In episode 85 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that Silicon Valley has the solution to your pet's mental health crisis, and Mark explains why AI godfather Yann LeCun thinks the entire AI industry is wrong about LLMs.

Also in this episode, OpenAI decides to ruin ChatGPT with ads; Sam Altman and Elon Musk and have a public spat over whose AI is more murderous; humanoid robots turn up at CES 2026 and answer of whether robots can fight—with a resounding "no"; and AI slop forces the beloved cURL project to shut down its bug bounty program.

Episode links:

• ChatGPT gets ads
• Billionaires Elon Musk, Sam Altman fight over whose tech killed more people
• Humanoid robots go for the knockout in high-tech fight night at CES
• I met a lot of weird robots at CES
• Curl shutters bug bounty program to stop AI slop
• Pet owners in the US could soon get help from a robot 'butler' who feeds and plays with fur babies while you work
• This robot companion is a cameraman for your pet
• frontierx0011
• Checking Out The Aura At The Tuya Smart Booth CES 2026!
• Yann LeCun LinkedIn announcement
• The Decoder: LeCun exits Meta

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In episode 84 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark stare straight into the digital abyss and ask the most important question of our age: "Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?"

Also this week, we explore how a shadowy group of disgruntled insiders trying to destroy AI by poisoning its training data, how "vibe-coding" has stopped being a joke with even Linus Torvalds joining in, how Google’s AI health advice could have endangered lives, and why simply asking an AI the same question twice can turn it from clueless to near-omniscient.

Oh, and AI has managed to crack some famously unsolved maths problems in minutes, and Grok gains access to all of the Pentagon's networks? What could possibly go wrong?

Episode links:

• AI cracks fantastically hard maths problem.
• Google removes some AI Overviews after users’ health put at risk.
• Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?
• Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks later this month.
• Google reveals that you should always ask your AI twice.
• Employees waste 1.5 weeks a year ‘correcting’ AI output.
• Poison Fountain.
• AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them.
• Small amount of poisoned data can influence AI models.
• Poison Fountain reddit thread.

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In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he's taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a "Godwin's Law" for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus.

Also in this episode, a marriage is declared invalid thanks to ChatGPT, an AI barman looks for a job in a quiet pub, OpenAI finally unveils ChatGPT Health, and why news of the death of Stack Overflow may be greatly exaggerated.

Episode links:

• GLYDE
• AI-guided hair clippers review
• Introducing ChatGPT Health
• Rechter zet streep door huwelijksakte, ambtenaar schreef tekst met ChatGPT
• Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company's still kicking... thanks to AI
• AI Barmen
• AI bartender at CES review
• I invented a fake idiom to test AI chatbots — only one called my bluff
• Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs

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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.
• Neural dynamics of cognitive control: Current tensions and future promise.

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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'.

The AI Fix

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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.

The AI Fix

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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.

The AI Fix

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