GPUs, Parallel Math and AI Energy Costs

In episode 72 of The AI Fix, GPT-5's "secret sauce" turns out to be phrases from adult websites, Irish police beg TikTokers to stop faking AI home intruders, Jeff Bezos pitches gigawatt data centers in space, OpenAI rolls out Agent Kit for drag-and-drop agents, and a Chinese startup unveils the creepiest robot head ever.

Meanwhile, Graham looks askance at corporate America’s AI obsession - earning calls full of sunshine, SEC filings full of dread - while 95% of AI pilots flop. Mark then takes you down the wire to see where your prompt actually goes: tokens, tensors, rivers of cooling water, and a billion GPU multiplications.. all to tell you there are "two r’s in strawberry."

Episode links:

• GPT-5 trained on phrases from adult websites.
• Police warn of AI home intruder prank.
• Jeff Bezos says we’ll have AI data centres in space within 20 years.
• Man has kung-fu fight with robot.
• OpenAI releases AgentKit.
• Chinese scientists reveal the spookiest robot face yet.
• Top companies keep talking about AI – but can’t explain the upsides.
• Public disclosures of AI risk surge among S&P 500 companies.
• MIT State of AI in Business 2025.
• Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training.
• Deloitte to partially refund Australian government for report with apparent AI-generated errors.

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