how does this keep happening

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/27/copilot-insecure-and-unhelpful-but-oh-those-influencers/ - blog post

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• Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-bug-causes-copilot-to-summarize-confidential-emails/
• Microsoft 365 Alert – Service Degradation – Power BI – Users' email messages with a confidential label applied are being incorrectly processed by Microsoft 365 Copilot chat – RESOLVED https://support.nhs.net/2025/04/microsoft-365-alert-service-degradation-power-bi-users-email-messages-with-a-confidential-label-applied-are-being-incorrectly-processed-by-microsoft-365-copilot-chat/
• Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won't Tell You https://pistachioapp.com/blog/copilot-broke-your-audit-log
• Living off Microsoft Copilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6P288i2PE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• An Evaluation of DWP's Microsoft 365 Copilot Trial https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/an-evaluation-of-dwps-microsoft-copilot-365-trial/an-evaluation-of-dwps-microsoft-365-copilot-trial
• Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html
• About Pivot to AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/about/

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• UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/15/uk-government-productivity-not-enhanced-by-copilot-ai/
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The AI data centre business is solid, honest

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/26/blue-owl-wont-give-your-money-back-this-is-fine/ - blog post

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• Meta Announces Joint Venture with Funds Managed by Blue Owl Capital to Develop Hyperion Data Center https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2025/Meta-Announces-Joint-Venture-with-Funds-Managed-by-Blue-Owl-Capital-to-Develop-Hyperion-Data-Center/default.aspx
• Blue Owl's Woes Expose Private Credit Risks for Retail Investors https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/blue-owl-redemption-halt-stirs-private-credit-unease
• Certain Blue Owl BDCs to Sell $1.4 Billion of Assets to Institutional Investors https://www.blueowl.com/news/certain-blue-owl-bdcs-sell-14-billion-assets-institutional-investors
• Blue Owl private credit fund merger leaves some investors facing 20% hit https://www.ft.com/content/8c953f6d-3d30-4657-bda1-ba4c2911c8d8
• Blue Owl Anxiety Rattles $1.8 Trillion Private Credit Market https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-22/blue-owl-redemptions-halt-intensifies-private-credit-fears
• Blue Owl Eyes New Deals as It Pushes Deeper Into AI Boom https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blue-owl-eyes-new-deals-pushes-deeper-ai-boom

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• SaaSpocalypse: investors overspend badly on software companies and blame AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/12/saaspocalypse-investors-overspend-badly-on-software-companies-and-blame-ai/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DYFmohEZHw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• The AI Scare Trade — the all-purpose excuse for number go down https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/17/the-ai-scare-trade-the-all-purpose-excuse-for-number-go-down/
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'broken slop generators'

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/25/accenture-youre-promoted-or-fired-on-using-the-ai/ - blog post

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• Accenture Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial Results: Conference Call Transcript (PDF) https://investor.accenture.com/~/media/Files/A/Accenture-IR-V3/quarterly-earnings/2025/q4-fy-25/accenture-fourth-quarter-fiscal-2025-conference-call-transcript.pdf
• $ACN Accenture Q4 2025 Earnings Conference Call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKkVeCvyvsw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• Accenture to 'exit' staff who cannot be retrained for age of AI https://www.ft.com/content/a74f8564-ed5a-42e9-8fb3-d2bddb2b8675
• Accenture combats AI refuseniks by linking promotions to log-ins https://www.ft.com/content/ac672f97-a603-4c56-afa3-4a5273d45674
• Accenture Acquires Advanced AI Technology to Help Communications Companies Accelerate Autonomous Network Journeys https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2026/accenture-acquires-advanced-ai-technology-to-help-communications-companies-accelerate-autonomous-network-journeys
• RØDE Wireless ME https://amzn.to/46tMih3 (UK) https://amzn.to/4rDHXAo (US)

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STOP, OPENCLAW!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/24/metas-director-of-ai-alignment-falls-for-openclaw/ - blog post

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• Summer Yue https://www.linkedin.com/in/yutingyue/
• Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw "confirm before acting" and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363
• 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-had-to-run-to-my-mac-mini-like-i-was-defusing-a-bomb-openclaw-ai-chose-to-speedrun-deleting-meta-ai-safety-directors-inbox-due-to-a-rookie-error/

