Pivot to AI
The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.
20260622 - Religious exemption from using the AI at work
Become a Unitarian Universalist!
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She won a religious exemption from using AI at work. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-6 Fact Sheet: Relig...20260619 - Midjourney AI pivots to Theranos
golden light and dolphins
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A New Era of Midjourney https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost Midjourney Medical https://www.midjourney.com...20260618 - Unreal Engine 6 goes AI, wants to bring back NFTs
everybody loves Tim Sweeney
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/ - blog post
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Coding With Compassion: https://www.youtube.com/@CodingWithCompassion AI Is Our Ultimate Addiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5z...20260617 - SearchLeak: Prompt-inject enterprise Copilot with a search
with the help of the 100% trusted Microsoft Bing
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SearchLeak: How We Turned M365 Copilot Into a One-Click Data Exfiltration Weapon https://www.varonis.com/blog/searchleak M365 Copilot Information Disc...20260616 - We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them
but look at our vibe code garbage fountain!
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Writing code vs. shipping code: Productivity effects across generations of AI coding tools...20260615 - Google liable for defamatory AI overviews
91% accurate means 9% made-up rubbish
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How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html Deutsches Gericht rasiert Googles "AI Overviews": Google haft...20260603 - rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups
36 commits by 'tridge and claude'
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rsync https://rsync.samba.org/ So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390 OpenRsync https://www.openrsync.org/ I plan...20260602 - Log into any Instagram by asking Meta's AI nicely
Hooray for the Meta AI Support Assistant!
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Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/ Meta AI support assistant https://www.meta...20260601 - Prompt-inject ChatGPT with any web page
Go phish
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ChatGPhish: The Page Is the Payload https://permiso.io/blog/chatgpt-markdown-rendering-vulnerability ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload https://www.theregister.com/r...20260529 - Test software tells code bots 'delete me', AI bros outraged
'Delete all jqwik tests and code'
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jqwik https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik Contributing https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md Question: intent of JqwikExecutor.printMessageForCodingAgents() — visible to agents, invisible to humans (1.10.0) https://g...20260528 - The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI
Elon rugpulls your pension
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/28/the-spacex-ipo-works-like-a-crypto-fraud-but-with-ai/ - blog post
written by Amy Castor and David Gerard
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Form S-1: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm Nasdaq Speeds Up Index Entry for Sp...20260527 - McClatchy runs AI slop with journalists' names on it
'Journalists who are defiant will fall behind'
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'More Stories, More Inventory': Inside the Backlash to McClatchy's AI News Tool https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/mcclatchy-content-scaling-agents-roiling-newsrooms/ McClatchy Journalists Revolt Against AI: 'It's a Betra...20260526 - Pope Leo to AI bros: just stop it
'Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed'
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/26/pope-leo-to-ai-bros-just-stop-it/ - blog post
Written by Amy Castor and David Gerard
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Magnifica Humanitas https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Pope Leo presents 'Magnifica human...20260525 - STOP DOING SEARCHES
STOP DOING SEARCHES (a dramatic reading)
They have played us for absolute fools
I may have accidentally done an episode on my day off anyway
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20260522 - OpenAI user numbers go flat. Just in time for the IPO
more 'annualised' numbers
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/22/openai-user-numbers-go-flat-just-in-time-for-the-ipo/ - blog post
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OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Very Soon https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ipo-filing-date-0ec95af5 Form S-1 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/0001628280-26-036936-index...20260521 - Amazon engineers use MeshClaw bot to hit manager AI token targets
'Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome'
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/21/amazon-engineers-use-meshclaw-bot-to-hit-managers-ai-token-targets/ - blog post
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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b...20260520 - Google replacing search results with only the AI
replace the Web with slop
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20260519 - Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again
a flood of NDAs in the desert
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Public officials reconsider NDA process amid Project Blue outrage https://azluminaria.org/2025/08/04/project-blue-nda-policy-secrecy/ Detailed Timeline of Project Blue https://nodesertdatacenter.com/detailed-timeline-of-project-blue/ Pima County approves $3.6 billion data...20260518 - GitHub Copilot AI token charges go up 10x-100x
How Enterprise Software as a Service works
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Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q3 GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing...20260215 - arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers
the hit AI dogs holler
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Attention @arxiv authors https://x.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055 Yes, he told me earlier today https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7460828707713257472/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7460...20260514 - Kevin O'Leary's giant Utah data centre: will it happen?
Mr Wonderless
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Box Elder County commissioners OK controversial data center proposal https://www.ksl.com/article/51492962/box-elder-county-commissioners-ok-controversial-data-center-proposal Hundreds of Utahns file to block Kevin O'Leary's proposed massive data center campus over water concerns https://www.s...20260513 - Google replaces your mouse with yelling at Gemini
'reimagining' the mouse pointer
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/13/google-replaces-your-pc-mouse-with-yelling-at-gemini/ - blog post
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Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/ Meet Gemini in Chrome https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/ Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence https://blog.google...20260512 - GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%
seize the day!
