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This too shall pass https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/28/the-chinese-ai-crash-is-not-the-end-but-it-is-cheering/ - blog post Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set your own delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips and non-slop sponsorship offers: [email protected] Social media: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy Sources: In China, the AI bubble has already burst https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/ Chinese Stocks Turn Biggest Losers as Global AI Trade Stumbles https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-17/chinese-stocks-turn-biggest-losers-as-global-ai-trade-stumbles Moonshot Said to Eye Early 2027 IPO After Value Hits $50 Billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-06/moonshot-said-to-eye-early-2027-ipo-after-value-hits-50-billion China Moves to Prop Up Stocks With Selling Curbs, Buybacks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-16/china-moves-to-prop-up-stock-market-with-selling-curbs-buybacks Extras: October supporter read (Patreon) https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/posts/october-read-get-173439617 Previously on Pivot to AI: China tries to kickstart a bubble in humanoid robots https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/31/china-tries-to-kickstart-a-bubble-in-humanoid-robots/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OL4GiBPHLI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
FINAL final (1) USE THIS ONE.docx.pdf Written by Amy Castor and David Gerard https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/27/anthropic-files-its-ipo-but-all-the-key-numbers-are-missing/ - blog post Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set your own delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips and non-slop sponsorship offers: [email protected] Social media: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy Sources: Form S-1 Registration Statement: Anthropic, PBC https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm Extras: October supporter read (Patreon) https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/posts/october-read-get-173439617 Previously on Pivot to AI: 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/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAJIew3FAJ8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say 'model collapse' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/06/openai-chatgpt-goes-goblin-mode-let-none-say-model-collapse/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-E6oSeIMLw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/28/the-spacex-ipo-works-like-a-crypto-fraud-but-with-ai/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkYiquKR0tA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VYK0-Q-3o&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
or pay one MILLION dollars https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/26/anthropic-ai-safety-bill-let-us-kill-50-people-but-not-51/ - blog post Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set your own delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Tntor 5000mAh Thin Power Bank https://link.amazon/B0hr3AQit Send in your story tips and non-slop sponsorship offers: [email protected] Social media: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy Sources: Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/anthropic-ai-safety-01124654 Discussion Draft / Privileged & Confidential / Attorney Work Product (PDF, archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20261026181523/https://media.licdn.com/dms/document/media/v2/D561FAQE0a0R-_eZ1Gg/feedshare-document-sanitized-pdf/B56aFRDQuoIEA8-/0/1792361173600?e=1793646000&v=beta&t=6NP3UhCDro3qHUxF1gyzlvEHFSaDOLV4rq92fFIG7M4 AI & Tech Brief: Anthropic's leaked bill https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-intelligence/ai-tech-brief/2026/10/19/ai-tech-brief-anthropics-leaked-bill/ Anthropic's Advanced AI Framework (PDF) https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/files/4zrzovbb/website/0a58d567024a8b448ff15158ebc3625328dfcc1f.pdf Why Anthropic's draft bill sets $1 billion threshold for AI risk https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/anthropic-bill-ai-risk-threshold-01128458 Cyberpunk 2077: All Skippy Interactions Dialogue (Skippy The Talking Gun) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSMK7UR1P44&t=253s&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Extras: Tech Report: Vibe coding will bankrupt businesses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLOzJtGVpyM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA October supporter read (Patreon) https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/posts/october-read-get-173439617 Previously on Pivot to AI: Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/09/claude-mythos-the-ai-hacking-model-too-good-to-release-allegedly/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1DC-gNizQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Mythos is just too powerful? OK, we'll ban it then https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/29/mythos-is-just-too-powerful-ok-well-ban-it-then/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dybon_41uI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
Robocop plays Doom https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/23/we-put-human-neurons-into-a-computer-ai-will-surely-follow/ - blog post Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set your own delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Get a horse shirt: Black Percheron by Rose Gerard https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/22329712 Send in your story tips and non-slop sponsorship offers: [email protected] Social media: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy Sources: In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2822%2900806-6 Biocomputer with live neurons brought to life through art and cloud https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/7947/Biocomputer-with-live-neurons-brought-to-life Human Brain Cells on a Chip for Sale: World-first biocomputing platform hits the market https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM on a CL1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRV8fSw6HaE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517389-human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week/ A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried? https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/16/petri-dish-brain-cells-playing-doom-cortical-labs NUS Medicine, DayOne and Cortical Labs Unveil Biological Data Center Prototype in Singapore https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/news/nus-medicine-dayone-and-cortical-labs-unveil-biological-data-center-prototype-in-singapore/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
Anthropic spook themselves again https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/22/ai-will-hack-all-the-tvs-by-the-end-of-2026-or-not/ - blog post Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set your own delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Get a horse shirt: Black Percheron by Rose Gerard https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/22329712 Send in your story tips and non-slop sponsorship offers: [email protected] Social media: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy Sources: AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai What are self-replicating 'AI worms', and why is Anthropic worried about them? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/18/anthropic-ai-worm-worries AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03811 AI could self-replicate on home devices within 'months', Anthropic says https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/13/ai-could-self-replicate-on-home-devices-within-months-anthropic-says Extras: AI Delusion with David Gerard https://www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/ai-delusion-with-david-gerard/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA



