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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, along with other key authorities have accused Chinese AI companies of conducting industrial-scale distillation of AI models of OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and others to extract proprietary capabilities, thus reducing development timelines and costs for their own AI models.

CM Revanth Reddy claimed that the Central government discriminated against him and a non-BJP-ruled Telangana by denying clearance for his US visit, and that this denial was about ‘Gujarat supremacy’. A question, however, arises: if the Centre had to discriminate against the Congress-ruled state, why would it grant clearance to CM Reddy even for his UK visit?

Economists have a name for what happens when a central bank’s independence quietly bends under the weight of government borrowing needs: fiscal dominance. It’s the slow drift toward that condition, not some Hollywood-style default, that should worry anyone watching from outside America’s borders.

India's ambitious River Linking Project under the NWDA aims to interconnect 30 inter-basin river links, comprising 14 Himalayan and 16 Peninsular components.