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Mistral released Shieldstral 1.0 as Apache 2.0 open weights on 4 August 2026. On Mistral's own benchmark tables, GPT-OSS-Safeguard-20B leads 9 of 18 text rows to Shieldstral's 4.
Manu Shukla 
India's takedown regime now runs on a 36-hour statutory clock that in practice compresses to hours. This is what an intermediary has to build to keep safe harbour, not what a lawyer has to argue afterwards.
Manu Shukla 
MeitY's IT Amendment Rules 2026 took effect February 20, defining synthetically generated information, cutting the takedown deadline to 3 hours from 36, and mandating AI labels. What platforms and brands must do.
Manu Shukla 