How-tos and product guides for agents, image and video generation, coding, and everyday automation.
Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Masoud Pezeshkian were the three arrivals that defined the political test of India's 18th BRICS Summit. Their presence in New Delhi is not a published trilateral alliance. It is a signal about energy, sanctions, West Asia, payments, and how far a consensus club can stretch.
India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam on 12–13 September 2026. Leaders unanimously adopted the New Delhi Declaration. This page states what was agreed, what Modi, Xi, and Putin said in bilateral meetings, and what is still unresolved as of 13 September 2026.
The New Delhi Declaration 2026 commits BRICS to implement its Leaders' Statement on the Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence. The policy is not a single statute. It is a Global South brief: wider access to compute and data, digital sovereignty, interoperable standards, energy-efficient systems, and India's February 2026 AI Impact Summit as a reference point.
BRICS is no longer a four-letter market acronym. In 2026 the 11-member grouping holds about half the world's people and, on purchasing-power terms, more output than the G7. Here is why the bloc matters for trade, finance, UN reform, and the Global South — and why India, China, and Russia sit at the centre of the story.
DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash on 10 September 2026 as a new 552B MoE, not a tune of V4-Flash. On DeepSeek’s own scoreboard it leads GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, DeepSWE, CyberGym, AutomationBench, and Agents’ Last Exam—while those flagships still win GPQA and the newer Terminal-Bench rows. AshnaAI is the place to pin that DeepSeek row next to Sol, Opus 5, GLM-5.3-Flash, and Ashna-X1.
The #80sTrend flooding Instagram in September 2026 is not a vintage filter. It is image-to-image: keep the face, rebuild hair, clothes, lighting, and analog film. Attach a selfie in AshnaAI chat and generate a 1985 portrait you can actually share.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on 3 September 2026 as its next flagship for computer use, coding, and science. The official scoreboard beats GPT-5.6 Sol on most cells and still loses a few published indexes to Claude. AshnaAI is the place to pin that OpenAI row next to Claude, Gemini, GLM-5.3-Flash, and Ashna-X1—without waiting on one lab’s ChatGPT or IDE contract.
Pick one tool — Codex CLI, OpenClaw, Cline, or Continue. Install only that tool, create an AshnaAI API key, and point it at https://api.ashna.ai/v1/api. You do not need the other tools.
Download Cursor for macOS, Windows, or Linux, install the Cursor CLI from your terminal, create an AshnaAI API key, then set Override OpenAI Base URL to https://api.ashna.ai/v1/api.
Install Claude Code CLI on macOS, Linux, or Windows, create an AshnaAI API key, point ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL at https://api.ashna.ai/v1/api, then run your first Messages turn.
Create an AshnaAI API key, then add a Custom Endpoint in VS Code Language Models. Chat and agent turns use the OpenAI-compatible catalog: paste the Bearer key, set the base URL to https://api.ashna.ai/v1/api, and pick a catalog id such as glm-5.3-flash.
The market dumps a typed chapter summary and calls it notes. AshnaAI is different: handwritten notebook leaves—white paper, ink colors, highlighter, drawn boxes. The value is a revision page a student will actually reread. Live proofs: Class 12 chemistry, amoeba biology, Maurya UPSC notes, plus a Newton PPT sibling.
The market default is one lab’s base URL and a flagship model field. Uber’s $1,500 Claude Code cap is what that habit costs. AshnaAI is different: one OpenAI-compatible route, any catalog id, and routing to the cheapest capable model. The value is about 95% list-rate savings on everyday turns, plus PPT, Tally, design, and notes on the same login.
The market splits briefs, pixels, and video across chat, Canva, and a third video tab. AshnaAI is different because the prompt returns the artifact: image, ads clip, film clip, one-pager, or chart. The value is a file the team can ship. Game art and motion ship. A playable game engine does not.
The market offers chatbots that invent GST matches from a screenshot, and plugins that draft inside Tally. AshnaAI is different: a desktop bridge to the open TallyPrime company. The value is posted invoices, claim-ready 2B recon, and ICAI or Schedule III packs—with confirm before write, and no GST filing pretend.
