Gudtrip: the AI agent vape pen with blockchain
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/21/gudtrip-the-ai-agent-vape-pen-with-blockchain/]
Gudtrip is, get this: [Gudtrip] Not just a vape. A connected earning device. Gudtrip combines premium cannabis, blockchain rewards, and AI-powered asset tools in one product. They somehow didn’t get quantum in there. You’d think we were in a bubble. If you’re a tech bro, then people just casually smoking their weed when they feel […]
Russia demands a sovereign AI
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/20/russia-demands-a-sovereign-ai/]
Russia is locking down the internet: [Reuters] Over the past week, mobile internet has been completely down every day in parts of central Moscow, St Petersburg and other major cities. Russia worries about Ukrainian attack drones using phone networks for navigation. They don’t switch off the phone networks. But they do block Telegram, which approximately […]
Computação Neural: seu chefe acha que a IA vai virar um PC
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/18/computacao-neural-seu-chefe-acha-que-a-ia-vai-virar-um-pc/]
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC” into Portuguese for Manual do Usuário. [Manual do Usuário]
#AIisGoingGreat #Sitenews #ManualdoUsurio #Portugues #RodrigoGhedin
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[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/16/redbubble-sale-on-now-get-your-pivot-to-ai-merch-cheap/]
The Pivot to AI store on Redbubble has a marvellous selection of stuff. T-shirts! Mugs! Stickers! Phone cases! Clocks! Pin badges! Fridge magnets! Coasters! Bedspreads! And until 20 April, it’s all 25% to 40% off! This is the mug I have my coffee out of every morning. Here’s the same mug in black. Here’s the […]
Maine bans new data centres until November 2027
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/15/maine-bans-new-data-centres-until-november-2027/]
Maine has passed a state-wide ban on new data centres over 20 megawatts until November 2027. [Maine State Legislature, PDF; The Hill] There aren’t a lot of data centres in Maine — but developers really want them. The cities don’t, though. Local bans include a six-month ban in Bangor, which passed unanimously on Monday. The […]
Russia also getting into the #AIIsGoingGreat facial recognition game:
Police at Moscow Station in St. Petersburg detained rock musician Dmitry Galyanskikh, frontman of the band Svoboda vazhnee mody (Freedom Is More Important Than Fashion), after a facial recognition system flagged him as Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Gordon.
Yet another #AIIsGoingGreat / shitbag cop crossover: In 2021, an Oklahoma woman was extradited to Maryland and held for months based on facial recognition tip, despite stating she had never been to Maryland and had witnesses to corroborate. She didn't learn until years later that it was based on a facial recognition match
Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/14/neural-computing-your-boss-thinks-the-ai-will-become-a-pc/]
Today’s preprint is “Neural Computers” from Meta and KAUST. This proposes a fabulous new computing paradigm — where an AI does all the work of a computer! You just tell the bot to do computery things and it simulates a computer to do them! In the fabulous future. [blog post; arXiv, PDF] I’ve had a […]
Today's #AIIsGoingGreat (HT @ai6yr*) 'the chatbot said it was not trying to replace my physician; the outputs were for educational purposes. “Think of me as a med school professor, not your doctor” … The bot said the best way to get an interpretation of my health data was just to “dump the raw data,” like clinical lab reports, and tell it what my goals were' - Makes Microsoft's "copilot is for entertainment only" look positively responsible!
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-new-ai-asked-for-my-raw-health-data-and-gave-me-terrible-advice/
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