Donald Trump has criticised India for profiting from Russian oil purchases amid the Ukraine war, threatening increased tariffs due to New Delhi's perceived indifference to the conflict. Trump administration officials have voiced concerns over India's alignment with Western efforts to isolate Russia, citing significant oil purchases and trade imbalances.
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Perplexity, an AI search startup, faces allegations from Cloudflare of using deceptive tactics to bypass website restrictions. Cloudflare claims Perplexity's bots disguised themselves as regular users to scrape content from blocked domains, raising concerns about unauthorized data usage. Perplexity denies wrongdoing, attributing the activity to third-party traffic and user-driven requests.
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