The AI Fix

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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