Three Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils commemorating Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests have been handed prison sentences of up to seven years. Two of the defendants – Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41 – were convicted last month of inciting others to subvert state power, under the city’s controversial national…
HONG KONG — Three pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who organized annual vigils for victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced to prison terms between five and over seven years Friday after being convicted under a national security law that critics say has stifled dissent in the Chinese territory. Lee Cheuk-yan was sentenced…
At a time when some Silicon Valley giants and national security experts are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model distillation, Garry Tan, chief executive of famed startup accelerator Y Combinator, is less concerned. “I would do nothing” about distillation, he told CNBC’s Kate Rooney at Y Combinator’s annual Demo Day. “We could…
Sometimes, the business that fails isn’t the end of the story. Sometimes, it’s the thing that pushes you toward the business you were actually meant to build.That’s what happened with Abhishek Sahu.Around 15 years ago, Sahu moved to Bhopal with hopes of building a business of his own. He opened an internet cafe, hoping it…
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Anthropic said it detected and disrupted unauthorized large-scale efforts by China-based AI labs including Alibaba, Moonshot and DeepSeek to train their models using Claude. The U.S. AI company said in a threat intelligence report released Thursday that the firms were involved in what it described as “illicit distillation,” a process in which outputs from a…
AI representation/ChatGPT India’s popular Old Monk is now at the centre of a debate over what legally qualifies as rum. The dispute became bigger when the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) told the Bombay High Court that Old Monk could not be marketed as rum in the form in which it was…
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told lawyers to begin defamation proceedings against an Israeli newspaper over reports that the leader of the United Arab Emirates warned him that Hamas was planning an operation just days before the 7 October 2023 attacks. According to book extracts published by Haaretz, UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed…
Born on May 12, 1950, Bharadwaj grew up in Aletty, a remote village in Sullia taluk. For Girish Bharadwaj, a bridge was not simply a structure over a river. It was a way for a child to reach school, a patient to get to a hospital and a farmer to take produce to the market….
