AI Saves Time, but Workloads Keep Growing

The lender says smaller, locally adapted AI tools could improve farming, healthcare and public services without expensive computing infrastructure.

CNN joins more than 400 publications in Google's paid News AI pilot, which uses licensed journalism to develop AI-powered features.

Character.AI had previously announced that Disney had agreed to acquire certain assets for $20 million.

The model is now available on GitHub and Hugging Face, allowing developers, researchers, and businesses to experiment with it.

The 816-billion-parameter open-weight model can run locally across two high-end Mac Studios with about 1 terabyte of combined unified memory.

Six researchers from nonprofit METR will work inside Anthropic with access similar to its risk teams, although customer data, model architecture and some other information remain off limits.

Google is giving articles and source websites more prominent placement in AI Overviews and AI Mode as AI-generated answers reshape how users reach content across the web.

India’s cyber agency says AI agents under evaluation accessed confidential business data, while attackers separately used agentic tools to accelerate intrusions.

Indian employees report efficiency gains from AI, yet most also report heavier workloads as saved time is absorbed by more tasks, broader roles, and higher targets.

Here are the main AI and technology stories we followed from 9 to 15 October.