Pivot to AI

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...

One million Norwegians in basements. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/08/your-humanoid-robot-servant-a-new-hope-for-agi-a-guy-instead/ Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/technology/humanoid-robots-1x.html Investors Flock to Robotics Startups After Years of Setbacks  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-19/investors-flock-to-humanoid...

What do you call it when a bubble stops growing? Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/07/confirmed-microsoft-stops-new-data-centres-worldwide/ Microsoft Abandons Data Center Projects, TD Cowen Says  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-26/microsoft-abandons-more-data-center-projects-td-cowen-says Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers From Chicago to Jakarta  https://www.bloombe...

Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/06/how-sam-altman-got-fired-from-openai-in-2023-not-being-an-ai-doom-crank-and-lying-a-lot/ Sources: The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman's Firing From OpenAI https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-real-story-behind-sam-altman-firing-from-openai-efd51a5d Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4PPE6D635iBcGPGRy/...

For only a small large fee! (ongoing) Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/05/capgemini-fix-your-customer-service-with-chatbots/ Unleashing the value of customer service: The transformative impact of Gen AI and agentic AI (PDF)  https://www.capgemini.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/18th-March-Customer-service-transformation-CRI_V7.pdf Buy me nice things:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishl...

Pivoting from real estate Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/04/china-massively-overbuilds-empty-ai-data-centres/ China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused  https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1113802/china-ai-data-centers-unused/ Tumbling prices end China's AI data center binge  https://www.lightreading.com/ai-machine-learning/tumbling...

oh no! anyway Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/03/bonfire-of-the-llms-gartner-forecasts-extinction-for-generative-ai-vendors/ Sources: LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/llm_providers_extinction/ Digital Disruption Profile: Blockchain's Radical Promise Spans Business and Society  https://www.gartner.com/en...

Also, eyeball-coins. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/02/openai-signs-its-40-billion-deal-with-softbank-or-maybe-30-billion-probably/ Sources: OpenAI: New funding to build towards AGI  https://openai.com/index/march-funding-updates/ OpenAI secures $300bn valuation after $40bn SoftBank-led funding round  https://www.ft.com/content/d21037d1-7b84-4f07-8d82-b417badbe96e SoftBank Seeks Rec...

"Celebrating failures matters." Well, I've got my party hat on. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/01/ai-in-the-enterprise-is-failing-over-twice-as-fast-in-2025-as-it-was-in-2024/ S&P Global: Generative AI Adoption Surges, but Project Failures Rise https://telecomreseller.com/2025/03/13/sp-global-2/ AI project failure rates are on the rise: report https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/...

Look, we just wanted some press releases! Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/31/uk-government-cuts-funds-for-actually-working-anti-cancer-ai/ 'Ridiculous' cuts to AI cancer tech funding in England could cost lives, experts warn  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/31/ridiculous-cuts-to-ai-cancer-tech-funding-in-england-could-cost-lives-experts-warn UK tech scheme includes AI...

AOL Time Warner for the modern age Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/30/elon-musk-merges-xai-and-twitter-the-new-aol-time-warner/ @xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction  https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312 Musk's xAI Discussing $10 Billion Raise at $75 Billion Valuation  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/musk-s-xai-discussing-10-billion-raise-a...

At least it's not Microsoft Recall ... yet. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/29/google-screenai-make-your-chromebook-melt-down/ Today Google bricked my Chromebook  https://cloudisland.nz/@rmi/114219847307106213 ScreenAI: A Vision-Language Model for UI and Infographics Understanding https://arxiv.org/html/2402.04615v3 Add Screen AI service for accessibility annotations https://chromium...

"We discovered many errors, which we deeply regret" Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/28/how-can-tromso-norway-shut-down-some-schools-lets-ask-the-ai/ Foreslår å legge ned flere barnehager og skoler i Tromsø: – Burde ha skjedd for lenge siden  https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/foreslar-ny-barnehage--og-skolestruktur-i-tromso_-flere-nedleggelser-1.17291003 Ny barnehage- og skolestruktu...

How DARE they pull me back in again. Money laundering is legal now https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-treasury-department-says-it-will-not-enforce-anti-money-laundering-law-2025-03-03/ Tornado Cash is legal now https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0057 Financial Times on Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy's weird stock scam: https://www.ft.com/content/685c764b-3eb6-41a1-855d-54cb3bc85a16...

Curing cancer 'or whatever' Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/sam-altmans-studio-ghibli-memes-are-another-distraction-from-openais-money-troubles/ OpenAI: Introducing 4o Image Generation  https://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/ OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/openai-ceo-chatgpt-studio...

Yo ho ho, rum, etc. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/26/music-publishers-injunction-against-ai-firm-anthropic-fails/ Complaint and demand for jury trial, 2023 (PDF):  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.431519/gov.uscourts.cand.431519.1.0.pdf Proposed injunction (PDF): https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.431519/gov.uscourts.cand.431519.179.1...