Number go up!

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AI Is Draining Water From Areas That Need It Most https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence (2023) https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3

AI power demand rapidly escalating https://digiconomist.net/ai-power-demand-rapidly-escalating/

Artificial intelligence: Supply chain constraints and energy implications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435125001424

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Bitcoin’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently — bad excuses for Proof-of-Work (2018) https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/05/22/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work/

OpenAI signs $40 billion deal with SoftBank! or maybe $30 billion, probably https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/02/openai-signs-its-40-billion-deal-with-softbank-or-maybe-30-billion-probably/

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Everything was always ‘prompt injection.’

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Dark LLMs: The Growing Threat of Unaligned AI Models https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.10066
Novel Universal Bypass for All Major LLMs https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Series: Prompt injection https://simonwillison.net/series/prompt-injection/

Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/21/most-ai-chatbots-easily-tricked-into-giving-dangerous-responses-study-finds

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Elon Musk releases Grok-2 AI image generator for edgelords https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/15/elon-musk-releases-grok-2-ai-image-generator-for-edgelords/

Whoops! Facebook trained Llama AI model on pirate site LibGen, with Zuckerberg’s OK https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/10/whoops-facebook-trained-llama-ai-model-on-pirate-site-libgen-with-zuckerbergs-ok/

How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/

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Wikipedia: Common Crawl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl

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The downfall of A Guy Instead

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CORRECTION: Builder.AI got $450m, not £450m!

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Builder.ai: The wild ride of a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn https://www.ft.com/content/11afc46c-b435-489d-a9f1-134ad0c00d25

Chief of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai steps down https://www.ft.com/content/f8882c90-ef69-4a62-aecf-9d3725aca6b3

Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency https://www.ft.com/content/9fdb4e2b-93ea-436d-92e5-fa76ee786caa

Builder.ai front page (archive) http://archive.today/2025.05.21-150407/https://www.builder.ai/

Putting the AI into Builder: How Natasha streamlines your app project (archive) http://archive.today/2025.05.21-150613/https://www.builder.ai/how-it-works

Builder.ai Automates Path from User Story Direct to Working Code https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/04/10/2860706/0/en/Builder-ai-Automates-Path-from-User-Story-Direct-to-Working-Code.html

Microsoft takes another leap in AI race, joins with Builder.ai that helps anyone build apps effortlessly https://techfundingnews.com/microsoft-takes-another-leap-in-ai-race-joins-with-builder-ai-that-helps-anyone-build-apps-effortlessly/

AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy (2019) https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004

the dead GitHub theory

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Creating issues with Copilot on github.com is in public preview https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-creating-issues-with-copilot-on-github-com-is-in-public-preview/

GitHub Copilot coding agent in public preview https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-copilot-coding-agent-in-public-preview/

“Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories” https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

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If AI is so good at coding ... where are the open source contributions? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/

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95% right means 5% horribly wrong.

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England Peat Action Plan (2021) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/england-peat-action-plan

England’s peatlands mapped for first time in major step towards their recovery https://www.gov.uk/government/news/englands-peatlands-mapped-for-first-time-in-major-step-towards-their-recovery

AI4Peat — Innovative use of AI to map and restore our precious peatlands https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/19/ai4peat-innovative-use-of-ai-to-map-and-restore-our-precious-peatlands/

Natural England: Big Budgets, Bigger Headcounts — But Where’s the Delivery? https://www.moorlandassociation.org/post/natural-england-big-budgets-bigger-headcounts-but-where-s-the-delivery

Natural England Peat Map https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/natural-england-peat-map.426019/

A new peat map for England https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a-new-peat-map-for-england/

“So this week in the world of farm/environment/land management/ mapping has been ‘interesting’” https://bsky.app/profile/catframpton.bsky.social/post/3lpfowa55j22x

“The tree inventory map! That got rocks and trees confused in a few places and that was made using Al tech with on the ground data.” https://bsky.app/profile/catframpton.bsky.social/post/3lpfozidfsc2x

England Peat Map (NERR149) https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5075614867128320

Sanctions as a service

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Anthropic expert accused of using AI-fabricated source in copyright case https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-expert-accused-using-ai-fabricated-source-copyright-case-2025-05-13/

Declaration of Ivana Dukanovic (PDF) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.431519/gov.uscourts.cand.431519.371.0.pdf

Case docket: Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC (5:24-cv-03811) https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68889092/concord-music-group-inc-v-anthropic-pbc/

Exclusive: Legal startup Harvey AI in talks to raise funding at $5 billion valuation https://www.reuters.com/technology/legal-startup-harvey-ai-talks-raise-funding-5-billion-valuation-2025-05-14/

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Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/06/03/crypto-collapse-get-in-loser-were-pivoting-to-ai/

Music publishers’ injunction against AI firm Anthropic fails https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/26/music-publishers-injunction-against-ai-firm-anthropic-fails/

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If it sounds too good to be true ...

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Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation (PDF) https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17866

Will AI Help or Hurt Workers? One 26-Year-Old Found an Unexpected Answer https://www.wsj.com/economy/will-ai-help-hurt-workers-income-productivity-5928a389

MIT: Assuring an accurate research record https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record

MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092

“Some initial thoughts. The original paper was too good to be true in many ways.” https://x.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/1923394446562898170

ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION: Corning Incorporated v. Aidan Toner-Rodgers (PDF) https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/pdf/2025/d2025-0410.pdf

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Anthropic, Apollo astounded to find a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/19/anthropic-and-apollo-astounded-to-find-that-a-chatbot-will-lie-to-you-if-you-tell-it-to-lie-to-you/

AI is the new blockchain.

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures $200 Billion in New U.S.-UAE Deals and Accelerates Previously Committed $1.4 Trillion UAE Investment https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-200-billion-in-new-u-s-uae-deals-and-accelerates-previously-committed-1-4-trillion-uae-investment/

Trump announces $200 billion in deals during UAE visit, AI agreement signed https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-heads-uae-it-hopes-advance-ai-ambitions-2025-05-15/

US and UAE to build vast AI data centre in Abu Dhabi https://www.ft.com/content/4708c7a6-a26f-45a9-9a4f-25a9af4167df

Dubai Blockchain Strategy https://www.digitaldubai.ae/initiatives/blockchain

IBM: How Dubai is Becoming the Blockchain Capital of the World https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-blockchain?item=30730