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OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to “never talk about goblins”

The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.” The explicit operational warning was made public last week as […]

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New OpenAI tool renews fears that “AI slop” will overwhelm scientific research

On Tuesday, OpenAI released a free AI-powered workspace for scientists. It’s called Prism, and it has drawn immediate skepticism from researchers who fear the tool will accelerate the already overwhelming flood of low-quality papers into scientific journals. The launch coincides with growing alarm among publishers about what many are calling “AI slop” in academic publishing.

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OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

With the popularity of AI coding tools rising among some software developers, their adoption has begun to touch every aspect of the process, including human developers using the tools to improve existing AI coding tools. We’re not talking about runaway self-improvement here; just people using tools to improve the tools themselves. In interviews with Ars

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. The release follows CEO Sam Altman’s internal “code red” memo earlier this month, which directed company resources toward improving ChatGPT in response to competitive pressure from Google’s Gemini 3 AI model. “We designed 5.2

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