Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/18/facebook-shutting-down-its-horizon-worlds-vr-metaverse/]
Meta, formerly Facebook, has a bee in its bonnet about AI and is spending as much money as it can. But it had another bee in its bonnet before this — the Metaverse! Virtual reality! Mark Zuckerberg loved the Metaverse so much he even changed Facebook’s name to Meta. The Metaverse’s flagship app was Horizon […]
AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/12/ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money/]
This week’s big headline is: “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation“. Uh huh. [Business Insider] The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an AI company … you get paid in AI tokens. The units that the AI vendor charges API access in. You have […]
Bonus #AIIsGoingGreat: After assuring us recent incidents were only coincidentally connected to AI*, Amazon "summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools"
In today's #AIIsGoingGreat (ht @platypus*), Microsoft security does a nice writeup of SEO bros abusing "summarize with AI" buttons to inject "memories" into AI assistants… and then goes on to offer mitigations like "be sure to hover links before you click them" and "regularly check your AI memories" … because if the last 30 years of infosec has taught us anything, it's that user vigilance is the first and best line of defense, right?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/10/ai-recommendation-poisoning/
That helpful “Summarize with AI” button? It might be secretly manipulating what your AI recommends. Microsoft security researchers have discovered a growing trend of AI memory poisoning attacks used for promotional purposes, a technique we call AI Recommendation Poisoning.
UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, and no AI
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/10/uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-and-no-ai/]
The UK announced its AI Opportunities Action Plan in January 2025. This would transform the UK into an AI country! Rocketing into the future! The plan was based on two reports in 2024 from the Tony Blair Institute, with lots of what looked like factual details about the UK industrial landscape — but which the […]
Block’s AI layoffs are fake too
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/09/blocks-ai-layoffs-are-fake-too/]
Twitter cofounder and ayahuasca beard weirdo Jack Dorsey has a company called Block that does a useful thing — CashApp — and a lot of stupid stuff with bitcoins and so on. On 26 February, Block announced a huge layoff — over 4,000 people, 40% of the company. Morale has been down at Block — […]
How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/06/how-much-water-do-the-data-centres-use-its-a-secret/]
The AI companies insist: we barely use water, hardly a drop! But we won’t tell you how much water we use. And we’ll take you to court to stop you from finding out. Google wants to build a new data centre in Roanoke in Virginia. They did the deal in June 2025. How much water […]
Prepare-se para a guerra: robôs de IA na cadeia de mortes
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/07/prepare-se-para-a-guerra-robos-de-ia-na-cadeia-de-mortes/]
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “Get your war on: AI chatbots in the kill chain” for Manual do Usuário — for all your Portuguese-speaking friends who might have ever thought Anthropic were pacifists. [Manual do Usuário]
#AIisGoingGreat #Sitenews #ManualdoUsurio #Portugues #RodrigoGhedin
Fedi nerds (including yours truly): I wouldn't let that slop anywhere near my hobby open source project
DOD: As planning for a potential strike in Iran was underway, Maven, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance … The AI tools also evaluate a strike after it is initiated
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AI works can’t be copyrighted or patented in the US
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/04/ai-works-cant-be-copyrighted-or-patented-in-the-us/]
On Monday, the US Supreme Court declined an appeal against a decision that AI-produced art could not be copyrighted. The earlier decision stands. [Reuters] This should be no surprise at all. This was a very weird and dumb copyright case which was always going to fail. The plaintiff even brought a similar AI patent case […]
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