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Pivot to AI — 358 episodes
20260513 - Google replaces your mouse with yelling at Gemini
20260512 - GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%
20260511 - Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style time bombs
20260508 - OpenAI may not be able to IPO in 2026
20260507 - Google Chrome force-installs a 4-gigabyte AI model
20250506 - OpenAI GPT 5.5 goes Goblin Mode
20260505 - Grok AI unofficial crypto wallet hacked with an NFT and a prompt injection
20260504 - Microsoft VSCode claims Copilot AI wrote all your code
20260501 - Kim Crawley: Technofascism Survival Guide
20260430 - OpenAI to Microsoft: It's not me, it's you
20260429 - OpenAI tries ads in ChatGPT. It won't save them
20260428 - Tokenmaxxing: "How much did you spend in tokens?"
20260427 - Kohl-Verlag's new line of AI slop school textbooks
20260424 - Project Lobster: Microsoft brings Copilot AI to OpenClaw
20260423 - Claude Code rate limits: Anthropic AI squeezes customers
20260422 - Oh no! The Donald J. Trump data centre is in trouble
20260421 - Gudtrip: the AI agent vape pen with blockchain
20260420 - Russia demands a sovereign AI
20260417 - Objection AI: venture capital tries to block bad press
20260416 - Shoe company pivots to AI, stock goes up 580%
20260415 - Maine bans new data centres until November 2027
20260414 - Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC
20260413 - AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman's house
20260410 - OpenAI pulls out of Stargate UK data centre
20260409 - Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly
20260408 - OpenAI IPO proceeds, even as CFO says company is 'not ready'
20260407 - Associated Press dumps journalists for AI
20260403 - Nobody wants OpenAI shares on the secondary market
20260402 - Microsoft AI reshuffle, Suleyman goes AI doomsday crank
20260401 - Claude Code codebase leaked
20260331 - GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests
20260330 - OpenAI offers a 17.5% return on a venture deal! How can it do that?
20260327 - The AI bubble and the global polycrisis
20260326 - BuzzFeed goes AI! Then it goes broke
20260325 - OpenAI shuts down Sora video, Disney deal off
20260324 - Walmart dumps OpenAI at the checkout
20260323 - Layoffs don't boost shares prices, they drop them
20260320 - OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs
20260319 - Companies go full AI. Then the bill comes due
20260318 - Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse
20260317 - UK chancellor: 'Quantum is an area within AI'
20260316 - OpenAI advisor: 'adult mode' risks becoming 'sexy suicide coach'
20260313 - AI chatbot kids' toys are still an obviously terrible idea
20260312 - AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money
20260311 - AI bot network Facebook buys AI bot network Moltbook
20260310 - UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, no AI
20260309 - Block's AI layoffs are fake too
20260306 - How much water do the data centres use? It's a secret!
20260305 - Power prices: data centres. Nothing but data centres
20260304 - AI works can't be copyrighted or patented in the US
20260303 - OpenAI's '$110b' funding round: $25b and some promises
20260302 - Get your war on: AI chatbots in the kill chain
20260227 - Copilot: insecure and unhelpful, but oh those influencers!
20260226 - Blue Owl won't give your money back. This is fine.
20260225 - Accenture: you're promoted or fired on using the AI
20260224 - Meta's director of AI alignment falls for OpenClaw
20260223 - Bet against the bubble: Goldman Sachs' non-AI stock index
20260220 - Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two
20260219 - AI generates the same 'random' passwords over and over
20260218 - Seedance's AI Cruise-Pitt 'generated' demo: green screen, face swap
20260217 - The AI Scare Trade: the all-purpose excuse for number go down
20260216 - The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is a crypto bro
20260213 - Let's vibe-regulate US transport with Gemini!
20260212 - SaaSpocalypse: investors overspend badly and blame AI
20260211 - Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session
20260210 - UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI
20260209 - Waymo self-driving cars, powered by AGI: A Guy Instead
20260206 - AI coding makes you worse at learning, and not even any faster
20260205 - The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is off
20260204 - Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right
20260203 - AI makes Microsoft's quarterly numbers weird and bad
20260202 - Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then go public
20260130 - AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don't exist
20260129 - The job losses are real, but the AI excuse is fake
20260128 - Clawdbot: an expensive insecure AI agent that doesn't work
20260127 - Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI
20260126 - Insurers don't want to cover AI
20260123 - OpenAI faces cash crunch in 2026 as bills come due
20260122 - Steve Yegge's Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam
20260121 - What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble
20260120 - How to hack Copilot AI: ask it twice
20260119 - Art student protests other student's AI art: he eats it
20260116 - Workday sued for AI-powered hiring discrimination
20260115 - Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals
20260114 - Microsoft now paying customers to train in Copilot AI
20260113 - If AI coding is so good, where are the performance numbers?
20260112 - No, Dell is still pushing AI in PCs
20260110 - If users notice your software, you're already a loser
20260108 - Grok makes child bikini pics; UK, US oddly powerless
20260107 - US voters hate AI, and politicians are noticing
20260106 - Most venture capital deals are now AI
20260105 - Channel 9 Australia's AI TV promo and cartoon
20251231 - uBeam from 2015: never mind reality, here's the VCs
20251224 - OpenAI does NORAD's Santa tracker! And it doesn't work
20251223 - Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?
20251222 - AI image generators have just 12 templates
20251219 - 'How do people survive?' A chat with StopGenAI
20251218 - Robin AI: legal review AI that was humans! And just went broke
20251217 - The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys
20251216 - Amazon discovers AI sucks at automated TV recaps
20251215 - WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world
20251212 - Why Disney just put $1b into OpenAI
20251211 - Let's power AI with supersonic jet engine turbines!
20251210 - Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbot
20251209 - Microsoft cuts AI sales quotas, stock drops 3%
20251208 - LA Unified School District forces unfiltered AI on kids
20251205 - Google AI mangles news headlines in 'Discover' feed
20251104 - AI screws us again: memory shortages, Crucial to shut down
20251203 - Google's Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk
20251202 - Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI bots
20251201 - AI data centres, IN SPACE! Why DCs in space can't work
20251128 - Medical frymblal: Nature's latest AI-generated paper
20251127 - Epic CEO wants Steam to remove AI game disclosures
20251126 - AI for evil: hacked by WormGPT
20251125 - White House: US to fabricate science with chatbots
20251124 - Don't cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper, it's chatbot-made 'science'
20251119 - Whoops! Microsoft's Windows AI agent platform lets in malware
20251118 - Vibe nuclear: let's use AI shortcuts on reactor safety
20251117 - Data Center Watch worries anti-AI activism is working
20251114 - Anthropic: Chinese AI hackers are after you! Security researchers call BS
20251113 - No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not popular
20251112 - GEMA wins against OpenAI on copying song lyrics
20251111 - Getty Images loses UK suit against Stable Diffusion
20251110 - Rightmove discovers AI is no excuse for profit warnings
20251107 - Nicholas Weaver: The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter
20251106 - Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing
20251105 - AI gets 45% of news wrong, but readers still trust it
20251104 - It's the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI Christmas TV ad
20251103 - MIT releases, retracts nonsense AI cybersecurity paper
20251031 - AI makes you think you're a genius when you're an idiot
20251030 - AI: powered by old jet engines, near you!
20251029 - OpenAI goes for-profit! What happens next?
20251028 - Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers
20251027 - Electronic Arts losing income and crippled by debt? More AI!
20251024 - Scrape the web for OpenAI with the Atlas browser!
20251023 - Anti-renewables group uses AI in inquiry submissions
20251019 - South Korea blows $850m on failed AI school textbooks
20251018 - How OpenAI dodged Hollywood on Sora 2
20251017 - ChatGPT sales flat, Altman offers OpenAI adult chat
20251016 - AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI, self-host their chatbot companions
20251015 - AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats
20251014 - Prompt-inject Github's AI Copilot Chat
20251013 - Microsoft tracks your Copilot AI usage in its workplace spyware
20251012 - Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times a year!
