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Ill, back Monday
No post/video/podcast today, sorry — I have a cold and I’m out of it and my voice is trashed. Tomorrow is unlikely too. Back Monday!
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November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Whoops! Microsoft’s new Windows AI agent platform lets in malware
You might foolishly think the purpose of Microsoft Windows was to run your programs so you can do stuff. But Microsoft understands that what you really want is an agentic AI-first computer platform. Who wants to get work done when they could be arguing with Copilot? How do you manage all these incredibly secure and […]
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November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!
The AI industry is desperate for data centre power anywhere it can get it. They can’t get gas turbines without years of delay. Even the repurposed jet engine gas turbines they were really hoping would save them now have a waiting list that’s years long. So the tech bros and venture capital bros want nuclear! […]
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November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working
Data Center Watch sounds like a group keeping an eye on the threat of data centres. It’s actually the opposite — it’s an AI industry astroturf effort to try to make policy makers worry about threats to data centres from the … public. Data Center Watch is a product of 10a Labs, which claims to […]
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November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Anthropic: Chinese AI hackers are after you! Security researchers call BS
Every month or so, Anthropic puts out a press release about how we should all be very frightened!! of AI. This month’s scare story is a Chinese hacker scare! [Anthropic; report, PDF] Anthropic says that someone who “we assess with high confidence was a Chinese state-sponsored group” has been using the agentic abilities of chatbots […]
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November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular
Sometimes a song just comes out of nowhere and does great! But also, there’s well worn paths to buying your way to a small amount of public attention. And these ways have been common as long as there’s been mass media with music in. Payola is the least of it. Spotify plays and followers are […]
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November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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GEMA wins against OpenAI on copying song lyrics
GEMA is the official music publishing collections organisation in Germany. They’re big, they’re powerful, they throw their weight around, and a lot of people think they’re dicks. Large swathes of YouTube are still blocked in Germany because they might contain music that GEMA hasn’t been paid for. So GEMA decided it was going to take […]
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November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Getty Images loses UK suit against Stable Diffusion
Stock image site Getty Images sued Stability AI in the US and the UK in February 2023 for training its Stable Diffusion image generator on images scraped from Getty, and for generating images with Getty watermarks. The UK judgement came in last week — and Getty lost on basically everything. [Reuters] Stability’s scraping was pretty […]
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November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Rightmove discovers AI is no excuse for profit warnings
Rightmove is a UK property portal that charges real estate agents a fee for listings. That’s the whole business. Rightmove got popular early, it’s a really simple business, and the money just rolls in! But that wasn’t enough for Rightmove. They heard there was a magical new money tree called AI, and they wanted a […]
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November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver
Guest post by Nicholas C. Weaver The AI companies and related enterprises are currently spending huge amounts in capital expenditures (CAPEX) to build “Gigawatt” class data centers for various AI-related development. The scale of the investment is so large it is distorting the economy. These massive expenditures, however, are shortly going to prove to be […]
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November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing
Chatbot vendors routinely make up a new benchmark, then brag how well their hot new chatbot does on it. Like that time OpenAI’s o3 model trounced the FrontierMath benchmark, and it’s just a coincidence that OpenAI paid for the benchmark and got access to the questions ahead of time. Every new model will be trained […]
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November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it
The BBC and the European Broadcasting Union have produced a large study of how well AI chatbots handle summarising the news. In short: badly. [BBC; EBU] The researchers asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity about current events. 45% of the chatbot answers had at least one major issue. 31% were seriously wrong and 20% had […]
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November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI Christmas TV ad
It’s early November! And you know what that means? Coca-Cola’s done another of its terrible AI Christmas TV ads! Where they take their 1995 ad “Holidays Are Coming” and remake it with a slop generator. We covered last year’s bad AI Coke ad. No shot over two or three seconds, animals and snowmen visibly warped […]
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November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper
There’s a remarkable paper from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, co-written with the security vendor Safe Security: “Rethinking the Cybersecurity Arms Race: When 80% of Ransomware Attacks are AI-Driven”: Our recent analysis of over 2800 ransomware incidents has revealed an alarming trend: AI plays an increasingly significant role in these attacks. In 2024, 80.83% of […]
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November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot
Today’s paper is “AI Makes You Smarter, But None the Wiser: The Disconnect between Performance and Metacognition”. AI users wildly overestimate how brilliant they actually are: [Elsevier, paywalled; SSRN preprint, PDF; press release] All users show a significant inability to assess their performance accurately when using ChatGPT. In fact, across the board, people overestimated their […]
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November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!
