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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…
Oracle invokes ‘force majeure’ on OpenAI data centre contract
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/25/oracle-invokes-force-majeure-on-openai-data-centre-contract/
Published: September 25, 2026 21:05
Oracle has written to Blue Owl Capital, the private credit funders for most of its Stargate-OpenAI data centre push, claiming force majeure on delays on their Project Jupiter facility under construction in New Mexico. [Bloomberg, archive] This is about the…
OpenAI hacks Australian government health data
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/24/openai-hacks-australian-government-health-data/
Published: September 24, 2026 21:24
OpenAI hacked HuggingFace in July. This was just one target of many. Another website OpenAI hacked was the Australian Medicare statistics site, including non-public data. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called Sam Altman for a little word about OpenAI…
Support Pivot to AI — and be in the patron name read for September
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/24/support-pivot-to-ai-and-be-in-the-patron-name-read-for-september/
Published: September 24, 2026 15:27
Pivot to AI lives on support from you! to keep coming five days a week. Please help our work here! If you’re a paying supporter, join the name read on the podcast and YouTube! Click here or email me. Deadline is 16:00 UTC on Wednesday 30 September. You can…
Trump decrees: Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/23/trump-decrees-artificial-intelligence-is-now-super-intelligence/
Published: September 23, 2026 21:10
Yesterday, President Donald Trump stood up in front of the United Nations General Assembly and announced: [YouTube] The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken…
US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucination
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/22/us-nearly-attacks-chinese-ship-based-on-ai-hallucination/
Published: September 22, 2026 20:46
Around six months ago, a US military intelligence report said that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear components. CNN got hold of an internal Department of Defense memo on the incident and ran the story a few days ago. [CNN] The US…
Tobias Lütke, Shopify: when the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/21/tobias-lutke-shopify-when-the-ai-slop-is-bad-enough-the-ai-ceo-notices/
Published: September 21, 2026 22:04
Shopify is a platform for online storefronts. Shopify’s very popular, so it has tons of money to spend on stupid ideas. Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke fell hard for the chatbot. He uses it for everything. Last year, Lütke sent Shopify staff a memo: “AI usage is…