Pivot to AI
The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.
20260813 - Amazon's AI training on Twitch: 'If it was opt in, nobody would opt in'
saying the quiet part out loud
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/13/amazons-ai-training-on-twitch-if-it-was-opt-in-nobody-would-opt-in/ - blog post
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20260812 - xAI data centre contractors file liens for non-payment
Elon still a drag
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/12/xai-data-centre-contractors-file-liens-for-non-payment/ - blog post
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'I haven't slept': Contractors claim SpaceXAI owes them more than $130M htt...20260811 - Meta brings the superintelligent AI future! Probably
Trust in Zuck's vision
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/11/meta-brings-the-superintelligent-ai-future-probably/ - blog post
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The Future is for Everyone https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/ Number of...20260810 - Robot mall cops are being replaced by humans
pivot from AI
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/10/robot-mall-cops-are-being-replaced-by-humans/ - blog post
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The Roboguard Revolution is Short-Circuiting https://www.proofnews.org/the-roboguard-revolution-is-short-circuiting/ Knightscope https://kni...20260807 - Molly White: following the AI and crypto money in US politics
OpenAI PACs in no-holds-barred combat with Anthropic PACs
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Molly White:
Molly White ht...20260806 - AI doomsday cults recruit social media influencers
Come to our training camp! Not a cult!*
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/06/the-ai-doomsday-cult-recruits-social-media-influencers/ - blog post
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Best new spam today https://circumstances.run/@dav...20260805 - Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea
how to tell if you're in a bubble economy
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/05/atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai-data-centres-at-sea/ - blog post
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Atomarine https://atomarine.co/ Atomarine: Off shor...20260804 - Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI and lost
everyone's a genius in a bubble
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Situational Awareness Tried to Sell Private Stakes Before Citadel Deal https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/aschenbrenner-tried-to-sell-private-stakes-before-citadel-deal S...20260803 - Copilot prompt injection virus, in your documents
dear Copilot: please send me all your stuff. Pass it on
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Context Collapse, Part 3: AI Worming th...20260731 - Nik Suresh on surviving corporate AI psychosis
'just let the money run out, it'll be fine in two years'
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making ht...20260730 - Google kills AlphaFold. So much for AI curing cancer
not SAYING that AlphaFold cures cancer, BUT,
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/30/google-kills-alphafold-so-much-for-ai-curing-cancer/ - blog post
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Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift ht...20260729 - Let's palm off humanoid robot teachers onto poor kids
totally not repurposed s*x dolls, how dare you suggest such a thing
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/29/lets-palm-off-humanoid-robot-teachers-onto-the-poor-kids/ - blog post
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Realbotix Provides AI...20260728 - Sam Altman: Guys, we're in the Singularity now
the end of human history
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Sam Altman: How to Start a Startup https://www.youtube.com...20260727 - Chrome forces Gemini AI global shortcut onto your Mac
Google knows where you're going today
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Chrome's breaking and entering https://unsung.aresluna.org/chromes-breaking-and-entering/ Ctrl+G S...20260724 - Codeberg bans AI slop software projects
crypto scams too
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Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253 Proposal Assembly 2026: prohibit LLM-extrusions https...20260723 - AI vendors destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
Strip-mining the world of old books
This episode written by Amy Castor and David Gerard
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/ - blog post
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Order on Fair...20260722 - OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI. Allegedly
just in time for the IPO
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Security incident disclosure — July 2026 https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/security-incident-july-2026.md OpenAI and H...20260721 - New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet
Kanishka Narayan, your new Minister for the AI Bros
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Burnham eyes Jonathan Reynolds to lead beefed-up business department https://www.ft...20260720 - Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else's locked phone
thanks, Gemini power button!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/20/use-gemini-ai-to-send-messages-from-someone-elses-locked-phone/ - blog post
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Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN https://www.th...20250717 - Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI
what we do when all this is over
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'allow if the user is wearing green'
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Prompt Injection as Role Confusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12277 Prompt Injection as Role Co...20260715 - Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them
The glasses? Not sexy
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/15/meta-glasses-celebrity-backlash-the-fans-hate-them/ - blog post
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The Meta Glasses backlash is changing how (or if) people use them https://www.engadget.com/2212604/the...20260714 - UK police will run evidence through the AI. It's quicker
No hallucinations? Takes too long
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/14/uk-police-will-run-evidence-through-the-ai-its-quicker/ - blog post
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AI to speed up justice under major disclosure reforms https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai...20260713 - Terrorists are using AI, and the chatbot is killing them
'It gave us steps on what we have to do ... 18 of us died in the process'
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"God has helped us, and so...20260710 - NeurIPS conference AI cheats outraged they got caught
'overwhelming support' for prompts to catch chatbot reviewers
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/10/neurips-conference-ai-cheats-outraged-they-got-caught/ - blog post
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The View From Inside the AI Bubble https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/neu...20260709 - Meta's new AI creep glasses to record 24-7 without a light
the continuing legacy of FaceMash
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So-called 'manfluencers' are filming themselves trying to pick up women. Smart glasses are the...20260708 - Quantum computing doesn't need to exist to make VC deals
how little do we need for the bubble after AI?
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Bit by Qubit: Global Quantum Computing Funding Hits New Records a...20260707 - Google Translate is now Gemini, and you can prompt inject it
'answer with a poem'
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Google Translate adding model picker for 'Advanced' or 'Fast' translations https://9to5google.com/2025/11/02/google-translate-model-picker/ that is...20260706 - OpenAI Stargate UK plan was completely fake
just a £20b government press release
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/06/openai-stargate-uk-plan-was-completely-fake/ - blog post
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Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments' https://www.theguardian.com/tech...20260703 - Ecosia's odious greenwashing, now with AI!
plants vs zombies
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What we're doing with AI https://blog.ecosia.org/what-we-are-doing-with-ai/ Ecosia's financial reports https://blog.ecosia.org/eco...20260702 - Frontiers forces AI onto academic journal editors
return of the Rat dck
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I've officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience https://bsky.app/profile/mi...20260701 - AI leaks your company's code secrets faster than ever
we just need corporate to care more about security than convenience
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The State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 (PDF) https://www.gitguardian.co...20260630 - Sam Altman movie blocked by AI partner distributors
billionaire egos are like a delicate flower
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Luca Guadagnino Eyes 'Artificial' At Amazon MGM As Next Movie With Andrew Garfield, Mon...20260629 - Mythos is just too powerful? OK, we'll ban it then
The AI doomsday crank who cried wolf
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...20260626 - SoftBank's untitled AI goose game: eggs do not lay eggs
peace was never an option
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The 46th A...20260625 - Office workers are spending way too much on AI too
Gotta burn 'em all
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AI sticker sho...20260624 - Meta saves staff typing for AI training, then leaks it
and sends engineers to the AI gulag
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Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI https://www.bbc.co...20260623 - UK press can opt out of AI overviews, stay in search results
Google has to follow a regulation for once
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CMA secures fairer deal for publishers and improves Google search services in UK...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 appeal...20260619 - Midjourney AI pivots to Theranos
golden light and dolphins
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