You WILL love Marc's pet robot
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Salesforce Hits 8,000 Agentforce Deals, Opens Up on Its Informatica Acquisition https://www.cxtoday.com/conversational-ai/salesforce-hits-8000-agentforce-deals-opens-up-on-its-informatica-acquisition/
Bring Back Search on Salesforce Help https://ideas.salesforce.com/s/idea/a0BHp000016LluLMAS/bring-back-search-on-salesforce-help

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AI agents mean Salesforce won't hire software engineers in 2025, apparently https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/12/ai-agents-mean-salesforce-wont-hire-software-engineers-in-2025-apparently/
Salesforce: AI agents don't work — but we're charging 6% more for AI anyway https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/18/salesforce-ai-agents-dont-work-but-were-charging-6-more-for-ai-anyway/
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vibe compliance
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Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/deloitte-to-refund-government-after-admitting-ai-errors-in-440k-report-20251005-p5n05p
Targeted Compliance Framework Final Report 26 September 2025 https://www.dewr.gov.au/download/17099/targeted-compliance-framework-assurance-review-final-report/41163/targeted-compliance-framework-independent-review-final-report/pdf
Anthropic lands its biggest enterprise deployment ever with Deloitte deal https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/anthropic-deloitte-enterprise-ai.html

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Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/28/deloitte-australia-writes-government-report-with-ai-and-fake-references/
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Great Depression 2: Depress Harder
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The Subprime AI Crisis (2024) https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/
Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble-building-spree-55ee6128
$2 trillion in new revenue needed to fund AI's scaling trend — Bain & Company's 6th annual Global Technology Report https://www.bain.com/about/media-center/press-releases/20252/%242-trillion-in-new-revenue-needed-to-fund-ais-scaling-trend---bain--companys-6th-annual-global-technology-report/
The AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes 'parabolic,' Deutsche Bank warns: 'This is highly unlikely' https://fortune.com/2025/09/23/ai-boom-unsustainable-tech-spending-parabolic-deutsche-bank/
'AI's not a bubble but if it were, here's how it might pop' https://www.ft.com/content/65a14f89-6728-43bf-8c4e-b1a75023501a

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ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/chatgpt-goes-down-and-fake-jobs-grind-to-a-halt-worldwide/
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'AI is here to stay' — is it, though? What do you mean, 'stay'? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/
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SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/27/softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what/
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AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/23/ai-winter-is-in-the-air-but-we-think-the-ai-bubble-keeps-going-until-2027/
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Keep the party pumping! Just that little bit longer!
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Nvidia's AI empire: A look at its top startup investments https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/19/nvidias-ai-empire-a-look-at-its-top-startup-investments/
How NVIDIA Fuels the AI Revolution With Investments in Game Changers and Market Makers https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-investments/

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Is this thing on? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/06/22/hello-world/
Cash incinerator OpenAI secures its $6.6 billion lifeline — 'in the spirit of a donation' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/03/cash-incinerator-openai-secures-its-6-6-billion-lifeline-in-the-spirit-of-a-donation/
Nvidia primes the pump, puts $1b of pocket change into AI startups https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/04/nvidia-primes-the-pump-puts-1b-of-pocket-change-into-ai-startups/

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Et tu, Brute?
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HERE IS THE YOUTUBE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDkkUdyxkek&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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Aron Peterson https://www.linkedin.com/in/shokuninstudio/
Shokunin Studio https://www.shokunin.studio/about
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Day 2 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7339570684861308928-g5of/
Day 3 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7339930110961111040-fYNz/
Day 4 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7340330459559604224-ZjnB/
Day 5 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7340658175420911617-lfCj/
Day 6 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7341064216885288960-KQJ8/
Day 7 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7341442000832868352-i5JP/

Jerry Maguire clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOpKJec5css&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
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oh no, spending actual money!
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OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Money From Saudi Arabia, Indian Investors https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discussed-raising-money-saudi-arabia-indian-investors
Meta in Talks to Hire AI Investors Friedman and Gross, Partially Buy Out Their Venture Fund https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-talks-hire-former-github-ceo-nat-friedman-daniel-gross-join-ai-efforts

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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has 'super intelligence' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-release-anything-until-he-has-super-intelligence/
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OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/02/openai-signs-its-40-billion-deal-with-softbank-or-maybe-30-billion-probably/
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a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/10/a16z-raising-fresh-20b-for-ai-bubble-investments/
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In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/
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Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/13/meta-buys-into-scale-ai-in-the-quest-for-fresh-data/
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what's a bit of blood money, eh
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Here's the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-org/generative-ai-accelerator-cohort-2025/
"We're so excited to be one of the organizations selected for this @Googleorg program!" https://x.com/inaturalist/status/1932095273549083074
What is this — iNaturalist and generative AI? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/1
iNaturalist receives grant to improve species suggestions https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions
Why iNaturalist Users Freaked Out over a Google AI Grant https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-ai-grant-to-inaturalist-prompts-community-outcry/
"Hi again all, please know we're reading every comment and having a lot of discussions on our end." https://x.com/inaturalist/status/1932897302433444302

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where you gonna go? SAP? Yeah, didn't think so
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Introducing Agentforce 2.0: The Digital Labor Platform for Building a Limitless Workforce https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2024/12/17/agentforce-2-0-announcement/
"The future of customer support and service is here!" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcbenioff_agentforce-activity-7269552099120562178-IRGH/
Agentforce Is Now Available on Salesforce Help: But Is It Actually Helpful? https://www.salesforceben.com/agentforce-is-now-available-on-salesforce-help-but-is-it-actually-helpful/
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Convergence.ai https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-convergence-ai/
CRMArena-Pro: Holistic Assessment of LLM Agents Across Diverse Business Scenarios and Interactions (PDF) https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18878
Updated Product Packaging and Pricing Offer New AI Capabilities and More Ways to Scale AI Throughout Every Organization https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/pricing-update-2025/

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AI agents mean Salesforce won't hire software engineers in 2025, apparently https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/12/ai-agents-mean-salesforce-wont-hire-software-engineers-in-2025-apparently/

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also, vibe coding
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OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-and-microsoft-tensions-are-reaching-a-boiling-point-4981c44f

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Sam Altman: AI agents will totally replace your employees any year now! Also, ChatGPT Pro is losing money https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/06/sam-altman-ai-agents-will-totally-replace-your-employees-any-year-now-also-chatgpt-pro-is-losing-money/

OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/02/openai-signs-its-40-billion-deal-with-softbank-or-maybe-30-billion-probably
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OpenAI tries a new scheme to go for-profit — but Elon Musk isn't convinced https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/06/openai-tries-a-new-scheme-to-go-for-profit-but-elon-musk-isnt-convinced/
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'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels'
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

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Everything is prompt injection
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Breaking down 'EchoLeak', the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot https://www.aim.security/lp/aim-labs-echoleak-blogpost

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You can't feed generative AI on 'bad' data then filter it for only 'good' data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/22/you-cant-feed-generative-ai-on-bad-data-then-filter-it-for-only-good-data/
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Warn your relatives!
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"Wild things are happening on Meta's AI app." https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1932934055378759805

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/

PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now https://gizmodo.com/psa-get-your-parents-off-the-meta-ai-app-right-now-2000615122

Mark Zuckerberg: New Meta AI just dropped https://www.instagram.com/p/DJCMNOCpnnR/

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Dispatch #26: General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zs6BXdesaw

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AI is the new Metaverse
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Meta's Scale AI stake buyout spotlights other major deals amid regulatory risks https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/metas-scale-ai-stake-buyout-spotlights-other-major-deals-amid-regulatory-risks-2025-06-13/

Zuckerberg Is Personally Recruiting New 'Superintelligence' AI Team at Meta https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/zuckerberg-recruits-new-superintelligence-ai-group-at-meta

Meta Taps Top Researchers From Google, Sesame for New AI Lab https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/29/scale-ai-is-stiffing-its-task-workers/

Meta's $15 billion investment in Scale AI comes with a hidden perk: data https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/metas-15-billion-investment-in-scale-ai-comes-with-a-hidden-perk

Meta plans to invest $15bn in Scale AI as it bids to eclipse rivals https://www.ft.com/content/5e556c2e-2ba4-415a-adb6-1bf6bed498eb

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Scale AI is stiffing its task workers https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/29/scale-ai-is-stiffing-its-task-workers/

Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

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meet your AI future!
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'No rhyme or reason': AI grading issue affects hundreds of MCAS essays https://www.nbcboston.com/investigations/ai-grading-massachusetts-mcas/3807392/
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: Appendix A https://www.mass.gov/info-details/department-of-elementary-and-secondary-education-appendix-a

'No rhyme or reason': AI grading issue affects hundreds of MCAS essays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27TqkuucVaY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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🎶 let it go, let it go 🎶

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Complaint (PDF) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.973999/gov.uscourts.cacd.973999.1.0_3.pdf

Case docket https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70513159/disney-enterprises-inc-v-midjourney-inc/

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We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.

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OpenAI: Elevated error rates https://status.openai.com/incidents/01JXCAW3K3JAE0EP56AEZ7CBG3

ChatGPT went down. If that stopped your team cold, that's the real problem https://www.thedrum.com/news/2025/06/10/chatgpt-went-down-if-stopped-your-team-cold-s-the-real-problem

OpenAI Is A Bad Business (2024) https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

DeepSeek claims 'theoretical' profit margins of 545% https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/01/deepseek-claims-theoretical-profit-margins-of-545/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

Microsoft's Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externally https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/10/microsofts-copilot-studio-ai-leaks-your-business-info-internally-and-externally/

Don't use AI to summarize documents — it's worse than humans in every way https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/dont-use-ai-to-summarize-documents-its-worse-than-humans-in-every-way/

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'new, contentious, and potentially with wide repercussions'

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RCGP raises concerns over Foresight AI through Joint GP IT Committee https://www.rcgp.org.uk/news/foresight-ai-concern

Doctors to refer NHS to data watchdog over feeding patient data to AI https://www.politico.eu/article/doctors-nhs-data-watchdog-patient-data-ai-uk-england-covid-pandemic-labour/

AI model trained on de-identified data from 57 million people https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ai-model-trained-de-identified-data-57-million-people

Public attitudes about patient data for planning and population health https://understandingpatientdata.org.uk/public-attitudes-patient-data-planning-and-population-health

Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/21/patient-privacy-fears-us-spy-tech-firm-palantir-wins-nhs-contract

Concerns raised over AI trained on 57 million NHS medical records https://www.newscientist.com/article/2479302-concerns-raised-over-ai-trained-on-57-million-nhs-medical-records/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

UK science secretary Peter Kyle cribs ChatGPT for advice https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/13/foi-reveals-uk-science-secretary-peter-kyle-cribs-chatgpt-for-advice/

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no Apple, all worm

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Apple's Artificial Intelligence Efforts Reach a Make-or-Break Point https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-02/apple-siri-compared-with-alexa-m4-macbook-air-and-ipad-air-2025-coming-soon-m7rn2k2y

Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its iOS 26-Focused WWDC 2025 Event https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/apple-wwdc-2025-preview-ios-26-macos-26-new-ai-features-ipados-26-redesigns

Apple's struggles to update Siri lead to investor concerns over AI strategy https://www.ft.com/content/785aeb00-6784-4d64-a706-0cb44288e6be

Gemini is literally unusable as an assistant, I can't believe it's even out of Alpha https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1l552x1/gemini_is_literally_unusable_as_an_assistant_i/

WWDC 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXeOiIDNNek&t=3870s&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

Music: Bad Apple!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

Bad Apple ported to Siri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jtqcU3fJmQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

Previously on Pivot to AI:

Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/15/apple-intelligence-ai-mangles-headlines-so-badly-the-bbc-officially-complains/

Apple's AI helpfully rewords scam messages to make them look legitimate https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/09/apples-ai-helpfully-rewords-scam-messages-to-make-them-look-legitimate/

Newspaper AI roundup: Guardian AI strike-breaking, Apple switches off bad summaries, WaPo wants to go AI, AFP, Axios https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/19/newspaper-ai-roundup-guardian-ai-strike-breaking-apple-switches-off-bad-summaries-wapo-wants-to-go-ai-afp-axios/

Apple Intelligence: AI Siri crashes and burns, takes exec with it https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/22/apple-intelligence-ai-siri-crashes-and-burns-takes-exec-with-it/

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Amazon 'launched' its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/17/amazon-launched-its-ai-powered-alexa-in-february-where-is-it/

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Anything outside their training.

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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity (PDF) https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens As Reasoning/Thinking Traces! (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09762

Previously on Pivot to AI:

LLMs can solve any word problem! As long as they can crib the answer https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/06/llms-can-solve-any-word-problem-as-long-as-they-can-crib-the-answer/

AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/25/ai-benchmarks-are-self-promoting-trash-but-regulators-keep-using-them/

'Reasoning' AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it's just hallucinating again https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/18/reasoning-ai-is-lying-to-you-or-maybe-its-just-hallucinating-again/

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Penalties up to criminal prosecution.

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FREDERICK AYINDE Claimant and THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARINGEY Defendant: Approved Judgement (PDF) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/1040.pdf

The use of artificial intelligence in courts: a warning https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69890/artificial-intelligence-in-courts-a-warning

High Court considers initiating contempt of court proceedings against lawyers over fake citation cases https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrister-did-not-appreciate-seriousness-of-fake-citations-high-court-hears/5123387.article

Approved Judgement https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/1383.html

Previously on Pivot to AI:

Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/18/latest-ai-hallucinated-legal-filing-from-ai-vendor-anthropic/

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Hey. I'm Natasha, your AI companion.

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Voluntary Petition for Non-Individuals Filing for Bankruptcy (PDF) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.197187/gov.uscourts.deb.197187.1.0.pdf

How this Microsoft-backed billion-dollar London startup made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI tool https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-billion-dollar-london-startup-backed-by-microsoft-made-700-engineers-sitting-in-india-pose-as-ai/articleshow/121572659.cms

Fake it till you unicorn? Builder.ai's Natasha was never AI – just 700 Indian coders behind the curtain https://techfundingnews.com/fake-it-till-you-unicorn-builder-ais-natasha-was-never-ai-just-700-indian-coders-behind-the-curtain/

Inside the collapse of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai https://www.ft.com/content/67f0277a-10fd-463c-8946-af0be2b4028f

US Prosecutors Sought Builder.ai Data After Sales Overstated https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-26/us-prosecutors-sought-builder-ai-data-after-sales-overstated

Builder.ai owes money to corporate spies and defamation lawyers https://www.ft.com/content/ef37280d-2fe5-4512-8455-dc8724fd1521

Builder.ai Faked Business With Indian Firm VerSe to Inflate Sales, Sources Say https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/builder-ai-faked-business-with-indian-firm-verse-to-inflate-sales-sources-say

Hey. I'm Natasha, your AI companion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36ZmJRYGK8

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UK AI unicorn Builder․ai is dead — the downfall of "AGI": A Guy Instead https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/21/uk-ai-unicorn-builder-ai-is-dead-the-downfall-of-agi-a-guy-instead/

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Vibe coding and chatbot girlfriends

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AI-first - We're just 6 months away from AGI ;-) https://revontulet.dev/p/2025-ai-first/

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/how-much-of-ais-recent-success-is-due-to-the-forer-effect/

