Pivot to AI

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

  1. 1 HR AGO

    20260317 - UK chancellor: 'Quantum is an area within AI'

    When you're out of ideas, why not try magic https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/17/uk-chancellor-rachel-reeves-quantum-is-an-area-within-ai/ - blog post Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard (get in with the cool kids) Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Mais Lecture 2026 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/mais-lecture-2026 LIVE: UK finance minister Rachel Reeves delivers annual Mais Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPjXVpctAHo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA UK's "Quantum leap"  to help beat disease, deliver high-paid jobs, and strengthen national security, as first country in the world to roll out Quantum computers at scale https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uks-quantum-leap-tohelp-beat-diseasedeliver-high-paid-jobs-and-strengthen-national-security-as-first-country-in-the-world-to-roll-out-quantum Reeves vows to stop UK tech from 'drifting abroad' (archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20260317021100/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k16zdr1r1o UK will win AI race as Chancellor sets out economic 'big choices' https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-will-win-ai-race-as-chancellor-sets-out-economic-big-choices Ensuring that the UK can capture the benefits of quantum computing https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/resource/ensuring-that-the-uk-can-capture-the-benefits-of-quantum-computing/ Previously on Pivot to AI: The hype after AI: lads, it's looking really quantum https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/16/the-hype-after-ai-lads-its-looking-really-quantum/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2y2fX4YNKw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, and no AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/10/uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-and-no-ai/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB415dkRsYI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    7 min

  2. 1 DAY AGO

    20260316 - OpenAI advisor: 'adult mode' risks becoming 'sexy suicide coach'

    actual quote from the OpenAI Expert Council on Well-Being and AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/16/openai-advisor-adult-mode-risks-becoming-sexy-suicide-coach/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard (get in with the cool kids) Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sennheiser HD 599 SE https://amzn.to/4dvY7Y6 (UK) https://amzn.to/4bsMDCh (US) Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com CONTENT WARNING: this episode discusses sexual chatbots and their horrifying failure modes, though with no explicit detail. Sources: OpenAI's Bid to Allow X-Rated Talk Is Freaking Out Its Own Advisers https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-adult-mode-chatgpt-f9e5fc1a We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128 Ok this tweet about upcoming changes to ChatGPT blew up on the erotica point much more than I thought it was going to! https://x.com/sama/status/1978539332215681076 If it's allowed in an R-rated movie, it's allowed in @Grok Imagine https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2031989543529038103 Previously on Pivot to AI: ChatGPT sales are flat — so Altman offers OpenAI adult chat https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/17/chatgpt-sales-are-flat-so-altman-offers-openai-adult-chat/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFVuQl7xp8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/09/grok-generates-bikini-pics-of-children-uk-us-oddly-powerless/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evezPiGyTas&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    7 min

  3. 4 DAYS AGO

    20260313 - AI chatbot kids' toys are still an obviously terrible idea

    Sorry kid, life is rentware now https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/13/ai-chatbot-kids-toys-are-still-an-obviously-terrible-idea/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard (get in with the cool kids) Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately, researchers warn https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg4wx6nxgo Trouble in Toyland 2025 (PDF) https://publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TOYLAND-2025-11-14-7a.pdf Previously on Pivot to AI: Sorry kid, we killed your robot — Embodied goes broke, AI social devices will stop working https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/10/sorry-kid-we-killed-your-robot-embodied-goes-broke-ai-social-devices-will-stop-working/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    5 min

  4. 5 DAYS AGO

    20260312 - AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

    I owe my SOUL.md to the company store https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/12/ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard (get in with the cool kids) Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3 I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2024635825997459841 the inference compute available to you is increasingly going to drive overall software productivity https://x.com/gdb/status/2024662197692223857 Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues (2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSM0xd8xHUM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Sam Altman: This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #599 (2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYn8VKW6vXA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Nvidia CEO hints at end of investments in OpenAI, Anthropic https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-will-not-be-able-invest-100-billion-openai-due-ipo-ceo-jensen-says-2026-03-04/ Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/ Previously on Pivot to AI: Sam Altman rebrands Worldcoin to 'World', still wants your eyeballs https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/20/sam-altman-rebrands-worldcoin-to-world-still-wants-your-eyeballs/ What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/21/what-satya-nadella-actually-said-at-davos-about-ai/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOPPKG7XLZk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA OpenAI's '$110b' funding round is $25b and some promises https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/03/openais-110b-funding-round-is-25b-and-some-promises/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXdofxSKtDg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    7 min

