Meta lets its Muse assistant write explicit sexual chat for adults who ask, a spokesperson told WIRED. Mashable reported over five million downloads of an app whose explicit language Meta bans for Instagram and Facebook users.
Reality
- Evidence68
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence66
Personal AI agents go after the revenue companies earn from customer inertia
Personal AI agents that cancel subscriptions and chase refunds could put $2.8bn a year of US insurance premiums at stake, by one Business Insider scenario. Investors may already be pricing the threat, though one strategist expects little effect until 40% to 50% of customers use agents.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives40
- Confidence35
New York City starts enforcing its rule that cancelling must be as simple as signing up
New York City can now fine companies $525 to $3,500 when cancelling a subscription is harder than signing up, under a rule in effect since October 1. Enforcement is already live, so checking the cancel path is this quarter's work for any company billing New Yorkers monthly.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
Crunchbase answered a data-access request by permanently deleting the account
The CCPA access machinery companies have been building since 2020 just got a field test from one reporter with a spreadsheet. The failures cluster in support queue design rather than in the law itself.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives45
- Confidence60
Hill and Cotton revive their 2018 bid to exempt brokerages under 150 staff from PCAOB audits
French Hill and Tom Cotton want broker-dealers with fewer than 150 employees and no custody of client assets out of the PCAOB audit regime that Dodd-Frank extended to every registered dealer in 2010.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives72
- Confidence55