Is GenAI Digital Cocaine? https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/is-genai-digital-cocaine

"try replacing 'ai' with 'cocaine' in all the posts you read about it. it's pretty funny" https://www.linkedin.com/posts/natalieponte_try-replacing-ai-with-cocaine-in-all-activity-7336023313137229824-APP0/

Hooked by Nir Eyal: https://amzn.to/43JdtlG (UK), https://amzn.to/4dPIA3x (US)

Wikipedia: Barnum effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

More cribs from Stephen Farrugia in this episode, go watch his videos https://www.youtube.com/@fasterandworse

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Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/04/duolingo-replaces-its-contractors-with-ai-courses-with-slop/

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Surely there are more subscribers to lose

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The Washington Post's New Mission: Reach 'All of America' https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/media/the-washington-post-new-mission.html

The Washington Post Plans an Influx of Outside Opinion Writers https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/business/media/washington-post-opinion-ripple.html

Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312819/washington-post-bezos-subscriptions-cancellations

Embattled WaPo Publisher Met With Conservative Editor for Advice on Recruiting More Right-Wingers https://www.mediaite.com/media/embattled-wapo-publisher-met-with-conservative-editor-for-advice-on-recruiting-more-right-wingers/

Despite Bezos' Efforts to Shove WaPo Opinion to the Right, Op-Eds Still Taking Defiantly Anti-Trump, Anti-Musk Tone https://www.mediaite.com/analysis/despite-bezos-efforts-to-shove-wapo-opinion-to-the-right-op-eds-still-taking-defiantly-anti-trump-anti-musk-tone/

The Contrarian https://contrarian.substack.com/

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Newspaper AI roundup: Guardian AI strike-breaking, Apple switches off bad summaries, WaPo wants to go AI, AFP, Axios https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/19/newspaper-ai-roundup-guardian-ai-strike-breaking-apple-switches-off-bad-summaries-wapo-wants-to-go-ai-afp-axios/

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Brought to you by Facebook and Veo.

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Meta Aims to Fully Automate Ad Creation Using AI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-aims-to-fully-automate-ad-creation-using-ai-7d82e249

Mark Zuckerberg says people can fill the need for friends with AI, but 'there is no replacement' for human relationships, psychologist says https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/mark-zuckerberg-says-ai-can-replace-human-relationshipsexpert-disagrees.html

Google Veo 3: Creative thinkers must adapt to avoid disruption https://www.adnews.com.au/news/google-veo-3-creative-thinkers-must-adapt-to-avoid-disruption

Consumers wary of AI-generated marketing content, AI-driven ad targeting https://www.emarketer.com/content/consumers-wary-of-ai-generated-marketing-content--ai-driven-ad-targeting

Campaign Tech Awards https://www.campaigntechawards.com/

Special thanks to Steve Farrugia, who gave me a pile of the ideas in this episode

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Coca-Cola's new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you'd expect https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/17/coca-colas-new-ai-generated-christmas-ad-is-as-bad-as-youd-expect/

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It'll be fine. Don't worry.
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Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/neon-the-no-2-social-app-on-the-apple-app-store-pays-users-to-record-their-phone-calls-and-sells-data-to-ai-firms/
Neon Mobile Terms of Service https://neonmobile.com/termsofservice
HIRING! If you're a 10x mobile dev based in NYC (or know one), let's talk https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-kiam-608626b1_hiring-if-youre-a-10x-mobile-dev-based-activity-7333175657629143040-_xqO/
Upfront: Our Portfolio https://upfront.com/portfolio
Xfund: Portfolio https://www.xfund.com/portfolio
Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/viral-call-recording-app-neon-goes-dark-after-exposing-users-phone-numbers-call-recordings-and-transcripts/

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We are lucky they are so very stupid.

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1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers https://www.wired.com/story/1-million-third-party-android-devices-badbox-2/

jwz's Blog: https://www.jwz.org/blog/

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What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/02/what-the-floods-of-ai-scraper-bots-look-like-in-2025/

That RationalWiki configuration fragment:

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it was Google wot done it

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Business Insider layoff memo: https://x.com/sarafischer/status/1928063856464511208

rchive: https://archive.is/scdjd

Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it's now 2024 https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/30/google-fixes-bug-that-led-ai-overviews-to-say-its-now-2024/

Politico's Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI https://www.wired.com/story/politico-workers-axel-springer-artificial-intelligence/

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Google's AI Overview directly takes readers away from its own source sites https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/26/googles-ai-overview-directly-takes-readers-away-from-its-own-source-sites/

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But we'll make it up in volume

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Hey, go listen to me on the Phil Ferguson Show! https://www.spreaker.com/episode/524-crypto-ai-italy-david-gerard--66338979 (my bit starts about 16:40)

Sources:

Microsoft Touts AI Sales at Town Hall, Reveals Barclays Contract https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-29/microsoft-touts-ai-sales-at-town-hall-reveals-barclays-contract

Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/30/barclays_bank_sign_100k_license/

Microsoft's non-profit AI adventures https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsofts-non-profit-ai-adventures

Microsoft's CEO on How AI Will Remake Every Company, Including His https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-15/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-his-ai-efforts-and-openai-partnership

Burning platform memo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#%22Burning_Platform%22_memo

