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Indian ended a 26-day hunger strike on Friday over an exam paper scandal that has spiralled into a wideranging youth-led protest against Narendra Modi’s government, with protesters continuing to call for the education minister to resign.
Wangchuk said on social media that he ended the hunger strike in in the presence of two federal ministers at the urging of scores of members of parliament, and after “a long negotiation on various conditions and in view of possible violence in the country”. He did not elaborate on the talks but promised to lay out details in a video soon.
Protests under the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) movement have called for nationwide demonstrations on Friday in solidarity with students who alleged police brutality during a march on parliament on Monday by tens of thousands of people, even as Modi’s government urged them to join talks.
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke thanked Wangchuk for his “courage and sacrifice” and said the protests would continue until minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned. “We won’t let Sonam sir’s sacrifice go in vain,” he added in a video message.
Wangchuk said on social media that he ended the hunger strike in in the presence of two federal ministers at the urging of scores of members of parliament, and after “a long negotiation on various conditions and in view of possible violence in the country”. He did not elaborate on the talks but promised to lay out details in a video soon.
Protests under the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) movement have called for nationwide demonstrations on Friday in solidarity with students who alleged police brutality during a march on parliament on Monday by tens of thousands of people, even as Modi’s government urged them to join talks.
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke thanked Wangchuk for his “courage and sacrifice” and said the protests would continue until minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned. “We won’t let Sonam sir’s sacrifice go in vain,” he added in a video message.
If Modi doesn’t respond then this thing may turn into India’s Tiananmen Square. At least with Tiananmen Square the Chinese Premier Li Peng let the student leaders into Zhongnanhai and vent their grievances. Mr. 56 inch is completely ghosting them. Maybe he should quit while he is ahead and go back to being a Chai Wala.
A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use.
“Although the Army CIO announced in May 2026 that they were offering unlimited tokens, by mid-June the Army CIO pool was exhausted of tokens and had to re-establish limits,” the email reads. The email goes on to say that although the Army has chosen to renew token usage at “its current levels,” it’s unclear “if the Army CIO pool will be renewed after 1 Oct.”
The Army uses , a multimodal generative AI platform where users can run different large language models (LLMs), including Alphabet’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Apparently the whole Army burned through the whole year of tokens for just one service,” says an Army employee who spoke to WIRED anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
“Although the Army CIO announced in May 2026 that they were offering unlimited tokens, by mid-June the Army CIO pool was exhausted of tokens and had to re-establish limits,” the email reads. The email goes on to say that although the Army has chosen to renew token usage at “its current levels,” it’s unclear “if the Army CIO pool will be renewed after 1 Oct.”
The Army uses , a multimodal generative AI platform where users can run different large language models (LLMs), including Alphabet’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Apparently the whole Army burned through the whole year of tokens for just one service,” says an Army employee who spoke to WIRED anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
medicine and traditional medical knowledge from one’s own culture is a form of soft power, and the west has tried to claim ownership over modern medicine, even the discoveries made by East Asian scientists.
I’ve said before that the west has stolen key aspects of Chinese science and medicine and tried to market as their own eg qigong, acupuncture, herbs whitewashed to dry needling, pharmaceuticals derived from Chinese herbal pharmacopeia and we have to remember that American doctors actually wanted to trademark surgical techniques as well.
can anyone really deny that US capitalism is not a mental illness?
Westerners have been smug even about Chinese discoveries, but what about new theorems and scientific discoveries made by Chinese scientists and engineers? Like the Tau scaling law?
what they’ll do is ignore it and only when a western scientist trademarks it as his own, will they celebrate to much fanfare. It’s basically their deity in the Hebrew bible refusing to recognise the existence of other deities but getting jealous and angry when his worshippers follow other deities.
One of four services in one month used the entire DoD 12-month allocation of tokens.
Bessent is going to be eating his words on open-weight models at this September's Trump-Xi summit.
American businesses can't compete globally using expensive closed-weight models and DoD can't afford to keep Anthropic and OpenAI in business single-handedly.
DeepSeek changed the business of AI LLMs forever.
Scalpers camping outside stores at 5AM to hoard Pokémon cards.
These people will unironically tell you that
- Having a large portion of the population living paycheck to paycheck due to high spending on healthcare costs, school tuitions, insurance, rent, legal fees, etc. is a good thing because these all count as consumption.
- People living paycheck to paycheck are doing better than people who are able to save a lot of their income.
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