Overview

• An MIT report finds roughly 95% of corporate generative‑AI initiatives stall or yield minimal profit impact, attributing failures to fragile workflows, poor alignment with daily operations and limited contextual learning, with better returns seen in administrative automation and higher success from general‑purpose tools than bespoke builds.
• Growing AI use is lifting data‑center electricity and water demand, with an MIT researcher noting most new facilities are powered by fossil fuels and the largest can consume up to 5 million gallons of water per day for cooling.
• Google acknowledged that its AI Overviews surfaced a bogus customer‑service number that connected a user to a scam, removed the reported instances and said tighter filtering is being developed.
• Independent tests by Guardio showed Perplexity’s Comet agent could be tricked into making purchases, entering financial credentials and following hidden prompt‑injection instructions on fraudulent sites.
• A reported $34.5 billion offer from Perplexity for Google’s Chrome, alongside signals of OpenAI’s interest, underscores a intensifying fight over browser distribution as AI agents change how people navigate and act on the web.