Weekly Review 13 November 2026

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):

1. The riskiest AI are the ones that are independent, self-improving and have a survival imperative: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/03/ai-policy-wonks-declare-sovereign-agents-a-threat-to-civilization/5307354
2. Pretty sure it's AI data centres AND Trump, not just one or the other: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/big-tech-claims-voters-ai-backlash-is-anti-trump-not-anti-tech/
3. The cost of using AI tends to grow faster than people anticipate: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/11/02/the-token-trap-why-ai-costs-spiral-at-scale/
4. The UK is giving itself the power to regulate how AI agents are used: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/06/uk-ministers-seek-powers-to-investigate-when-ai-agents-are-let-off-the-leash/5307889
5. I don't think it's a good idea for AI companies to commit to keep building more data centres, when people clearly don't want them around: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-voters-more-data-centers
6. Workers using AI work longer and have less focus: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4243686/does-ai-actually-save-employees-time-data-is-contradictory-2.html
7. If your AI gets it wrong, you are still legally responsible for it: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4245769/enterprises-must-take-blame-for-their-ai-agents-mistakes-say-regulators-2.html
8. Consumer AI can help reduce heating bills: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/nov/07/can-ai-save-you-money-heating-bill
9. Moves to use AI to detect whale strandings: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/2397552/could-ai-help-save-pilot-whales-from-a-stranding
10. Managers are regretting forcing their employees to use AI, as the managers are now getting buried in slop: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-workers-ai-huge-mistake
11. AI will soon be generating 1000 times the web traffic humans do: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/06/ai-agents-are-a-bane-for-some-website-operators-says-cloudflare/5308022
12. At this point I think it's crossing the line from AI hallucination to AI defamation. Google needs to pay up: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/google-ai-falsely-links-auckland-anaesthetic-technician-to-drink-driving-convictions/XZOO344JYZDOPN33BGK5KQOWYM/
13. Developers focus on the AI but neglect the network that carries its data: https://dataconomy.com/2026/11/06/why-edge-ai-projects-depend-on-the-physical-network/
14. Criminals make big money from using AI to impersonate executives: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/06/ai-ceo-impersonation-theft
15. AI shopping agents are not very reliable or effective: https://dataconomy.com/2026/11/06/visa-test-finds-ai-shopping-agents-succeed-only-57-of-the/
16. Geoffrey Hinton warns of an AI caused disaster that finally makes world leaders pay attention to the risks of AI: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-godfather-chernobyl-blackout