The market sells slide outlines and Office add-ins. Teachers and operators still rebuild the deck. AshnaAI is different because it researches the topic, plans slides, generates images, and exports PPT. The value is a finished classroom or work deck—Newton’s laws is a live example—not ten bullets to paste into Slides.
Microsoft and Uber did not drop Claude because the model failed. They dropped a single-vendor habit: one CLI, one flagship rate, one retention rule. AshnaAI is the better alternative because the buyer pins Claude only when it is useful, routes volume to a cheaper capable model, and still gets PowerPoint, Tally, design, notes, and an API on the same account.
GST reconciliation software for Tally should match official portal files to the open TallyPrime books—and refuse to invent ITC. GSTR-2B versus purchases is claim-ready. GSTR-2A, IMS, and GSTR-9 are watch or advise only. That split is how GST reconciliation AI stays accurate at firm scale.
Year-end for a CA firm is not printing Tally’s Balance Sheet. It is rebuilding Excel, client after client, until a partner can sign. AshnaAI reads the open TallyPrime company and writes that Excel—so articles review exceptions instead of copying last year’s file.
LLM API cost optimization is not a cheaper vendor contract. It is stopping every completion from hitting GPT-5.6 Sol or Claude Opus 5. Task-aware model routing runs the cheapest capable model per turn. Everyday asks stay flash-tier. Hard coding can still reach Sol. Teams that used to hardcode a flagship see about 95% less list-rate spend on the turns that no longer need one.
The cheapest coding AI that still ships useful patches is not Claude Opus 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol. Those are $5 / $25–$30 flagships. GLM-5.3-Flash sits next to published Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Terra benches at about $0.15 / $0.50 per 1M tokens—the cost-versus-quality default for coding volume.
A glacier-and-ice collapse in the Langtang Himal on 26 August 2026 sent a flash flood down the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli. By 30 August Nepal’s disaster agency had reported 675 dead and about 2,498 missing. This page states the issue and the impact, then points to the AshnaAI research briefing.
On 28 August 2026 OpenAI said it will wind down the contract that supplies its models to Cursor after SpaceX acquired Anysphere, with a proposed shutoff of 12 November 2026. AshnaAI is the alternative: a multi-model catalog the buyer pins—plus PowerPoint, Tally, design, classroom notes, and an OpenAI-compatible API—so one lab’s change-of-control clause is not the only path.
Use the OpenAI-compatible AshnaAI API to call any catalog model: get a key, list ids from GET /v1/api/models, then POST /v1/api/chat/completions with that id in the model field. The same route works for GLM-5.3-Flash, GPT-5.6 Terra, Claude rows, Kimi K3, or a custom agent id.
Kimi K3 is Moonshot’s 2.8T MoE flagship with 1M context, native vision, and always-on thinking—premium cost. On AshnaAI, people pin GLM-5.3-Flash when they want similar agent tools and 1M context without K3’s token bill.
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s everyday flagship at $5 / $25 per 1M tokens, close to Fable 5 at half that list. On AshnaAI, people pin GLM-5.3-Flash when they want Opus-neighborhood coding work at flash-tier spend.
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s most capable generally available model for long-running agents, at $10 / $50 per 1M tokens. On AshnaAI, people pin GLM-5.3-Flash when they want near-frontier code work without Fable’s price or a days-long autonomous mandate.
GPT-5.6 Sol is the premium OpenAI flagship for the hardest reasoning and agent work. GLM-5.3-Flash is the coding pin people start on, so Sol tokens stay reserved for a named miss or an OpenAI-flagship requirement.
GPT-5.6 Terra is the balanced OpenAI 5.6 row: strong everyday coding and tools at high cost. GLM-5.3-Flash is the low-cost coding pin when you want near-Terra terminal scores without Terra’s token bill.
GLM-5.3-Flash is in the AshnaAI catalog as the low-cost coding default: a 320B MoE, 1M-context, vision-capable model people pin in chat when the job is code, tools, or UI screenshots. Ashna-X1 still covers mixed everyday routing.
Good RAG starts before the question. Upload the file, let embeddings finish, then ask a locatable question. AshnaAI links the file to the chat first and embeds in the background. It does not train on the document.
