AI Dispatch: AI at Work and at Risk
Here’s the weekly roundup of the biggest AI stories from October 19–23.
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- External Review Finds Flaws in OpenAI’s Agent Monitoring System
- Microsoft AI System Outperforms General Physicians in Diagnostic Tests
- How Sundar Pichai Uses AI Agents to Track Google Operations
- Tech Mahindra Partners With SpaceXSI to Scale AI-Powered Coding
- Barclays to Cut 5,000 Jobs as AI Drives Cost Savings
- CERT-In Warns of Compromised eMudhra Certificate Authority Keys
AI made headlines this week for what it can do, who is putting it to use, and how hackers are exploiting it.
Birla AI Labs launched a forecasting model, Eternal unveiled a privacy-focused assistant, and OpenAI partnered with India to train civil servants. CNN signed an AI licensing deal with Google, while Oracle and AstraZeneca teamed up on clinical research. Nokia and its partners tested AI-powered 5G technology, Microsoft flagged AI-assisted cyberattacks, and Tech Mahindra partnered with SpaceXSI on AI coding.
1. Birla AI Labs Launches Yug-1
Birla AI Labs has launched Yug-1, a time-series foundation model built to forecast trends, identify patterns, and detect anomalies in complex datasets.
Available on GitHub and Hugging Face, the model allows developers, researchers and businesses to test its capabilities and explore applications beyond conventional language-based AI.
Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/birla-ai-labs-launches-yug-1-to-forecast-business-trends/
2. Eternal Unveils AI Assistant Dark.ai
Eternal founder and Vice Chairman Deepinder Goyal has unveiled Dark.ai, an AI assistant designed to keep user conversations confidential, with a global launch planned by the end of 2026.
The assistant will use fine-tuned open-weight models, end-to-end encryption and user-controlled encrypted memory. Eternal says its architecture will prevent even the company from accessing conversations.
Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/eternal-unveils-privacy-focused-ai-assistant-dark-ai/
3. OpenAI Partners With Karmayogi Bharat
OpenAI has partnered with Karmayogi Bharat to train Indian government employees in artificial intelligence, with eight OpenAI Academy courses already available on the iGOT Karmayogi platform.
The courses cover AI fundamentals, prompting and workplace applications, helping civil servants use AI tools in their daily work.
4. Tech Mahindra Partners With SpaceXSI
Tech Mahindra has partnered with AI coding platform SpaceXSI to help enterprises modernize legacy applications, accelerate software development and improve developer productivity.
The collaboration will integrate GrokBuild expertise into Tech Mahindra’s application modernization and engineering services, bringing AI-assisted coding into enterprise development workflows.
Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/tech-mahindra-partners-with-spacexsi-to-scale-ai-powered-coding/
5. CNN Signs Multi-Year Content Licensing Deal With Google
CNN has signed a multi-year agreement granting Google expanded rights to use its journalism in experimental AI features.
The deal is part of Google’s News AI pilot, which now includes more than 400 publications worldwide. Other participants include Axios, the Financial Times and Forbes, along with local and regional US publishers.
Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/cnn-signs-multi-year-content-licensing-deal-with-google/
6. Oracle Partners With AstraZeneca
Oracle and AstraZeneca have announced a collaboration to explore how AI and healthcare data can help identify eligible patients for clinical trials and accelerate medical research.
The companies plan projects across the US, Middle East and Europe, with shared governance and performance assessments to determine whether successful approaches can be expanded.
Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/oracle-astrazeneca-partner-to-use-ai-in-clinical-trials/
7. Nokia, T-Mobile and NVIDIA Complete First AI-RAN Call
Nokia, T-Mobile and NVIDIA say they have completed the world’s first AI-RAN call at a commercial cell site, demonstrating the technology on a live 5G network.
The call, made in Bellevue, Washington, used Nokia’s Massive MIMO radio and anyRAN software alongside infrastructure built on NVIDIA’s Aerial RAN Computer platform. The system connected to T-Mobile’s commercial 5G core and commercial user devices.
8. Microsoft Flags AI Use in China-Linked Cyberattacks
Microsoft says a China-linked hacking group used an AI-powered penetration-testing framework to accelerate attacks against organizations worldwide, including a supply-chain compromise involving ConnectWise Cloud Backup.
In some cases, attackers gained privileged cloud access within three hours. Although most attempts failed, Microsoft said the group, tracked as Storm-0940, established persistent privileged access at several organizations.
