20260205 - The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is off
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a mere memorandum of understanding - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice Nvidia CEO Huang denies he is unhappy with OpenAI, says 'huge' investment planned Mad Money 02/03/26 Exclusive: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some Nvidia chips and looking for alternatives, sources say We love working with NVIDIA and they make the best AI chips in the world Hands Sam a mirror Iron Lung ...
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20260204 - Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right
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is 30% of Microsoft’s press coverage vibe-marketed - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: Windows is evolving into an agentic OS Hey Gergely, I am responding here Microsoft investigates Windows 11 boot failures after January updates Microsoft links Windows 11 boot failures to failed December 2025 update Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and...
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20260203 - AI makes Microsoft’s quarterly numbers weird and bad
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Investors and analysts are not happy - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: Earnings Release FY26 Q2 Microsoft FY26 Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call (video) Microsoft sheds $360bn in market value as AI spending spooks investors Previously on Pivot to AI: What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble video: Full Pivot to AI playlist:
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20260202 - Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then go public
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Or maybe Tesla - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX in merger talks with xAI ahead of planned IPO, source says Elon Musk’s Relentless AI Pursuit Has Him on the Hunt for Capital FCC SAT-LOA-20260108-00016 Elon Musk’s SpaceX Said to Consider Merger With Tesla or xAI Previously on Pivot to AI: Elon Musk merges xAI and Twitter — the new AOL Time Warner video: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space...
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20260130 - AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist
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‘Our AI has messed up completely’ - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: Weld River fossicking area Weldborough Hotel baffled by tour company advertising hot springs don’t exist Tour website’s AI sends visitors to Tasmanian sites that do not exist Well mystery solved ... AI on Australian travel company website sends tourists to nonexistent hot springs Full Pivot to AI playlist:
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20260129 - The job losses are real, but the AI excuse is fake
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Great Depression 2.0 gets under way - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests AI is not killing jobs, US study finds Companies are blaming AI for job cuts. Critics say it’s a ‘good excuse’ The AI jobs crisis is here, now AI Killed My Job: Tech workers Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to...
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20260128 - Clawdbot: an expensive insecure AI agent that doesn’t work
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plus casual bot racism about Morocco - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: Moltbot PSPDFkit raises $116M, its first outside money; now nearly 1B people use apps powered by its collaboration, signing and markup tools Finding My Spark Again Star History: moltbot/moltbot This is so scary we were attacked 7,922 times over the weekend after using Clawdbot ClawdBot Creator Disowns Crypto After Scammers Hijack AI Project Rebrand To all crypto...
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20260127 - Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI
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original theft, do not steal - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor Scaling long-running autonomous coding Cursor used a swarm of AI agents powered by OpenAI to build and run a web browser for a week — with no human help. Here’s why developers are buzzing fastrender/Cargo.toml In various comments, I have explained at length why your fleet of autonomous agents failed miserably at building something that...
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20260126 - Insurers don’t want to cover AI
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The true AI risk - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts The Continued Proliferation of AI Exclusions Insurers balk at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI and Anthropic Previously on Pivot to AI: Lloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payout video: Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billion video: Full...
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20260123 - OpenAI faces cash crunch in 2026 as bills come due
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I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a GPU today - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy me nice things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: OpenAI faces financial crunch point as huge supplier bills start to come due A business that scales with the value of intelligence OpenAI CFO: IPO is not off the table, it's a question of when OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates White House AI czar rules out federal bailout for the sector Previously on Pivot...
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The book features tips on how to protect your privacy and safety from the American techno-fascist state. The unholy alliance between Silicon Valley and American law enforcement and intelligence agencies is a clear and present danger to ordinary people all around the world, especially for marginalized people. Under fascism, being a good person and doing nothing wrong won't protect you from criminal persecution and state violence. Kim's book makes good cybersecurity and opsec habits easy for technological laypeople to learn.
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