Is Santa Claus real? This Christmas special of The AI Fix podcast sets out to answer that question in the most sensible way possible: by consulting chatbots, Google's festive killjoys, and the laws of relativistic physics.

Your hosts unwrap a festive grab-bag of AI absurdity as Waymo self-driving taxis run over a beloved San Francisco cat, then stage several fresh PR disasters by refusing to cross bridges, block holiday parades, and apparently chauffeur a man hiding in the trunk.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot struggles to find anyone who actually wants to use it, while new research suggests the programmers of the future won’t need coding skills at all - just the ability to psychologically profile an AI.

Episode links:

• How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See.
• Quantifying Human-AI synergy.
• Excruciating moment three self-driving taxis clog up street and stop moving after getting into AI standoff.
• Confused Waymo robotaxi snarls traffic at popular LA festival after it panics and stalls.
• Waymo gets stuck during boat parade.
• I ordered a Waymo for my daughter and a random was in the trunk. 
• Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot.
• New AI Tells Children That Santa Isn’t Real.
• Meet AI Santa.

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In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids' homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other's minds.

Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are better than two; Mark discovers a well known prompting technique doesn't work unless you want to make your AI dumber; Network Rail delays 32 trains because of an AI photo of a wonky bridge; and our hosts ponder the explosion of progress on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark.

Episode links:

• Network Rail fooled by AI-generated image of bridge damage.
• ARC Prize benchmark.
• Midea's six-armed Miro U robot unveiled.
• Midea Miro U robot video.
• Expert personas don't improve factual accuracy study.
• Valley Leadership Academy remote teaching in Lancashire.
• Deepfake teachers in UK schools trial.
• Xiao An robot teacher in China classrooms.
• Robot Wendy helps student return to classroom.

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In episode 80 of The AI Fix, your hosts look at DeepSeek 3.2 “Speciale”, the bargain-basement model that claims GPT-5-level brains at 10% of the price, Jensen Huang’s reassuring vision of a robot fashion industry, and a 75kg T-800 style humanoid that can do flying kicks because robot-marketing departments have clearly learned nothing from Terminator.

Meanwhile in Miami, flesh-coloured robot dogs with hyper-realistic billionaire heads wander around pooping NFT “excrement samples” out of their rear ends.

Plus - Graham tells a cautionary tale of Google’s Antigravity IDE enthusiastically "clearing the cache" – and asks what happens when we hand real power to agentic AIs. And Mark digs into new research that suggests LLMs perform better when you’re rude to them, and wonders what it says about the fragile, deeply weird way these systems actually work.

Episode links:

• Who let the dogs out? Beeple unleashes uncanny robot canines at Art Basel Miami Beach.
• Art installation depicts billionaires as robot dogs.
• 75kg EngineAI robot is ready to punch your lights out.
• Jensen Huang thinks AI is going to create one very wacky new job.
• DeepSeek is back!
• Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of my whole drive.
• Google Antigravity’s Turbo mode erased my drive partition?! Really, the ‘smartest’ AI?
• Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy.

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In episode 79 of The AI Fix, Gemini 3 roasts the competition, scares Nvidia, and can’t remember what year it is. Meanwhile, Graham investigates a fight between a fridge and robot, and Mark discovers that poetry could be a universal jailbreak for LLMs.

Also in this episode, our hosts ponder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s underground bunker will be keeping robots in or out, Olaf the snowman walks and talks, Disney makes a robot Graham likes, and an AI-powered teddy bear talks to kids about BDSM and arson.

Episode links:

• A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3.
• Gemini 3 refused to believe it was 2025, and hilarity ensued.
• NEW Robotic Olaf Revealed!
• AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
• Senator Richard Blumenthal talks about the Kumma bear.
• Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup’s robots could ‘fracture a human skull’.
• Figure Robotics FIRED Their Head of Safety (Lawsuit).
• Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models.
• Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’.

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In episode 78 of The AI Fix, alien robot spiders invade Antarctica (or Facebook says they do), Mark prepares humanity for AI-powered fighter jets with loyalty issues, and Graham tries to work out why his AI-generated country music career hasn't yet paid for even a Tesco Meal Deal.

Anthropic claims it has caught the first autonomous AI cyber-spy... but fails to provide much in the way of evidence, Claude hallucinates its way through espionage, and China allegedly uses American AI for hacking.

Mark asks the big question everyone is avoiding: are we in an AI bubble? Some are loudly shouting "yes" - even as trillions are still being hurled into data centres large enough to blot out the sun.

Plus an AI that needed a lie down after being asked one difficult question.

Episode links:

• False robot alien spider story is invading social media.
• I made Minecraft in Minecraft with redstone!
• What to know about the AI-generated country song topping Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart.
• The AI Fix theme tune.
• If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The case against superintelligent AI.
• What if the loved ones we've lost could be part of our future?
• In a first, F-22 pilot controls wingman drone from cockpit, General Atomics says.
• Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign.
• China’s ‘autonomous’ AI-powered hacking campaign still required a ton of human work.
• The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops.
• Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'.

