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Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind! Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has long been completely out of ideas. Meta makes a frickin’ bundle from selling ads on Facebook and Instagram and its numbers for second quarter 2025 were really good! [Meta] But that’s all from selling ads on social networks that have reached saturation. Where do you go from there? Last time […]
04.08.2025 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector! The UK government programme to force AI into everything has reached the Ministry of Justice, with the ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’! If they can bodge something with AI, they’re going to. [Ministry of Justice] Did you know AI can reduce court backlogs? Did you know AI can increase prison capacity? Amazing! This plan is […]
03.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source Proton Mail is famous for its privacy and security. The cool trick they do is that not even Proton can decode your email. That’s because it never exists on their systems as plain text — it’s always encrypted! The most Proton can do if a government comes calling is give them the metadata — who […]
02.08.2025 21:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product Figure AI is a humanoid robot startup. It’s also got an AI operating system called Helix. The future is amazing! [Figure] Figure talks a huge game. They’re going to have 200,000 robots on assembly lines and in homes by 2029! They’ve raised $1.5 billion of actual money from investors! [WSJ, archive] Founder Brett Adcock has […]
01.08.2025 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Edward Saatchi: pay to make your own bad AI South Park episodes! Edward Saatchi runs Fable Studio, which started in 2018 doing virtual reality. A couple of pivots later, Fable has an exciting new project called Showrunner that lets you make your own TV show episodes with AI! They’re calling it “the Netflix of AI!” In the press releases. [Variety] Saatchi says you can type in a […]
31.07.2025 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes Cosmos is — or was — a popular science magazine published by the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. David Ho is an oceanographer at the University of Hawai’i. Cosmos posted an article about removing carbon from the oceans. Professor Ho was quite surprised the article had a quote from him and a pile of stuff […]
30.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft Remember that much-loved Microsoft AI feature Copilot Recall that keeps screenshots of everything happening on your Windows PC? Now there’s Microsoft Copilot Vision for Windows 11, which takes whatever happens on your Copilot+ laptop and sends it to Microsoft! [Microsoft; Microsoft] Microsoft wants Copilot to become your “true companion.” We saw Microsoft’s sticky blob avatar […]
29.07.2025 18:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen Microsoft Copilot has an avatar now! It’s a viscous pearly blob of liquid. That wobbles. And has facial expressions. I had to euphemise furiously on the YouTube version of this post — but for the blog, the AP Style Guide lets us call a spade a bloody shovel. It might just be me, and it […]
28.07.2025 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Help fund Pivot to AI’s work — send a few dollars to keep the stories and videos coming It’s that time again when I ask you to send money to Pivot to AI. Help keep the stories coming daily! Here is how to send money: The Patreon is here. Sign up for $5 a month today! Less than a beer! For casual and drive-by tips, there’s also a Ko-Fi. For the enterprise readers: there’s a […]
27.07.2025 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again. We talked about dubious claims of replacing fashion models with AI image generator output back in April, when H&M made a series of actually impossible claims about AI models that they got printed in the incredibly gullible media. H&M’s purpose was to scare those uppity creatives and models into accepting worse working conditions. This month’s […]
27.07.2025 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now What’s the real purpose of Google’s AI Overview? It’s affiliate marketing spam! That’s what it’s for. Pivot readers know how to get around the AI overview. You click on the “web” tab, you use the udm14 hack or a browser extension, you just use a different search engine. But these are all individual responses — […]
26.07.2025 09:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss Tech recruiters Howdy surveyed 1,047 full-time professionals who say they use AI. 30% of survey subjects said they were managers. [Howdy] 75% of subjects were expected to use AI at work. 22% felt pressured to use AI when it was not appropriate. So 16% of subjects just say they used the AI when they didn’t! […]
25.07.2025 11:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews Google claims the AI Overview on every search result — a frequently-wrong summary of other people’s work — sends a ton of clicks back to the original publishers they ripped off. This is false. Pew Research tracked browser usage for 600 people during March 2025. Pew didn’t just ask questions, they measured on the test […]
24.07.2025 19:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened UPDATE: reply from Lemkin appended at end, he says it really did happen this way Jason Lemkin of AI startup SaaStr posted a Twitter thread on Thursday 17 July, claiming he had vibe-coded an app using Replit, and vibe coding was the best thing ever! [Threadreader] But then … Replit deleted his production database! And then […]