20251011 - Google won't fix 'ASCII smuggling' hack in Gemini AI
20251010 - OpenAI does deals to make a deal, the money is getting worried
20251009 - OpenAI and Jony Ive's Siri-alike has compute problems
20251008 - Salesforce replaces help with Agentforce AI, customers outraged
20251007 - Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government
20251006 - Microsoft: forget your IT department, use Copilot at work anyway!
20251005 - Musk's Grokipedia: Grok AI rewrites Wikipedia
20251004 - OpenAI wants all the gas power, and prices go up
20251003 - YouTube's AI DJ interrupts your paid ad-free music
20251002 - Microsoft Copilot AI tries faces instead of a pearly blob
20251001 - Microsoft's Office 365 workslop generator, for 'vibe working'
20250930 - No episode today
20250929 - Friend AI fails to make friends
20250928 - The finance press finally says the words 'AI bubble'
20250927 - Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says 'fail'
20250926 - Neon buys phone calls to train AI, then leaks them all
20250925 - Are AI users dishonest? This Nature paper doesn't show it
20250924 - Lionsgate still can't turn its movies into an AI video model
20250923 - 'Workslop': bad study, but an excellent word
20250922 - UK public doesn't trust AI, Tony Blair Institute worried!
20250921 - 'Stop Worrying About AI's Return on Investment' said the wallet inspector
20250920 - Albania's AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor
20250919 - Business Insider will publish AI stories, without disclosure
20250918 - OpenAI fights the evil scheming AI! Which doesn't exist yet
20250917 - We simulated the human mind with a chatbot. It didn't work
20250916 - The hype after AI: lads, it's looking really quantum
20250915 - UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI
20250914 - Medical research ethics is hard. Fake AI data is easy!
20250913 - Canadian education report riddled with fake AI references
20250912 - Cursor looks at selling your data for AI training
20250911 - Apple retrains Siri AI for the Trump anti-'woke' era
20250910 - Inception Point: AI spam podcasts with no listeners
20250909 - If AI coding is so good, where are the little apps?
20250908 - We try Suno's AI music: hear Suno fail the Fall
20250907 - Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billion
20250907 - Site news: AI scraper bots again, please help
20250906 - Edward Saatchi: maybe not the Orson Welles of AI
20250905 - Google quietly vanishes its net zero carbon pledge
20250904 - OpenAI is using legal threats to harass its critics
20250903 - DragonCon ejects AI 'artist' to approval of all
20250902 - Vibe coding is getting rancid even for VCs
20250901 - Fake freelance journalism with AI! Until you're busted
20250831 - 31% of employees 'sabotaging' corporate AI strategy
20250830 - Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots, because they don't work
20250829 - Vibe-coded build system NX steals vibe-coders' crypto
20250828 - Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI
20250827 - SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive, no matter what
20250826 - Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI!
20250825 - Perplexity's AI web browser prompt-injected by any website!
20250824 - Commonwealth Bank fires, un-fires call centre staff over AI
20250823 - AI winter is in the air! We still think it has until 2027
20250822 - Prompt-inject an AI chatbot with ... an image!
20250821 - MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam, 100% crypto bros
20250820 - Surveys the easy way: fake your data with an AI chatbot
20250819 - Spreadshirt to artists: We're taking your design for AI
20250818 - AI brings huge enterprise efficiencies! Except in making money
20250817 - AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God
20250816 - At Politico, AI content doesn't need editorial standards!
20250815 - AI 'chain of thought' still just a 'brittle mirage'
20250814 - Delete your emails to ... save water?!
20250813 - Kobi Leins: 'Optional' AI scribe is mandatory to see the doctor
20250812 - Prompt-inject Copilot Studio via email, grab a company's whole Salesforce
20250811 - Cybersecurity 'red teams' to UK government: AI is rubbish
20250810 - Hack a smart home with a calendar invite! And Google Gemini
20250809 - AI Alexa+ rolls out at last! It's not so great
20250808 - OpenAI announces GPT-5! Please Microsoft, don't kill us
20250807 - Pivot to AI is unwell (non-episode)
20250806 - Microsoft 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard, just the AI!
20250805 - Disney fears public backlash over AI 'Moana', 'Tron'
20250804 - Wear Meta's AI creepshot glasses or be left behind!
