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OpenAI's 'flatlining' subs in Europe: The AI boom's poster child may be struggling to recruit new subscribers, Deutsche Bank warns https://fortune.com/2025/10/14/openai-subscriptions-flatlined-europe-deutsche-bank/

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128

Ok this tweet about upcoming changes to ChatGPT blew up on the erotica point much more than I thought it was going to!

20250711 - AI coders think they're 20% faster, but they're actually 19% slower

Friday, July 11, 2025 • Duration 05:41

so much better with this month's model, bro
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/

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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (blog post) https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (paper) (PDF) https://metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf

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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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20250710 - 'AI is here to stay.' Is it, though? What do you mean, 'stay'?

Thursday, July 10, 2025 • Duration 09:08

What they're really telling you is 'give in.'
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Resources by Subject Area: Artificial Intelligence (AI) https://ospi.k12.wa.us/student-success/resources-subject-area
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/
Own FYRE Festival — Iconic Brand, Trademarks, IP, Social Media Assets, and More https://www.ebay.com/itm/357251347049

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Strawberry fields forever — delving into OpenAI's new 'o1' model https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/13/strawberry-fields-forever-openais-new-o1-model/
Adobe AI auto-fills part of a seagull photo with ... a bitcoin https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/11/adobe-ai-auto-fills-part-of-a-seagull-photo-with-a-bitcoin/ UK science secretary Peter Kyle cribs ChatGPT for advice video: UK government cuts funds for actually-working anti-cancer AI video: 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: AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is per query video: Crime is legal — but the actual dollars aren't showing up video: ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide video: Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it video: Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged video:

20250709 - Cursor tries setting less money on fire, AI vibe coders outraged

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • Duration 05:03

The AI bubble party slows just a little.
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/09/cursor-tries-setting-less-money-on-fire-ai-vibe-coders-outraged/

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Updates to Ultra and Pro https://cursor.com/blog/new-tier
Cursor 1.2 and Claude 4 Sonnet Rate Limit — Is This a Joke? https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1lqvl21/cursor_12_and_claude_4_sonnet_rate_limit_is_this/
"Why is no one talking about how @cursor_ai essentially rug pulled???" https://x.com/0ni_x4/status/1940885976127283342
Clarifying Our Pricing https://cursor.com/en/blog/june-2025-pricing

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Cursor AI assistant tells vibe coder: learn to code https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/12/cursor-ai-assistant-tells-vibe-coder-learn-to-code/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqfWTDp2BI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA 'Guys, I'm under attack' — AI 'vibe coding' in the wild video: Cursor's AI-powered tech support vibe-codes a customer revolt video: Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! video: ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide video:

20250708 - Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 • Duration 03:45

Where there's muck, there's brass.
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CORRECTION! I called Sophie Warner "Sarah Warner" in the recording. https://createdesigns.co.uk/ My apologies!

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'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o

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20250707 - Google AI overviews: publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU

Monday, July 7, 2025 • Duration 03:20

Google: users love lying AI slop, actually
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/07/publishers-file-competition-complaints-in-uk-and-eu-over-googles-ai-overviews/

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Urgent bid lodged with UK regulator to stop Google AI Overviews 'stealing journalism' https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/urgent-bid-lodged-with-uk-regulator-to-stop-google-ai-overviews-stealing-journalism/
Exclusive: Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/googles-ai-overviews-hit-by-eu-antitrust-complaint-independent-publishers-2025-07-04/
How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/how-google-forced-publishers-to-accept-ai-scraping-as-price-of-appearing-in-search/
Commission sends preliminary findings to Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_811 CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers

20250706 - Venture capital is lending money against video cards

Sunday, July 6, 2025 • Duration 03:41

That famously long-term asset class.
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Wall Street frenzy creates $11bn debt market for AI groups buying Nvidia chips https://www.ft.com/content/41bfacb8-4d1e-4f25-bc60-75bf557f1f21
Wall Street's Elites Are Piling Into a Massive AI Gamble https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-17/ai-s-1-trillion-hysteria-offers-fat-payday-for-wall-street-bankers
Venture debt hits all-time high as startups diverge from VC expectations https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/venture-debt-all-time-high-startups-vc-expectations
AI startups gobbling more than a third of venture debt dollars this year https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/ai-startups-gobbling-more-than-third-venture-debt-dollars-2025

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Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with 'novel types of debt structures' In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more video:

20250705 - Google Veo 3 fails, week 3: Fail hard with a vengeance

Saturday, July 5, 2025 • Duration 06:42

Aron Peterson (Shokunin Studio) rolls the dice
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/05/google-veo-3-fails-week-3-fail-harder-with-a-vengeance/

Here is the video! Watch this! 20 minutes of worked examples!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCYw9EwxAwo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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Day 15 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7344154102613876736-C671/
Day 16 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7344712123400306690-Wuzm/
Day 17 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7345041854574280708-fRrQ/
Day 18 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7345402727763484672-YorX/
Day 19 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7345813691855978496-xUie/ Day 20 Day 21

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