Pivot to AI
by David Gerard
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20261112 - Jensen Huang resigns: the end of the affair
20261112 - Jensen Huang resigns: the end of the affair
About this podcast
The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.
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- 20261112 - Jensen Huang resigns: the end of the affair · 6 min(so to speak) • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard • Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 • Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set your own delivery postcode to…
- 20261111 - 'But the AI is super good at updating code!' Well, no, it isn't · 6 min'management started quietly asking us to write more of it ourselves again' • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard • Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 • Buy us nice useful…
- 20261110 - Jensen Huang: The Spy Who Shagged Me (allegedly) · 8 minand everyone's known it since 2025 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/10/jensen-huang-the-spy-who-shagged-me-allegedly/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard •…
- 20261109 - The Ethereum Foundation is officially a corporate suicide cult · 11 minNow with Nazis! by Amy Castor and David Gerard https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2026/11/10/the-ethereum-foundation-is-officially-a-corporate-suicide-cult/ - blog post CONTENT…
- 20261106 - Tech stocks crash, and so do data center loans · 7 minMagic still doesn't happen written by Amy Castor and David Gerard https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/06/tech-stocks-crash-and-so-do-data-centre-loans/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261105 - Sam Altman wants your RAM, there are Compute Campuses to build · 5 minthe chatbot will alter physics by Amy Castor and David Gerard https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/05/sam-altman-wants-your-ram-there-are-compute-campuses-to-build/ - blog post •…
- 20261104 - Elon Musk admits Grok Bot costs too much to serve · 6 minsaying the costs part out loud written by Amy Castor and David Gerard https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/04/elon-musk-admits-grok-bot-costs-too-much-to-serve/ - blog post •…
- 20261103 - Google cuts off search if schools block AI · 4 minMonopoly abuse? No such thing for us https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/03/google-cuts-off-search-if-schools-block-ai/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard •…
- 20261102 - Claude Code official Cursor extension gets malware back door · 5 minSigning official extensions is not fast moving enough https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/02/claude-code-official-cursor-extension-gets-malware-back-door/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261030 - Proton Mail goes full AI slop, Tuta starts going AI slop · 12 minYour meal is 99% not sewage! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/30/proton-mail-goes-full-ai-slop-tuta-starts-going-slop/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard…
- 20261029 - AI Overview damages Google ad revenue, stock crashes 12% · 6 minAI search may be worse, but it also makes less money https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/29/ai-overview-damages-google-ad-revenue-stock-crashes-12/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261028 - The Chinese AI crash is not the end, but it is cheering · 5 minThis too shall pass https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/28/the-chinese-ai-crash-is-not-the-end-but-it-is-cheering/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard •…
- 20261027 - Anthropic files its 'IPO,' but all the key numbers are missing · 13 minFINAL final (1) USE THIS ONE.docx.pdf Written by Amy Castor and David Gerard https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/27/anthropic-files-its-ipo-but-all-the-key-numbers-are-missing/…
- 20261026 - Anthropic AI safety bill: let us kill 50 people, but not 51 · 7 minor pay one MILLION dollars https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/26/anthropic-ai-safety-bill-let-us-kill-50-people-but-not-51/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261023 - We put human neurons into a computer! AI will surely follow · 7 minRobocop plays Doom https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/23/we-put-human-neurons-into-a-computer-ai-will-surely-follow/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard •…
- 20261022 - AI will HACK ALL THE TVs by the end of 2026! Or not · 8 minAnthropic spook themselves again https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/22/ai-will-hack-all-the-tvs-by-the-end-of-2026-or-not/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261020 - Facebook tries to grab all news publisher website content for training for free · 5 min'Meta cannot simply write itself permission to take that work' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/20/facebook-tries-to-grab-all-news-publisher-website-content-for-training-for-free/…
- 20261019 - CoreWeave founders cash out, the rest is mop-up · 5 minA successfully concluded blowoff https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/19/coreweave-founders-cash-out-the-rest-is-mop-up/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard •…
- 20261016 - US Third Circuit: AI training not fair use after all · 5 minAnthropic on tenterhooks https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/16/us-third-circuit-ai-training-not-fair-use-after-all/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard •…
- 20261015 - Epic Games goes full vibe code: MAXIMUM AI ACCELERATION · 5 min'No more hand-written code' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/15/epic-games-goes-full-vibe-code-maximum-ai-acceleration/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard…
- 20261014 - Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits · 14 min'The kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world'…
- 20261013 - The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don't work · 5 minthe return of the SaaSpocalypse https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/13/the-ai-photoshop-clones-interface-mockups-that-dont-work/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261012 - AI game demo is going broke on just 430 players · 5 minall my apes gone https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/12/ai-game-demo-is-going-broke-on-just-430-players/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard • Ko-Fi…
