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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