20250803 - UK 'AI Action Plan for Justice': an AI precrime detector!
20250802 - Proton's Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end, not open source
20250801 - BotQ's humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product
20250731 - Ed Saatchi: pay to make bad AI South Park episodes!
20250730 - CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
20250729 - Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft
20250728 - Microsoft Copilot AI: a pearly liquid blob on your screen
20250727 - Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.
20250726 - Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now
20250725 - 16% of employees pretend to use AI at work
20250724 - Nobody clicks past Google's AI Overview
20250723 - Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! If it ever happened
20250722 - Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns
20250719 - Veo fails week 4: the final faildown
20250711 - AI coders think they're 20% faster, but they're actually 19% slower
20250710 - 'AI is here to stay.' Is it, though? What do you mean, 'stay'?
20250709 - Cursor tries setting less money on fire, AI vibe coders outraged
20250708 - Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew
20250707 - Google AI overviews: publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU
20250706 - Venture capital is lending money against video cards
20250705 - Google Veo 3 fails, week 3: Fail hard with a vengeance
20250704 - Only 3% of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it
20250703 - Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn't
20250702 - How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions
20250701 - $219 Springer AI textbook was written with a chatbot
20250630 - 'AI is no longer optional': Microsoft admits AI doesn't help at work
20250629 - Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder
20250628 - Not an episode, returning tomorrow!
20250627 - AI venture capital falls back to merging zombie startups
20250526 - Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use: what this means
20250625 - Verizon's new AI chatbot: customer disservice
20250624 - Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! But not on LibGen pirate copies
20250623 - Iyo vs. Io: OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
20250622 - Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups
20250621 - We test Google Veo 3: impressive demo, unusable results
20250620 - AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market
20250619 - Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI, volunteers quit in outrage
20250618 - Salesforce: AI agents don't work, but we're charging 6% more for AI anyway
20250617 - OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal. So it's threatening Microsoft!
20250616 - Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid
20250615 - EchoLeak: send an email, extract secret info from Office 365 Copilot AI
20250614 - Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed
20250613 - Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data
20250612 - Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney
20250611 - ChatGPT goes down, fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide
20250610 - Doctors against data abuse: BMA and RCGP protest NHS AI data handover
20250609 - Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don't expect much - it still doesn't work
20250608 - 'Reasoning' AIs fail hard if they actually have to think
20250607 - UK - High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else
20250606 - Builder․ai even more fake: creative accounting, no AI, no money
20250605 - Generative AI runs on gambling addiction: just one more prompt, bro!
20250604 - Washington Post is going to AI to clean up amateur right-wing op-eds
20250603 - Let's put more AI slop into advertising!
20250602 - Fighting the AI scraper bots
20250601 - Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says: AI will fix it!
20250531 - Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millions
20250530 - The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot
20250529 - Game studios love AI! The gamers ... hate it
20250528 - Google takes AI propaganda to the movies
20250527 - Telstra embraces AI — with Accenture
20250526 - BONUS: Donation drive! Please send money!
20250526 - Firing people for AI is not going so well
20250525 - AI tells a story of robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail
20250524 - AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request
20250524- BONUS: Cryptocurrency! Crime is legal — but the actual dollars aren't showing up
20250523 - AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80%–90% is per query
20250522 - You can't feed gen-AI on 'bad' data then filter it to give only 'good' data
20250520 - GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop
20250519 - DEFRA and Natural England creates unusable peat map — with AI!
20250518 - Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing: from AI vendor Anthropic
20250517 - How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data
20250516 - Trump announces AI vaporware data centres in the United Arab Emirates
20250515 - Even Elon Musk can't make Grok claim a 'white genocide' in South Africa
20250514 - Musk's xAI gas turbines: no emission controls, filling Memphis with smog
20250513 - If AI is so good at coding ... where's the open source?
20250512 - Lloyd's offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors!
20250511 - Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs
20250510 - Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work
20250509 - Shocked to hear 'prompt engineer' is not a real job
20250508 - Christopher Pelkey — AI 'victim testimony' from beyond the grave
20250507 - AI computers aren't selling because users don't care
20250506 - OpenAI tries a new scheme to go for-profit
20250505 - UK backtracks on AI 'opt out' scheme for creative works
20250504 - Duolingo replaces contractors with AI, courses with slop
20250503 - Venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
20250502 - No, Microsoft did not state 'strong AI demand' in Q1 2025
20250501 - Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT
20250430 - Doctors personally liable if mandatory NHS AI transcriber gets it wrong
20250429 - Generative AI: no impact on earnings or hours in any occupation
20250428 - Google's military AI deals get DeepMind UK staff to start unionising
20250427 - Trump tariffs taking out AI data centres too
20250426 - Google's AI Overview directly takes readers away from its own source sites
20250425 - Why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
20250424 - California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questions
20250423 - OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.
20250422 - Amazon also slows down its data centre commitments
20250421 - OpenAI starts verifying corporate customers. Sometimes the verifier works!
20250420 - If you report a bug, Apple Intelligence AI reserves the right to train on your private dev logs
20250419 - AI bot scammers flood California community colleges
20250418 - 'Reasoning' AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it's just hallucinating again
20250417 - Amazon 'launched' its AI-powered Alexa+ in February — where is it?
20250416 - Cursor's AI-powered tech support bot vibe-codes a customer revolt
20250415 - The Røde NT-USB Mini is a lovely little podcast mic (2025)
20250415 - H&M's 'AI models' campaign makes impossible claims
20250414 - Andrew Cuomo writes his New York City housing plan with ChatGPT
20250413 - How to sell AI slop to the US military
20250412 - $119 Springer cancer book： 'As an AI language model ...'
20250411 - Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it's A Guy Instead
20250410 - a16z is raising a fresh $20 billion to keep the AI bubble pumping
20250409 - Single Pilot Operations： let's replace airline copilots with AI!
20250408 - Your humanoid robot servant： a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead)
20250407 - Confirmed： Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide
20250406 - How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023： not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)
20250405 - Capgemini： Fix your customer service — with chatbots!
20250404 - China massively overbuilds empty AI data centres
20250403 - Bonfire of the LLMs: Gartner forecasts 'extinction' for generative AI vendors
20250402 - OpenAI signs $40 billion deal with SoftBank! or maybe $30 billion, probably
20250401 - AI is failing in the enterprise over twice as fast in 2025 as it was in 2024
20250331 - UK government cuts funds for actually-working anti-cancer AI
20250330 - Elon Musk merges xAI and Twitter
20250329 - Google ScreenAI: make your Chromebook melt down!
20250328 - How can Tromsø, Norway shut down some schools? Let's ask the AI!
20250328 - CRYPTO INTERRUPT: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain!
20250327 - OpenAI's Studio Ghibli knockoffs are another distraction from its money troubles
20250326 - Music publishers' injunction against AI firm Anthropic fails
20250325 - AI sales startup 11x claims customers it doesn't have for software that doesn't work
20250324 - AI data centers: Microsoft steps on the gas
20250323 - Will WOMEN have more S*X with ROBOTS than MEN by 2025?
20250322 - Apple Intelligence: AI Siri crashes and burns, takes executive with it
20250321 - News Corp fills out tabloid papers with AI slop: NewsGPT
20250320 - Newspaper editorials from AI don't go down so well
20250319 - AI code tools: fix bugs? Let's add more bugs!
20250318 - 'Guys, I'm under attack': AI 'vibe coding' in the wild
20250317 - OpenAI brings you statistically average lit-fic
20250316 - LLMs are still really bad search engines
20250315 - Copilot for Games: an AI Clippy for your Xbox
20250314 - OpenAI asks US government for the moon on a stick because CHINA
20250313 - UK science minister cribs from ChatGPT
20250312 - Cursor's AI tool tells vibe coder: learn to code
20250311 - OpenAI's for-profit plan is in trouble
20250310 - Let's write our PR pitches with AI! Report spam, block sender
20250309 - Nature: peer review with AI and crypto
20250307 - Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview
20250306 - Ilya Sutskever gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has 'super intelligence'