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Pivot to AI supporters can get this week’s Tante interview right now
Published: August 18, 2026 23:02
I recorded an interview with Tante, long-time commenter on tech and politics, who I’ve known since the crypto days! He has a number of opinions on our friend, the AI bubble. We went for about 50 minutes. It’s a good one. When this thing crashes, I want to…
Data centres get too hot for Texas politicians
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/18/data-centres-get-too-hot-for-texas-politicians/
Published: August 18, 2026 20:29
Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott used to get electricity users into the state by any means necessary. He rolled out the red carpet for the bitcoin miners in 2021. But by 2024, Dallas-Fort Worth was already the second-biggest data centre market in the…
Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/
Published: August 17, 2026 23:10
The European Union AI Act went through on 1 August 2024. One of the requirements is the “Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content” — you have to clearly identify AI output to the public. So Anthropic has announced it’s going to watermark…
Turkey asks the AI: are you a TERRORIST??
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/14/turkey-asks-the-ai-are-you-a-terrorist/
Published: August 14, 2026 20:44
On 26 June, Turkey’s Ministry of Justice announced the “CBS Organization Prediction Project”: an amazing new system that lets a prosecutor or judge take a case file and predict which terrorist organisation the subject of the case file belongs to — with AI!…
Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’
Published: August 13, 2026 20:43
The Twitch streaming platform is owned by Amazon. They use your Twitch streams for training AI. Twitch Support tweeted about it yesterday: [Twitter, archive] We’ve added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train…
Me on Tech Report: AI has started killing itself
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/13/me-on-tech-report-ai-has-started-killing-itself/
Published: August 13, 2026 15:48
I did another Times Radio Tech Report yesterday with Isaac Pound on the Dead Internet Theory where it’s all bots talking to each other. My answer: spammers will always be with us. And the models will train on the AI spam and collapse from AI mad cow…
xAI data centre contractors file liens for non-payment
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/12/xai-data-centre-contractors-file-liens-for-non-payment/
Published: August 12, 2026 20:58
Darana Hybrid claims they were stiffed for $137 million on the Colossus I and II data centres in Memphis, Tennessee, and $431 million on facilities in nearby Southhaven. It’s filed liens against two SpaceX subsidiaries, CTC Property and MZX Tech. [Memphis…
Meta brings the superintelligent AI future! Probably
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/11/meta-brings-the-superintelligent-ai-future-probably/
Published: August 11, 2026 21:50
Meta has published “The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future,” a 6,500 word ramble about what’s coming in AI — or what Meta would like to be coming. [Meta] The piece is signed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but it it’s hard to tell if it’s…
Robot mall cops are being replaced by humans
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/10/robot-mall-cops-are-being-replaced-by-humans/
Published: August 10, 2026 21:45
Robot security guard have failed so hard that they’re being replaced with humans: [404, archive; Proof] Proof News found evidence of at least 21 security robot deployments since 2015. We contacted contract holders and combed news articles and determined…
Aschenbrenner apostou tudo na IA — e perdeu
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/09/aschenbrenner-apostou-tudo-na-ia-e-perdeu/
Published: August 9, 2026 22:55
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost” into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário]
Molly White interview: following the AI and crypto money in US politics
Published: August 7, 2026 14:45
Today we have the Molly White interview! $5-and up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this last week. Did you know OpenAI and Anthropic are running competing super-PACs? Hear how they messed up in New York District 12! Here are the…
The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/06/the-ai-doomsday-cult-recruits-social-media-influencers/
Published: August 6, 2026 21:40
I got a great pitch email for Pivot to AI last week: [Mastodon] I am Shriya, reaching out on behalf of Frame Fellowship, a 10-week residential program in San Francisco, US for creators who want to become leading voices on AI and its impact on society. We…
Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/05/atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai-data-centres-at-sea/
Published: August 5, 2026 21:07
Atomarine is a hot new AI startup that just got funding from Y Combinator! That’s the important part, job number one. All it took was some AI pictures of ships on a Claude-designed website. Venture capitalists are simple creatures. But second is the…