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DATA CENTERS Spectrum Local News: Nearly 500 N.Y. small business owners join calls for state data center moratorium. “In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, nearly 500 small business owners from across […]
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AI Roundup New York Data Centers, Minnesota Data Centers, Data Center Fire Risk, More: ResearchBuzz AI Update, May 27, 2026 By ResearchBuzz on May 27, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )DATA CENTERS
Spectrum Local News: Nearly 500 N.Y. small business owners join calls for state data center moratorium. “In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, nearly 500 small business owners from across New York state urged the governor to pass legislation that would establish a temporary moratorium on new data center construction.”
Minnesota Star Tribune: Court halts work on Minnesota data center. “Goodhue County District Judge Patrick Biren issued late Friday an injunction against construction of Project Skyway, the data center on a nearly 500-acre site in the works since early 2024. The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA) secured the injunction as part of its lawsuit seeking more environmental review for the project.”
Texas A&M: AI’s growing footprint raises fire safety challenges for data centers. “Led by Dr. Qingsheng Wang and chemical engineering Ph.D. students Tylee Kareck and Chi-Yang Li, researchers from Texas A&M University are investigating an unexpected threat to data centers — increased fire risk. In a recent collaborative publication with George Washington University and the University of California, Berkeley, the team analyzed common causes of data center fires and identified strategies to reduce those risks.”
AI IN EDUCATION
Associated Press: America’s tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devices. “After pouring billions of dollars into laptops, tablets and learning apps, many schools are facing a digital reckoning. Classrooms have become saturated with screens, and a growing number of parents, teachers and school districts are saying it is time to scale back.”
AI IN GOVERNANCE
Mississippi Today: Gov. Reeves releases Mississippi artificial intelligence guide. “Gov. Tate Reeves has released the Mississippi Statewide AI Framework, a document that outlines the state’s priorities with artificial intelligence and provides guidance to help Mississippians of all ages learn about and prepare for the AI economy.”
The Register: Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion. “The future of sanctions evasion appears to involve fewer shady middlemen and considerably more rented GPUs, according to a new RUSI report on how rogue states are using AI to fake identities, automate shell companies, and launder crypto at scale.”
AI IN WORK
Business Insider: Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing. “A top Uber exec said AI is not giving the company bang for its buck. In a Rapid Response interview released on Saturday, Uber’s operations chief, Andrew Macdonald, said it was becoming harder to justify AI costs within the company.”
AROUND THE AI WORLD
Search Engine Journal: Reddit CEO: LLMs ‘Would Not Exist’ Without Reddit Data. “Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said large language models ‘would not exist as we know them’ without Reddit’s content. He called the platform’s user-generated data ‘modern oil’ for AI. Huffman made the comments during an interview at Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit.”
KXAN: Sharon Osbourne to release AI avatar of late husband Ozzy Osbourne. “Ten months after legendary rock singer Ozzy Osbourne died, his family is working to keep his memory alive. Sharon Osbourne, his wife, and Jack Osbourne, his son, are working to create an artificial intelligence-powered avatar of the Prince of Darkness.”
TechCrunch: This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots. “In the last few years, India’s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and the number of cloud kitchens increasing. … Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive is tapping into this trend, partnering with these companies to have workers wear special caps with cameras to collect egocentric (first-person point of view) video data of everyday tasks that could be used to train robots.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
New York Times: Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits. This link goes to a gift article. “Federal judges and legal experts said they are increasingly seeing filings like Mr. Sauve’s flooding court dockets and clogging an already overburdened system as A.I. supercharges pro se litigation — even as it opens up the legal system to people who might not otherwise be able to afford to bring a case.”
Ars Technica: Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package. “Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and credentials to third-party accounts, a security researcher is warning.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
The Register: Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI. “Search assumes source visibility and invites searchers to consider whether they trust sites enough to visit them. It demands mental engagement and decision-making to move from a list of results to query resolution. That’s a role people should play. AI presents an answer, one that’s so easy to accept it comes with a reminder to double-check. But it’s an answer without responsibility or liability. It’s not the right answer for the web.”
Asahi Shimbun: Science school opens base for 24/7 testing by AI, robots. “Amid intensifying global competition to accelerate scientific research using artificial intelligence, the Institute of Science Tokyo has opened a base where AI tools and robots will conduct fully automated research and experiments.”
NBC News: Fake academic journals are publishing AI-generated papers under real professors’ names . “A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.” Good morning, Internet…
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