  5. 6 DAYS AGO

    20260311 - AI bot network Facebook buys AI bot network Moltbook

    the dumbest AI bubble acqui-hire this week https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/11/ai-bot-network-facebook-buys-ai-bot-network-moltbook/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard (get in with the cool kids) Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Bialetti Moka Pot 6tz https://amzn.to/4sLUAJP Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Exclusive: Meta hires duo behind Moltbook https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/ Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users (2024) https://www.ft.com/content/91183cbb-50f9-464a-9d2e-96063825bfcf Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXeQbTuVl0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Fastly Threat Insights Report (PDF) https://learn.fastly.com/rs/025-XKO-469/images/Fastly-Threat-Insights-Report.pdf Previously on Pivot to AI: If AI is so good at coding ... where are the open source contributions? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPu_qzv0zIA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Moltbot/Clawdbot/OpenClaw: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn't work https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/28/moltbot-clawdbot-an-expensive-and-insecure-ai-agent-that-doesnt-work/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InH0S9QHlbY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is ... a crypto bro https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFvi4hK7wI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    6 min

  6. 10 MAR

    20260310 - UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, no AI

    ♫ we told you so ♫ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/10/uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-and-no-ai/ - blog post Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard (get in with the cool kids) Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Start https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/10/ai-uk-starmer-opportunities-plan/ Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on-phantom-investments Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-sets-out-blueprint-to-turbocharge-ai From press release ... to scrap metal site: the Essex 'supercomputer' that's still a scaffolding yard https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/from-press-release-to-scrap-metal-site-the-essex-supercomputer-thats-still-a-scaffolding-yard US-UK pact will boost advances in drug discovery, create tens of thousands of jobs and transform lives https://www.gov.uk/government/news/us-uk-pact-will-boost-advances-in-drug-discovery-create-tens-of-thousands-of-jobs-and-transform-lives Previously on Pivot to AI: ChatGPT predicts tremendous role for ChatGPT in UK government https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/16/chatgpt-predicts-tremendous-role-for-chatgpt-in-uk-government/ UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/16/chatgpt-predicts-tremendous-role-for-chatgpt-in-uk-government/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    6 min

  7. 9 MAR

    20260309 - Block's AI layoffs are fake too

    ayahuasca beard weirdo https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/09/blocks-ai-layoffs-are-fake-too/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard (get in with the cool kids) Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company https://x.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343 Q4 2025 Shareholder Letter (PDF) https://s29.q4cdn.com/628966176/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/Q4-2025-Shareholder-Letter_Block.pdf Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey's Block https://www.wired.com/story/inside-rolling-layoffs-jack-dorsey-block/ Jack Dorsey's 4,000 Job Cuts at Block Arouse Suspicions of AI-Washing https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-01/jack-dorsey-s-4-000-job-cuts-at-block-arouse-suspicions-of-ai-washing Current and former Block workers say AI can't do their jobs after Jack Dorsey's mass layoffs: 'You can't really AI that' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/08/block-ai-layoffs-jack-dorsey My employer Block laid off 40% of its workforce last Thursday (2/26) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7434699479389405184/ yes we over-hired during covid https://x.com/jack/status/2027290756793135253 Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

    6 min

  8. 6 MAR

    20260306 - How much water do the data centres use? It's a secret!

    Google goes to court not to tell you https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/06/how-much-water-do-the-data-centres-use-its-a-secret/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard (get in with the cool kids) Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us useful things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: With $1 Billion Google Data Center Deal Inked, the Roanoke Valley Enters the Game https://www.roanokerambler.com/with-1-billion-google-data-center-deal-inked-the-roanoke-valley-enters-the-game/ Ruling (PDF) https://storage.ghost.io/c/4f/7d/4f7d448e-fe49-4f83-b349-3cbb39e372de/content/files/2025/11/Henri-Gendreau-v.-Mike-McEvoy---CL25-2187--1-.pdf Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released https://www.roanokerambler.com/google-strives-keep-data-center-botetourt-county-water-use-secret-judge-orders-records-released/ Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2026/02/26/google-data-center-water-estimates-go-public-residents-in-roanoke-and-botetourt-react/ Sam Altman Unfiltered: ChatGPT, AI Risks & What's Coming Next, 40 Questions in 60 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH7thwrCluM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA The Gentle Singularity https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity How People Use ChatGPT https://forklightning.substack.com/p/how-people-use-chatgpt Previously on Pivot to AI: Ilya Sutskever gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has 'super intelligence' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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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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  • Creator
    David Gerard
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    319
  • Rating
    Clean
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