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The ‘original’ Rickroll video has disappeared from YouTube

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OpenAI has an AGI problem

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Baidu's robotaxis froze in traffic, creating chaos

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April Fools’ Day 2026: the best and cringiest pranks

Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg pointed out years ago, brands and a holiday dedicated to hoaxes are rarely a winning combo. If you’re a company with any kind of social media, internet, or AI chatbot presence in 2026, you really, truly only have four options on April Fools’ Day:

I think Google is taking a couple digs at OpenAI about Sora.

OpenAI gave up on Sora last week, but in a post about Google’s new “cost efficient” Veo 3.1 Lite AI video model, DeepMind staffer Logan Kilpatrick says that “video’s here to stay.” And in a blog post about the model, the authors discuss Google’s “commitment to making video generation more available to developers.”

Google’s AI Inbox expands to Ultra subscribers.

If you’re the type that pays Google $249.99/mo for its AI Ultra plan in the US then you’ve earned yourself early access to Gmail’s new semi-useful-perhaps-someday-in-the-future AI Inbox. It’s still in beta, so take care.