting the Tom Nichols mention!
Amid the war on Iran, this is how Israeli occupation forces are sealing off Palestinian towns and villages, turning the West Bank into a network of closed-off areas.
@PMalinauskasMP @leftboomer 1/3
A significant but largely symbolic step, unfortunately.
It is overshadowed by the egregious acts of your government:
1. Blatant support for genocidal Israel by suppressing those who dissent (e.g. Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah)
2. Partnership with the Saudi LIV Golf …
A significant but largely symbolic step, unfortunately.
It is overshadowed by the egregious acts of your government:
1. Blatant support for genocidal Israel by suppressing those who dissent (e.g. Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah)
2. Partnership with the Saudi LIV Golf …
@PMalinauskasMP @leftboomer 2/3
… and its murderous leader - Crown Prince ‘Bonesaws’ Mohammed bin Salman
3. Destruction of public land and 100s of trees for a new home for LIV Golf despite warnings of its demise
4. Supporting Walker Corporation's …
… and its murderous leader - Crown Prince ‘Bonesaws’ Mohammed bin Salman
3. Destruction of public land and 100s of trees for a new home for LIV Golf despite warnings of its demise
4. Supporting Walker Corporation's …
@PMalinauskasMP @leftboomer 3/3
… proposed 38-storey monstrosity with a lease at $1 p.a. essentially in perpetuity!
Shame on you and your band of neoliberal shills.
… proposed 38-storey monstrosity with a lease at $1 p.a. essentially in perpetuity!
Shame on you and your band of neoliberal shills.
Catholics in the 1960s/Jews in the 1960s
All due respect to Jesus Christ, seeing things like this, the Catholic Church basically going "Oops" like that comic panel of Super Mario knocking down the WTC as a response to it, and being pro refugee/mass migration on top of all that makes me dislike it
If you read that report (I did) it's basically how Democrats treat black criminals in 2026 where they were repeat offenders and given extremely light punishments, if any at all
Markets blowing up. As usual lots of interesting stuff. Will just drop a cpl notes. I expect a few more days of pain before TACO big time, this isn’t a firmly held view but it’s unlikely Trump can just sit and endure $110 oil for more than a week.
In any case I think these prob work regardless…
In any case I think these prob work regardless…
$BSL.AX at $25 and change. How long before the mkt forces re-engagement w $SGH.AX at $32.35? Pretty decent spread now. I reckon you see low $24s then some kind of change in mgmt posture. stokes is a long term strategic buyer and won’t care about near-term oil px vol. dipping back in small.
$PPM.AX NBIO at $2.6 less div is about $2.52. Stock $2.16 so about 15% cheap on a deal that I think closes in <5mos. You prob could get it $2.1 or cheaper in coming days but pretty juicy here.
Key view is KKR is rolling their 60%, ie they’re already pregnant. Yes, some chance $CGF.AX tries to recut etc but I’ll live with that risk given both extant businesses (bidder and seller) no direct oil px impact
Key view is KKR is rolling their 60%, ie they’re already pregnant. Yes, some chance $CGF.AX tries to recut etc but I’ll live with that risk given both extant businesses (bidder and seller) no direct oil px impact
The New Democratic Party: Operation Baldwin Reconciliation
With Joe Biden out of the way and Kamala Harris knocked aside for Donald Trump infiltrators have seized their chance to push the Democratic party further away from its civil rights era roots.
With Joe Biden out of the way and Kamala Harris knocked aside for Donald Trump infiltrators have seized their chance to push the Democratic party further away from its civil rights era roots.
In this new era, black people and APAIC are the enemies and Caucasian men with bibles, shotguns, nazi tattoos and flying Hamas flags are the new hope for the future.
That future these interlopers are relying on rests on the hoop dream of somehow gaining election ground with young white men who in their brilliance instead of voting for an accomplished black woman insisted on an 80-year-old white man criminal, child rapist
what you're looking at is a fuel depot burning in the middle of a megacity of 9 m people & nobody is talking about what this smoke actually contains
when refined petroleum burns at this scale it releases a cocktail of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds, these particles are small enough to bypass bypass your lungs entirely and enter your bloodstream directly…
we're talking PM2.5 concentrations that can spike to 50 to 100 times safe levels within a 20km radiu
right now in tehran people are breathing this in, eyes burning, throats closing, children coughing, asthmatics flooding emergency rooms & outside acid rain is falling on the water supply, the soil, the crops…everything that sustains daily life in a city of 9m
but the real damage comes later, years later, elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issue
this is what happened after the Kuwait oil fires in 1991, after the mosul refinery burns in 2016, after every single conflict where fuel infrastructure was deliberately targeted, the medical literature on this is extensive & devastating
deliberately bombing fuel infrastructure insidde a civilian megacity knowing full well what the toxic fallout does to the population over decades is chemical warfare without the label, you achieve the same mass casualty outcome over a longer timeline and somehow it stays legal because the weapon is fire instead of sarin
these people are being sentenced to cancers they will develop in 2035 by bombs dropped in 2026 & they call it liberation
when refined petroleum burns at this scale it releases a cocktail of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds, these particles are small enough to bypass bypass your lungs entirely and enter your bloodstream directly…
we're talking PM2.5 concentrations that can spike to 50 to 100 times safe levels within a 20km radiu
right now in tehran people are breathing this in, eyes burning, throats closing, children coughing, asthmatics flooding emergency rooms & outside acid rain is falling on the water supply, the soil, the crops…everything that sustains daily life in a city of 9m
but the real damage comes later, years later, elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issue
this is what happened after the Kuwait oil fires in 1991, after the mosul refinery burns in 2016, after every single conflict where fuel infrastructure was deliberately targeted, the medical literature on this is extensive & devastating
deliberately bombing fuel infrastructure insidde a civilian megacity knowing full well what the toxic fallout does to the population over decades is chemical warfare without the label, you achieve the same mass casualty outcome over a longer timeline and somehow it stays legal because the weapon is fire instead of sarin
these people are being sentenced to cancers they will develop in 2035 by bombs dropped in 2026 & they call it liberation
the science on this is settled & it's terrifying
benzene alone is classified group 1 carcinogen by the WHO, the 1991 Kuwait oil fires are still generating elevated cancer rates 30y later, a 2023 meta analysis across 28,000 subjects confirmed a 20% increase in lung cancer from benzene exposure
here are the studies, everything I said above is peer reviewed & published in medical journals
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
benzene alone is classified group 1 carcinogen by the WHO, the 1991 Kuwait oil fires are still generating elevated cancer rates 30y later, a 2023 meta analysis across 28,000 subjects confirmed a 20% increase in lung cancer from benzene exposure
here are the studies, everything I said above is peer reviewed & published in medical journals
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
