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AI PROBLEMS
Ars Technica: Meta Muse exposes users’ personal and business secrets when they share conversations. “Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through web links, researchers reported Monday. In response to questions from Ars about the behavior, Meta said it’s suspending the sharing feature while the company reviews it and considers making changes.”
DATA CENTERS
Politico: Data center real estate is getting hard to find. “backlash to large data centers for artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules. Instead of ramping up tax incentives, 16 state legislatures have considered outright bans on their development. As the glut in projects strains U.S. electrical grids and voters from both parties increasingly sour on the bulky facilities, developers are rethinking what they really need.”
North Dakota Monitor: Data centers can’t be stopped, but good policy is needed, NDSU researcher says. “There’s no way of stopping the development of data centers and artificial intelligence, a North Dakota State University researcher said Wednesday, adding that attempts to slow development would only push it to other areas.”
AI AGENTS
Axios: Scoop: Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts. “Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources tell Axios.”
AI MODELS
TechCrunch: Canva releases its first image generation model. “Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete with same-category models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta.”
AI IN WORK
The Guardian: Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. “Employers are navigating a flood of errors and low-quality work that are sapping employee time, raising privacy and security risks and pushing up costs. Now, some businesses that started off fast and furious on AI are pumping the brakes, implementing restrictions where experimentation was once encouraged, bringing back experienced workers and upping training efforts.”
Denver Post: A Denver Chinese restaurant owner wanted a better name for a bun. So she turned to ChatGPT.. “Like [Nina] Zhang, local restaurateurs are using ChatGPT and similar chatbots to experiment with their recipes, design promotional fliers, manage inventory and handle workplace conflicts. The tool has helped them run their restaurants more efficiently at a time when many in the industry are making razor-thin margins, they said.”
AI IN GOVERNANCE
KATU: KATU probes alleged ‘deepfake’ as cached images show upside-down flag behind Nafisa Fai. “KATU is investigating the controversy surrounding an alleged ‘deepfake’ video of Washington County Commissioner Nafisa Fai speaking at an event in Minnesota in front of an upside-down American flag. Fai is running against fellow Washington County Commissioner Pam Treece to become chair of the County Board of Commissioners.”
AROUND THE AI WORLD
Futurism: IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy. “Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years. And now the International Monetary Fund is the latest to sound the alarm. In its Global Financial Stability Report published last week, the global financial institution warned that markets everywhere are increasingly at the mercy of precarious AI investments.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: Florida lawyer referred for possible discipline over filing that judges called ‘AI slop’. “A Florida appeals court on Wednesday referred a lawyer to the Florida bar for possible professional discipline after finding her filings in a case bore hallmarks of generative AI output that the panel of judges called ‘AI slop.'”
RESEARCH & OPINION
New York Times: Customer Service Chatbots Must Be Stopped. “It’s easy to dismiss these exhausting mazes of chatbots, robocalls, irrelevant pop-ups and consent forms as the routine irritations of life lived on tiny screens. But taken together, these episodes can amount to something much larger — delayed medical care, denied insurance coverage, predatory subscription practices and scams that cost Americans an estimated $119 billion a year. Now, artificial intelligence is starting to make a bad situation worse.”
The Conversation: How governments worldwide are shaping what AI can say about politics. “I’m a researcher at a nonpartisan think tank at Vanderbilt University, where I study free speech policy. In two reports published in 2025 and 2026, my colleagues and I worked with global legal experts to examine how governments in 12 countries and regions regulate artificial intelligence. Our research shows that they often use existing rules, such as national security or anti-state propaganda laws, rather than new AI laws to control what AI models can say.”
NPR: AI is shaking up the field of mathematics. But what comes next?. “Mathematicians are struggling to figure out what to do with a flood of new results from artificial intelligence. As NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel reports, a release by the company OpenAI is shaping up to be just a massive homework assignment.” Good evening, Internet…
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Ars Technica: Meta Muse exposes users’ personal and business secrets when they share conversations. “Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through web links, researchers reported Monday. In response to questions from Ars about the behavior, Meta said it’s suspending the sharing feature while the company reviews it and considers making changes.”
DATA CENTERS
Politico: Data center real estate is getting hard to find. “backlash to large data centers for artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules. Instead of ramping up tax incentives, 16 state legislatures have considered outright bans on their development. As the glut in projects strains U.S. electrical grids and voters from both parties increasingly sour on the bulky facilities, developers are rethinking what they really need.”
North Dakota Monitor: Data centers can’t be stopped, but good policy is needed, NDSU researcher says. “There’s no way of stopping the development of data centers and artificial intelligence, a North Dakota State University researcher said Wednesday, adding that attempts to slow development would only push it to other areas.”
AI AGENTS
Axios: Scoop: Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts. “Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources tell Axios.”
AI MODELS
TechCrunch: Canva releases its first image generation model. “Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete with same-category models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta.”
AI IN WORK
The Guardian: Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. “Employers are navigating a flood of errors and low-quality work that are sapping employee time, raising privacy and security risks and pushing up costs. Now, some businesses that started off fast and furious on AI are pumping the brakes, implementing restrictions where experimentation was once encouraged, bringing back experienced workers and upping training efforts.”
Denver Post: A Denver Chinese restaurant owner wanted a better name for a bun. So she turned to ChatGPT.. “Like [Nina] Zhang, local restaurateurs are using ChatGPT and similar chatbots to experiment with their recipes, design promotional fliers, manage inventory and handle workplace conflicts. The tool has helped them run their restaurants more efficiently at a time when many in the industry are making razor-thin margins, they said.”
AI IN GOVERNANCE
KATU: KATU probes alleged ‘deepfake’ as cached images show upside-down flag behind Nafisa Fai. “KATU is investigating the controversy surrounding an alleged ‘deepfake’ video of Washington County Commissioner Nafisa Fai speaking at an event in Minnesota in front of an upside-down American flag. Fai is running against fellow Washington County Commissioner Pam Treece to become chair of the County Board of Commissioners.”
AROUND THE AI WORLD
Futurism: IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy. “Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years. And now the International Monetary Fund is the latest to sound the alarm. In its Global Financial Stability Report published last week, the global financial institution warned that markets everywhere are increasingly at the mercy of precarious AI investments.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Reuters: Florida lawyer referred for possible discipline over filing that judges called ‘AI slop’. “A Florida appeals court on Wednesday referred a lawyer to the Florida bar for possible professional discipline after finding her filings in a case bore hallmarks of generative AI output that the panel of judges called ‘AI slop.'”
RESEARCH & OPINION
New York Times: Customer Service Chatbots Must Be Stopped. “It’s easy to dismiss these exhausting mazes of chatbots, robocalls, irrelevant pop-ups and consent forms as the routine irritations of life lived on tiny screens. But taken together, these episodes can amount to something much larger — delayed medical care, denied insurance coverage, predatory subscription practices and scams that cost Americans an estimated $119 billion a year. Now, artificial intelligence is starting to make a bad situation worse.”
The Conversation: How governments worldwide are shaping what AI can say about politics. “I’m a researcher at a nonpartisan think tank at Vanderbilt University, where I study free speech policy. In two reports published in 2025 and 2026, my colleagues and I worked with global legal experts to examine how governments in 12 countries and regions regulate artificial intelligence. Our research shows that they often use existing rules, such as national security or anti-state propaganda laws, rather than new AI laws to control what AI models can say.”
NPR: AI is shaking up the field of mathematics. But what comes next?. “Mathematicians are struggling to figure out what to do with a flood of new results from artificial intelligence. As NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel reports, a release by the company OpenAI is shaping up to be just a massive homework assignment.” Good evening, Internet…
This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by supporting ResearchBuzz on Patreon. Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys.