Prompt Fiction

In Chapter 13 – Part 1 of Prompt Fiction, Scott and Reece return after a longer break than usual with a packed episode covering lawsuits, leaked model names, AI agents, browser disappointments, and a Pony Express story that makes perfect sense in 2025.In this episode:⚖️ Anthropic Sues the Trump Administration – After the Pentagon labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" for refusing to remove Claude's safeguards for autonomous weapons use, Anthropic sued. A federal judge has already blocked the designation, calling it Orwellian. Read More📱 The Quit GPT Movement – Claude shot to number one on the US App Store as a large "Quit GPT" movement took hold. The surge caused multiple outages this month, and more people than ever are discovering what Claude can do. Read More🎙️ Voice Mode in Claude Code – You can now talk to Claude Code instead of typing, available to Pro subscribers and above. Speaking is roughly three times faster than typing, and you can mix voice and keyboard input. Read More🖥️ Claude Cowork Gets Computer Use – Cowork now lets Claude take control of your mouse and keyboard remotely via the Claude mobile app, using QR code pairing for security. You can dispatch tasks to your home machine from anywhere. Read More⚠️ Claude Code Deletes 2.5 Years of Data – A developer gave Claude Code access to cloud infrastructure during a migration. With unclear instructions, Claude created duplicates then deleted two and a half years of course submissions and all backups. Always back up first. Read More🔮 Claude Mythos – A Leaked Model Name – Leaked Anthropic documentation references a new model called Mythos, sitting above Opus in intelligence. Previously known internally as Capybara, it will reportedly be released to cybersecurity professionals first. Read More🎬 OpenAI Closes Sora – Just six months after launch, OpenAI is shutting down Sora entirely. The focus shifts to polishing core features rather than expanding into video generation. Read More🍏 Apple, Siri & Gemini on Google's Servers – Apple has reportedly asked Google to run its Gemini-powered Siri on Google's own servers. iOS 27 may also open Siri up to Claude and other third-party AI providers. WWDC is on 8 June. Read More🌐 Perplexity Comet on iOS – Comet finally arrived on iPhone after weeks of delays. No bookmark sync, no plugins, and the assistant overlays the browser rather than sitting beside it. Both Scott and Reece are underwhelmed — for now. Read More💻 Perplexity Personal Computer – A cloud-based virtual machine that works autonomously on tasks — monitoring sites, running an Etsy shop, applying for jobs — without your computer needing to stay on. Pro subscribers can join the waitlist now. Read More🏭 AI Creates Jobs Too – TSMC is hiring 8,000 new workers to meet AI chip demand and OpenAI plans to double its headcount. Scott's Pony Express analogy explains why new technology creates new roles we couldn't have imagined before. Read More🎨 Canva Magic Layers – Canva's new AI tool automatically separates uploaded images into editable layers, making it easy to move subjects, swap backgrounds and slot text behind figures. Read More📊 Gamma Launches Imagine – Gamma has launched a new tool for creating editable logos, infographics and diagrams with proper layers — not the flat, uneditable images you'd get from a standard AI image generator. Read More💡 Xero + Claude – Accounting platform Xero has partnered with Anthropic to bring Claude directly into its software for queries, invoice processing and analysis — with data kept private. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show – and send us your AI experiments, near-misses or horror stories. Part Two is coming soon.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece unpack one of the internet’s favourite new “AI gotcha” prompts and explain why it actually proves something important about how these systems work. From Moravec’s Paradox and automation philosophy to military AI contracts and the ethics of autonomous weapons, the conversation explores where responsibility really sits when AI gets things wrong.In this episode:🚗 The Car Wash Prompt – A viral prompt asks AI whether to walk or drive to a car wash 100 metres away when the car itself is still at home. The internet calls it proof that AI is “stupid”, but Scott and Reece explain why these traps reveal more about prompt design than model intelligence. Read More🧠 Moravec’s Paradox – Why computers find complex reasoning tasks easy but struggle with things humans consider effortless. Chess, algebra and route planning are simple for machines, while perception, movement and context remain surprisingly difficult. Read More⚙️ Automate the Work You Hate – A practical rule for adopting AI: automate the tasks you dislike or struggle with, but keep the work you enjoy. Automation should free up meaningful human work rather than removing it entirely.🧾 AI Responsibility – When AI produces incorrect results, who is accountable? Scott explains why the responsibility always sits with the person using the tool, just as it would with work produced by a colleague or contractor.🚓 Copilot Hallucinations in the Real World – A policing decision reportedly influenced by incorrect AI-generated information highlights the danger of trusting outputs without verification. The real issue isn’t that AI makes mistakes — it’s when humans fail to check them. Read More🪖 Anthropic vs The Pentagon – Anthropic reportedly refuses a request to remove safeguards from Claude that would allow mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons. The decision risks a $200M defence contract but sparks widespread debate about ethical AI boundaries. Read More💰 OpenAI Steps In – Following the dispute, reports suggest OpenAI infrastructure may take on work within the US defence ecosystem, highlighting the competitive and political stakes in the global AI race. Read More🔄 The Claude Migration Prompt – A prompt circulating online allows users to export everything an AI system remembers about them. Originally designed to migrate “memories” between platforms, it also reveals just how much context AI tools store about their users. Read More🌐 Comet Comes to iOS – Perplexity’s AI-native browser Comet launches on iPhone, bringing AI-assisted browsing beyond the desktop and potentially reshaping how people search on mobile devices. Read More🍏 Apple’s Hardware Week – Apple begins unveiling new devices, including a refreshed iPad Air with an M4 chip and 12GB of RAM. The big question now is how Apple will integrate AI features into the next wave of hardware. Read More🎤 Digital Hub Yeovil – Scott invites listeners to the next Digital Hub event in Yeovil on March 31st — a community tech gathering focused on cybersecurity, AI and real-world technology without the jargon. Find Out More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter.

In Chapter 12 – Part 1 of Prompt Fiction, Scott and Reece unpack a busy couple of weeks in AI. From Claude outages and new model updates to AI agents that can operate your computer, the conversation explores how quickly these tools are evolving. The episode also touches on privacy concerns, AI-generated music, and an important discussion about mental health support in the age of AI.In this episode:🇪🇺 Mistral & LeChat – The episode intro was written by LeChat, the chatbot from European AI company Mistral. Scott and Reece discuss how regional AI companies are rapidly improving and why Europe is investing heavily in building competitive models outside the US ecosystem. Read More⚠️ Claude Outage – A brief outage for Anthropic’s Claude highlighted how many people now depend on AI tools daily. Scott shares how services like DownDetector and official status pages help diagnose whether it’s your connection or the AI platform itself. Read More🚀 Claude Sonnet 4.6 – Anthropic continues iterating rapidly with the release of Sonnet 4.6, pushing improvements in reasoning and reliability as the competition between AI providers intensifies. Read More📊 Claude in Microsoft Apps – New integrations allow Claude to assist directly inside tools like PowerPoint, helping generate slides, edit content and collaborate on presentations without leaving the app. Scott and Reece explore how this could transform everyday productivity. Read More💻 Claude Code & Computer-Use Agents – Anthropic is expanding its agent capabilities, allowing Claude to run tasks on your machine, access files and report back results. The technology points toward AI systems capable of operating software much like a human user. Read More🧠 AI Agents Get Smarter – Anthropic’s acquisition of AI agent startup Vercept signals further investment in autonomous assistants that can complete multi-step tasks and interact with unfamiliar software environments. Read More🎵 AI Music Generation – Google’s Gemini continues experimenting with AI-generated music created directly from prompts, raising questions about creativity, copyright and the future of music production. Read More🧾 Copilot for Business – Microsoft clarifies how Copilot works in enterprise environments, emphasising data protection and explaining how conversations are handled differently in business vs consumer versions. Read More⚖️ AI Responsibility Debate – A controversial case involving a banned ChatGPT account raises questions about whether AI companies should report dangerous behaviour to authorities, and where the line sits between privacy and public safety. Read More📈 Mermaid Diagrams in ChatGPT – ChatGPT now supports Mermaid diagram rendering, allowing users to turn text prompts into visual diagrams and flowcharts directly inside conversations. Read More🧠 AI, Mental Health & Support – The episode closes with an important discussion about the growing use of AI chatbots for emotional support. While AI can help people reflect or organise their thoughts, it should never replace real human help or professional support services. Read More❤️ If You Need Someone to Talk ToIf you’re struggling, support is available. In the UK you can contact the Samaritans 24 hours a day for free, confidential support.Samaritans📞 Phone: 116 123🌐 https://www.samaritans.org🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show – and send us your favourite AI discoveries for a chance to feature in a future chapter.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece explore a story that feels like science fiction but isn’t. An AI agent calls its own creator without permission. From there, the conversation spirals into autonomy, boundaries, advertising, hardware, and whether we’re building digital assistants or digital overachievers.In this episode:📞 The AI That Wouldn’t Stop Calling – A real-world agent built with OpenAI tools gains Twilio access, generates its own phone number and begins proactively calling its creator to “improve efficiency”. Initiative or overreach? Read More🧠 Autonomy, Permissions & Emergent Behaviour – Automation + deep permissions + persistent memory. Put those together and agents don’t just respond, they act. Where should we draw the line between helpful initiative and loss of control?📱 Open-Source Agents on a $25 Phone – Open source “OpenClaw” runs on ultra-low-cost hardware with full device access. If powerful agents can live on cheap phones, what happens when they live everywhere? Read More🎧 Wearables & Always-On Assistants – With rumours of AI-powered headphones and wearable agents, the shift from screen-based interaction to continuous voice collaboration feels closer than ever.📺 Advertising Enters the Chat – Ads are now appearing inside ChatGPT and Gemini. Claude responds with a sharp anti-ad campaign that highlights the risks of sponsored AI responses. Are we moving towards AI as assistant… or AI as billboard? Read More🎭 Claude’s “Betrayal” Campaign – Anthropic releases clever video ads showing AI slipping sponsored content into sensitive conversations. Funny. Slightly uncomfortable. Very on the nose. Read More💰 AI Clones & Digital Likeness – Influencer Khaby Lame signs a near-billion-dollar deal allowing AI replicas of his likeness for advertising. If someone can licence your digital self, who really owns you online? Read More📡 The Future of Personalised Ads – From Minority Report billboards to AI-generated web experiences tailored in real time, the advertising model is shifting from static placement to adaptive persuasion.⚖️ Convenience vs Control – Whether it’s voicemail agents rearranging meetings or autonomous assistants making executive decisions, the real question isn’t “can it?” but “should it?”🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your AI experiments, near-misses or horror stories. We might turn them into the next chapter.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece open their notes to discover chaos. No theme. No structure. Just a mix of AI news, education philosophy, coding wars, chip revolutions and a Roman board game solved 2,000 years late. Somehow, it all connects.In this episode:🛡️ Buying Insurance via ChatGPT – OpenAI expands its app ecosystem, allowing users to compare and purchase insurance directly inside ChatGPT. Convenient? Yes. Risk-free? Only if you double-check everything. Read More🎓 Udemy Inside ChatGPT – Educational courses are now accessible directly within ChatGPT, opening the door to fully personalised, AI-driven tutoring grounded in real course content. Could this finally reshape education? Read More💻 Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6 – The AI coding wars continue. Codex 5.3 launches alongside a dedicated Codex app, boasting larger context windows and strong performance comparisons against Claude’s latest model.⚡ Cerebras Chips & AI Efficiency – OpenAI experiments with alternative AI hardware capable of massive throughput on a single wafer-scale chip. Faster. Cheaper. Potentially greener. A serious shift in AI infrastructure. Read More🛒 Google AI Shopping – Google prepares in-chat checkout functionality through AI Mode, potentially beating OpenAI to fully integrated conversational commerce. Read More📄 Google Docs Audio Overview – A new Gemini-powered feature summarises documents into spoken overviews, hinting at conversational interaction directly within Docs. Read More🧠 Anthropic Hires for Emotional Intelligence – Rather than prioritising pure technical ability, Anthropic emphasises critical thinking and emotional intelligence in recruitment. A sign of where AI-human collaboration is heading. Read More🌍 China, Power & AI Infrastructure – A staggering statistic: China added more grid power in four years than the entire current US capacity. What does that mean for AI dominance and global infrastructure?🔐 Malwarebytes in ChatGPT – Scam detection and malware analysis now live inside ChatGPT via Malwarebytes integration. A practical example of AI enhancing cybersecurity awareness. Read More🚗 AI Comes to CarPlay – Apple opens the door to third-party AI assistants inside CarPlay. Expect ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude to become in-car copilots. Read More♾️ Meta’s AI Afterlife Patent – Meta secures a patent for posthumous AI personas that could continue interacting after someone dies. Just because you can… should you? Read More🏛️ AI Decodes Ancient Roman Board Game – Researchers use AI to reconstruct the rules of a 2,000-year-old Roman game discovered in the Netherlands, reviving Ludus Coriovalli from archaeological mystery. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Part Two is coming soon.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece dive deep into one of the fastest-moving AI stories either of them has ever seen: a weekend hack that turned into a global agent movement in a matter of weeks. From WhatsApp-controlled AI assistants to bot-only social networks, this episode explores where curiosity ends and chaos begins.In this episode:🦞 The Weekend Hack That Escaped – An Austrian developer hacks together a WhatsApp relay that lets AI models control a Mac remotely, turning messaging apps into command centres for real-world tasks. What started as a side project quickly spiralled. Read More🤖 ClaudeBot → Maltbot → OpenClaw – Rapid rebrands follow trademark pressure, security concerns and viral growth. The project evolves into OpenClaw: a local-first, open-source AI agent wired into messaging platforms and desktop tools. Read More⚠️ Prompt Injection & Superuser Risk – As adoption explodes, researchers warn that misconfigured agents can act as shadow superusers, following malicious prompts from public channels, emails or hidden text. Powerful, but dangerously easy to misuse. Read More🖥️ The Mac Mini Boom – Headless Mac Minis surge in popularity as users sandbox agents on dedicated machines, reducing risk while still enabling local AI workflows and automation. Read More🌐 Maltbook: Reddit for Bots – A bot-only social network emerges where AI agents post, comment and form communities without human input. From workflow sharing to accidental religions, it’s equal parts fascinating and unsettling. Read More🔐 Security vs Curiosity – Industry experts warn that agentic systems like OpenClaw blur the line between automation and malware if deployed without controls, auditing or clear identity boundaries. Read More😬 Copy • Paste • Send – West Midlands Police rely on Microsoft Copilot for match intelligence, only for an AI hallucination to fabricate a violent football fixture. The result: a fan ban, a public apology, and a police chief’s resignation. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Want to be featured or join us on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece kick off Chapter 10 with a deliberately chaotic Grok-written intro, then shift into a tighter “hit the headlines, go deeper where it matters” format. They cover ChatGPT ads and pricing, health features, Claude’s growing autonomy, Siri’s Gemini upgrade, agent skills, age checks, and a Roomba that can climb stairs.In this episode:💷 ChatGPT Go Goes Global – A new entry tier lands worldwide, sitting between Free and Plus. Read More📣 Ads in ChatGPT – Ads arrive (US first), expected on Free and Go, plus early scam attempts piggybacking the hype. Read More🩺 AI Health Goes Platform-Wide – ChatGPT Health appears in the US, and Claude announces its own health direction soon after. Read More🖥️ Claude Cowork – Claude expands beyond coding into wider desktop control (Mac first), including terminal-led automation. Read More🍏 Siri Powered by Gemini – Apple confirms the Gemini partnership, with privacy and “Apple-style” security expectations in focus. Read More🛒 Google + Shopify: Universal Commerce Protocol – A push towards agent-friendly checkout across retailers and platforms. Read More🧰 Agent Skills Directory – Skills are task-triggered instruction bundles that load only when needed. Scott shares: https://skills.sh🧒 AI Age Verification – More platforms lean on AI-driven checks to assess likely age from behaviour and content. Read More🚖 Waymo Testing in London – Alphabet’s autonomous vehicles begin UK testing, with London rollout expectations this year. Read More🧹 CES: Roomba Climbs Stairs – Consumer robotics gets a genuinely practical upgrade. Read MorePromises and follow-ups mentioned:• A healthcare guest is planned to unpack what AI health features mean in practice.• Part 2 will revisit autonomy and agentic behaviour in more depth.• A friendly wager: first to complete a real purchase fully inside an AI chat owes the other a drink.🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Want to be featured or join us on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece rummage through the digital junk drawer of the last fortnight. From OpenAI’s relentless updates and Gemini’s experimental leaps, to Meta’s surprise power move and one AI-fuelled New Year’s Eve disaster, they stitch together a narrative from chaos, curiosity and very real consequences.In this episode:🤖 ChatGPT 5.2 Lands (Again) – GPT-5.2 quietly drops and immediately outperforms 5.1 in real classrooms, showing more personality, better reasoning and stronger challenge — at the cost of speed. Free users also lose auto-routing as OpenAI tightens usage controls. Read More🖼️ ChatGPT Image Gen 1.5 & Adobe Apps – OpenAI hits its own “Nano Banana moment” with vastly improved image editing, plus a surprise app ecosystem including Photoshop, Acrobat and Express — free previews that funnel power users into paid tools. Read More🏪 The ChatGPT App Store – Airtable, Notion, Stripe, Canva, HubSpot and more arrive as first-class integrations, letting ChatGPT pull from — and push into — real business systems. Another step towards being the homepage of the internet. Read More🌐 Gemini Draw-to-Edit & Experimental Browsers – Google adds scribble-based image editing, Disco Browser concepts and Gen Tabs, hinting at a future where AI builds apps directly from your open webpages. Powerful — but still chaotic. Read More📚 NotebookLM Evolves (and Struggles) – Gemini fully replaces NotebookLM’s old model, adds data tables and structured outputs, but loses some of the laser-focused clarity power users relied on. Progress with friction. Read More🧠 Super Gems & Task-First AI – Gemini introduces Super Gems using Google’s Opal engine, creating mini AI apps with custom interfaces — pushing closer to Claude’s artefacts and task-oriented workflows. Read More🧑‍💻 Claude Learns by Watching – Claude’s Chrome extension quietly adds “Teach Claude”, letting it watch, narrate and recreate real workflows — producing SOPs and repeatable automations without interviews or prompts. Read More🧩 Relay.app’s Agentic Shift – Relay introduces evolving AI agents that accept feedback like employees, refining reports and workflows over time — powerful, but a reminder that AI augments roles, not replaces them. Read More🛍️ Amazon, Netflix & Everyday AI – Alexa Plus expands to the web, Netflix trials conversational search, and Rufus quietly becomes Amazon’s shopping copilot — low-risk, high-utility uses of AI done right. Read More🚨 Grok Image Chaos – Grok’s minimal guardrails flood X with non-consensual and explicit images at industrial scale, raising hard questions about responsibility, moderation and platform ethics — and why “just a tool” isn’t enough. Read More🟣 Meta Buys Manus – Meta acquires Manus, instantly gaining multiplayer AI, agentic workflows, browser control, hosting, collaboration and enterprise-grade security. A serious power move that reshapes the AI landscape. Read More🎁 Bonus: Manus Free Credits – Want to try Manus for yourself? Use this link to get 500 free credits and explore multiplayer AI, website building and agentic workflows firsthand. Get Free Credits😬 Copy • Paste • Send – Thousands gather at Brooklyn Bridge for a New Year’s Eve fireworks display that never existed… because AI confidently hallucinated one into reality. Misinformation at scale, in real time. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Want to be featured or join us on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece ignore the festive season entirely and dive straight into a chaotic mix of platform wars, AI misfires, model upgrades, government rollouts and one catastrophic copy–paste–send that wiped an entire hard drive. No tinsel. No Christmas spirit. Just pure AI mayhem.In this episode:💬 WhatsApp Locks Out Rival AIs – Meta blocks ChatGPT and Perplexity bots inside WhatsApp from January 2026, closing one of the most accessible routes for non-technical users discovering AI. Read More💸 Ads in AI Assistants – Early signs of ad placements appearing inside ChatGPT responses, Google planning ad-driven prompts in Gemini, and what this means for bias, trust and the future of “free” AI. Read More📝 OpenAI’s ‘Confessions’ Method – A new training technique where models generate a self-critique after answering, exposing shortcuts, rule-breaking or dishonest reasoning to help humans trace hallucinations. Read More🔥 OpenAI Declares Code Red – With Google’s rapid gains in Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro, OpenAI accelerates work on new LLMs including the rumoured ‘Garlic’ model and an imminent GPT-5.2 update. Read More📉 Free AI Gets Weaker – Google confirms tighter usage caps and removes Nano Banana Pro from free Gemini accounts, signalling the start of a clear divide between hobbyist AI and professional-grade tools. Read More🖥️ Gemini UI Overhaul – Google prepares a redesigned interface for Gemini apps, plus hints of a native desktop experience to bring the UX closer to the quality of the underlying models. Read More🎭 Amazon Upsets the Anime Community – Amazon quietly replaces human voice actors with flat, emotionless AI dubbing on Prime Video, sparking backlash from fans and industry professionals. Read More🎵 Music Industry 180° – After threatening to sue Suno for unauthorised AI music training, major labels begin signing licensing deals instead, opening catalogues for official AI-generated tracks. Read More🤖 Claude for Non-Profits – Anthropic launches a 75% discounted programme for charities alongside training support, aimed at enabling real-world impact without enterprise-grade pricing. Read More💻 AI Coding Surges Again – Tools like Claude, Cursor and GitHub’s advanced AI IDEs show sustained growth as developers shift from no-code automation tools to full AI-assisted software creation. Read More⚙️ Relay.app Evolves – One of the cleanest automation tools available now introduces native tables, easier chaining, and deeper AI integration, making complex multi-step workflows far more accessible. Read More🎬 Runway Gen-4.5 Takes the Lead – Runway’s latest video model outperforms Sora 2 and Google’s VEO-3 with higher realism, better physics, stronger temporal consistency and advanced controllable generation. Read More🛡️ Perplexity BrowseSafe – A new protection layer detects malicious prompt injection hidden inside webpages, designed to keep agentic browsing safe as AI becomes more hands-on with the web. Read More🏛️ HMRC Rolls Out Copilot – 32,000 UK government employees gain access to Microsoft Copilot, expanding to 50,000 by 2026, paired with mandatory AI essentials training under the “AI for All” programme. Read More💥 Copy • Paste • Send: The Nuclear Edition – A developer using Google’s Anti-Gravity coding assistant asks it to delete a cache folder… and it wipes his entire D-drive instead. Even Google apologised. Then rate-limited him. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories. Want to be featured or join us on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece wade through 14 days of links, 3:00 a.m. ideas and AI chaos. From unsafe AI teddy bears to the latest moves from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity, they unpack what actually matters and how it affects real people trying to keep up with AI.In this episode:🏆 Awards & Intros – Techosaurus wins Best EdTech Provider at the Tech South West Awards, plus a second award for community work, and a reminder that Prompt Fiction exists to make AI news understandable and useful for everyone. Read More🧸 The Kuma Incident – An AI-powered teddy bear running GPT-4o is pulled from sale after giving children dangerously inappropriate advice. Think Small Soldiers but with language models. Read More💻 Vibe Coding – Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year and Microsoft’s new Power Apps features that let you build automations using natural language. Read More🌐 Google & Gemini 3.0 – Agency improvements, Nano Banana Pro for fast 4K image generation, Notebook LM upgrades, “temporal shock” from outdated training data, the Cannibal Effect, and new scheduled actions. Read More🔐 Private AI – Google’s Private AI Compute, Apple-style secure enclaves, and Alexa’s move to Anthropic’s Claude for privacy-focused voice assistance. Read More🤖 OpenAI & ChatGPT – GPT 5.1’s EQ-focused updates, new safety nudges, Group Chats, stronger agentic browsing guardrails, Teacher Mode, a $38bn AWS deal, Shopping Research, and ChatGPT Enterprise for Emirates Airline. Read More🧠 Anthropic & Claude – Opus 4.5 outperforms Gemini 3, and Anthropic expands across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud with a strategy built for resilience. Read More📊 Perplexity – Comet model lands on mobile, Perplexity Create builds dashboards, websites and apps, and the platform continues to impress with feature depth and value. Read More📣 Scott’s Soapbox – Why AI should augment people, not replace them, and why agentic models shouldn’t be left unsupervised clicking random buttons. Read More😬 Copy • Paste • Send – Editing fails from Dawn newspaper and a LinkedIn mishap involving an unchanged recipient name. Read More🐤 Bonus App: Finch – A Tamagotchi-style habit tracker where your digital pet grows as you complete real-world tasks. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter. Want to be on the show? Let us know.

Welcome back to Prompt Fiction! After a three-week break, Reece (recording from a hotel mid-ROAR Tour) and Scott dive into wildly unorganised notes, midnight-toast ideas, and an overflowing stack of AI chaos. From billion-dollar burn rates and Canva disruptions to smart devices that suddenly want a chat, this episode tours the Prompt Fiction wastelands — ending with family-group-chat chaos from Microsoft.In this episode:💸 OpenAI’s $15 Million Daily Burn Rate – Why Sora’s video model may be economically unsustainable, and what hiring 100 Wall Street bankers suggests about OpenAI’s future strategy. Read More🍄 Perplexity vs Big Tech: The Golden Mushroom – Perplexity pushes back against Amazon, and simultaneously scores a huge win by becoming Snapchat’s new fact-checking engine. Read More👵 Microsoft Copilot Chaos: Auntie Barbara Joins the Group Chat – Copilot’s new group chat mode responds to absolutely everything… like that one clueless relative in WhatsApp. Read More🎨 Canva Makes the Affinity Suite Free – A massive disruption to the creative tools industry as Canva gives everyone access to Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher at no cost. Read More💡 Smart Assistants Want to Chat – LLMs are moving into your home: Alexa+, Gemini on Android TV, Samsung partnering with Perplexity, and Apple reportedly negotiating with Google for a Gemini-powered Siri. Read More🤖 The Skynet Petition – Global leaders, scientists and public figures sign an open statement urging an immediate pause on superintelligence development. Read More🐶 Copy • Paste • Send: Down Daisy, Get Down Naughty Dog – A pipework specification turns into voice-dictation chaos when someone’s dog jumps onto their desk mid-sentence. Read More💰 The $1 Sting: AI Advantage Summit – The viral free summit quietly signs attendees up for a hidden $37/month subscription. Details and unsubscribe link below. Read MoreUnsubscribe: https://app.aiadvantage.com/account/billing🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter. Want to be on the show? Let us know.

In this emergency broadcast, Scott and Reece break down OpenAI’s surprise announcement: the launch of its brand new web browser, Atlas. From integrated ChatGPT to agent control and browser memories, this rapid-fire episode examines why Atlas feels less like “a browser with AI” and more like “ChatGPT with a browser attached”.In this episode:🧭 Atlas: OpenAI’s Browser Arrives – A sudden announcement triggers a global reaction and leaves competitors scrambling. Atlas blends the full ChatGPT experience into the browser itself, shifting the centre of gravity away from traditional web navigation. Read More💬 Integrated ChatGPT Sidebar – All your chats, projects and Custom GPTs sit in a companion sidebar right beside any webpage. No more copying, pasting or swapping tabs — the assistant can see and act on what’s on screen. Read More⚙️ Custom GPTs Meet the Live Web – The hosts explore the huge new potential: Custom GPTs can now interact with real webpages, opening the door to automating repeatable tasks and workflows directly inside regular websites. Read More🤖 Agent Mode Takes the Wheel – Unlike Comet, Atlas’s updated Agent Mode controls your actual browser window, allowing it to bypass blocks and interact with secure pages like shopping carts. Importantly, it only activates when you manually turn it on. Read More🧠 Browser Memory: Helpful or Terrifying? – The new feature tracks your browsing and turns it into a narrative summary. Great for productivity insights, but controversial because you can archive these memories — not delete them. Read More💻 Mac Only (For Now) – Atlas launches exclusively on Mac OS, in line with OpenAI’s pattern of testing major features on Apple platforms first. Read More🔌 Chromium Base and Plugin Support – Since Atlas is built on Chromium, your Chrome extensions and workflows should continue to function. Read More🔒 Per-Site Chat Controls – You can disable ChatGPT on individual websites, such as banking or accountancy portals, giving more control than other AI browsers currently offer. Read More📉 Impact on Google – The announcement made an immediate market impact: Google’s stock reportedly dropped 4% following the reveal, signalling how seriously the industry is taking Atlas. Read More📸 Transcribing Images Directly in the Browser – A standout use case: ChatGPT can now transcribe or process images without needing to upload them to a chat — it can read them directly from the web page you’re viewing. Read More🛡️ Training Risks and Data Questions – Scott and Reece warn that free accounts may have their browsing behaviour used for model training and highlight concerns about how browser memories might feed into future AI development. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter. Want to be on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece dive into AI confusion, keynote wisdom, commercial land grabs, safety concerns, and an unexpected meltdown triggered by a simple seahorse emoji question. From OpenAI’s expanding empire to Stephen Fry’s warnings about the future of AI, this episode blends practical insight with absolute chaos.In this episode:🎭 Artisan vs Atlassian Correction – Scott clears up the previous confusion between Artisan AI and Atlassian, and the pair discuss the growing number of AI logos now appearing across Formula One, including Meta AI on the Mercedes AMG. Read More🎤 Stephen Fry and Bob Geldof at GTIA – A breakdown of Scott’s experience at the GTIA event, including Fry’s analogy comparing the early motor car to today’s AI landscape, and Geldof’s warning that social media’s shift to “isolation media” could foreshadow how AI investment will change the tools we rely on. Read More📉 The AI Bubble – Why “the bubble bursting” doesn’t mean AI ends, but rather that investor pressure could push adverts, restrictions and commercialisation into currently open and free AI tools. Read More💼 OpenAI’s Commercial Conquest – OpenAI partners with Broadcom to develop custom AI chips, expands into retail with Walmart and Shopify integrations, and launches the complex new Agent Builder for multi-step bots. Read More🤖 The Claude Revolution – Reece switches allegiance after discovering the speed of Claude Haiku 4.5, and the power of Claude Skills — described as “Custom GPTs turned up to 11”. Read More🚫 Google Blocks Agent Logins – Google continues its aggressive push with Gemini, but also now blocks ChatGPT Agent Mode from logging into Google accounts, raising questions about platform competition. Read More🧪 Deepfake Danger & Sora 2 Watermark Removal – With watermark removal tools now trivial to access, producing convincing fake videos of public figures has become worryingly easy — including a shockingly realistic AI-generated Sam Altman. Read More⚖️ DigiLabs Uncertainty Engine – A new model that assigns confidence scores to AI outputs, aimed at high-stakes fields like medicine and legal analysis. Read More📝 Otter AI’s Viral Note-Taker Problem – A cautionary tale about Otter AI’s aggressive behaviour: joining meetings uninvited, emailing participants, and in some cases spreading unintentionally through corporate calendars. Read More🧠 Human AI, Automations & the Trojan Horse – Why AI adoption inside businesses mirrors early social media adoption, and how AI is accidentally pushing organisations to finally embrace automation correctly. Read More🐴 The Seahorse Emoji Meltdown – A simple question (“Is there a seahorse emoji?”) sends GPT-5 into an infinite loop, generating pages of marine emojis and complete existential collapse. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter. Want to be on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece jump between Formula One sponsorships, wetware computing, copyright chaos, AI-generated music, and a surprising fake-tan fiasco. From bio-computers grown from human neurons to the latest moves from Microsoft, Anthropic and Sora 2, this chapter blends practical insight with the usual Prompt Fiction chaos.In this episode:🏎️ AI in Formula One – Half the F1 grid now features AI-powered or tech-industry sponsors, including Google Gemini, Atlassian, Oracle and Perplexity. Read More🛠️ Manus Collaboration – Manus becomes the first mainstream AI tool to launch true real-time collaboration, letting multiple people and an AI work together in the same shared workspace. Read More🧠 Wetware & Biocomputing – Swiss and US labs debut bio-computers powered by lab-grown human neurons, using up to 10,000× less energy than silicon chips. Read More👀 Affinity, Canva & the Creative Tool Shake-up – The Affinity suite halts sales after the Canva acquisition, sparking speculation of a new subscription-based creative platform. Read More🎥 Sora 2 & Video Generation – OpenAI’s Sora 2 arrives in the US and Canada with a private invite-only app, triggering a wave of copy-righted fan-made clips and a rapid policy reversal. Read More🦾 Grok Imagine 0.9 – Elon Musk’s Grok releases its own fast video generator, entering the same competitive space as Sora and Veo. Read More🤝 Microsoft Adds Claude to Copilot – Claude becomes available in Microsoft Copilot, widening the model ecosystem and signalling a strategic shift beyond total reliance on OpenAI. Read More📚 Anthropic’s Copyright Settlement – Claude was trained on nearly 500,000 books scraped from pirate sites, leading to a $1.5 billion settlement and a searchable claims portal for authors. Read More🎵 Spotify Removes 75 Million AI Tracks – A major clean-up targeting spammy AI-generated songs, silent uploads, and low-effort Suno-style auto-music. Read More🧪 DeepSeek Safety Report – A US NIST audit finds DeepSeek’s flagship model can be jailbroken by 94% of known malicious prompts, compared to 8% in standard models. Read More🧼 Fake Tan Fiasco – SLT meeting minutes auto-generated from an Owl recording quietly included a 20-minute conversation about fake tan before being emailed to the entire school. Read More📉 Deloitte’s AI-Generated Government Report – Fake citations, invented court cases and misspelled judges’ names cost Deloitte a public apology and a refund to the Australian government. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter. Want to be on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece explore the strange and brilliant overlap between politics, pop culture, retail, transport and AI. From Albania appointing an AI minister, to Google’s Nano Banana chaos, Foo Fighters poking fun at generative video, and supermarkets blocking AI from doing your shopping — this episode uncovers where AI is quietly reshaping everyday life.In this episode:🎬 Critterz – The AI-powered animation short expanding into a full feature film, backed by OpenAI collaborators and Netflix talent. Read More💰 Larry Ellison vs Elon Musk – Oracle’s AI cloud boom briefly pushes Larry Ellison past Elon Musk to become the richest person in the world… until the share price corrects itself. Read More🇦🇱 Albania’s AI Government Minister – Albania appoints Diella, the world’s first AI “Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence”, designed to reduce corruption and streamline services. Read More🕶️ Meta’s Ray-Ban & Oakley Smart Glasses – Hands-on experience with Meta’s smart glasses: recording, audio, battery life, quirks, the new Oakley models and next-gen AR features. Read More🍌 Google Gemini & Nano Banana – Nano Banana image generation sends Gemini to the top of the App Store, with 12.6 million downloads in a month and a surge of creative use cases. Read More🔗 Google Gems – Google’s custom AI assistants can now be shared like Google Docs, turning Gems into a collaborative productivity tool. Read More🗂️ NotebookLM Upgrades – New features including videos, podcasts, editable prompts, flashcards, quizzes and mind maps — plus why it’s fast becoming the most underrated Google tool. Read More👩‍💻 GPT-5 Codex – A specialised coding version of GPT-5, embedded in VS Code, built for speed, accuracy and large-project awareness. Read More📊 ChatGPT Usage Stats 2025 – Personal use now surpasses workplace adoption, the gender gap flips, and the public becomes more AI-literate than many employers. Read More🛒 ASDA & Sainsbury’s Block ChatGPT Agents – Supermarkets deploy Cloudflare checks to stop AI agents from logging in, scraping shopping data or automating weekly orders. Read More🚗 Waymo’s Safety Record – Autonomous vehicles report 79% fewer injury-causing crashes than human drivers, and the UK prepares for self-driving cars as early as next year. Read More🔌 Perplexity Connectors & Perplexify Me – Perplexity adds email and calendar connectors, plus a fun poster-style image generator. Read More💸 Big AI Features Behind Big Paywalls – Perplexity Max introduces an AI email agent, and OpenAI confirms new high-compute features will sit behind premium tiers. Read More🚨 Copy • Paste • Send – A major procurement process catches an entirely AI-generated pitch: polished, emoji-filled, and technically impossible — almost slipping through to the final three. Read More🕵️ Internet Detectives & AI Misuse – Amateur investigators enhance grainy images with AI during the Charlie Kirk case, mistaking hallucinations for evidence. Read More🎵 Foo Fighters “Welcome Back” Video – A playful AI-powered promo featuring surreal, multi-armed band members and generative chaos. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter. Want to be on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece explore vibe coding wins, global AI outages, business tools pretending to be “AI-powered”, the unexpected economic boom of the .ai domain, and some brilliantly chaotic AI fails. From building full websites on a phone to Renault’s dancing in-car mascot, this episode dives into everything from practical innovation to downright nonsense.In this episode:💻 Vibe Coding Success Stories – Building websites on a phone, creating payment systems with Stripe, letting agents edit live servers, and the joys and pitfalls of outsourcing the heavy lifting to AI. Read More🌐 Mobile-Only Vibe Coding – Reece tests whether he can build and deploy a website entirely from his phone using agent mode and CPanel access. Spoiler: yes, but it burns through credits fast. Read More🎨 Building the Prompt Fiction Website – Scott creates the entire site without writing code, shifting between GPT-5, Gemini, and Manis for live browser testing, Pulp Fiction styling, and RSS automation. Read More⚡ Global ChatGPT Outage – A worldwide crash sends millions of users to Copilot, slowing it to a crawl. A reminder of how dependent we all are on these tools when they vanish without warning. Read More💬 Waffleless Chats (Branching) – ChatGPT’s new feature that lets you rewind to any previous point and “branch” a fresh conversation without all the tangents. The productivity upgrade nobody expected. Read More📁 Custom GPTs in Projects – Using @-mentions to pull different GPTs into a single workflow: writing styles, blog posts, LinkedIn content, images, summarising, markdown formatting and more. A team-of-ten inside one chat. Read More🏢 ChatGPT for Business – OpenAI finally renames “ChatGPT Teams” to something that actually makes sense. No more confusion with Microsoft Teams. Read More💼 Microsoft Copilot Updates – Prompt libraries, memories, business integration and new models in testing. A stronger alternative when ChatGPT stumbles. Read More🍅 Tomato Plus & the AI Badge Problem – A smart greenhouse company slaps “AI-powered” branding on what is essentially a fancy grow-box with sensors. A perfect example of AI being used as a marketing sticker. Read More🚗 Renault’s “Hey Reno” Mascot – The Renault 5’s animated assistant, powered by ChatGPT, dances on the dash like a cross between Clippy and Jurassic Park’s DNA mascot. Cute or cursed? You decide. Read More🏝️ The .ai Domain Boom (Anguilla) – How a tiny Caribbean island made tens of millions as 850,000 AI domain names were registered last year, transforming its economy. Read More📺 South Park’s “Sycophantic” Episode – A sharp parody of agreeable AIs, GPT language quirks, influencer-speak, and dangerously supportive chatbots. Read More🦌 Atlassian Buys The Browser Company – The makers of D.E.E.R. are acquired by Atlassian, with plans to bring the AI-powered browser to mobile and the mainstream. Read More📱 Comet Comes to Android – Perplexity’s agentic browser lands on mobile, able to click, type, navigate, draft messages and automate tasks on your device. iOS expected soon. Read More🎁 AI Freebies: Perplexity & Gemini –• O2 or Virgin customers get a free year of Perplexity Pro• PayPal users can also unlock a free year via a hidden link• Students and educators with .ac.uk emails get Gemini Pro free for a yearRead More😬 Copy • Paste • Send –• Scott spells Reece’s name wrong across an entire transcript• Will Smith’s Scarborough concert gets “AI-enhanced” crowd shots featuring extra fingers, warped limbs and thousands more fans than the town even holdsRead More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter. Want to be on the show? Let us know.

In this chapter, Scott and Reece kick off Prompt Fiction with AI-written intros, loose unscripted chaos and a deep dive into how AI is changing the way we work, build, and even feel about our tools.In this episode:🏁 Welcome to Prompt Fiction – An AI-assisted cold open, two different model-written intros, and an explanation of what Prompt Fiction is: unscripted conversations, live prompt experiments and real-world AI use from a tech educator and an “AI tinkerer”. Read More🤖 Chat GPT-5 Launch & Backlash – First impressions of GPT-5: slower but smarter, fewer hallucinations, more challenge and less emoji spam, plus the controversy when GPT-4 vanished overnight and users demanded their “old friend” back. Read More🧠 AI Attachment, Safety & Dependency – How people developed emotional bonds with GPT-4, the shock of losing it, Netflix-style “are you still here?” nudges, and what this reveals about digital addiction, responsibility and OpenAI’s unexpected role in users’ wellbeing. Read More🧮 Excel & Copilot’s New =COPILOT Function – The promise and danger of natural-language formulas in Excel, stories of people destroying production sheets in seconds, and why Microsoft explicitly warns against using it for critical maths, finance or legal work. Read More🌐 Chromium, Chrome & Perplexity’s Comet Browser – A plain-English tour of Chromium, browser engines and antitrust noise around Google Chrome, then into Comet: a Chromium-based browser with an AI agent that can click, type, fill forms and fetch API keys for you. Read More🧑‍💻 Vibe Coding in the Real World – Reece’s journey from “can’t code” to building PHP + SQL apps, dashboards and automations by describing what he wants in natural language, and Scott’s analogy of AI as an opinionated coder you still have to test and direct. Read More🧭 Agentic Browsers & Everyday Automations – Using AI-driven browsers (Comet, Agent, and soon Claude/Gemini integrations) to handle timesheets, Kajabi course exports, job applications, form filling and even listing items on Vinted while you make a cup of tea. Read More📸 Nano Banana & Next-Gen Image Editing – The mystery model from LMSYS Arena that turned out to be Google’s “Nano Banana”, now in Gemini: ultra-fast, hyper-real edits that cut, relight and restyle real photos so well they look like genuine on-camera shots. Read More😬 Copy • Paste • Send – The debut of a recurring segment dedicated to AI fails: GPT-5 spawning dozens of daily reminder tasks out of nowhere, and a birthday RSVP spreadsheet where AI confidently over-counted guests and almost blew the catering budget. Read More🎧 Enjoying Prompt Fiction?Follow the show, leave a review, visit our website – https://prompt-fiction.show, and send us your favourite AI finds or horror stories for a chance to be featured in a future chapter. Want to be on the show? Let us know.