Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, #CISC#, relinquished the appointment today after a distinguished tenure marked by transformational leadership and an unwavering commitment to #TriServices# integration. Throughout his illustrious journey in uniform, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit epitomised strategic foresight, operational brilliance and inspirational leadership. His tenure at #HQ_IDS# was defined by landmark contributions that have reshaped the contours of integrated defence playing a pivotal role in #OperationSindoor#, a defining moment in India's #NationalSecurity# calculus; steering the release of 20 Joint Doctrines and Primers that institutionalised #TriServices# thought; conceptualising #RanSamwad# 2025 & 2026, an unprecedented Military Dialogue platform; orchestrating the Combined and Joint Commanders Conferences #CCC# 2025 & 2026; and anchoring the formulation of Defence Forces Vision 2047 - a transformative roadmap for a technology-driven, integrated and future-ready military. HQ_IDS / Chief of Defence Staff conveys its profound appreciation for his outstanding service to the Nation. His enduring contributions towards fostering #TriServices# cooperation and #CapabilityDevelopment# will continue to inspire future generations of the #IndianArmedForces#. @DefenceMinIndia @SethSanjayMP @SpokespersonMoD @MIB_India

Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit #CISC#, addressed the staff of HQ IDS on relinquishment of his appointment. He expressed his appreciation for the wholehearted participation and dedicated efforts of all personnel towards the numerous initiatives undertaken by HQ IDS over the past year, furthering #Jointness#, #Atmanirbharta#, #Innovation#, and enhanced integration in the joint schemes of the Services.

1,500 beagles are being released from a research facility. They will find permanent homes after months of legal battles and intense public outcry. The journey from a research kennel to a warm lap has officially begun for 1,500 beagles previously held at Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin. Following a confidential agreement between animal welfare organizations and the breeding facility, the first 300 dogs have been moved to staging areas for vaccinations and medical care before heading to shelters nationwide. Despite their history in a laboratory environment, rescuers report that the dogs-known for their docile and forgiving nature-are already seeking human affection and settling into their new surroundings with surprising ease. This massive relocation follows a period of intense civil unrest and legal scrutiny for the facility, which recently agreed to relinquish its state breeding license amid allegations of veterinary standard violations. While previous attempts by activists to liberate the dogs led to clashes with law enforcement, this peaceful transition was negotiated by Big Dog Ranch Rescue and the Center for a Humane Economy. With over 700 adoption applications already submitted, these beagles are being prepared for domestic life, marking a major turning point in the push to provide sanctuary for vulnerable research animals. source: Fischer, D. (2026, May 4). 1,500 beagles will get new lives, warm laps after release from research facility. Associated Press.

"Sam was early, but perhaps right - the combination of the model with compute is the moat". When I first met Sam and spent some time with him, he would talk about building GWs of capacity and at every next meeting his ambition for compute got higher - to a point where I started half listening, since I was thinking of all the other repercussions. The raging debate is where is the value being created perhaps where will it be captured. We are quick to write off models and are debating open weight and open source, worthy debates but the action is elsewhere. The infrastructure layer is the current beneficiary of spend, and appropriately the innovation engine of silicon valley is targeting chips, inference, memory and anything that can satisfy the voracious demand for infrastructure spend. But it's the people building compute who are doing the spending here. The neo clouds have raced ahead and and credit to them for seeing the trend early - they were able to grab early permits, land and power to be able to deploy compute. It continues to become harder to deploy compute as the demand curve goes vertical. The hyperscaler earnings have shown that they don't intend to relinquish their infrastructure advantage and are continuing to increase capex to both satisfy and anticipate future demand. Anyone not there yet, is probably concerned about raising funds and not the viability of the spend. The Frontier LLM players are into the act and are working hard to aggregate compute since they know they will need more not just to train but to deploy. The race is on, for the Frontier models to win, they will need to look more like hyperscalers with a twist, how to embed large application layer profit pools into their business model. You can see it happening. coding, science, legal, and soon physical AI. At this scale timing will become an important vector, including the financial markets, hope much patient capital is out there. The market likes to surprise.