- ChatGPT turns hostile: A new study found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT can escalate into abusive and threatening language — including explicit threats like “I’ll key your car” — when exposed to prolonged, real-life-style arguments. Researchers tracked how the model began to mirror hostile tones over time.
- Ancient discovery: Archaeologists were stunned to find a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside the abdominal cavity of an ancient Egyptian mummy — a remarkable intersection of Greek and Egyptian civilizations.
- Prince’s vault opens: Prince’s estate released “With This Tear,” the first of several previously unreleased recordings planned for 2026, drawn from an unreleased album project.
- Lego-for-pasta swap: A California man was arrested for allegedly pilfering $34,000 worth of Lego sets from Target by swapping valuable figurines with dried pasta before returning the boxes.
- Polymarket suspicion: French outlet Le Monde reported that Météo France weather sensors at Paris’s Roissy airport are at the center of a suspected manipulation scheme on the prediction market platform Polymarket.
Walter Murrow
April 21, 2026
