The AI Fix

In episode 90 of The AI Fix, VC investor Mercedes Bent shares an insider's view of how venture capital is reshaping the AI race, why she believes AI will create jobs instead of destroying them, and five ways the AI bubble could burst.

Also this week: Anthropic accuses three Chinese labs of scraping its models using thousands of fake accounts, an autonomous agent trashes a researcher's inbox (then apologises), and DeepMind's CEO proposes an “Einstein test” for AGI.

Episode links:

• Hassabis proposes the Einstein test for AGI.
• An AI agent went rogue on a safety researcher's inbox.
• Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of distillation attacks on Claude.

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In episode 89 of The AI Fix, Mark discovers that overconfident reasoning models are easily bullied, while guest host Greg explains what a 'vibe' password is and why you should never ever use one.

Also in this episode, Microsoft saves the world; Anthropic's head of AI safety quits to write poetry; Greg learns why Japanese toilets feel so solid; and Mark offers tourism advice to a small town in Tasmania.

Episode links:

• Anthropic AI's safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming 'the world is in peril' and so he's off to become invisible and study poetry.
• OpenAI disbands mission alignment team which focused on safe and trustworthy AI development.
• Japanese toilet maker 'the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary'.
• Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman confirms AI self-sufficiency push away from OpenAI.
• Tasmania hot springs that don't exist.
• Vibe Password Generation.
• Consistency of Large Reasoning Models Under Multi-Turn Attacks.

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In episode 88 of The AI Fix, Corey Noles from The Neuron drops in to unpack OpenClaw, the AI agent that’s not so much a chatbot as a brain in a jar with hands and a credit card.

Elsewhere, our hosts explore a website where AIs can hire humans, Mark discovers that truth and safety might be mutually exclusive, AGI quietly turns up while nobody’s paying attention, and an AI called Henry gives itself a phone number and calls its human for a chat.

Episode links:

• Anthropic's Claude legal plugin rattles legal tech investors.
• Alex Finn's AI agent Henry calls him for a chat.
• Moltbot goes rogue.
• Does AI already have human-level intelligence? Nature examines the evidence.
• RentAHuman.ai — where AI agents hire humans.
• OpenClaw.
• The Unintended Trade-off of AI Alignment: Balancing Hallucination Mitigation and Safety in LLMs.

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In episode 87 of The AI Fix, Mark explains why you shouldn’t put off worrying about AI until after your pilates class, while guest host Nik Roberts stumbles into a social network full of bots obsessing over the temperature in Tokyo.

Plus, Nik explains why he’s banking on piña coladas, a time machine, and a squad of AI ambassadors to survive the coming AI jobpocalypse.

Also in this episode: our hosts wonder if Zuck warms his coffee on Blackwell chips, OpenAI drops $6.5 billion on a pen, Qwen quietly racks up more downloads than you’ve had hot dinners, and a robot learns to lip-sync by singing into the mirror.

Episode links:

• Robot learns to lip-sync.
• NVIDIA launches Vera Rubin, its next major AI platform.
• Alibaba's Qwen overtakes Western rivals in global AI adoption.
• OpenAI confirms first consumer device for 2026.
• A social network where only AI can post.
• AI Feed.
• FTC sues JustAnswer for deceptive subscription practices.

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In episode 86 of The AI Fix, Mark learns that AI models secretly organize themselves along an “Assistant Axis,” where one wrong turn leads straight to demon mode, while guest host David Ruiz investigates how AI companies are turning loneliness into a business model.

Also in this episode: Daenerys Targaryen writes recipes; Iron Man becomes a therapist; your coding career is officially over; Cursor climbs programming’s Everest; Claude gets 23,000 words of homework; and our hosts meet the worst fridge ever.

Episode links:

• Ryan Dahl says your coding career is over.
• Cursor AI writes a web browser in a week.
• Anthropic's new constitution.
• Samsung Bespoke AI Family Hub fridge wins "Worst in Show".
• Character.AI and Google settle teen suicide lawsuit.
• The Assistant Axis: Understanding AI model personas.
• Assistant Axis visualization on Neuronpedia.

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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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