23.07.2025 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns I asked a couple of months ago: if AI code was such an obviously superior engineering method, why didn’t we see AI code everywhere in open source? Since then, there have been a few performative AI code pulls in open source projects. They’re generally from competent coders who know what they’re doing — but every […]
22.07.2025 20:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Google Veo fails week 4: the final faildown When you’ve read this post, go watch the worked examples on YouTube. [YouTube] Our intrepid friend Aron Peterson, a.k.a. Shokunin Studio, is a media production guy. He follows the AI image generators and he experiments with them. But he also knows what professional quality is — and what it isn’t. So Aron bravely risked his […]
19.07.2025 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pivot to AI is unwell I got Saturday’s 20-minute video of Veo 3 fails produced in a tour de force, ignoring my increasing headache and difficulty thinking clearly. But it’s done, it’s up, and it’s fantastic. Tell all your friends! [YouTube] By the time I went to bed I had 1°C of fever. This has continued today and I’ve spent […]
13.07.2025 20:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisations, but they don’t seem strident about it and they like to show their working. So good, I guess. METR funded […]
11.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’? When some huge and stupid public chatbot disaster hits the news, the AI pumpers will Kramer into the mentions to say stuff like “you have to admit, AI is here to stay.” Well, no, I don’t. Not unless you say what you actually mean. What’s the claim you’re making? Herpes is here to stay too, […]
10.07.2025 13:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged Anysphere is the startup that produces Cursor, your sort-of dependable vibe coding buddy. You tell Cursor what you’d like and it spits out a complete function! This leads to some spectacular vibe code disasters. Anysphere started out like a standard Silicon Valley startup — burn all the money you can, just make the user numbers […]
09.07.2025 14:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew You’ve heard of vibe coding, with, I’m sure, not a little horror. Spin the gacha and make a website! And then you have unfortunate experiences. There are people who get quietly called in to fix the vibe code disaster areas. They tend not to talk about it in public. But the other thing that cheaparse […]
08.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Google AI Overviews: Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU The Independent Publishers Alliance, a group of small UK publishers, has filed a UK competition complaint and an EU antitrust complaint over Google’s AI Overviews in search results. [Press Gazette; Reuters] AI Overviews directly replace the publishers’ own sites, but worse. You can’t opt out of AI Overviews without blocking Google from your site entirely. […]
07.07.2025 19:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Venture capital is lending money against video cards Last year, Wall Street finance firms started making loans, using video cards as collateral — that famously long-term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months. Investment bankers and hedge funds got in on the action too. [FT, archive; Bloomberg, archive] AI bubble companies want the money so they can buy more Nvidia […]
06.07.2025 21:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance When you’ve read this post, go watch the worked examples on YouTube. [YouTube] Our good friend Aron Peterson, a.k.a. Shokunin Studio, is a media production professional. He experiments with AI image and video generators. But he also knows what professional quality is. Google Veo 3 is the new hotness in video generation. It does sound […]
05.07.2025 23:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures have released what purports to be a survey: “2025: The State of Consumer AI”. That is, chatbots. [Menlo Ventures] The subtitle is: “AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived”! That’s a very positive statement! But it’s not one these numbers actually show. Menlo engaged Morning Consult to survey 5,031 Americans. Here are […]
04.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t Microsoft is firing 9,000 workers across the company — 4% of all employees. Before this, they laid off over 6,000 in May and another 300 in June. [CNBC] It’s not that Microsoft is doing badly. In Q1 2025, they reported net income of $26 billion on revenue of $70 billion — and they blamed AI […]
03.07.2025 18:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions SWE-Bench Verified by OpenAI tests how well a model can solve real bugs in real Python code from GitHub. These bugs are all public information — so the AI models have almost certainly trained on the actual text of the bug and on the fix for the bug. In “The SWE-Bench Illusion,” researchers at Purdue […]
02.07.2025 17:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot “Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced” by Govindakumar Madhavan was published in April by Springer Nature. It’s $169 as an ebook, or $219 as a hardback. [Springer, archive] Retraction Watch heard from a reader who was cited in the book — but his cited papers didn’t … exist. A lot of citations in the […]
01.07.2025 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much they use internal AI tools like the various Copilots: [Business Insider] AI is now a fundamental part of how we work. Just like […]
30.06.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You fund our work here. Send $5 to Pivot to AI! It’s the end of the month, and that’s when I ask you to donate to Pivot to AI! At present, Pivot is my income. (Got sysadmin/devops work? Call me!) So your $5 a month — or any other amount — directly allows me to keep doing this. If you’d buy me a drink once a […]
29.06.2025 22:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0