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UK police will run evidence through the AI — it’s quicker
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/14/uk-police-will-run-evidence-through-the-ai-its-quicker/
Published: July 14, 2026 21:06
The UK Government will speed up justice — with AI! UK police will take evidence in criminal cases and … run it through the chatbot. [Gov.UK] Under current rules, police have to analyse each piece of evidence themselves before disclosing it to the defence.…
Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/13/terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them/
Published: July 13, 2026 22:15
Today we have a report by Antonia Juelich at the Cambridge Programme on AI Science and Policy, CASP: “‘God has helped us, and so will AI’: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI”. Oh no! The bad guys have AI! [CASP, PDF, archive] CASP’s…
O greenwashing descarado da Ecosia — agora com IA
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/13/o-greenwashing-descarado-da-ecosia-agora-com-ia/
Published: July 13, 2026 10:39
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI” into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário]
NeurIPS conference AI cheats outraged they got caught
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/10/neurips-conference-ai-cheats-outraged-they-got-caught/
Published: July 10, 2026 20:27
NeurIPS is an annual machine learning conference. Here in the AI bubble, NeurIPS is huge and flooded with chatbot cash. [Atlantic, archive] The AI vendors at NeurIPS want to talk about imaginary problems, like the super-AI destroying humanity. The…
Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-will-record-24-7-without-a-light/
Published: July 9, 2026 20:48
Meta’s AI glasses have all sorts of alleged use cases. The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent. And Meta knows for a fact this is the market: [Meta] Beginning with our second generation of…
I’m on Tech Report: Companies are killing themselves with AI
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/08/im-on-tech-report-companies-are-killing-themselves-with-ai/
Published: July 8, 2026 22:37
Isaac Pound from Times Radio’s Tech Report interviewed me this afternoon talking about AI and the job market — and it’s up already! 32 minutes of me talking quite fast. This came out super well. [YouTube] The camera is an old Logitech web cam — the one I…
Quantum computing doesn’t need to exist to make venture capital deals
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/08/quantum-computing-doesnt-need-to-exist-to-make-venture-capital-deals/
Published: July 8, 2026 22:08
The AI bubble is losing steam. Venture capital is desperate for a new lottery ticket. What’s the next bubble after AI falls over? Will it be modular nuclear? Will it be humanoid robots? The hot favourite is quantum computing! Quantum will break all the…
Google Translate is now Gemini — and you can prompt-inject it
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/07/google-translate-is-now-gemini-and-you-can-prompt-inject-it/
Published: July 7, 2026 20:21
In 2017, a team at Google Translate came up with a new machine learning architecture: the transformer! Transformers are just ridiculously effective for machine learning. Google Translate itself switched to transformers in 2020, and straight away it got a…
OpenAI ‘Stargate UK’ plan was completely fake
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/06/openai-stargate-uk-plan-was-completely-fake/
Published: July 6, 2026 21:04
The UK announced its AI Opportunities Action Plan in January 2025 — a signature programme for the new and otherwise ideas-free Labour government. It would include a huge OpenAI data centre or two, part of OpenAI’s Stargate plan! £20 billion of new UK data…
IA vaza os segredos do código da sua empresa mais rápido do que nunca
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/04/ia-vaza-os-segredos-do-codigo-da-sua-empresa-mais-rapido-do-que-nunca/
Published: July 4, 2026 12:02
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “AI leaks your company’s code secrets faster than ever” into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário]
Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/03/ecosias-odious-greenwashing-now-with-ai/
Published: July 3, 2026 21:26
Ecosia is a search engine that talks up its green credentials. It repackages Microsoft Bing and puts its own ads on. All the money comes from those ads. Ecosia’s big pitch is those ads pay for planting trees. That’s fine! Unfortunately, Ecosia has…
Frontiers forces AI onto academic journal editors
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/02/frontiers-forces-ai-onto-academic-journal-editors/
Published: July 2, 2026 20:15
Frontiers is an academic publisher that keeps showing up on lists of predatory open-access publishers, whose business model certainly appears to be to accept any old rubbish and charge a swingeing fee to the author. Frontiers does try to keep a slight…