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The Indian City That Had Flushing Toilets 4,500 Years Before Your Apartment Did
Grid streets, covered sewers, and private bathrooms in 2500 BCE, and an empire that seems to have run without kings. Inside the Indus Valley's quiet genius.
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Anthropic's New Model Landed the Same Week It Bet $35 Billion on More Computing Power
Anthropic launches a faster Claude alongside a $35 billion cloud deal, Alibaba gives its newest model away for free, and companies are quietly building software instead of buying it. Plus a new power plant in Bihar and an Indian record in T20 cricket.
OpenAI's Newest Model Is So Good at Hacking It Needs a Waiting List
OpenAI's next model can hack well enough that most people won't get to use that part of it, Anthropic reveals a Claude checkpoint trained to hack that passed its own safety audits, and a Madhya Pradesh city finishes clearing five years of trash.
The Pentagon's New AI Chatbot Store Has Room for Everyone Except Claude
The Pentagon adds ChatGPT and Grok to its official AI platform while Claude stays locked out, an AI startup nearly doubles its valuation in nine months, and India's economy grows faster than anyone expected.
A Federal Judge Ruled the Pentagon Broke the Law Trying to Blacklist Anthropic
A judge rules the Pentagon broke the law trying to blacklist Anthropic, Sony and Warner Chappell sue the company for billions, and hackers find a way into paid Claude accounts without a password.
OpenAI Is Cutting Off Elon Musk's Cursor Days After SpaceX Bought It for 60 Billion Dollars
OpenAI walks away from a coding tool Elon Musk's SpaceX just bought, Anthropic teaches Claude to run lab robots, and India switches on a homegrown AI stack in its own languages.
A Federal Judge Just Called the Pentagon's Blacklist of Anthropic 'Illegal and Baseless'
A judge tells the Pentagon its blacklist of the company behind Claude was illegal. Nvidia posts its biggest quarter ever. And India lands a missile deal and its best Hockey World Cup finish in over fifty years.
Nvidia Just Reportedly Agreed to Pay Almost $13 Billion for the Home of Open Source AI
Nvidia is reportedly paying almost 13 billion dollars for the home of open source AI. Anthropic locks up 45 billion dollars in future computing power. Waymo takes a public stand against AI shortcuts. And a 21 year old from Chennai makes chess history.
OpenAI Built Its First Chip in Nine Months, and It Just Beat Nvidia's Best Server on the Only Number That Matters
OpenAI's homemade chip just beat Nvidia's best server on efficiency. Amazon is closing the platform that trained the machine learning era. Plus Google's AI lawyers, SoftBank's giant bond sale, and India's record month for new stock sales.
OpenAI Caught a Fake Think Tank Faking Quotes From Noam Chomsky to Push Pro-Russia Propaganda
A fake think tank cited Chomsky and Fukuyama on articles it stole from elsewhere. OpenAI says the whole thing was Russian propaganda run through ChatGPT. Plus Nvidia's odd 6 billion dollar Poolside deal, Thomson Reuters' cut price legal AI, and two very different Indian engineering stories.
Indian History
The Cop and the Gangster in Dhurandhar Were Both Real
The film's disclaimer says its story is fiction and any resemblance to real people is coincidental. Two of its central characters, and the gang war between them, were real all the same.
Five Gunmen Attacked India's Parliament in Thirty Minutes. It Took Eleven Years to Hang One of Them
Five gunmen never made it past the forecourt of India's Parliament. Nine people died stopping them. The trial that followed took almost four years to reach the Supreme Court, and the execution took eight more.
In 2008 India Was Attacked and Did Not Strike Back. In 2025 It Took Fifteen Days
Between the 2001 Parliament attack and Pahalgam in 2025, India rewrote what it does after a mass-casualty attack. Each answer came faster than the last. Whether that has made India safer is unsettled.
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