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No, Microsoft did not state 'strong AI demand' in Q1 2025 — the FT is wrong https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/02/no-microsoft-did-not-state-strong-ai-demand-in-q1-2025-the-ft-is-wrong/

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sure, Pete

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Reeves confirms 15% cut to Civil Service running costs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5nzy403l0o

State of digital government review https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-digital-government-review/state-of-digital-government-review

The UK government thinks AI can do two-thirds of the most junior civil servants' work https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-government-ai-can-do-62-percent-most-junior-civil-servants-work/

RE: Methodology behind £45bn estimate in the State of Digital Government Review (PDF) https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/47602/documents/248450/default/

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ChatGPT predicts tremendous role for ChatGPT in UK government https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/16/chatgpt-predicts-tremendous-role-for-chatgpt-in-uk-government/

Tony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/08/tony-blair-institute-reports-on-ai-in-the-labor-market-using-numbers-they-made-up-with-gpt-4-again/

UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/13/uk-government-plans-to-splurge-billions-on-ai-we-step-through-the-tricky-details/

UK science secretary Peter Kyle cribs ChatGPT for advice https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/13/foi-reveals-uk-science-secretary-peter-kyle-cribs-chatgpt-for-advice/

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What do you want them to do? Pay artists?

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'An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force': What It's Like Working For A Company That's Forcing AI On Its Developers https://aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney

TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC. FORM 10-K For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 (PDF) https://taketwointeractivesoftwareinc.gcs-web.com/static-files/f6f0fac7-0f1c-4446-854b-c3d4d754d7cc

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. Form 10-K For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 (PDF) https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000712515/a0cdeb54-a4a8-4ffd-b9a9-485d37859121.pdf

Ubisoft's NFT announcement video is overwhelmingly disliked https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-de-lists-overwhelmingly-disliked-nft-announcement-video/

"how are the ghost recon NFTs doing?" (archive) https://archive.is/cd8aY

Ubisoft ends Ghost Recon Breakpoint updates, working on NFTs for other titles https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-ends-ghost-recon-breakpoint-development-working-on-nfts-for-other-titles

Ubisoft insists yet again that its uncanny AI-generated 'NEO-NPCs' will make games 'more alive and richer', whatever that means https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ubisoft-insists-yet-again-that-its-uncanny-ai-generated-neo-npcs-will-make-games-more-alive-and-richer-whatever-that-means/  

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News: Craig Wright loses, baseball Bitcoin, Kickstarter on the blockchain, Australian crypto scams https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/12/09/news-craig-wright-loses-baseball-bitcoin-kickstarter-on-the-blockchain-australian-crypto-scams/

News: Dead Man's Switch broadcast, Australian regulation, NSW housing, gaming NFTs, Jean-Louis van der Velde of Tether https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/12/23/news-dead-mans-switch-broadcast-australian-regulation-gaming-nfts-jean-louis-van-der-velde-of-tether/

News: Facebook's Zuck Bucks; Worldcoin wants your eyeballs; Bitcoin miners still can't sell their coins; NFT gaming fails https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/04/14/news-facebooks-zuck-bucks-worldcoin-wants-your-eyeballs-bitcoin-miners-still-cant-sell-their-coins-nft-gaming-fails/

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Ignore those strikes over AI in films!

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A short film program to explore AI on screen https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-on-screen-short-films/

Darren Aronofky's Primordial Soup and Google DeepMind are partnering to explore AI's role in storytelling https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/deepmind-primordial-soup-collaboration/

Darren Aronofsky's AI-Driven Studio Primordial Soup Inks Google DeepMind Partnership, First

Film Project to Premiere at Tribeca Festival https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/darren-aronofsky-ai-studio-primordial-soup-google-deepmind-1236403412/

Inside Google's plan to have Hollywood make AI look less doomsday https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/short-films-convince-people-ai-100000840.html

Google has quietly entered the movie and TV business. Here's why https://www.businessinsider.com/google-tv-movie-hollywood-boost-tech-image-hundred-zeros-2025-5

3 artists reimagine AI imagery through speculative photography https://blog.google/technology/ai/3-artists-reimagine-ai-imagery-through-speculative-photography/

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How to squeeze your monopoly market.

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How Telstra will make Australia pay up for the AI boom https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/how-telstra-will-make-australia-pay-up-for-the-ai-boom-20250527-p5m2jo

Towards a better connected future https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/connected-future-30

Telstra expects to shrink workforce as it leans in 'hard' on AI — including in customer service https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/27/telstra-ai-job-cuts-investors-workforce

Telstra and Accenture Launch Silicon Valley Hub to Rapidly Advance Benefits of AI for Telstra Customers and People https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250513496422/en/Telstra-and-Accenture-Launch-Silicon-Valley-Hub-to-Rapidly-Advance-Benefits-of-AI-for-Telstra-Customers-and-People

Tired of waiting on hold? Telstra thinks this might fix that problem https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/tired-of-waiting-on-hold-telstra-thinks-this-might-fix-that-problem-20250513-p5lyr9.html

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Brother, can you spare all your data? Or a dime, that's good too

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Let's review your mistakes!

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Dd AI kill your job? https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/did-ai-kill-your-job

55% of businesses admit wrong decisions in making employees redundant when bringing AI into the workforce https://www.orgvue.com/news/55-of-businesses-admit-wrong-decisions-in-making-employees-redundant-when-bringing-ai-into-the-workforce/

Klarna Slows AI-Driven Job Cuts With Call for Real People https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service

"One of the most important things leaders can do is provide clarity." https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7331386411670982658/

Duolingo CEO walks back AI-first comments: 'I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do' https://fortune.com/2025/05/24/duolingo-ai-first-employees-ceo-luis-von-ahn/

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Generative AI: 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/29/generative-ai-no-significant-impact-on-earnings-or-recorded-hours-in-any-occupation/

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Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/04/duolingo-replaces-its-contractors-with-ai-courses-with-slop/

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Again.

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AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 (PDF) https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf

"lots of discussion of Claude blackmailing....." https://x.com/aengus_lynch1/status/1925746802147426450

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Anthropic, Apollo astounded to find a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/19/anthropic-and-apollo-astounded-to-find-that-a-chatbot-will-lie-to-you-if-you-tell-it-to-lie-to-you/

'Reasoning' AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it's just hallucinating again https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/18/reasoning-ai-is-lying-to-you-or-maybe-its-just-hallucinating-again/

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handwaving excuses for mild results
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Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09505-x

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OpenAI fights the evil scheming AI! — which doesn't exist yet https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/18/openai-fights-the-evil-scheming-ai-which-doesnt-exist-yet/
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🎶 we're no strangers to love 🎶

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GitLab Duo: https://docs.gitlab.com/user/gitlab_duo/

Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft https://www.legitsecurity.com/blog/remote-prompt-injection-in-gitlab-duo

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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/20/github-wants-to-spam-open-source-projects-with-ai-slop/

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You can't feed generative AI on 'bad' data then filter it for only 'good' data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/22/you-cant-feed-generative-ai-on-bad-data-then-filter-it-for-only-good-data/

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not even a get-rich quick scheme now

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Who Won a Seat at Trump's Crypto Dinner? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/trump-crypto-dinner-attendees.html

The Stock Market Loves Bitcoin https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-04-24/the-stock-market-loves-bitcoin

Coinbase Global Inc (COIN) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Highlights https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinbase-global-inc-coin-q1-075332394.html

FORM 8-K Coinbase Global, Inc. Item 1.05 Material Cybersecurity Incident https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978825000094/coin-20250514.htm#fact-identifier-4

Coinbase Hackers Had Access to Customer Data Since January https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/coinbase-says-bribed-workers-leaked-data-to-hacker-seeking-20-million-in-ransom

Pitchbook: Crypto VC Trends (PDF) https://files.pitchbook.com/website/files/pdf/Q1_2025_Crypto_VC_Trends_Preview.pdf

Joint Statement on Crypto-Asset Risks to Banking Organizations, 2023 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20230103190341/https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/bcreg20230103a1.pdf

Agencies Withdraw Joint Statements on Crypto-Assets https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2025/agencies-withdraw-joint-statements-crypto-assets

Crypto Knocks on the Door of a Banking World That Shut It Out https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-knocks-on-the-door-of-a-banking-world-that-shut-it-out-082b3968

Forcing Bank Deposits to Subsidize Stablecoins: the GENIUS Act https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2025/05/the-genius-acts-insolvency-provisions-crypto-investors-come-ahead-of-bank-depositors.html

Founder Of Celsius Sentenced To 12 Years For Fraud And Market Manipulation https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founder-celsius-sentenced-12-years-fraud-and-market-manipulation

Previously on Pivot to AI and Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain:

Crypto collapse: Celsius' real liabilities and fake assets, Voyager still bankrupt, 3AC owns CryptoDickButt #1462 https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/07/15/crypto-collapse-celsius-real-liabilities-and-fake-assets-voyager-still-bankrupt-3ac-owns-cryptodickbutt-1462/

NASAA Nashville: Protecting Investors and Consumers in the Age of Digital Assets https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/09/22/nasaa-nashville-protecting-investors-and-consumers-in-the-age-of-digital-assets/

Crypto collapse: DCG's check kiting comes home to roost, Nexo raided, Voyager sale to Binance progresses, unbanking the banked https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/01/12/crypto-collapse-dcgs-check-kiting-comes-home-to-roost-nexo-raided-voyager-sale-to-binance-progresses-unbanking-the-banked/

Binance gets hit with crypto's worst possible fate: compliance https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/11/22/binance-gets-hit-with-cryptos-worst-possible-fate-compliance/

Trump starts a presidential shitcoin https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2025/02/05/trump-starts-a-presidential-shitcoin/

Crypto update: LOL who cares, crime is legal https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2025/03/25/crypto-update-lol-who-cares-crime-is-legal/

In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/

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Number go up!

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AI Is Draining Water From Areas That Need It Most https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/

We did the math on AI's energy footprint. Here's the story you haven't heard https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence (2023) https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3

AI power demand rapidly escalating https://digiconomist.net/ai-power-demand-rapidly-escalating/

Artificial intelligence: Supply chain constraints and energy implications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435125001424

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Bitcoin's stupendous power waste is green, apparently — bad excuses for Proof-of-Work (2018) https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/05/22/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work/

OpenAI signs $40 billion deal with SoftBank! or maybe $30 billion, probably https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/02/openai-signs-its-40-billion-deal-with-softbank-or-maybe-30-billion-probably/

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Everything was always 'prompt injection.'

