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Army leads ‘Exercise Sanyukt Kavach’ in Pune to simulate chemical attack response

Army leads ‘Exercise Sanyukt Kavach’ in Pune to simulate chemical attack response

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2 min readMar 7, 2026 09:41 PM IST A military–civil fusion exercise focusing on a response to a simulated chemical attack in an urban environment, involving as many as 19 agencies, was conducted in Pune under the leadership of the Indian Army’s Southern Command. “Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth attended the concluding event of the week-long military civil fusion exercise Sanyukt Kavach, conducted under the aegis of the Indian Army’s Southern Command at Aundh Military Station in Pune. MoS Defence witnessed a comprehensive live demonstration and static display showcasing a coordinated response to a simulated chemical attack in an urban environment, highlighting integrated national preparedness against emerging Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threats,” a press statement from Southern Command read. “The large-scale exercise brought together 19 participating agencies, including the Indian Army, Indian Air Force, civil administration, police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), medical teams, NCC cadets, academia and industry partners. Conducted as part of Southern Command’s Military–Civil Fusion initiative, the exercise aimed at strengthening synergy between military and civil agencies to …

Meta patents AI that can ‘simulate’ you on social media after death

Meta patents AI that can ‘simulate’ you on social media after death

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3 min readNew DelhiFeb 18, 2026 02:12 PM IST Meta, the tech giant that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been rolling out several new AI features for its platforms. But now, the Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant has patented an AI that can “simulate” a deceased person’s social media activity by replying to others’ posts. According to Business Insider, Meta secured the patent to a large language model that “may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social networking system, for example, when the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased.” As it turns out, the primary author of the AI model – Andrew Bosworth, who is currently the company’s CTO, had filed the patent back in 2023. Meta’s new patent also gives an idea of why people might need this. “The impact on the users is much more severe and permanent if that user is deceased and can never return to the social networking platform”, it reads. To fill the gap, Meta wanted to …

Microsoft Unveils VALL-E, Audio AI That Can Simulate Any Voice From 3-Second Prompts

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Microsoft researchers recently announced VALL-E, a new text-to-speech AI model that can accurately mimic a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it has learned a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesise audio of that person saying anything—while attempting to retain the speaker’s emotional tone. When combined with other generative AI models like GPT-3, VALL-E’s creators believe it can be used for high-quality text-to-speech applications, speech editing in which a recording of a person could be edited and altered from a text transcript (making them say something they did not actually say), and audio content creation. According to Microsoft, VALL-E is primarily a “neural codec language model,” and is based on EnCodec, which Meta revealed in October 2022. VALL-E creates discrete audio codec codes from text and acoustic prompts, as opposed to other text-to-speech methods that typically synthesise speech by manipulating waveforms. It processes how a person sounds, breaks the relevant data down into discrete components (referred to as “tokens”) using EnCodec, and then uses training data to match what it “knows” about how …