Put a person in front of irreversible actions. Use requestUserInput for questions, choices, files, and acknowledgements. Use Tally review for missing ledgers. Do not ask when the answer is already in the chat.
Routing is matching a task to a catalog row. Ashna-X1 is the default. Pin GPT, Claude, or Gemini when you need that row’s context, reasoning, or file flags. Brand preference is not routing.
Your first agent should do one job with one or two tools. Write the job, accept the spec, test with a real example, then stop. A first agent that tries to run the company will fail in public.
Install the desktop app when the job needs files or apps on your machine. Tally, local documents, and the browser broker are desktop or extension paths. The website alone cannot see your disk.
Leave the model on Ashna-X1 for everyday agent work. Switch to a named GPT, Claude, or Gemini row only when you need that provider’s context window, reasoning control, or file behavior.
Ask AshnaAI to extract pages into a new PDF. Use page numbers such as 1, 2, 5, or last. The original file stays unchanged.
Tell AshnaAI which pages to drop. You get a new PDF without those pages. Use this before a merge or a send.
Give AshnaAI the new page order. You get a new PDF in that sequence.
Ask AshnaAI to rotate specific pages. You get a new PDF. Use this for scanned sideways pages before you merge or send.
Ask AshnaAI to stamp a watermark on a PDF. You get a new file. Use this for drafts and internal copies.
Ask AshnaAI to find text and overlay a replacement. searchAndReplaceText supports exact, case-insensitive, whitespace-insensitive, and fuzzy match. This is an overlay edit, not a full reflow like Word.
Attach a PDF with form fields and tell AshnaAI the values. fillForm writes the filled file. Flatten afterward if you need a non-editable copy.
After fields are filled, ask AshnaAI to flatten the form so values are no longer editable fields.
Ask AshnaAI to set title, author, or other metadata on a PDF. You get a new file with those properties.
Ask AshnaAI to encrypt a PDF with a password. Protection defaults to AES-256. You can lock an existing file or create a new protected PDF from markdown.
Ask AshnaAI to create a PDF from markdown, HTML, or plain text. This is a document export, not a website builder.
Attach a PNG, JPEG, or similar image and ask for a PDF. AshnaAI returns a one-page image PDF. Say if you also want a text page after the image.
Ask AshnaAI to build a spreadsheet. Name the sheets and rows you want. You can also start from a CSV or JSON file.
Attach an .xlsx and ask to add rows, change cells, or add a chart. AshnaAI reads the sheet, then returns an edited Excel file you can download.
Attach a CSV and ask for an Excel file. AshnaAI turns the rows into a real .xlsx without rewriting your data.
Attach an .xlsx and ask for CSV. AshnaAI reads the selected sheet into a delimited text file.
Paste or attach JSON and ask for Excel. AshnaAI maps rows or objects into an .xlsx table.
Attach an .xlsx and ask for JSON. AshnaAI writes a JSON array of rows from the selected sheet.
Attach a CSV and ask for JSON. AshnaAI parses the rows and writes a JSON file.
Paste JSON and ask for CSV. AshnaAI writes delimited rows you can open in Excel or Sheets.
Attach an .xlsx and ask for a PDF. Tabular convert renders the sheet as a PDF table. This is not a designed slide deck.
Attach a PNG file and ask for JPEG. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Attach a JPEG file and ask for PNG. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Attach a PNG file and ask for WEBP. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Attach a JPEG file and ask for WEBP. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Attach a WEBP file and ask for PNG. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Attach a SVG file and ask for PNG. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Attach a SVG file and ask for PDF. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Attach a HEIC file and ask for JPEG. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Attach a PNG file and ask for ICO. When the conversion is supported, you get a downloadable file in chat.
Ask AshnaAI to resize or reduce quality on a PNG, JPEG, or WebP. Same-format convert with width, height, quality, and fit is the supported path. RAW files are not supported.
Paste HTML or attach an .html file and ask AshnaAI for a PDF. convert with source html and target pdf uses the existing html-to-pdf backend. This is a render, not a designed slide deck.
Ask AshnaAI to create a .docx. create with fileType docx and paragraphs is the path. This is a generated Word file, not a live Office 365 document.
Attach a .docx and ask for a change. modify with fileType docx patches the file and returns a new download.
Attach an existing .pptx and ask to add slides. modify with fileType pptx is the file-tool path. Creating a researched deck from a topic still uses the presentation pipeline guide.
In the desktop app, grant a folder, then ask AshnaAI to zip it. zipLocalFileOrFolder uses persisted grants so you are not asked to pick the same folder every time.
In the desktop app, point AshnaAI at a zip you already granted. unzipLocalFile extracts into the output grant path.
Grant a folder, search for the file, then import it. Desktop returns a file you can convert, edit, or chat with. Folder grants last at least 30 days.
Ask AshnaAI to write a Gmail draft. The draft stays in Gmail until you send it. Use this when you want review without delivering.
Connect Gmail and ask AshnaAI to find messages. smartSearch and list read your inbox with the access you granted. This is search, not send.
Point AshnaAI at a Gmail thread. listThreads and getThread pull the conversation so you can ask for a summary, decisions, and open questions.
Ask AshnaAI to pull attachments from a message. You get files in chat that you can convert, read, or send into a Tally job.
Connect Outlook with Microsoft sign-in, then ask AshnaAI to send mail. One OAuth covers mail and calendar. Confirm before send.
Ask AshnaAI to find Outlook messages after Microsoft authorization. Search first, then summarize or draft a reply.
Connect Google Calendar and ask what is on your day. AshnaAI reads the calendars you approved during OAuth.
Ask AshnaAI to put a meeting on Google Calendar. Confirm time, guests, and timezone in chat before the write.
Outlook OAuth covers mail and calendar. Ask AshnaAI to create or respond to an event on the Microsoft calendar you authorized.
Connect Google Meet and ask for a meeting space. The Meet REST API typically needs a Google Workspace account, not personal Gmail-only.
After a Workspace Meet, ask AshnaAI to read the transcript or recording metadata. This is a read of Meet artifacts, not a live caption overlay.
Connect Slack, name the channel or DM, and ask AshnaAI to send. A workspace admin may need to approve the app the first time.
Ask AshnaAI to search Slack history after the workspace is connected. Use this to find a decision, a file, or a thread before you reply.
Point AshnaAI at a channel and a time range. It reads history it can access and returns decisions, owners, and open questions.
Connect Google Drive or Google Workspace, then ask AshnaAI to find a file. Read access is enough for search. Full access is only for writes.
Connect Google Docs or Workspace with Full access, then ask AshnaAI to create or update a document. Read-only Workspace cannot write.
Point AshnaAI at a spreadsheet and say the range. It can read or update cells when you grant write access. Use read-only Workspace if you only want analysis.
Connect Google Slides or Workspace and ask AshnaAI to inspect a deck. This extracts slide content. It is not the research-to-PowerPoint pipeline.
Paste a Dropbox access token in Integrations, then ask AshnaAI to find, download, or organize a file. Do not paste your Dropbox password.
Connect OneDrive with Microsoft sign-in, then ask AshnaAI to find a file. This is OneDrive-focused, not a full SharePoint site browser.
Connect Notion and pick the pages AshnaAI may see. Search only returns pages you shared in the Notion picker.
Share the page in the Notion picker, then ask AshnaAI questions against that content. This is retrieval from Notion, not training.
Connect Jira Cloud and ask AshnaAI to run a JQL query. You get issue keys and details you can turn into a summary or a new ticket.
Ask AshnaAI to open a Jira issue after Jira Cloud is connected. Confirm project, type, and summary before the write.
Connect GitHub, name owner and repo, and ask AshnaAI to open an issue. Organization apps may need admin approval.
Ask AshnaAI to search issues in a repo or across GitHub. Use this before you file a duplicate or start a PR.
Ask AshnaAI to open a pull request after GitHub is connected. You can also update a file with a commit when the task needs a change.
Point AshnaAI at a PR. It can read the diff and add a review comment when you ask. Confirm before a public comment lands.
Connect GitLab and ask AshnaAI to open a merge request. This is GitLab, not GitHub.
Connect Bitbucket Cloud and ask AshnaAI to open a pull request in a workspace you can access.
Connect WhatsApp Business, then ask AshnaAI to send an approved template. Templates are required to start a business-initiated conversation outside the customer-care window.
If the customer already wrote in the last 24 hours, ask AshnaAI to send free-form text. Otherwise use an approved template.
Ask AshnaAI to send an image, document, or other media on WhatsApp Business. Use a media id or a public https link.
Connect LinkedIn, preview the post, then confirm publish. Generate images with the image tool first if the post needs media. Company-page access depends on the LinkedIn account.
Connect X (Twitter) and ask AshnaAI to post. Confirm the text before it goes public. Timeline and DMs are also available on the same connector.
Connect Facebook Pages and ask AshnaAI to publish. This is organic Page work, not Meta Ads. You must be able to manage the Page.
Connect a professional Instagram account linked to a Facebook Page. Ask AshnaAI to publish a post or reel and confirm. Personal accounts cannot connect.
Connect YouTube and ask AshnaAI to list uploads, metadata, or comment threads. The connector is read-only. It does not upload video.
Connect Meta Ads Manager and ask AshnaAI for campaign performance. Pause or activate only when you confirm. This is not organic Facebook posting.
Connect Google AdSense and ask AshnaAI for reports, sites, and ad units. The AdSense Management API must be enabled on the Google project.
Describe a posting rule once, such as UPI to a UPI ledger, or insurance companies under INSURANCE_GROUP. AshnaAI applies the rule on later Tally runs.
Ask AshnaAI to reconcile GST on the open Tally company. It works at scale and asks you instead of posting a guess when something is confusing.
Give AshnaAI the CA rules, then ask it to audit files or companies in Tally through the desktop bridge. This is rule-following audit, not a certified opinion letter.
Use AshnaAI desktop so the agent drives a local browser you can see. This is client-side control, not a hidden server RPA farm.
In the desktop app, ask AshnaAI to fill a form in the local browser. Confirm before submit on anything irreversible.
Attach an audio file or give a URL and ask AshnaAI to transcribe it. You get plain text. This is speech-to-text, not a live phone agent.
Build an AshnaAI agent with voice and telephony tools when you need a live call. This is not the same as transcribing a file after the fact.
Ask AshnaAI to create an image from a prompt. Use this for new pictures, variations, or social creatives. Do not use it to analyze a photo you already attached.
Ask AshnaAI to generate a video from text, or from an image. This is the video artifact path, not YouTube upload.
After the agent runs cleanly in chat, open the agent card and set a schedule. The agent uses the same tools and permissions you already attached.
Connect MySQL, then ask AshnaAI to run a read. Database connectors are read-only. They will not UPDATE or DELETE.
Connect MongoDB and ask AshnaAI to read collections. This connector is read-only.
Upload the PDF, wait until the file is linked to the chat, then ask questions that can be answered from that document. AshnaAI retrieves from your file. It does not train a new model on it.
Install AshnaAI desktop on the machine that runs TallyPrime, connect the Tally bridge, then ask AshnaAI to read invoices and post GST to IGST, CGST, and SGST. Confirm unclear rows instead of guessing.
Put the agent you already built on your website. Visitors ask questions, get help, and take the next step without leaving the page. AshnaAI does not rebuild your site.
Connect Gmail, then ask AshnaAI to send a message. The Gmail tool can send after you start the task. Review the draft in chat if you want a human check before it leaves the inbox.
Install the AshnaAI desktop app, open the Tally connector, and keep writes on review. The browser alone cannot post to TallyPrime. GST answers will not invent tax treatment.
If you already know the password, ask AshnaAI to unlock the PDF. You get an unlocked download. Chat cannot read a locked PDF until this succeeds. Supported decryption is RC4, AES-128, and AES-256.
Ask AshnaAI for a deck, watch the pipeline move through research, plan, images, and slides, then edit without regenerating everything. Attach source files when the deck must follow your numbers.
Attach two or more PDFs and ask AshnaAI to merge them. You get one downloadable PDF in the order you named. For large files, upload them in chat instead of pasting the file contents.
Open the builder, describe one job, try a real example, then publish. The agent stays cheap because it is built for that job—not a general chatbot you have to prompt forever.
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