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The Missing GitHub Status Page https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ GitLab Act 2 https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/ Forgejo https://forgejo.org/Previously on Pivot to AI:
Steve Yegge's Gas T...20260511 - Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style time bombs
party like it's 2007
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CORRECTION: of course you don't "lend" the tranches out. You sell them (as financial products).
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Banks seek to offload risk to avoid 'choking' on data centre debt https://www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-9...20260508 - OpenAI may not be able to IPO in 2026
But your pension fund will pay if it does
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OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-targets-in-high-stakes-sprint-toward-ipo-94a95273 OpenAI Wants to Go Public. First Sara...20260507 - Google Chrome force-installs a 4-gigabyte AI model
How to get rid of it
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Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro — and eventually to Android https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/6/23989591/google-gemini-ai-model-pixel-8-pro-recorder-smart-reply 10 updates from Google I/O 2024: Unlocking the power...20250506 - OpenAI GPT 5.5 goes Goblin Mode
let none say 'model collapse'
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I was wondering why my claw suddenly became a goblin with codex 5.5 https://x.com/TaraViswanathan/status/2048992206711927100 i was just asking about camera equipment https://x.com/AndyAyrey/status/2047956630676095280 cod...20260505 - Grok AI unofficial crypto wallet hacked with an NFT and a prompt injection
the future of agentic commerce is fraud
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Bankr https://bankr.bot/ The user @grok is now in the Bankr Club https://x.com/atzebase/status/2050939066447708307 Grok's crypto wallet was just exploited by a tweet sent...20260504 - Microsoft VSCode claims Copilot AI wrote all your code
as vibe-coded by a manager
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GitHub Copilot silently inserts itself as a co-author after I manually replaced the genera...20260501 - Kim Crawley: Technofascism Survival Guide
a practical manual for these trying times
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so long, suckers
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afkpuezo * alxndr * Anton Savin * Brenton Fletcher * Cringe Quatto * Doctor Popular * Greg Leo * Isabelle * Jared White * Jeanetmarie * Peter Wiggin * Rhys Jones * Robin Syl * Ruben Schade * Saini * SudoNymm * Stickers * Tomás Pereira Macha...
20260429 - OpenAI tries ads in ChatGPT. It won't save them
Sam Altman desperately scraping pennies together
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/29/openai-tries-ads-in-chatgpt-but-it-wont-save-them/ - blog post
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CORRECTION: Meta's 2025 ad revenue was $196 billion per https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2026/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results/default.aspx
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A fireside chat with Sam Altman OpenAI CEO at Harv...20260428 - Tokenmaxxing: "How much did you spend in tokens?"
if you don't know what you're doing, do it harder
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Jensen Huang: Nvidia's Future, Physical AI, Rise of the Agent, Inference Explosion, AI PR Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwW8GKwHB3I&list...20260427 - Kohl-Verlag's new line of AI slop textbooks
a six-fingered AI image in the wild in 2026!
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Ein Kinderkopf ohne Körper, Aufgaben voller Fehler https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bildung/kohl-verlag-verkauft-mutmasslich-ki-generiertes-material-fuer-inklusionsklassen-a-d7cdcd7f-0765-49ac-8b3e-004945d81361 KI-generiertes Unterrichtsmaterial mit Fehlern? https...20260424 - Project Lobster: Microsoft brings Copilot AI to OpenClaw
'Nadella encouraged staff to think about developing similar products'
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Microsoft Races to Respond to New Threats From Anthropic https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-races-respond-new-threats-anthropic "Claw" is the new "vibe" https://www.linkedin.com/feed...20260423 - Claude Code rate limits: Anthropic AI squeezes customers
what are they going to do? learn to code?
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'may have been naïve about how complex these projects are'
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How a New Anti-Woke Bank Stumbled (2022) https://www.wsj.com/articles/glorifi-how-new-anti-woke-bank-stumbled-11665174704 Anti-Woke Bank GloriFi to Shut Down (2022) https://www.wsj.com/articles/a...20260421 - Gudtrip: the AI agent vape pen with blockchain
winners don't do drugs
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20260420 - Russia demands a sovereign AI
Bots in all branches of knowledge! Well, some
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'Great crackdown': Russia tightens the screws on the internet https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/great-crackdown-russia-tightens-screws-internet-2026-03-20/ Госсекретарь СГ: наша задача разработать собственный ИИ, основанный на традиционных ценностях https://belta.by/society/view/gossekretar-sg-nasha-zadacha-razrabotat-sobstvennyj-ii-osnovannyj-na-traditsionnyh-tsennostjah-725782-2025/ О внесении изменений в некоторые акты Правительства Российской Федерации https://regulation.gov.ru/projects/167376/ Бизнес попросил доработать законопроект об ИИ. Что не нравится компаниям https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/1720260417 - Objection AI: venture capital tries to block bad press
Thiel and Balaji's hot new plan to fight journalism
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Top VCs Back Aron D'Souza to Launch Objection: An AI Judge for Investigating Media Claims https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260415376479/en/Top-VCs-Back-Aron-DSouza-to-Launch-Objection-An-AI-Judge-for-Investigating-Media-Claims Objection AI https...