Pivot to AI

The FT fails to check the filings Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/02/no-microsoft-did-not-state-strong-ai-demand-in-q1-2025-the-ft-is-wrong/ Sources: Microsoft shares jump after strong AI demand lifts cloud unit https://www.ft.com/content/9443ca4b-09c1-4f21-ba71-3953b3e0a714 Form 10-Q For the Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2025  https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000095...

Why don't we just use this handy Torment Nexus? Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/01/seattle-worldcon-science-fiction-convention-vets-panelists-with-chatgpt/ Sources: Statement From Worldcon Chair  https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/ Responding to Controversy, Seattle Worldcon Defends Using ChatGPT to Vet Program Participants  https://seattlein2025.org...

Better get a lawyer, son. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/30/doctors-personally-liable-if-mandatory-nhs-ai-transcriber-gets-it-wrong/ Sources: Accurx and Tandem Health roll out AI scribing tool across the NHS https://www.digitalhealth.net/2025/04/accurx-and-tandem-health-partner-to-roll-out-ai-scribing-in-the-nhs/ Guidance on the use of AI-enabled ambient scribing products in health...

What would you say you do here? Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/29/generative-ai-no-significant-impact-on-earnings-or-recorded-hours-in-any-occupation/ Sources: Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5219933 Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29...

That's the trouble with saying your company has principles. Outside broadcast today, live from my back yard in the suburbs of London! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/28/googles-military-ai-deals-get-deepmind-uk-staff-to-start-unionising/ Sources: Our AI Principles https://ai.google/responsibility/principles/ Responsible AI: Our 2024 report and ongoing work https://blog.google/technol...

Everything hooks to everything else. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/27/trump-tariffs-taking-out-ai-data-centres-too/ AI boom under threat from tariffs, global economic turmoil https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-boom-under-threat-tariffs-global-economic-turmoil-2025-04-23/ US tariffs: Impact on data centre construction https://www.verdict.co.uk/us-tariffs-d...

An AI overview reduces clicks on the original sources 20%–35%. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/26/googles-ai-overview-directly-takes-readers-away-from-its-own-source-sites/ The Man Who Killed Google Search https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ "Keep in mind that the Ads team is considering calling a code yellow to close the search gap we are seeing" (PDF) https://www...

Meet Thy from Radio CADA, who doesn't exist. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/25/fake-diversity-why-hire-a-non-white-dj-when-you-could-just-generate-one-with-ai/ Sources: 'Tokenistic and backwards': Backlash over ARN's use of AI radio host modelled on Asian woman  https://www.mediaweek.com.au/backlash-over-arn-use-of-ai-radio-host-modelled-on-asian-woman/ CADA's announcer, Thy, is ju...

The State Bar of California cheaps out. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/24/california-bar-exam-a-technical-disaster-with-ai-written-nonsense-questions/ Sources: 'Utterly Botched': Glitchy rollout of new California bar exam prompts lawsuit and legislative review https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-28/utterly-botched-chaotic-roll-out-of-new-california-bar-exam Analytical W...

Let's spend imaginary money! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/23/openai-offers-to-buy-the-chrome-web-browser-from-google-uh-huh/ Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-05/google-loses-doj-antitrust-suit-over-search Justice Department Seeks Google Chrome Sale to Curb Monopoly https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...

AI: onward and upward! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/22/amazon-also-slows-down-its-data-centre-commitments/ Amazon slides as Wells Fargo says company pausing some data center leases https://seekingalpha.com/news/4432925-amazon-slides-as-wells-fargo-says-company-pausing-some-data-center-leases Amazon has halted some data center leasing talks, Wells Fargo analysts say https://www.reu...

This will totally stop DeepSeek. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/21/openai-starts-verifying-corporate-customers-sometimes-the-id-system-works/ Sources: OpenAI: API Organization Verification  https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organization-verification "I don't have physical documents because in Poland we have something like mCitizen and ID on my phone, same with my driv...

'to improve Apple products and services' Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/20/if-you-report-a-bug-apple-reserves-the-right-to-train-apple-intelligence-on-your-private-developer-logs/ Sources: Joachim Kurz: "Are you f* kidding me, Apple?!" https://hachyderm.io/@cocoafrog/114355281286615868 Joachim Kurz: "I've sadly seen people treat bug reports that way."  https://hachyderm.io/@cocoafr...

