Pivot to AI

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...

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...