I was only following the bot's orders

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• Today, we are unleashing GenAi.mil https://x.com/SecWar/status/1998408545591578972
• The War Department Unleashes AI on New GenAI.mil Platform https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4354916/the-war-department-unleashes-ai-on-new-genaimil-platform/
• Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office Selects Google Cloud's AI to Power GenAI.mil https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2025-12-09-Chief-Digital-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Office-Selects-Google-Clouds-AI-to-Power-GenAI-mil
• SecDefGPT https://www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/1pijkwc/secdefgpt/

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Microsoft denies everything! Except the actual claim

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• Microsoft Lowers Sales Staff's Growth Targets For Newer AI Software https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-lowers-ai-software-sales-quotas-customers-resist-newer-products
• Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/
• Microsoft denies report of lowering targets for AI software sales growth https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-lowers-ai-software-sales-quota-customers-resist-new-products-2025-12-03/

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• Microsoft: forget your IT department, use Copilot at work anyway! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/06/microsoft-forget-your-it-department-use-copilot-at-work-anyway/
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Adobe Express: 'Real sexy boss, like you asked'

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• Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kids-school-issued-ipad-chromebook-los-angeles-rcna245624
• This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent https://bsky.app/profile/lbyock.bsky.social/post/3m7bhp2ccts23
• Guidelines for the Authorized Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for District Employees, Students, and Associated Persons (PDF) https://www.lausd.org/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/21/BUL-151113_0_Guidelines_for_the_Authorized_Use_of_Artificial_Intelligence_for_District.pdf

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• LA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at risk https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/10/la-school-chatbot-vendor-goes-bust-student-data-at-risk/
• CEO of LA school chatbot vendor AllHere arrested for fraud https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/20/ceo-of-la-school-district-chatbot-vendor-allhere-arrested-for-fraud/

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'a small UI experiment'

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• Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/835839/google-discover-ai-headlines-clickbait-nonsense
• Google's toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don't blame me for clickbait like 'BG3 players exploit children' https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/
• Valve's Steam Machine looks like a console, but don't expect it to be priced like one https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/valves-steam-machine-looks-like-a-console-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-priced-like-one/
• Google's AI news bot is still confused but no longer replacing our headlines https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/838354/googles-ai-news-bot-is-still-confused-but-no-longer-replacing-our-headlines

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Don't use AI to summarize documents — it's worse than humans in every way https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/dont-use-ai-to-summarize-documents-its-worse-than-humans-in-every-way/
• Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/15/apple-intelligence-ai-mangles-headlines-so-badly-the-bbc-officially-complains/
• Newspaper AI roundup: Guardian AI strike-breaking, Apple switches off bad summaries, WaPo wants to go AI, AFP, Axios https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/19/newspaper-ai-roundup-guardian-ai-strike-breaking-apple-switches-off-bad-summaries-wapo-wants-to-go-ai-afp-axios/

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Micron makes 'difficult decision' to take the dumptrucks full of money

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• Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
• DDR4-3200 2x8GB (Average price in USD over last 18 months) https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
• Solid State Drive : M.2 NVME 1 TB (Average price in USD over last 18 months) https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/#storage.ssdm2nvme.1000
• The AI frenzy is driving a memory chip supply crisis https://www.reuters.com/world/china/ai-frenzy-is-driving-new-global-supply-chain-crisis-2025-12-03/

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• AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/23/ai-winter-is-in-the-air-but-we-think-the-ai-bubble-keeps-going-until-2027/
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'built for user trust'

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• Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of my whole drive https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/
• Antigravity Just Deleting/Corrupting Files? https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1p3htvu/antigravity_just_deletingcorrupting_files/
• Beware of using Antigravity!!! https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1p1zdz7/beware_of_using_antigravity/
• Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/google_antigravity_wipes_d_drive/
• Welcome to Google Antigravity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCBA-pBgt0
• Google Antigravity's Turbo mode erased my drive partition?! Really, the 'smartest' AI? [Video Proof] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBK1vYAVlA

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Your 'cognitive sparring partner'

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• Use of AI 'tech stacks' driving demand for lawyers https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/use-of-ai-tech-stacks-driving-demand-for-lawyers-20251130-p5njjt
• 2025 Generative AI in Professional Services Report (PDF) https://www.thomsonreuters.com/content/dam/ewp-m/documents/thomsonreuters/en/pdf/reports/2025-generative-ai-in-professional-services-report-tr5433489-rgb.pdf

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Science fiction is fiction

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• Data centres in space? Jeff Bezos says it's possible https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/data-centres-space-jeff-bezos-thinks-its-possible-2025-10-03/
• Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/
• Starcloud-1 satellite reaches space, with Nvidia H100 GPU now operating in orbit https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/starcloud-1-satellite-reaches-space-with-nvidia-h100-gpu-now-operating-in-orbit/
• Data centers gobble Earth's resources. What if we took them to space instead? https://grist.org/climate-energy/data-centers-gobble-earths-resources-what-if-we-took-them-to-space-instead/
• Why we should train AI in space (PDF) https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf Starcloud-2 https://www.starcloud.com/starcloud-2
• Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
• Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/
• Microsoft scrapped its 'Project Natick' underwater data center trial — here's why it was never going to work https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-scrapped-its-project-natick-underwater-data-center-trial-heres-why-it-was-never-going-to-work

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• Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/data-center-watch-worries-that-anti-ai-activism-is-working/
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Factor Fexcectorn on the autism bicycle

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• Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24662-9
• Open Access Fees and Funding https://www.nature.com/srep/open-access
• Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town https://nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the-autism-bicycle-to-retraction

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Just as Call of Duty's AI slop causes refunds

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• AI Content on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/3862463747997849618
• 「ゲーム会社は"ゲーム"で語るべき」――『ARC Raiders』も快調なNexonのCEO イ・ジョンホン氏に直撃取材。リリースを控える期待作や日本のゲーマーに向けた戦略を訊いた https://www.gamespark.jp/article/2025/11/10/159294.html
• As the CEO of Arc Raiders publisher Nexon says AI is everywhere, game devs call 'BS' https://www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-nexon-ai-in-game-development-strange-scaffold/
• Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3606480/Call_of_Duty_Black_Ops_7/
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Is The Worst Reviewed Game In The Series https://www.thegamer.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-cod-bo7-worst-reviewed-entry-below-modern-warfare-3-metacritic/
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 European launch sales are 63% down over Battlefield 6 https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-european
• Agreed. The AI tag is relevant to art exhibits for authorship disclosure https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1993687499621728312
• Black Ops 7 is a Failure to be Celebrated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6udz8iWqpmQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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• Game studios love AI! The gamers ... hate it https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/29/game-studios-love-ai-the-gamers-hate-it/
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