'Are you real? Is your work real?' Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/19/ai-bot-scammers-flood-california-community-colleges/ Sources: As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond https://voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/as-bot-students-continue-to-flood-in-community-colleges-struggle-to-respond/ Fake student aid: California colleges detect more fraudste...

The chatbot is definitely trying to kill you, maybe. Send us money. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/18/reasoning-ai-is-lying-to-you-or-maybe-its-just-hallucinating-again/ Sources: Anthropic: Reasoning models don't always say what they think  https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think paper (PDF)  https://assets.anthropic.com/m/71876fabef0f0ed4/original/reason...

Zero users found — but so much marketing! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/17/amazon-launched-its-ai-powered-alexa-in-february-where-is-it/ Sources: Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp  https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/amazon-turns-anthropics-claude-alexa-ai-revamp-2024-08-30/ Amazon debuts gen AI-powered Alexa+ as it seeks to breathe...

It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/16/cursors-ai-powered-tech-support-vibe-codes-a-customer-revolt/ Sources: "Cursor is designed to work with one device per subscription as a core security feature." https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Faxfi92l3zsue1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D904%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%...

This is not a detailed laboratory review, it's me rambling about and on my lovely NT-USB Mini. Enjoy. I applied noise reduction and gating and a low-pass filter at 15.5kHz. Apart from that it's just the mic. There are also suitable supar-l33t xTrEmE effects applied as appropriate. Røde NT-USB Mini page https://rode.com/en/microphones/usb/nt-usb-mini NT-USB Mini data sheet (PDF)  https://edge.rode....

The press, of course, ate it up. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/15/hms-ai-models-campaign-makes-impossible-claims/ Sources: H&M Knows Its AI Models Will Be Controversial https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/technology/hm-plans-to-use-ai-models/ Fashion's AI Dilemma Is Getting Worse  https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/technology/fashion-ai-dilemma-is-getting-worse/ H&M...

At least he's not Eric Adams, right? Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/14/new-york-mayoral-candidate-andrew-cuomo-writes-his-housing-plan-with-chatgpt/ They Pushed for Cuomo to Resign. Now They're Clearing His Comeback Path  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/nyregion/cuomo-democrats-mayor-comeback.html Your Guide to the Trump-Adams Deal That Pushed 7 Prosecutors to Resign  https://ww...

With Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Review! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/13/how-to-sell-ai-slop-to-the-us-military-with-vannevar-labs-and-mit-tech-review/ Sourc es: Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/11/1114914/generative-ai-is-learning-to-spy-for-the-us-military/ Marines Cite Vannevar Labs Generative AI Tools as Force Multipl...

It's what we pay Springer the big bucks for! Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/12/119-springer-cancer-treatments-book-as-an-ai-language-model/ Peter Purgathofer:  https://hci.social/@peterpur/114216631051719911 Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy (archive page)  https://web.archive.org/web/20250324193840/https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-86185-7 Springer Arti...

'Fraud' is such a tawdry word. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/11/meet-nate-the-agi-shopping-app-yeah-its-a-guy-instead/ Sources: Universal Shopping App nate Raises $38M to Expand Its Online Payment Solutions https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210617005139/en/Universal-Shopping-App-nate-Raises-%2438M-to-Expand-Its-Online-Payment-Solutions 'AI' Shopping Startup Exaggerated Tech...

What goes into an AI bubble? Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/10/a16z-raising-fresh-20b-for-ai-bubble-investments/ Sources: Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz seeks to raise $20 billion megafund amid global interest in US AI startups https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/andreessen-horowitz-seeks-raise-20-billion-megafund-amid-global-interest-us-ai-2025-04-08/ A16z in talks to raise $...

At least it's not an LLM. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/09/single-pilot-operations-lets-replace-airline-copilots-with-ai/ Sources: Why pilots are worried about plans to replace co-pilots with AI https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535370-100-why-pilots-are-worried-about-plans-to-replace-co-pilots-with-ai/ EXCLUSIVE Cathay working with Airbus on single-pilot system for long-ha...