Madhavankutty Pillai
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Cheap Intelligence (opens the original)
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OpenAI and Anthropic are the two leaders of the artificial intelligence (AI) pack, whose frontier models keep making huge leaps in efficiency. But there is also SpaceXAI, which is slowly building itself into an alternative under Elon Musk. On September 21, it released its latest version, Grok 4.7, which is claimed to be a big improvement. Benchmark reports put it within touching distance of Claudeâs Opus 5 and OpenAIâs GPT-5.6 Sol, though still clearly below their top models Fable and Astra.
The Meditation Mantra (opens the original)
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In 1931, Paul Brunton, an Englishman who came to India in search of spiritual teachers, met Chandrasekharendra Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Kanchi of the time, and asked him if there were any enlightened people he knew of. He was given two names. One in Varanasi who might refuse to give an audience. The other was in Tamil Nadu, in a place called Tiruvannamalai, whom anyone could meet. Ramana Maharshi had left home as a 16-year-old after experiencing a state of death to silently meditate on t
A Fine Balance (opens the original)
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If you go to an Iyengar Yoga class anywhere in the world you will likely find more than a mat. On the walls there will be ropes attached to rings. Somewhere to the side skyscrapers of wooden bricks will be arrayed. There will be bolsters, belts and backless chairs. The yoga, as BKS Iyengar taught and his students teach now, is heavy on the physical aspect but as the years go by in a class, the teachers focus more on using the asana as a medium for pranayama and then meditation. In that it does n
Change Weathering (opens the original)
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The world, it is said, is connected in every which way. A flutter of a butterfly in the Amazon setting off a cyclone might be an exaggeration but it makes the point. A new study has found a correlation between El Niño and a rise in dengue cases in Kerala. Warming of the Pacific Ocean at the other end of the world led to conditions in Kerala that made it more inviting for mosquitoes to breed and flourish, biting more humans and transmitting more of the virus. The researchers could make a model t
N Chandrasekaran: The Indispensable (opens the original)
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It was on August 12 that N Chandrasekaran made a surprise announcement of not seeking reappointment as chairman of Tata Sons once his tenure ended. The group, which under its umbrella has some of the biggest companies of India with a combined valuation estimated at `26 lakh crore, was now looking at a post-Chandrasekaran era. But now has come a twist that few anticipated. On September 17, a meeting of the Tata Sons Board offered him a five-year extension and it was accepted. With Tata Trusts, th
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