PHP2Shell And The AI That Found It

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into PHP2Shell, a pair of critical PHP bugs that sat in the code for more than a decade until AI helped find them, sending governments scrambling to pull websites offline. Then they look at people using Claude to make their smart TVs dumb again, synth fans vibe-coding new firmware onto old gear, and a researcher who says AI’s black box was never as tangled as we thought. Also in this episode: Meta’s Muse Spark Open, Nvidia’s DSX POD and OpenShell, DHS ordering DeepSeek out of federal systems, a Muse privacy leak, Disney’s Character.AI bankruptcy play, and Reflection’s Beam. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 - Show intro

00:12:46 - PHP2Shell: AI finds critical PHP bugs · Related

00:21:49 - AI agents strip ads from smart TVs

00:33:29 - Vibe-coded firmware for music gear

00:40:07 - Goodfire: neural networks may be more readable · Related · Research

00:50:26 - Meta opens Muse Spark · Related

00:54:09 - Nvidia DSX POD targets data-center efficiency

00:58:11 - Nvidia OpenShell for AI agents

00:59:42 - DHS orders DeepSeek removed from federal systems

01:02:43 - Meta Muse privacy exposure

01:04:19 - Muse downloads surge as ChatGPT slips

01:06:06 - Disney and Character.AI

01:07:21 - Reflection Beam

01:08:07 - Anthropic AI safety bill

01:10:17 - Bill Gross and AI-generated startup ideas

01:15:25 - Wrap-up and where to follow

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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