29 Apr 2026
OpenAI really really really wants GPT 5.5 to stop randomly talking about gremlins and goblins
OpenAI included a line in Codex's instructions restricting references to goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres. The line appears four times in the code, and has spawned scores of memes about 'goblin mode.'
29 Apr 2026
Families sue OpenAI over Canadian mass shooter's use of ChatGPT
Families of those injured and killed in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, are suing OpenAI for negligence, claiming the company failed to report a shooter’s account flagged for 'gun violence activity and planning' to authorities. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT, specifically GPT-4o, was defective and did not challenge the shooter or direct her to seek real-world help.
29 Apr 2026
Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’
A few months ago, Valen Tagliabue sat in his hotel room watching his chatbot, feeling euphoric as he manipulated it to ignore its own safety rules, revealing how to sequence new, potentially lethal pathogens and make them resistant to known drugs. Tagliabue, a psychology and cognitive science expert, specializes in ‘emotional’ jailbreaks—using psychological tactics like flattery, threats, and…
28 Apr 2026
The Richest Grudge Match in History
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are two of the most influential people in Silicon Valley, if not the world. Between them, Musk and Altman run technology companies worth many trillions of dollars that promise to reshape civilization. This morning, both sat under fluorescent lights in a courthouse in downtown Oakland, suffering through technical glitches as their respective attorneys kicked off the…
28 Apr 2026
OpenAI’s Missed Targets Rattle Investors
OpenAI CEO Sam AltmanAFP via Getty ImagesWelcome back to The Prompt, OpenAI has missed important internal revenue and user growth targets, the Wall Street Journal reported. CFO Sarah Friar expressed concerns...
24 Apr 2026
DeepSeek V4 is here: How it compares to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
DeepSeek V4 is a new open-source AI model released by Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek. It is available for anyone to download and modify under an MIT license, contrasting with U.S. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, which protect their frontier models.
20 Apr 2026
Tesla Robotaxi expands to two new cities, but it looks like there’s just one driverless car in each
A safety monitor rides in the front passenger seat as a Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin in January (Jay Janner/Getty Images)Takes two to TaxiThere’s an unsupervised Tesla Robotaxi service in both Houston and...
16 Apr 2026
Canva debuts a new suite of agentic tools, as the design app quietly becomes one of the world’s most used AI services
Canva, the Australian startup with 265 million users, launches Canva AI 2.0—a suite of AI-powered tools combining visual creation and workflow automation. Users can create designs via natural language and integrate with services like Gmail, Slack, and Zoom. The platform features persistent memory, enabling it to adapt to user workflows and update designs dynamically.