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Dark LLMs: The Growing Threat of Unaligned AI Models https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.10066
Novel Universal Bypass for All Major LLMs https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/

Simon Willison's Weblog: Series: Prompt injection https://simonwillison.net/series/prompt-injection/

Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/21/most-ai-chatbots-easily-tricked-into-giving-dangerous-responses-study-finds

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Elon Musk releases Grok-2 AI image generator for edgelords https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/15/elon-musk-releases-grok-2-ai-image-generator-for-edgelords/

Whoops! Facebook trained Llama AI model on pirate site LibGen, with Zuckerberg's OK https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/10/whoops-facebook-trained-llama-ai-model-on-pirate-site-libgen-with-zuckerbergs-ok/

How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/

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Wikipedia: Common Crawl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl

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The downfall of A Guy Instead

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CORRECTION: Builder.AI got $450m, not £450m!

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Builder.ai: The wild ride of a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn https://www.ft.com/content/11afc46c-b435-489d-a9f1-134ad0c00d25

Chief of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai steps down https://www.ft.com/content/f8882c90-ef69-4a62-aecf-9d3725aca6b3

Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency https://www.ft.com/content/9fdb4e2b-93ea-436d-92e5-fa76ee786caa

Builder.ai front page (archive) http://archive.today/2025.05.21-150407/https://www.builder.ai/

Putting the AI into Builder: How Natasha streamlines your app project (archive) http://archive.today/2025.05.21-150613/https://www.builder.ai/how-it-works

Builder.ai Automates Path from User Story Direct to Working Code https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/04/10/2860706/0/en/Builder-ai-Automates-Path-from-User-Story-Direct-to-Working-Code.html

Microsoft takes another leap in AI race, joins with Builder.ai that helps anyone build apps effortlessly https://techfundingnews.com/microsoft-takes-another-leap-in-ai-race-joins-with-builder-ai-that-helps-anyone-build-apps-effortlessly/

AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy (2019) https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004

the dead GitHub theory

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Creating issues with Copilot on github.com is in public preview https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-creating-issues-with-copilot-on-github-com-is-in-public-preview/

GitHub Copilot coding agent in public preview https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/

"Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories" https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

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If AI is so good at coding ... where are the open source contributions? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/

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95% right means 5% horribly wrong.

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England Peat Action Plan (2021) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/england-peat-action-plan

England's peatlands mapped for first time in major step towards their recovery https://www.gov.uk/government/news/englands-peatlands-mapped-for-first-time-in-major-step-towards-their-recovery

AI4Peat — Innovative use of AI to map and restore our precious peatlands https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/19/ai4peat-innovative-use-of-ai-to-map-and-restore-our-precious-peatlands/

Natural England: Big Budgets, Bigger Headcounts — But Where's the Delivery? https://www.moorlandassociation.org/post/natural-england-big-budgets-bigger-headcounts-but-where-s-the-delivery

Natural England Peat Map https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/natural-england-peat-map.426019/

A new peat map for England https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a-new-peat-map-for-england/

"So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been 'interesting'" https://bsky.app/profile/catframpton.bsky.social/post/3lpfowa55j22x

"The tree inventory map! That got rocks and trees confused in a few places and that was made using Al tech with on the ground data." https://bsky.app/profile/catframpton.bsky.social/post/3lpfozidfsc2x

England Peat Map (NERR149) https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5075614867128320

Sanctions as a service

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Anthropic expert accused of using AI-fabricated source in copyright case https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-expert-accused-using-ai-fabricated-source-copyright-case-2025-05-13/

Declaration of Ivana Dukanovic (PDF) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.431519/gov.uscourts.cand.431519.371.0.pdf

Case docket: Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC (5:24-cv-03811) https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68889092/concord-music-group-inc-v-anthropic-pbc/

Exclusive: Legal startup Harvey AI in talks to raise funding at $5 billion valuation https://www.reuters.com/technology/legal-startup-harvey-ai-talks-raise-funding-5-billion-valuation-2025-05-14/

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Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we're pivoting to AI https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/06/03/crypto-collapse-get-in-loser-were-pivoting-to-ai/

Music publishers' injunction against AI firm Anthropic fails https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/26/music-publishers-injunction-against-ai-firm-anthropic-fails/

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If it sounds too good to be true ...

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Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation (PDF) https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17866

Will AI Help or Hurt Workers? One 26-Year-Old Found an Unexpected Answer https://www.wsj.com/economy/will-ai-help-hurt-workers-income-productivity-5928a389

MIT: Assuring an accurate research record https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record

MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student's AI Research Paper https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092

"Some initial thoughts. The original paper was too good to be true in many ways." https://x.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/1923394446562898170

ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION: Corning Incorporated v. Aidan Toner-Rodgers (PDF) https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/pdf/2025/d2025-0410.pdf

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Anthropic, Apollo astounded to find a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/19/anthropic-and-apollo-astounded-to-find-that-a-chatbot-will-lie-to-you-if-you-tell-it-to-lie-to-you/

AI is the new blockchain.