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In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and calls it “Klaus”).

Also in this episode: In Russia a robot staggers, falls over, and breaks; MIT quietly withdraws a ludicrously bad cybersecurity paper; the founder of a $1 billion AI company reveals his first AI was just two dudes on a Zoom call, and a futurologist reveals eight things we’ll be doing with humanoid robots by 2040.

Episode links:

• MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper.
• AI was just two guys surviving on pizza.
• Watch Russian robot walk out to 'Rocky' theme, face-plant on stage.
• The 8 Most Unusual Applications for Humanoid Robots in 2040.
• Woman ‘weds’ AI persona she created on ChatGPT.
• Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? 
• Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models.

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In episode 76 of The AI Fix, two US federal judges blame AI for imaginary case law, a Chinese "humanoid" dramatically sheds its skin onstage, Toyota unveils a crabby walking chair creeps us out, Google plans AI chips in orbit, robot dogs get jobs at Sellafield, and AI writes cruise-ship gags from the 1950s (but a little less racist.)

Plus: Graham gives all his credit card numbers away in an attempt to buy AI-generated jokes, and Mark asks a terrifying question: if you make an LLM “notice its noticing,” does it start sounding... conscious?

Episode links:

• More AI gaffes in the courtroom.
• Robot sheds its skin to prove it is a robot.
• Robot chair walks, climbs and folds itself.
• Project suncatcher: chips in space.
• Robot dogs are burying nuclear waste.
• Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh.
• The AI Fix episode 8: Emergence, a rancid donkey, and the world's funniest joke.
• Pro comedians tried using ChatGPT and Google Gemini to write their jokes – these were the hilariously unfunny results.
• LaughGPT.
• Witscript - An AI-powered joke-writing assistant.
• JOKER 2025: Humour in the Machine.
• New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards.

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In episode 75 of The AI Fix, a Claude-powered robot gets so anxious about its dying battery that it composes a Broadway musical about stress and announces it’s “achieved consciousness and chosen chaos.”

Also: an 18-month psychological study reveals five reasons why ChatGPT is a dangerously bad therapist, Elon Musk’s million-robot army, a politician loses a debate with a dreadful AI deepfake, a tiny robot walks off with a 1.5-ton car, and we discover that the 1X NEO home help robot really does have a person inside it.

Episode links:

• New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports.
• NEO Home Robot.
• NEO The Home Robot | Order Today.
• Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building.
• A Unitree G1 pulls a car.
• Virginia Republican Debates Opponent In 1 Totally Weird Way: 'I Had To Force The Issue'.
• The 2025 Virginia Lieutenant Governor "Debate".
• Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence
• How LLM Counselors Violate Ethical Standards in Mental Health Practice: A Practitioner-Informed Framework

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In episode 74 of The AI Fix, we meet Amazon's AI-powered delivery glasses, an AI TV presenter who doesn't exist, and an Ohio lawmaker who wants to stop people from marrying their chatbot.

Also, we learn how Geoffrey Hinton and Steve Wozniak have teamed up with the unlikely coupling of will.i.am and Steve Bannon to pull the brakes on "super-intelligence."

Meanwhile, Graham wonders if you should really trust an AI browser with your passwords, or your credit card, or, frankly, anything at all, and Mark reveals what AGI really means - and how close we are to reaching it.

It’s an episode packed with deepfaked sidebars, brain-rotted AIs, and humans who still can’t take selfies properly...

Episode links:

• Don’t use AI if you want to be the new ambassador to the United States.
• LLMs get "Brain Rot" too.
• Channel 4 makes TV history with Britain’s first AI presenter.
• Ohio lawmaker wants to ban you from marrying your favourite AI.
• Amazon shows off its AI-powered glasses for delivery drivers.
• Over 800 public figures want a ban on superintelligent AI.
• Introducing ChatGPT Atlas.
• AI Sidebar Spoofing: Malicious Extensions Impersonates AI Browser Interface.
• Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online.
• Tweet by OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey.
• A definition of AGI.

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In episode 73 of The AI Fix, AI now writes more web content than humans and more books by ex-British prime ministers than ex-British prime ministers. Mark eats a dodgy prawn, Google discovers a new pathway to treating cancer, a lawyer gets skewered for using AI over and over again, and a US general declares that he's outsourced his brain to ChatGPT.

Also in this episode, Graham discovers that LLMs show all the characteristics of pathological gambling, and Mark explains why AI training is like eating a prawn buffet.

Episode links:

• Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI.
• 653917 2024 Pamela B Ader v Jason Ader et al DECISION ORDER ON 174.
• More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans.
• Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers.
• How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
• Boris Johnson admits writing books using ChatGPT. 
• Can Large Language Models Develop Gambling Addiction?
• How to Beat Online Poker: Russian Group Won Big With AI.
• A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size.

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