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System-prompt self-orchestration outperforms external agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK) on procedural tasks; 200 conversation comparison.

OpenAI is opening up about its goblin problem. After a report from Wired revealed instructions to OpenAI's coding model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures," the AI startup published an explanation on its website, calling references to the creatures a "strange habit" its models developed as a result of their training. As outlined in the blog post, OpenAI began noticing metaphors referencing goblins and other creatures starting with its GPT-5.1 model - specifically when using the "Nerdy" personality option. OpenAI says the pro...

Reddit user reports receiving 6 months free ChatGPT Pro subscription; personal anecdote about developer productivity.

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first rolled out to a select group of trusted "cyber defenders" in order for institutions to shore up their cyberdefenses. The limited rollout will take place "in the next few days," Altman said on X. "We will work with the entire ecosystem and the government to figure out trusted access for Cyber." It's not clear who will get access to the model first, though previous "trusted access" schemes involved vetted professionals and ...

It's been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there's no group that has felt the pressure quite like Gen Z. Like with many tech trends before it, it's no surprise that young people are among the biggest adopters of AI chatbot tools. But contrary to the tales spun by tech companies like OpenAI and Google, polling data shows that Gen Z students and workers are a big part of the wider cultural backlash against AI. And even as they utilize these tools, vast swat...

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Reddit post title referencing OpenAI; insufficient context to assess technical or business significance.

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Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI alleges breach of contract over promised open AGI, claiming founders converted nonprofit into profit machine.

OpenAI rolls out phishing-resistant login and enhanced account recovery to reduce takeover risk.

Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.

Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said.

Unverified Reddit claim about GPT-5.5 hallucinating fantasy creatures; no official source or technical detail provided.

OpenAI post-mortem on unexpected goblin-themed outputs in GPT-5: causes and remediation steps.

Over the past several weeks, I've been working on HyperResearch, a Claude Code skill harness that converts CC into the most intelligent deep research framework out there. HyperResearch surpasses OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA's offerings in the agentic search space based on DeepResearch Bench. It's open-source, installable with a single command, and uses your CC subscription, so you don't have to pay for OpenAI or Gemini Pro. It uses a 16-step pipeline that creates a searchable, persistent knowledge store during each session that can be built upon in later searches. I designed it to align with ...

Directions also include system instructions to act like "you have a vivid inner life."

AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway has a front row seat to the shift. The New York-based company has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation, and its models are going toe-to-toe with the most well-funded labs in the world, including Google and OpenAI. The technology goes way beyond […]

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI's mission and heavily influenced its early structure, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to want to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support for OpenAI, OpenAI president Greg Brockman an...

OpenAI scales Stargate compute infrastructure to expand data center capacity for large-scale AI training and deployment.

Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence after they failed to alert police to the suspected shooter's ChatGPT activity. The families allege OpenAI stayed silent after its systems flagged activity by shooting suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar in order to protect the company's reputation and upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI "considered" flagging the 18-year-old's activity to police, which repo...

ChatGPT is struggling to keep up its once-explosive growth as users uninstall the app or opt for rival chatbots instead. According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, ChatGPT experienced a 132 percent increase in uninstalls year over year in April. Its uninstall rate was even higher last month, up 413 percent year-over-year, following OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon in February. While ChatGPT is still growing its user base, Sensor Tower says that growth is slowing down - ChatGPT increased its monthly active users by 168 percent in January, but only 78 percent in April. ChatGPT...

Oracular spectacular? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a foundation model builder like OpenAI or Anthropic, obviously. It's not quite a neocloud, though it has entered the same bare-metal business as CoreWeave. It is a software-as-a-service company that has made an audacious bet on a very specific future version of AI as Oracle's traditional bu...

Lawsuits: OpenAI didn't report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.

Reddit speculation that OpenAI's "escape velocity" language is euphemism for recursive self-improvement capabilities.

Sebastien Bubeck discusses LLM capability in mathematical reasoning and autonomous research in OpenAI podcast episode.

OpenAI proposes five-part plan to democratize AI-powered cybersecurity defenses and protect critical infrastructure.

It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.

Reddit discussion about OpenAI Codex's tendency to generate goblin-related code comments; appears to be humor/anecdote rather than substantive technical analysis.

Reddit discussion about OpenAI pretraining updates; lacks specifics and appears to be unverified community speculation.

Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I've seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty. Today he looked adrift and unprepared. The only times he showed real animation were when he was bragging about how much he'd done for OpenAI. The direct examination is a way of telling a story through questions; it's important to make the narrative clear. For a suit that accuses Sam Altman of straying from OpenAI's mission, Musk spent a w...