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• DeepSeek's cheap GPT-5 rival, Antigravity fails, and your LLM likes it when you're rude

  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.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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• Gemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots?

  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 ChildrenSenator 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’.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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• The big AI bubble, and robot Grandma in the cloud

  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 FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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• Genome LLM makes a super-virus, and should AI decide if you live?

  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 FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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• AI self-awareness, and the death of comedy

  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 FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Grab T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and other goodies in our online store.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Bluesky at @theaifix.show.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.Support the show and gain access to ad-free episodes by becoming a supporter: Join The AI Fix Plus!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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