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AI game demo is going broke on just 430 players
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/12/ai-game-demo-is-going-broke-on-just-430-players/
Published: October 12, 2026 20:55
“Teach My Little Sister How To Drive” is an early-release game demo on Steam. You speak to the game and tell the sister character what to do, and you see if you can get her not to crash this time. The whole interface is voice. It’s a cute little idea.…
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-bans-abusive-or-cruel-behavior-toward-claude/
Published: October 9, 2026 20:23
Anthropic is deeply worried that you plebs don’t appreciate that Claude AI is actually a little guy inside the machine. You just don’t treat our beautiful son Claude with respect! So Anthropic’s put a new rule into its terms of service: [Anthropic] We’ve…
SpaceX to send Nvidia chips ‘somewhere in the universe’
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/08/spacex-to-send-nvidia-chips-somewhere-in-the-universe/
Published: October 8, 2026 21:27
SpaceX, the world’s greatest rocketry, AI, and social media company, claimed in its IPO prospectus in June that it had a total addressable market of $28.5 trillion — mostly in AI. So the company is borrowing $40 billion to buy yet more Nvidia chips. [FT]…
Mythos: not the magical AI hacking tool after all
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/07/mythos-not-the-magical-ai-hacking-tool-after-all/
Published: October 7, 2026 21:51
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos chatbot was promoted in April as the most frighteningly effective hacking tool ever! Too dangerous for you, the public! The US government even banned Mythos for a couple of weeks! Mythos had found some actual bugs — at great…
‘Some bad things’ may happen to you, but that’s a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to make
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/06/some-bad-things-may-happen-to-you-but-thats-a-sacrifice-sam-altman-is-willing-to-make/
Published: October 6, 2026 21:01
OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman was on Politico’s Decoded podcast yesterday, deflecting on a variety of topics. But there’s one amazing quote, which has been making a splash: [YouTube] I think one of the biggest differences between us and some of the…
Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/05/anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no/
Published: October 5, 2026 21:27
In May, Pope Leo XIV published a 43,000-word encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” which took AI to the cleaners. AI vendor Anthropic tried very hard to sway the contents of Magnifica Humanitas. They didn’t do so well. The New York Times wrote up Anthropic’s…
Kat Jones/APRS: How Scotland is winning against the data centres
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/02/kat-jones-aprs-how-scotland-is-winning-against-the-data-centres/
Published: October 2, 2026 16:51
Today we have the Kat Jones interview on how APRS is very effectively fighting hyperscale data centres in Scotland! (Their secret: hit the planning process.) $5-and-up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this earlier this week. Here are…
Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/
Published: October 1, 2026 21:50
Anthropic is planning an IPO and filed their draft S-1 prospectus in June! They were circulating that draft S-1 around their investors last month. And it leaked to Reuters, who wrote it up. [Reuters; Reuters; Reuters] Anthropic’s money situation is as bad…
New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/30/new-ai-jailbreak-get-your-chatbot-drunk/
Published: September 30, 2026 22:10
If you train a chatbot on the whole internet, it has the good stuff and it has the naughty stuff. So chatbots have guard rails so the AI vendors can say they’ve stopped the bot from telling you how to do naughty things. So if you want to make bombs, you…
Kat Jones/APRS versus data centres — PREVIEW for Pivot to AI supportres
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/29/kat-jones-aprs-versus-data-centres-preview-for-pivot-to-ai-supportres/
Published: September 29, 2026 21:42
I recorded an interview yesterday with Kat Jones of Action to Protect Rural Scotland, a quite little countryside charity who suddenly find all their work is fighting the hyperscalers — and they’re doing quite well! If you hate the data centres, you’ll want…
AI police surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/29/ai-police-surveillance-trial-costs-320k-catches-zero-crooks/
Published: September 29, 2026 21:22
Some bureaucracies have an unlimited appetite for surveillance with machine learning, the AI that actually works! Particuarly for abusing people’s privacy. The British Transport Police just answered a Freedom of Information request from Liberty…
Meta’s Muse AI agent: a hilarious security disaster
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/28/metas-muse-ai-agent-a-hilarious-security-disaster/
Published: September 28, 2026 21:59
Meta released Muse, its new AI agent as a service, earlier this month. You can download the app frontend free, at first! [Meta] What you get is an agent running on your own small virtual Linux PC at Meta. It’s like an OpenClaw agent, but Facebook sets it…