Category: Grok
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The AI Fix #84: A hungry ghost trapped in a jar gains access to the Pentagon’s network
The AI Fix #84: A hungry ghost trapped in a jar gains access to the Pentagon’s network 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,…
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Smashing Security podcast #450: From Instagram panic to Grok gone wild
Smashing Security podcast #450: From Instagram panic to Grok gone wild Confusion reigns after claims that data linked to 17.5 million Instagram accounts is up for sale – sparked by a vague post, contradictory statements, and a flood of password reset emails nobody asked for. And we dig into Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, after…
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Privacy concerns raised as Grok AI found to be a stalker’s best friend
Privacy concerns raised as Grok AI found to be a stalker’s best friend Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, has been found to exhibit more alarming behaviour – this time revealing the home addresses of ordinary people upon request. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley…
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The AI Fix #64: AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the “Rumble in the Silicon Jungle”
The AI Fix #64: AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the “Rumble in the Silicon Jungle” In episode 64 of The AI Fix, AI discovers new physics, a robot crab looks for love on the beaches of Portugal, the “Godfather of AI” thinks our only hope is to build motherly AI, a robot folds…
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The AI Fix #61: Replit panics, deletes $1M project; AI gets gold at Math Olympiad
The AI Fix #61: Replit panics, deletes $1M project; AI gets gold at Math Olympiad In episode 61 of The AI Fix, a robot called DeREK goes bananas, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic warn we may lose the ability to see what AI is thinking, a dextrous robot changes its own batteries, the USA unveils…
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The AI Fix #60: Elon’s AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill you
The AI Fix #60: Elon’s AI girlfriend, the arsonist red panda, and the AI that will kill you In episode 60 of The AI Fix, we learn why Grok might be Elon Musk’s bid for digital immortality, how Meta is building a Manhattan-sized data centre called Prometheus, how AI is helping create carbon-sucking concrete, and…
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Smashing Security podcast #426: Choo Choo Choose to ignore the vulnerability
Smashing Security podcast #426: Choo Choo Choose to ignore the vulnerability In episode 426 of the “Smashing Security” podcast, Graham reveals how you can hijack a train’s brakes from 150 miles away using kit cheaper than a second-hand PlayStation. Meanwhile, Carole investigates how Grok went berserk, which didn’t stop the Department of Defense signing a…
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The AI Fix #59: Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically
The AI Fix #59: Grok thinks it’s Mecha Hitler, and AIs can think strategically In episode 59 of The AI Fix, our hosts ponder whether AIs need a “disagreement dial”, Mark wonders what he could do with an AI-powered “drug design engine”, Graham plays Wolfenstein instead of working, a robot graduates from high school, and…
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DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep…
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The AI Fix #58: An AI runs a shop into the ground, and AI’s obsession with the number 27
The AI Fix #58: An AI runs a shop into the ground, and AI’s obsession with the number 27 In episode 58 of “The AI Fix” podcast, our hosts discover a pair of AI headphones that don’t electrocute you, Microsoft invents “medical superintelligence”, Chucky opens a hotel, some robot footballers fall over, Jony Ive invents…
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xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from…
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The AI Fix #45: The Turing test falls to GPT-4.5
The AI Fix #45: The Turing test falls to GPT-4.5 In episode 45 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover that ChatGPT is running the world, Mark learns that mattress companies have scientists, Gen Z has nightmares about AI, OpenAI gets a bag, Graham eats too many cheese sandwiches, and too much training makes AIs…
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The AI Fix #44: AI-generated malware, and a stunning AI breakthrough
The AI Fix #44: AI-generated malware, and a stunning AI breakthrough In episode 44 of The AI Fix, ChatGPT won’t build a crystal meth lab, GPT-4o improves the show’s podcast art, some students manage to screw in a lightbulb, Google releases Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental and nobody notices, and Mark invents a clock for measuring…
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The AI Fix #41: Can AIs be psychopaths, and why we should be AI optimists
The AI Fix #41: Can AIs be psychopaths, and why we should be AI optimists In episode 41 of the AI Fix, our hosts learn that society needs to be completely reordered by December, Grok accuses Trump of being a Russian asset, Graham discovers that parents were wrong about computer games all along, and Mark…
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The AI Fix #40: ChatGPT saved my life, and making evil AIs by accident
The AI Fix #40: ChatGPT saved my life, and making evil AIs by accident In episode 40 of the AI Fix, Graham meets a shape-shifting GOAT, a robot dog gets wet, Mark likes Claude 3.7 Sonnet, OpenAI releases its dullest model yet, Grok 3 needs to go home and have a lie down, and everyone…
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The AI Fix #33: AI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon’s “unhinged” mode
The AI Fix #33: AI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon’s “unhinged” mode In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can’t draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what…