Keep the party pumping! Just that little bit longer!

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Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/19/nvidias-ai-empire-a-look-at-its-top-startup-investments/
How NVIDIA Fuels the AI Revolution With Investments in Game Changers and Market Makers https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-investments/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

Is this thing on? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/06/22/hello-world/
Cash incinerator OpenAI secures its $6.6 billion lifeline — ‘in the spirit of a donation’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/03/cash-incinerator-openai-secures-its-6-6-billion-lifeline-in-the-spirit-of-a-donation/
Nvidia primes the pump, puts $1b of pocket change into AI startups https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/04/nvidia-primes-the-pump-puts-1b-of-pocket-change-into-ai-startups/

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Et tu, Brute?
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HERE IS THE YOUTUBE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDkkUdyxkek&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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Aron Peterson https://www.linkedin.com/in/shokuninstudio/
Shokunin Studio https://www.shokunin.studio/about
Day 1 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7339248275910275072-4i1x/
Day 2 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7339570684861308928-g5of/
Day 3 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7339930110961111040-fYNz/
Day 4 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7340330459559604224-ZjnB/
Day 5 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7340658175420911617-lfCj/
Day 6 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7341064216885288960-KQJ8/
Day 7 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7341442000832868352-i5JP/

Jerry Maguire clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOpKJec5css&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
Collateral clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEFPcljAXgs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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oh no, spending actual money!

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OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Money From Saudi Arabia, Indian Investors https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discussed-raising-money-saudi-arabia-indian-investors
Meta in Talks to Hire AI Investors Friedman and Gross, Partially Buy Out Their Venture Fund https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-talks-hire-former-github-ceo-nat-friedman-daniel-gross-join-ai-efforts

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Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-release-anything-until-he-has-super-intelligence/
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OpenAI signs its $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/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aP1zUUcmjk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/10/a16z-raising-fresh-20b-for-ai-bubble-investments/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7a1-6MU3QA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSnLt6Knbs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
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/
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what’s a bit of blood money, eh

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Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-org/generative-ai-accelerator-cohort-2025/
“We’re so excited to be one of the organizations selected for this @Googleorg program!” https://x.com/inaturalist/status/1932095273549083074
What is this — iNaturalist and generative AI? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/1
iNaturalist receives grant to improve species suggestions https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions
Why iNaturalist Users Freaked Out over a Google AI Grant https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-ai-grant-to-inaturalist-prompts-community-outcry/
“Hi again all, please know we’re reading every comment and having a lot of discussions on our end.” https://x.com/inaturalist/status/1932897302433444302

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where you gonna go? SAP? Yeah, didn’t think so

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Introducing Agentforce 2.0: The Digital Labor Platform for Building a Limitless Workforce https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2024/12/17/agentforce-2-0-announcement/
“The future of customer support and service is here!” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcbenioff_agentforce-activity-7269552099120562178-IRGH/
Agentforce Is Now Available on Salesforce Help: But Is It Actually Helpful? https://www.salesforceben.com/agentforce-is-now-available-on-salesforce-help-but-is-it-actually-helpful/
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Convergence.ai https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-convergence-ai/
CRMArena-Pro: Holistic Assessment of LLM Agents Across Diverse Business Scenarios and Interactions (PDF) https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18878
Updated Product Packaging and Pricing Offer New AI Capabilities and More Ways to Scale AI Throughout Every Organization https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/pricing-update-2025/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

AI agents mean Salesforce won’t hire software engineers in 2025, apparently https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/12/ai-agents-mean-salesforce-wont-hire-software-engineers-in-2025-apparently/

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also, vibe coding

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OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-and-microsoft-tensions-are-reaching-a-boiling-point-4981c44f

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Sam Altman: AI agents will totally replace your employees any year now! Also, ChatGPT Pro is losing money https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/06/sam-altman-ai-agents-will-totally-replace-your-employees-any-year-now-also-chatgpt-pro-is-losing-money/

OpenAI signs its $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
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aP1zUUcmjk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

OpenAI tries a new scheme to go for-profit — but Elon Musk isn’t convinced https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/06/openai-tries-a-new-scheme-to-go-for-profit-but-elon-musk-isnt-convinced/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHB-7RJE9QU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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‘consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels’

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

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Everything is prompt injection
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Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot https://www.aim.security/lp/aim-labs-echoleak-blogpost

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You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/22/you-cant-feed-generative-ai-on-bad-data-then-filter-it-for-only-good-data/
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