RK Iyer

@RaminNasibov 'Surrounded by idiots'

Name a book that you think is 10/10. But only one.

@Sajwani @SenWarren Not impossible, but definitely requires factories on the Moon and Mars to achieve. By then, I don’t think dollars will be used as currency. Just mass and energy.

@knowShubhangi Unlike the answers in that paper, reading on flight is "True" cheat code (unless there's an infant on board)

Flight read - best place to read papers - no distractions, people are quiet 💃🏻

@Platypuss_10 Crazy how we need "Air force" for examination paper security. Isn't police enough for it? 🤔

Indian Air Force C-17 Globemaster Delivered the Re- Neet Examination Papers in Patna.

Ceasefire Violation by Pakistan Army in the Poonch-Balakote Sector. Indian Army responding effectively to the provocation.

@Rainmaker1973 She's my fitness role model 😎

A 92-year-old woman escaped her nursing home in eastern China by climbing a 2.15-meter gate. In just 24 seconds, she pulled herself up, swung over the bars, and landed on the other side.

Ceasefire violation reported in Poonch's Balakote sector; Indian Army retaliates.

@bramh0sWali But dogs are at least loyal 🤦🏽

A$im Munir

@WarMonitorINTL Can't agree more!

Nothing should be free except healthcare and education. - says former Vice President Venkaiah Naidu What do you think about this?

@prakdadlani There's a lot I admire about China, but the example you gave are not innovation, it's basically the Gov forcing citizens. I don't want India to go that route anyday. Our innovations should be so good that our people use it over foreign offering. Our UPI/Rupay is a great example.

In China: • WhatsApp/FB = WeChat • Instagram = Xiaohongshu • Amazon = Taobao • TikTok = Douyin • X/Twitter = Weibo • YouTube = Bilibili • Google = Baidu • Uber = Didi They built their walled garden early, protected it, and now own their market while expanding globally. Meanwhile, we let others enter, and got hollowed out. Today, the same people we gave entry to are blocking us from their AI models. Same story with manufacturing & imports, we took the easy route which has put us in a hard place. Time to change that. Be it hardware or software: Build here. For the people, by the people. JAI HIND. 🇮🇳

JUST IN: Japan is reportedly sending a delegation to Greenland to evaluate rare earth extraction.

@BarshaPanda Biggest hurdle for Indian tech was the trust we had on US. Thanks to current gov there, even a common man in India, China or even Europe understands that US is unreliable. That itself is enough, hopefully our gov learns to distinguish between a failed entrepreneur and a scammer.

The Mythos/Fable shutdowns are being called a wake-up call for India to build its own foundational AI. But this framing misses the point by conflating two big issues. One: India should build world-class tech with or without this trigger.  We have the intellect, the talent, and a (still) low-cost market built for experimentation. What hobbles us isn't capability. It's the deep-seated fear of risk and failure, conditioned into us. From the individual to the capital, everyone plays to “not lose”. No surprise that investment flows to safer bets, even sitting ducks.  Nobody has the appetite for asymmetric play, something that seems impossible now but could have a massive payday in the future. (Where we've had it, like ISRO, we've been world-class.) Building frontier tech needs real ambition and open ecosystems. Not words, but money moving towards radical innovation at scale. Not gate-kept. Not templatized. Without that commitment, this trigger will fizzle out like the others. Two (and this one matters more): governments can crack down on business if there’s even a whiff of national security risk, and this can happen anywhere. India included.  That’s what governments do. They regulate. Most governments will have similar responses to national security.  No tech leader, founder, investor should underweigh this reality: government regulation is *the underlying layer* beneath all private business success.  Market-fit, founder-mindset, customer-focus et al, are important and visible. But they are all secondary. The real risk and opportunity for any technology company is always, ultimately, regulatory. Hyper-vigilance about this isn't optional. It's the game.

JUST IN: Google’s AI search is now surfacing answers that quote Grok.

Marco Rubio’s remarks widely criticised in India as Delhi-Washington DC ties face worst phase in decades in the aftermath of US attacks on vessels off Oman coast that killed 3 Indian sailors.

Violations of the U.S. blockade and the illicit transport of Iranian oil will not be tolerated: US Secretary of State Rubio to EAM Dr Jaishankar during ystyd talks after killing of Indian sailors

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America. First thoughts: 1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology. 2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead. We must keep these two ideas in mind. What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you? We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses. Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there. Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.