20250411 - Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it's A Guy Instead

'Fraud' is such a tawdry word. Text version:  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/11/meet-nate-the-agi-shopping-app-yeah-its-a-guy-instead/ Sources: Universal Shopping App nate Raises $38M to Expand Its Online Payment Solutions https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210617005139/en/Universal-Shopping-App-nate-Raises-%2438M-to-Expand-Its-Online-Payment-Solutions 'AI' Shopping Startup Exaggerated Tech Capabilities to Potential Investors https://www.theinformation.com/articles/shaky-tech-and-cash-burning-giveaways-ai-shopping-startup-shows-excesses-of-funding-boom SEC Charges Founder and Former CEO of Artificial Intelligence Startup with Misleading Investors https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26282 Tech CEO Charged In Artificial Intelligence Investment Fraud Scheme https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/tech-ceo-charged-artificial-intelligence-investment-fraud-scheme The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots (2016) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/the-humans-hiding-behind-the-chatbots Much 'Artificial Intelligence' Is Still People Behind a Screen (2021) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-13/how-good-is-ai-much-artificial-intelligence-is-still-people-behind-a-screen AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004 Builder.ai: The wild ride of a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn https://www.ft.com/content/11afc46c-b435-489d-a9f1-134ad0c00d25 Beyond Innovation TV: Albert Saniger, Nate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLspKdy4evU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA There's a current version of the Nate site! https://www.nate.tech Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Please send money, my AI startup needs a funding round Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5