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Amazon engineers use MeshClaw bot to hit managers’ AI token targets
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/21/amazon-engineers-use-meshclaw-bot-to-hit-managers-ai-token-targets/
Published: May 21, 2026 20:13
Amazon still wants to go full corporate AI. Despite the February Amazon Web Services vibe-outage, which didn’t slow them down for a moment. Amazon managers were wowed by OpenClaw. So Amazon made MeshClaw, which has been deployed across the company over the…
Google is replacing search results with only the AI
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/20/google-is-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai/
Published: May 20, 2026 21:01
You might remember a company called Google. In 1998, they came up with an amazing product — a web search that didn’t suck! And it could find things! With the state of search in 1998, this was incredible. Google got so good at searching the internet that…
Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/19/tucson-project-blue-data-centres-lie-about-water-again/
Published: May 19, 2026 22:22
Beale Infrastructure is a data centre developer, owned by Blue Owl. One of the companies Beale develops for is Amazon Web Services. One of Beale or Amazon thought it would be a good idea to build a water-sucking data centre in Tucson, Arizona — in a…
GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/18/github-copilot-ai-token-charges-to-go-up-10x-100x/
Published: May 18, 2026 22:52
We’ve known for years that the chatbot vendors run at a massive loss. OpenAI was spending $2.35 for each $1 of revenue in 2024, and it’s only got worse since then. Anthropic keeps pushing its prices upwards. We knew that one day the prices would go way up.…
GitLab anuncia demissões por IA, ações caem 9%
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/17/gitlab-anuncia-demissoes-por-ia-acoes-caem-9/
Published: May 17, 2026 21:42
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%” into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário]
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Published: May 16, 2026 22:14
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arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/15/arxiv-bans-academic-authors-for-ai-slop-papers/
Published: May 15, 2026 22:16
arXiv is a preprint server. It’s a place for academics to post papers before they reach the peer-reviewed journals — if ever. It’s where you get news out quickly. Science runs on the arXiv. Any paper on arXiv is equivalent to a blog post. Ideally, they…
Kevin O’Leary’s giant Utah data centre: will it happen?
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/14/kevin-olearys-giant-utah-data-centre-will-it-happen/
Published: May 14, 2026 23:02
Kevin O’Leary is a TV star rich business guy. Not quite a billionaire. He calls himself “Mr. Wonderful.” Everyone loves TV star rich guys, right? O’Leary saw the AI bubble pumping up and he thought: I want in on that. O’Leary found a space in Utah and…
Google replaces your PC mouse with yelling at Gemini
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/13/google-replaces-your-pc-mouse-with-yelling-at-gemini/
Published: May 13, 2026 21:29
The great thing about AI is how desperate and repetitious the companies’ alleged use cases are. Let’s make a to-do-list! Let’s make a recipe generator! Let’s make a travel planner! And they keep saying it’ll have a voice interface. I guess they all have…
GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/12/gitlab-announces-ai-layoffs-stock-goes-down-9/
Published: May 12, 2026 21:21
Microsoft’s GitHub code repository is a central dependency for open source software. Corporate development teams love it too. But GitHub’s been having serious reliability problems lately — 86% uptime over the past 90 days. [Missing GitHub Status] We don’t…
Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombs
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/11/banks-turn-data-centre-loans-into-2008-style-financial-time-bombs/
Published: May 11, 2026 22:11
An asset bubble is an opportunity. By late 2024, financiers were already constructing collateralised GPU obligations, lending against video cards. CoreWeave borrows against its Nvidia GPUs — which have a useful life of maybe two years. CoreWeave then uses…