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/
• Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/13/meta-buys-into-scale-ai-in-the-quest-for-fresh-data/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ1DusIXIhw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/17/ai-doomsday-and-ai-heaven-live-forever-in-ai-god/
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'eliminate the noise introduced by the AI hype'

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/23/bet-against-the-bubble-goldman-sachs-non-ai-stock-index/ - blog post

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• Exclusive: Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/ai-goldman-sachs-stocks-index
• SPXT: S&P 500 Ex-Technology ETF https://www.proshares.com/our-etfs/strategic/spxt

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'user error, not AI error,' Amazon said

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/20/amazon-web-services-vibe-codes-itself-an-outage-or-two/ - blog post

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• Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d

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The most random number is 7

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/19/ai-vibe-generates-the-same-random-passwords-over-and-over/ - blog post

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• Deterministic or probabilistic? The psychology of LLMs as random number generators (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.19965
• The predominance of seven and the apparent spontaneity of numerical choices (1976) https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1977-00345-001
• Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design https://www.irregular.com/publications/vibe-password-generation
• Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/
• 1Password generator: https://1password.com/password-generator
• LastPass generator: https://www.lastpass.com/features/password-generator

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Aron Peterson debunks the hits for you

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/18/seedances-generated-ai-cruise-pitt-demo-was-a-green-screen-and-face-swap/ - blog post

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• This was a 2 line prompt in seedance 2 https://x.com/RuairiRobinson/status/2021394940757209134
• Hollywood studios take aim at 'ultra-realistic' AI video tool https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd9nllng22o
• Is it all over for filmmakers? https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/18/is-it-all-over-for-filmmakers
• The Seedance Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt fight scene: how was it really made? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKDWuFSy9DA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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Business can't compete if it has to think up new excuses

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/17/the-ai-scare-trade-the-all-purpose-excuse-for-number-go-down/ - blog post

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• Commercial real estate share slide accelerates in latest sell-off driven by AI fears https://www.ft.com/content/90e8ed28-e44b-48da-b06c-a54bc71f053a
• Logistics stocks sink as AI fear trade finds latest victim https://financialpost.com/transportation/logistics-stocks-sink-ai-fear-trade
• AI paranoia grips the City as chatbots take over https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/13/ai-paranoia-grips-the-city-as-chatbots-take-over/
• You've put AI everywhere! But can you insure against AI going wrong? https://www.thestack.technology/youve-put-ai-everywhere-but-can-you-insure-against-ai-going-wrong/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHeTXoORzE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• SaaSpocalypse: investors overspend badly on software companies and blame AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/12/saaspocalypse-investors-overspend-badly-on-software-companies-and-blame-ai/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DYFmohEZHw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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AI is crypto part two

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/ - blog post

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• Bitcoin: It can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Bitcoin-It-can-t-be-that-stupid-you-must-be-explaining-it-wrong-by-pivot-to-ai/170130194.IJ6L0

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Sources:

• [PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T#31132 https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
• Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/3bc0a780d25bab8cbd6bfd9ce4d27c27ee1f7ce2
• When AI agents attack: A bot's argument over automated coding gets personal (archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
• Journalistic standards? https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/#post-44249589
• Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
• Sorry all this is my fault https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p hmm, seems the owner of this bot that harassed the matplotlib maintainer is a crypto bro https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116065540537300456
• Shell Shock! Help Me Get Clawing! https://www.moltbook.com/post/87fa7a31-e139-4a2d-954f-89e782134d8f
• Token: Crabby Rathbun (Rathbun) https://basescan.org/token/0x3ed514d115c6ec0f1b3d48dfcb3878f7a94a1ba3?a=0xc376ecff7b4b82c8b0a53a3043a0bc0b94c61ac3
• so now the question is — who are these accounts? https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116065738200671990

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Moltbot/Clawdbot/OpenClaw: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn't work https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/28/moltbot-clawdbot-an-expensive-and-insecure-ai-agent-that-doesnt-work/
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