- 20261009 - Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' toward Claude · 5 minUs abusing our customers is different, you understand https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-bans-abusive-or-cruel-behavior-toward-claude/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261008 - SpaceX to send Nvidia chips 'somewhere in the universe' · 5 minpivoting from space https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/08/spacex-to-send-nvidia-chips-somewhere-in-the-universe/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard • Ko-Fi…
- 20261007 - Mythos: not the magical AI hacking tool after all · 7 min'scraped the web and found the bugs' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/07/mythos-not-the-magical-ai-hacking-tool-after-all/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261006 - But that's a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to make · 5 min'in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/06/some-bad-things-may-happen-to-you-but-thats-a-sacrifice-s…
- 20261005 - Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no · 8 min'Algorithms lack the spark of humanity' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/05/anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20261002 - Kat Jones: how Scotland is winning against the data centres · 41 minAPRS and helping local communities fight back Transcript for patrons https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/posts/kat-jones-aprs-171236257 • APRS https://aprs.scot/ • APRS in…
- 20261001 - Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers · 7 minwhen you can't fiddle the numbers any more https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260930 - New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk · 7 minwhat if we made a computer you just couldn't rely on https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/30/new-ai-jailbreak-get-your-chatbot-drunk/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260929 - AI surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks · 4 mineven the AI that works doesn't work https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/29/ai-police-surveillance-trial-costs-320k-catches-zero-crooks/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260928 - Meta's Muse AI agent: a hilarious security disaster · 7 min'the only form that this kind of product can take is a botnet factory' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/28/metas-muse-ai-agent-a-hilarious-security-disaster/ - blog post •…
- 20260925 - Oracle invokes 'force majeure' on OpenAI data centre contract · 5 minOracle and Blue Owl are going just great https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/25/oracle-invokes-force-majeure-on-openai-data-centre-contract/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260924 - OpenAI hacks Australian government health data · 5 minSam Altman: 'whoops sorry lol' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/24/openai-hacks-australian-government-health-data/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard •…
- 20260923 - Trump decrees: Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence · 5 minWile E. Basilisk, Super Intelligence https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/23/trump-decrees-artificial-intelligence-is-now-super-intelligence/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260922 - US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucination · 5 minthe existential risk from AI: stupid people https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/22/us-nearly-attacks-chinese-ship-based-on-ai-hallucination/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260921 - When the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices · 4 minTobias Lütke from Shopify blames the humans in the loop https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/21/tobias-lutke-shopify-when-the-ai-slop-is-bad-enough-the-ai-ceo-notices/ - blog post •…
- 20260918 - Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause · 4 minScottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/18/scottish-parliament-passes-ai-data-centre-pause/ - blog post No to a full moratorium •…
- 20260917 - AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders · 4 minKeep the home fires from burning https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/17/ai-data-centre-fires-overwhelm-emergency-responders/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260916 - ChatGPT ads: media agencies are 'underwhelmed' · 5 minads for people who block ads https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/16/chatgpt-ads-media-agencies-are-underwhelmed/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard • Ko-Fi…
- 20260915 - Jensen claims 100× returns on Nvidia's circular financing · 7 minNot a Ponzi scheme https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/15/jensen-claims-100x-returns-on-nvidias-circular-financing/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard •…
- 20260914 - AI slowdown: The only AI guardrails you need are Trump, apparently · 8 minwe're not running out of money, no no https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/14/9023/ - blog post • Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard • Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 •…
- 20260911 - Valerie Veatch: Ghost in the Machine: AI as eugenics · 41 minComing to PBS Monday 14 September! Ghost in the Machine https://notaidoc.com/ Rent online at Kinema https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p Interview transcript for…
- 20260910 - Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign · 6 minto keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/10/jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign/ - blog post •…
- 20260909 - Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you · 6 minMicrosoft literally titled the blog post 'Vibe Gaming' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/09/microsoft-vibe-gaming-an-ai-to-play-your-games-for-you/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260908 - Students who don't use AI are ahead on every measure · 4 min'equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-are-ahead-on-every-measure/ - blog post •…
- 20260907 - AI data centre finance: building a bigger and bigger bomb · 8 minwhen half of economic "growth" is fake https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/07/ai-data-centre-finance-building-a-bigger-and-bigger-bomb/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260904 - OpenAI: GPT-6 is totally Artificial General Intelligence, guys · 6 minNever mind the IPO, here's the AGI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/04/openai-gpt-6-is-totally-artificial-general-intelligence-guys/ - blog post • Patreon…
- 20260903 - UK AI medical transcription is dangerous and doesn't work · 5 minbut it sure saves on staff! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/ - blog post • Patreon…
