Pivot to AI

Growth mindset! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/25/ai-sales-startup-11x-claims-customers-it-doesnt-have-for-software-that-doesnt-work/ 11x.ai raises $24M led by Benchmark to build AI digital employees:  https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/ai-digital-employee-startup-11xai-raises-24m-led-by-benchmark/ 11x.ai, a developer of AI sales reps, has raised $50M Series B led by A16Z, sources sa...

CO₂ number go up! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/24/ai-data-centers-microsoft-steps-on-the-gas/ Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI:  https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/microsoft_natural_gas_ai/ Feasible deployment of carbon capture and storage and the requirements of climate targets: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02104-0 Global Stat...

Your super soaraway Pivot to AI investigates! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/23/will-women-have-more-sex-with-robots-than-men-by-2025-your-super-soaraway-pivot-investigates/ ANSWER: of course they won't, don't be silly. Sun tweet: https://x.com/TheSun/status/748481713614000128 REVEALED: Women will be having more sex with ROBOTS than men by 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/201606301...

I'm sorry Tim, I can't do that. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/22/apple-intelligence-ai-siri-crashes-and-burns-takes-exec-with-it/ Introducing Apple Intelligence:  https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2024/06/introducing-apple-intelligence-for-iphone-ipad-and-mac/ Apple's Long-Promised AI Overhaul for Siri Runs Into Bugs, Possible Delays: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02...

So not much change then. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/21/news-corp-fills-out-tabloid-papers-with-ai-slop-newsgpt/ News Corp rolls out NewsGPT AI tool for staff in Australia:  https://www.capitalbrief.com/article/news-corp-rolls-out-newsgpt-ai-tool-for-staff-in-australia-317ccf9f-ac75-44ee-a555-40d075874119/preview/ News Corp introduces its own AI model — NewsGPT — to 'enhance' not...

"one of my friends finally asked why I keep linking pivot in group chat and I summarized it as anti-AI coverage from the independent journalist that cryptocurrency companies think is the devil and I think it's working" Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/20/newspaper-editorials-written-by-ai-dont-go-down-so-well/ Manhattan Mercury on ChatGPT, 2022:  https://themercury.com/opinion/from-the-publis...

One Jira leaves. Three Jiras enter. Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.11082 The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/llms_buggy_code/ Defects4j:  https://github.com/rjust/defects4j ConDefects: https://github.com/appmlk/ConDefects previously: 'Guys, I'm under attack': AI 'vibe coding' in the wild:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/18/guys-im-under-attack-ai-vibe-coding-in-the-wild/ Video...

"I feel is not that hard for me since I have been around devs for quite some time." Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/18/guys-im-under-attack-ai-vibe-coding-in-the-wild/ Leonel's tweets: https://x.com/leojr94_/status/1900767509621674109 https://x.com/leojr94_/status/1900842648119718236 https://x.com/leojr94_/status/1901560276488511759 https://x.com/leojr94_/status/1901979660948267360 h...

Free of human involvement! Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/17/openai-brings-you-statistically-average-literary-fiction/ Sam Altman talks up his new literary fiction LLM:  https://x.com/sama/status/1899535387435086115 Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnin_(novel) Stolen Threads post: https://www.threads.net/@seanrfrazier/post/DFpzFFgApk3 Amazon limits self-publ...

Pizza and wood glue optional. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/16/cjr-llms-are-still-really-bad-search-engines/ CJR 2025 report:  https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php BBC on wood glue and rocks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o CJR 2024 report: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/how-chatgpt-misrepresents-publi...

Your helpful AI backseat gamer pal! Official Xbox Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUDVNjDUSw Microsoft on Copilot for Games: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/03/13/new-copilot-for-gaming-save-time-help-get-good/ Microsoft on Muse: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/02/19/muse-ai-xbox-empowering-creators-and-players/ Previously: Google's AI-generated Doom rigged demo:  https://pivot-to-ai.c...

The White House wants ideas for its AI Action Plan. And oh boy, does OpenAI have a wishlist! Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/14/openai-asks-the-us-government-for-the-moon-on-a-stick/ White House request for comment:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/02/public-comment-invited-on-artificial-intelligence-action-plan/ OpenAI response:  https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai...

We're sure OpenAI would never abuse this level of access to the heart of government so it could lobby by chatbot. Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/13/foi-reveals-uk-science-secretary-peter-kyle-cribs-chatgpt-for-advice/ New Scientist gets the FOI:  https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472068-revealed-how-the-uk-tech-secretary-uses-chatgpt-for-policy-advice/ PoliticsHome interview: https://ww...

You want me to write your whole function for you? Git gud, scrub. Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/12/cursor-ai-assistant-tells-vibe-coder-learn-to-code/ Cursor forum post: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-told-me-i-should-learn-coding-instead-of-asking-it-to-generate-it-limit-of-800-locs/61132/3 Kevin Roose on vibe coding: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/technology/personaltech/vibecodin...

OpenAI wants to go full for-profit. This is already hitting legal roadblocks. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/11/openais-for-profit-plan-is-in-trouble/ Ruling (PDF):  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.433688/gov.uscourts.cand.433688.121.0.pdf Previously: OpenAI's weird corporate structure: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/11/18/pivot-to-ai-replacing-s...

Oh, that's where all these incredibly bad press releases are coming from. The AI is for spam. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/10/lets-write-pr-pitches-with-an-ai-report-spam-block-sender/ MuckRack's AI pitchbot:  https://muckrack.com/blog/2024/10/16/using-ai-pitch-generator You have to pitch to the LLMs now: https://www.swordandthescript.com/2025/01/llms-new-front-page/ How to pitch...

Nature tells us how scientific peer review is so much easier when you fob it off to an AI. And you can earn cryptos! Every scientist wants that, right? Text versions: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/08/science-journal-nature-promotes-using-chatbots-for-academic-peer-review/ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/09/scientific-peer-review-by-ai-with-its-own-cryptocurrency-as-promoted-in-nature/ Nature on...

What if we made a search engine so good that our company name became the verb for searching? And then — get this — we replaced the search engine with a robot with a concussion? So far it's just for Gemini Premium. So far. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/07/oops-all-ai-google-replaces-search-with-the-ai-overview/ Google blog: https://blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-search/ Ed Zitr...

Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever's new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has developed "super intelligence." Nice work if you can get it. This is a pilot video to see how this channel might go. text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-rele...