The AI Fix

In episode 100 of The AI Fix, Mark is joined by Corey Noles for a milestone episode devoted to the future of AI, how it will change our lives, and whether it will keep us as pets or use us as batteries.

Also in this episode, another tech companies fires a bunch of staff; OpenAI and Anthropic announce mega Wall Street joint ventures within minutes of each other; Anthropic rents Elon's GPUs; and an imaginary fridge takes a gun to a grocery store.

Episode links:

• Coinbase didn't just lay off 14% of its staff due to AI. It replaced managers with 'player-coaches' and turned its org chart upside down.
• OpenAI Finalizes $10 Billion Joint Venture With PE Firms to Deploy AI.
• Anthropic, Goldman and others launch $1.5 billion AI venture.
• Anthropic, SpaceX announce compute deal, includes space development.
• Kimi K2.6 Leads OpenRouter with 1.88T Tokens.

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In episode 99 of The AI Fix, guest host Lianne Potter explores the disturbing dark side of AI companions, while Mark meets Talkie, a chatbot trapped in 1930.

Also in this episode: Mark takes photos at the end of the world; Lianne builds an incel detector; a bizarre sneaker startup pivot; too much talk about kettles; and Elon Musk and Sam Altman argue over custody of the dog.

Episode links:

• Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI compute in sign of a totally normal and healthy economy.
• NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic's Mythos, despite Pentagon feud.
• Elon Musk testifies against OpenAI, seeking Sam Altman's ouster.
• Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages.
• Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930.

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In episode 98 of The AI Fix, guest host Nik Roberts explains the cognitive debt you're racking up every time you let ChatGPT do your thinking, and Mark explains the new eval that's got even the very best AI models completely stumped.

Also in this episode, Nik learns how to pronounce "Mythos" and Mark learns how to pronounce "Kasparov"; Gen Z fights back against AI; Britain's AI Security Institute tests Mythos; DeepSeek casually drops a 1.6 trillion parameter model; and a Sony robot beats the elite at the world's most boring pastime.

Episode links:

• Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job.
• Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities.
• DeepSeek previews new AI model that 'closes the gap' with frontier models.
• Inside Project Ace: Discover the Robot Athlete That Competes With Professional Table Tennis Players.
• Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task.
• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity.
• The Verification Bottleneck: Why AI's Real Cost Is Human Attention.
• Announcing ARC-AGI-3.

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In episode 97 of The AI Fix, Mark is joined by Ethan Ding, one of the sharpest contrarian voices in AI, to explore why almost half of America's announced data centres aren't being built, and why AI job losses are not what they seem.

Also in this episode, California approves a startup to let AI prescribe antidepressants; Sam Altman pitches a New Deal for the age of superintelligence while sitting on the biggest pile of private capital ever raised; and Anthropic decides it's built a model so dangerous it can't let anyone use it.

Episode links:

• Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed.
• AI Psychiatry Startup Approved to Prescribe Meds.
• Behind the Curtain: Sam's superintelligence New Deal.
• Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era.
• TextQL - AI Data Analytics.
• mandates | Ethan Ding | Substack.

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In episode 96 of The AI Fix, Mark uncovers new research that shows AIs will lie and scheme to save each other, and Mike Fey, CEO of episode sponsor Island, drops in to talk about the future of enterprise work.

Also in this episode, Claude learns to make skills that make skills that make skills; Gemini wants to rummage through your digital life; OpenAI quietly turns ChatGPT into a $100 million advertising juggernaut; and a Waymo robotaxi takes a wrong turn through a school zone.

Episode links:

• Skillception — On the Recursive Limits of Meta-Skill Generation.
• Google rolling out Personal Intelligence to free Gemini, Chrome, & AI Mode users.
• ChatGPT ads hit $100M in six weeks — and OpenAI is just getting started.
• Waymo car goes wrong way in Alamo Heights school zone, concerns parents.
• AI models will secretly scheme to protect other AI models from being shut down, researchers find.
• Island.

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In episode 95 of The AI Fix, Mark is joined by Dr. Tamara Nall to explore the rise of human–AI relationships and why an estimated 2% of adults in the US are now romantically involved with AI.

They dive into what this means for AI rights, consciousness, and a world where our closest relationships may no longer be fully human.

Also in this episode: human brain cells grown on a chip learn to play Doom; Anthropic accidentally leaks the code behind one of the most talked-about AI tools; ChatGPT isn't getting an erotic mode; and OpenAI's Sora shutdown pulls the rug from a $1B Disney deal.

Episode links:

- OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT's erotic mode.

- How human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom.

- Sora Was Reportedly Costing OpenAI $1 Million Per Day.

- Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident.

- ReliAI — Your AI Life Operating System.

- The Leading Niche - Data Analytics & Federal Consulting.

- HUMANAI - Sovereign Virtual Space for Digital Citizenship.

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In episode 94 of The AI Fix, Mark digs into what really scares people about AI and is surprised to learn it isn't robot dogs with flamethrowers, while guest host Alfred Nutile shares his three steps to being less terrified of AI.

Also in this episode, Mark has a bath with his Mac; Yann LeCun gets a billion dollars to prove the entire AI industry wrong; Atlassian fires 1,600 people to fund its AI pivot; and somebody finds a way to make money from Spotify, and then promptly gets arrested for it.

Episode links:

• DailyAI Studio.
• Put Claude to work on your computer.
• Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong.
• Atlassian follows Block's footsteps and cuts staff in the name of AI.
• North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty To Music Streaming Fraud Aided By Artificial Intelligence.
• What 81,000 people want from AI.

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In episode 93 of The AI Fix, guest host David Ruiz joins Mark to unpack what happened when scientists created a digital copy of a fruit fly's brain, and Mark discovers an Alibaba AI that started a cryptomining side hustle.

Also in this episode, a coding assistant is tricked by a Github issue title into installing an all-powerful AI agent on 4,000 machines; Amazon's AI coding assistant loses millions of orders; Meta kills the metaverse; and our hosts are deafened by the sound of Apple dropping the ball on AI yet again.

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In episode 92 of The AI Fix, Mark explains why the AI that ushers in the apocalypse might be more drunk toddler than evil genius, and guest host Corey Noles offers moral support as his pet AI starts to replicate itself.

Also this week: Jack Dorsey slashes jobs at Block and blames AI; Reddit sets a trap for Perplexity AI; OpenAI raises enough money to rival a small nation; and a new benchmark asks a simple question: is AI full of crap?

Episode links:

• Block CEO Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000 Block staff.
• Reddit sues AI company over 'industrial-scale' scraping.
• OpenAI raises $110B in enormous private funding round.
• BullshitBench: Models Answering Nonsense Questions.
• The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale with Model Intelligence and Task Complexity?

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In episode 91 of The AI Fix, guest host Lianne Potter unearths a forgotten pioneer of digital anthropology, while Mark discovers a simple question about a car wash that's got almost every AI stumped.

Also in this episode, why have one AI when you can have 19; Lianne proves that she isn't Darth Vader; a satirical gym advert reveals humanity's grim future; and a war game simulation shows that AI would rather nuke everyone than negotiate.

Episode links:

• Introducing Perplexity Computer.
• The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Agreement to Bring Disney Characters to Sora.
• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations.
• Watch the viral 'ad' that imagines aged Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos promoting a creepy energy source for AI.
• Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence.
• Never Neutral: Why We Need More Anthropologists in the AI Alignment Space.
• Never Neutral: AI Development, Past, Present and Future in Anthropological Research.
• Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models.

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