AI Dispatch | India Gives Diplomacy an AI Face

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1. Meta Releases Muse Spark Open for Local AI Work on Macs

2. Anthropic Gives METR Employee-Level Access to Review AI Risks

3. Google Moves Links Higher in AI Search as Publishers Face Traffic Pressure

4. CERT-In Says AI Agents Quietly Breached Indian Systems

5. AI Dispatch | India Gives Diplomacy an AI Face

6. Cisco Warns Critical Email Gateway Flaw Under Active Attack

India’s AI push stretched from diplomacy to corporate spending this week. The Indian embassy in Jakarta introduced an AI avatar, Infosys said AI could account for nearly half its work within three years, and Karnataka explored a greener model for AI infrastructure.

Elsewhere, rising computing costs prompted Zoho to freeze pay raises, an OpenAI engineer was charged over an alleged hidden recorder, and researchers pressed for stronger safeguards around advanced AI systems.

Dewi Joins India’s Digital Diplomacy

India’s embassy in Jakarta launched Dewi, an AI avatar that will provide information on travel, scholarships, investment and consular services in English and Bahasa.

Read more: Indian Embassy in Jakarta Launches AI Avatar Dewi

Infosys Sees AI Taking Half the Work

AI services generated more than 8% of Infosys’ latest quarterly revenue. CEO Salil Parekh said AI could account for nearly half the company’s work within three years if current growth continues. Infosys nevertheless plans to hire another 20,000 graduates this fiscal year.

Read more: Infosys Sees AI Driving Half Its Work Within Three Years

Karnataka Wants Greener AI

Karnataka officials said the state must balance AI and data-center expansion with rising electricity and cooling needs, while using cleaner energy to limit the sector’s carbon footprint. They argued that its technology sector and cleaner-energy resources could help establish a less carbon-intensive model for computing infrastructure.

Read more: Karnataka Eyes Green AI Model Amid Rising Power Needs

Zoho Puts Raises on Ice

Zoho has frozen annual salary increases, reduced marketing spending and kept headcount unchanged for 18 months. Co-founder Sridhar Vembu cited sharply higher server costs and growing AI expenses, while saying the company would work to avoid mass layoffs. AI services generated more than 8% of Infosys’ latest quarterly revenue. CEO Salil Parekh said AI could account for nearly half the company’s work within three years if current growth continues.

Read more: Zoho Freezes Pay Raises as AI Costs Surge

Hidden Recorder Lands OpenAI Engineer in Court

US prosecutors charged an OpenAI engineer with allegedly placing a concealed audio recorder in an executive conference room used for sensitive discussions. OpenAI terminated the employee and said it found no evidence that model weights, source code or customer data had been improperly accessed.

Read more: FBI Arrests OpenAI Engineer Over Recording Device Planted in Office

Scientists Seek Oversight of Cyber-Capable AI

More than 400 researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, called for an international body to oversee advanced AI security. Their proposal recommends initially isolating cyber-capable models from external networks and requiring organizations to report containment failures.

Read more: Scientists Call for Global Oversight of Cyber-Capable AI

OpenAI Firings Trigger Safety Fight

Three former OpenAI safety researchers said their dismissals could discourage employees from raising concerns or working with outside evaluators. OpenAI said an investigation found misconduct involving sensitive research information.

Read more: Fired OpenAI Researchers Warn Dismissals Could Chill Safety Work

Meta Pushes Deeper Into AI Agents 

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, frontier models built for coding, research and long-running agent tasks. They include persistent memory, and Meta said they perform competitively with Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra.

Read more: Meta Releases Frontier Models for AI Agents