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Pivot to AI

David Gerard

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Frequency: 1 episode/1d. Total Eps: 411

The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.

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20251008 - Salesforce replaces help with Agentforce AI, customers outraged

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 • Duration 04:24

You WILL love Marc's pet robot
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/08/salesforce-replaces-help-with-agentforce-ai-customers-outraged/

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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

Previously on Pivot to AI:

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/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7G_VL0VX9E&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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20251007 - Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 • Duration 03:28

vibe compliance
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/deloitte-australia-retracts-chatgpt-report-refunds-government/

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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

Previously on Pivot to AI:

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/ video:

20250928 - The finance press finally says the words 'AI bubble'

Sunday, September 28, 2025 • Duration 07:49

Great Depression 2: Depress Harder
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/28/the-finance-press-finally-starts-talking-about-the-ai-bubble/

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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' 'AI's not a bubble but if it were, here's how it might pop'

20250622 - Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups

Sunday, June 22, 2025 • Duration 03:42

Keep the party pumping! Just that little bit longer!
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/22/nvidia-gets-into-money-burning-ai-startups/

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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/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

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/

20250621 - We test Google Veo 3: impressive demo, unusable results

Saturday, June 21, 2025 • Duration 06:22

Et tu, Brute?
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/21/we-test-google-veo-impressive-demo-unusable-results/

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/
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Day 1 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7339248275910275072-4i1x/
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 Day 7

20250620 - AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market

Friday, June 20, 2025 • Duration 04:35

oh no, spending actual money!
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/20/ai-venture-capital-resorts-to-feeding-the-secondary-market/

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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

Previously on Pivot to AI:

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/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably video: a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping video: In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more video: Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data video:

20250619 - Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI, volunteers quit in outrage

Thursday, June 19, 2025 • Duration 05:40

what's a bit of blood money, eh
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/

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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."

20250618 - Salesforce: AI agents don't work, but we're charging 6% more for AI anyway

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 • Duration 03:38

where you gonna go? SAP? Yeah, didn't think so
Text version: 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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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) Updated Product Packaging and Pricing Offer New AI Capabilities and More Ways to Scale AI Throughout Every Organization

20250617 - OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal. So it's threatening Microsoft!

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 • Duration 03:59

also, vibe coding
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/17/openai-needs-its-40-billion-funding-deal-so-its-threatening-microsoft/

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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

Previously on Pivot to AI:

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
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aP1zUUcmjk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

20250616 - Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid

Monday, June 16, 2025 • Duration 04:05

'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels'
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/16/bad-brainwaves-chatgpt-makes-you-stupid/

Source:

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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