The AI hyper-scalers have problems getting power for all their new data centres. How about using small gas turbines that used to be jet engines? Landon Tessmer from ProEnergy says: [IEEE Spectrum] We have sold 21 gas turbines for two data-center projects amounting to more than 1 gigawatt. Both projects are expected to provide bridging […]
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October 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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OpenAI goes for-profit! What happens next?
Sam Altman gets his wish! OpenAI got its deal through to turn from a weird charity thing into an ordinary for-profit company. I’m surprised. But they did it. [Bloomberg, archive] Microsoft got everything it wanted for free. Microsoft gets a 27% equity stake, rights to research until 2030 and the software itself until 2032. Microsoft […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Sam Altman’s had some positive news today, but I’m sure we can still make his day worse. Keep Sam crying eight delicious and bitter tears for every dollar donated to Pivot to AI: Just $5 into the Patreon is the best way to support Pivot to AI. Tell your friends to sign up too! If […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers
In November last year, Microsoft released its plans to force a Copilot upgrade and a price rise onto all Office 365 “personal and family” (consumer) users — “to reflect the value we’ve added over the past decade and enable us to deliver new innovations for years to come.” [Press release] Some people discovered the workaround: […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Electronic Arts is losing income and crippled by debt? More AI!
Game studio Electronic Arts has been showing signs of trouble for a while now. They’re in profit, but the line is going down. The second quarter of 2025 shows net income of $201 million, down from $280 million in the second quarter of 2024. Year on year, it’s down nearly 10%. [EA, PDF] And EA […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Scrape the web for OpenAI — with the Atlas browser!
OpenAI has finally released its web browser project, Atlas! It’s Chrome with ChatGPT being an agent for you. [OpenAI] So what’s it like to use? Anil Dash tried it out. Dash calls it the anti web browser — “the first browser that actively fights against the web.” He opened it, typed “Taylor Swift Showgirls” into […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Anti-renewables group uses AI in government inquiry submissions
Rainforest Reserves Australia is an odd little environmental charity in Queensland in Australia. It started out running a cassowary sanctuary. But lately, RRA’s gone big into anti-renewable energy activism. Their line is that renewable energy — wind and solar — is horrifyingly destructive to the environment. This is completely false, by the way. Looking at […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Pivot to AI is going Monday to Friday
I’m moving Pivot to AI to weekdays, five days a week — and not the seven-day schedule it’s been on since it started. I love doing Pivot to AI — but also, there’s one of me here, and making a video, podcast, and blog post of every story takes several hours a day. And I’ve […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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South Korea blows $850m on failed AI school textbooks
South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol wanted AI in education. He’d put AI textbooks in the schools! This would surely solve teachers’ workloads, fix inequality, and personalise learning! [Rest Of World] The programme was rushed out. The Korean government spent more than 1.2 trillion won ($850 million) on the programme. The Korean Teachers and Education […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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How OpenAI dodged Hollywood on Sora 2
The use case for AI video is to churn out clips of existing TV and movie characters for your amusement. [THR] Hollywood got wind of OpenAI’s Sora 2. Agencies called OpenAI to see what the deal was. [THR] OpenAI told them whatever they wanted to hear: repeatedly talking up an opt-in regime that would protect […]
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October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM