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Pivot to AI

by David Gerard

The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.

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20260929 - AI surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks

even the AI that works doesn't work  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set your

Sep 29
4 min

20260928 - Meta's Muse AI agent: a hilarious security disaster

'the only form that this kind of product can take is a botnet factory'  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/28/metas-muse-ai-agent-a-hilarious-security-disaster/ - blog pos

Sep 28
6 min

20260925 - Oracle invokes 'force majeure' on OpenAI data centre contract

Oracle and Blue Owl are going just great  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/25/oracle-invokes-force-majeure-on-openai-data-centre-contract/ - blog post  Patreon: https:

Sep 25
4 min

20260924 - OpenAI hacks Australian government health data

Sam Altman: 'whoops sorry lol'  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/24/openai-hacks-australian-government-health-data/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/david

Sep 24
4 min

20260923 - Trump decrees: Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence

Wile E. Basilisk, Super Intelligence  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/23/trump-decrees-artificial-intelligence-is-now-super-intelligence/ - blog post  Patreon: https:

Sep 23
4 min

20260922 - US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucination

the existential risk from AI: stupid people  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/22/us-nearly-attacks-chinese-ship-based-on-ai-hallucination/ - blog post  Patreon: https:

Sep 22
4 min

20260921 - When the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices

Tobias Lütke from Shopify blames the humans in the loop  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/21/tobias-lutke-shopify-when-the-ai-slop-is-bad-enough-the-ai-ceo-notices/ - bl

Sep 21
4 min

20260918 - Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause

Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/18/scottish-parliament-passes-ai-data-centre-pause/ - blog post  No to a full moratori

Sep 18
3 min

20260917 - AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders

Keep the home fires from burning  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/17/ai-data-centre-fires-overwhelm-emergency-responders/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.co

Sep 17
3 min

20260916 - ChatGPT ads: media agencies are 'underwhelmed'

ads for people who block ads  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/16/chatgpt-ads-media-agencies-are-underwhelmed/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerar

Sep 16
4 min

20260915 - Jensen claims 100× returns on Nvidia's circular financing

Not a Ponzi scheme  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/15/jensen-claims-100x-returns-on-nvidias-circular-financing/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidge

Sep 15
7 min

20260914 - AI slowdown: The only AI guardrails you need are Trump, apparently

we're not running out of money, no no  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/14/9023/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A15

Sep 14
7 min

20260911 - Valerie Veatch: Ghost in the Machine: AI as eugenics

Coming to PBS Monday 14 September!  Ghost in the Machine https://notaidoc.com/ Rent online at Kinema https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p Interview

Sep 11
41 min

20260910 - Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign

to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/10/jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign/ - blog po

Sep 10
6 min

20260909 - Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you

Microsoft literally titled the blog post 'Vibe Gaming'  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/09/microsoft-vibe-gaming-an-ai-to-play-your-games-for-you/ - blog post  Patreo

Sep 9
5 min

20260908 - Students who don't use AI are ahead on every measure

'equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers'  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure/ - blog

Sep 8
4 min

20260907 - AI data centre finance: building a bigger and bigger bomb

when half of economic "growth" is fake  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/07/ai-data-centre-finance-building-a-bigger-and-bigger-bomb/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www

Sep 7
8 min

20260904 - OpenAI: GPT-6 is totally Artificial General Intelligence, guys

Never mind the IPO, here's the AGI  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/04/openai-gpt-6-is-totally-artificial-general-intelligence-guys/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www

Sep 4
6 min

20260903 - UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn't work

but it sure saves on staff!  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.co

Sep 3
5 min

20260902 - Your guide to astroturf fake anti-AI groups

funded by AI vendors and Effective Altruist cultists  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/02/your-guide-to-astroturf-fake-anti-ai-groups/ - blog post  Patreon: https://ww

Sep 2
10 min

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