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures $200 Billion in New U.S.-UAE Deals and Accelerates Previously Committed $1.4 Trillion UAE Investment https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-200-billion-in-new-u-s-uae-deals-and-accelerates-previously-committed-1-4-trillion-uae-investment/

Trump announces $200 billion in deals during UAE visit, AI agreement signed https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-heads-uae-it-hopes-advance-ai-ambitions-2025-05-15/

US and UAE to build vast AI data centre in Abu Dhabi https://www.ft.com/content/4708c7a6-a26f-45a9-9a4f-25a9af4167df

Dubai Blockchain Strategy https://www.digitaldubai.ae/initiatives/blockchain

IBM: How Dubai is Becoming the Blockchain Capital of the World https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-blockchain?item=30730

'the Disney catalog is too small to create a model'
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Lionsgate Inks Deal With AI Firm to Mine Its Massive Film and TV Library https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/lionsgate-deal-ai-firm-runway-1236005554/
Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It) https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html
What Happened to Lionsgate's Splashy Plan to Make AI Movies With Runway? It's Complicated https://www.thewrap.com/lionsgate-runway-ai-deal-ip-model-concerns/
Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vr4rymlw9o

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Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FX https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/22/lionsgate-sells-movie-catalog-to-ai-video-startup-runway-hoping-to-replace-artists-and-fx/
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Chatbot outsmarts its creator (not so hard)

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"The claim of 'white genocide' in South Africa is highly debated." https://archive.is/6yL5V

"Claims of white genocide in South Africa are highly disputed." https://web.archive.org/web/20250514175913/https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1922657850532520130

"Sorry for the mix-up!" https://bsky.app/profile/laughlax.bsky.social/post/3lp5orz74p223
Inside Grok's war on 'woke' https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-grok-training-bias-woke-idealogy-2025-02

"You are Arya, a noble assistant built by Gab AI Inc." https://bsky.app/profile/sorenspicknall.bsky.social/post/3kpxmkbit6o2w

Musk Says xAI's 'Scary Smart' Next Model Chatbot Coming in Weeks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-13/musk-says-xai-s-scary-smart-next-model-chatbot-coming-in-weeks

Wikipedia: White genocide conspiracy theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theory

Grok voiced today by the "Libby" voice from Microsoft Azure

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ChatGPT spills its prompt https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/05/chatgpt-spills-its-prompt/

Elon Musk merges xAI and Twitter — the new AOL Time Warner https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/30/elon-musk-merges-xai-and-twitter-the-new-aol-time-warner/

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For the good of humanity! Or a portion thereof

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'How come I can't breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memphis-gas-turbines-air-pollution-permits-00317582

New images reveal Elon Musk's xAI datacenter has nearly doubled its number of polluting, unpermitted gas turbines https://www.selc.org/press-release/new-images-reveal-elon-musks-xai-datacenter-has-nearly-doubled-its-number-of-polluting-unpermitted-gas-turbines/

Musk's xAI data centre allegedly running illegal gas turbines https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/musks-xai-data-centre-allegedly-running-illegal-gas-turbines

Musk's xAI explores another massive methane gas turbine installation at second South Memphis data center https://www.selc.org/press-release/musks-xai-explores-another-massive-methane-gas-turbine-installation-at-second-south-memphis-data-center/

Show me the pull requests.

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Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/

Mark Zuckerberg – Meta's AGI Plan https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-2

O'Reilly: Benjamin J. Evans https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/6137

"Show me the Pull Requests." https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kittylyst_ai-llms-activity-7321451673275514880-npfA/

"Show me the Pull Requests." https://mastodon.social/@kittylyst/114397697851381604

Rails: Improve Password Length Validation for BCrypt Compatibility #47708 https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/47708

Servo:  dom: Implement WritableStream #34844 https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/34844
Show me the Pull Requests https://lobste.rs/s/g1l4xi/show_me_pull_requests

"That's it. I've had it. I'm putting my foot down on this craziness." https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-curl-activity-7324820893862363136-glb1/

"The @Cockpit team has tried sourcery.ai and GitHub #Copilot automatic #PR #reviews for four weeks." https://fosstodon.org/@martinpitt/114478238435097085

Testing sourcery.ai and GitHub Copilot for cockpit PR reviews https://piware.de/post/2025-08-09-sourcery/

LLVM: [compiler-rt] lots of "warning: unknown warning option '-Werror=builtin-declaration-mismatch'" messages #72413 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/72413

"When Compiler Engineers Act As Judges, What Can Possibly Go Wrong? How LLVM's CoC Committee Violated Its Own Code" https://seylaw.blogspot.com/2025/05/when-compiler-engineers-act-as-judges.html

Mesa: RADV: Performance Regression (~18%) on Vega 64 (GFX9) in Cyberpunk 2077 caused by commit 08918f08805f (MR 34361) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/13022#note_2882787

Welcome to LlamaCon 2025 - Closing Session! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ-RZ0dKO8o

Mark Zuckerberg – AI Will Write Most Meta Code in 18 Months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXeQbTuVl0

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AI coding tools 'fix' bugs by adding bugs https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/19/ai-coding-tools-fix-bugs-by-adding-bugs/

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