Pivot to AI
A short daily look at the latest foolishness from the AI bubble. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.
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It’s not ‘data fraud,’ it’s ‘synthetic sampling’!
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‘it is currently not possible to opt out of the AI function’
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‘no material contribution to earnings’
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Seizing the agentic AI advantage https://www.mckinsey.com/c...
LessWrong! Yudkowsky! Rationality!
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AI 2027 https://ai-2027.com/
Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes htt...
look, it’s only the front page
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Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI htt...
a marketing lie from marketing liars
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Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution ...
dunno, what’s ChatGPT say?
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National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” wat...
Kobi Leins takes on unregulated Australian AI transcription
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Kobi refused a doctor's AI. She was told to go elsewhere https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/kobi-refused-a-doctors-ai-she-was-tol...
so helpful!
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why is this government security report even mentioning blockchains?!
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security is job number ehh whatever
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Invitation Is All You Need (PDF) https://dr...
Alexa, end Alexa Plus.
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First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered digital assistan...
brother, can you spare $40 billion
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Introducing GPT-5 https://openai.com/index/introduc...
blurgh
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Also, quantum
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Bully the promptfondlers! It works!
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Is It Still Disney Magic if It’s AI? h...
Glassholes — second edition
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Meta Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results https://investor.at...
Shove it all into the chatbot, it’ll be fine!
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just trust us, bro!
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you don't need a product for a SPAC exit
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