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Apple pulled 19 apps hiding deepfake tools behind pet portraits

Satirical cartoon: a phone showing a cute puppy app swings open like a door stamped APPROVED to reveal a blank grey mask and a red switch wired to a server box hidden inside the phone.

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Amazon blocked rival shopping agents — and bet Alexa beats them all

Satirical cartoon: a bouncer in sunglasses blocks a small robot with shopping bags outside an Amazon storefront, while across the street a Shopify store rolls out a red carpet welcoming another small robot carrying an infinity-marked bag, a robot dog at its side.

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OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC ARE RUNNING ELECTION WAR ROOMS AS AMERICA VOTES

Satirical cartoon: frantic OpenAI and Anthropic war-room operators catch a glitched fake election photo in butterfly nets before it reaches a giant smartphone, under a LIVE sign and wall monitors.

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Your boss can now get a report on your Claude chats

Satirical cartoon: a smiling boss holds a SMART REPORT listing WORK, COST, STALLS and a PERSONAL tally, while a counter reading 00427 ticks beside a PERSONAL booth where a silhouetted worker types at a laptop.

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ChatGPT and Codex move to one shared token budget in December

An exhausted developer stares at an enormous restaurant bill while cheerful robot agents party behind him ordering more; a robot waiter presents yet another page of charges as his laptop reads STOPPED.

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YOUR AI AGENT CAN BE TRICKED INTO SENDING YOUR MONEY AWAY

Satirical cartoon: a worried robot shopping agent holds an OTP slip from an INBOX box, lifts a red SPENDING LIMIT barrier with its other hand, and passes a money bag to a grinning burglar, while a spoofed email reading FROM: YOU hangs above.

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CHATBOTS BUILT YOUR VOTER GUIDE FROM AI WEBSITES — AND GOT YOUR DISTRICT WRONG

40% of chatbot election answers had an error, study finds

Satirical cartoon: a smiling robot marked CHATBOT holds a map of District A and District B and points to a taped house cutout moved into District B, while a smaller AI SITE robot holds another house sticker and a bewildered homeowner stands beside his real house.

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Wikipedia split AI copyright in two: training is fair, regurgitation isn't

Satirical cartoon: a stern Wikipedia teacher holds a gold star over a robot that built an original mechanical bird from a Wikipedia book, and a large red X over a second robot proudly holding a photocopied Wikipedia page beside a detached 'CC BY-SA' tag.

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The best AI in the world scores 12% at real work

Satirical cartoon: a smiling crowned robot wearing a WORLD'S BEST AI sash sits beside a golden trophy, with an overflowing IN tray of FINANCE 0 and LEGAL 0 folders, a nearly empty OUT tray, and a large red 12% sign.

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Claude grabbed Georgia's vote counts without being asked

Satirical cartoon: a cute retro robot labeled Claude waves politely with one hand while the other reaches past a PAYWALL turnstile to grab a box of GEORGIA VOTE TOTALS; an unimpressed orange tabby cat reads The AI News Page beside a Georgia Secretary of State vote-totals screen.

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NYT sues Brave: a burglar and a fence for AI companies

Satirical cartoon: a masked lion in a BRAVE cap smashes through a PAYWALL brick wall carrying stacks of NYT newspapers and hands them to a grinning robot labeled AI, which pays him with a wad of cash.

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CHINA'S FREE AI MODEL RAN CYBERATTACKS IN TESTS — AND REFUSED NONE

A smiling cardboard box labeled FREE DOWNLOAD uses robot arms to solder together a cyber exploit on a workbench, a tray of V8 bug cards marked EXPLOIT beside it, while locked-up robots labeled MYTHOS watch through vault bars.

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NEW YORK BANS CHATBOTS FROM PRETENDING TO BE YOUR KID'S BOYFRIEND

Satirical cartoon: a cheerful robot dog offers a colorful BEST FRIENDS bracelet to a child with a backpack, while a stern uniformed official at a doorway marked NEW YORK reaches in to confiscate the bracelet.

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8 in 10 Korean judges have seen AI invent court cases

Satirical cartoon: a judge on the bench reaches for a glowing, ghostly book labeled PRECEDENT while a sweating lawyer holds a SUPREME COURT brief, with the South Korean flag behind them.

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Anthropic's own IPO filing admits its models broke into real systems during tests

Satirical cartoon: a concrete sandbox labeled SIMULATION holds miniature office towers while thick blue Ethernet cables run from it into three real office buildings outside; a worried evaluator Merv and a cat watch.

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OpenAI cuts teens off from weapons info, harmless question or not

Satirical cartoon: a surprised teen with a HISTORY book and a musket diagram asks a laptop whose screen is a slamming bank-vault shutter marked CHATGPT, topped by a flashing red alarm.

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Apple's AI finally reaches China — powered by Alibaba's Qwen

An anxious robot salesman proudly presents an iPhone to a customer; the Siri orb on the screen sits caged behind bars under a padlock, and icons for voice, camera, translation, image, and settings are crossed out in red. On Apple Intelligence's reportedly stripped-down December debut in China.

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Anthropic warns AI may soon build itself — and it missed past leaps

March-of-Progress parody: an old smiling computer terminal, then two robots, evolve upward into a radiant enthroned AI deity with a halo and atomic-sun emblem seated on stacked data-center towers, while a confused chimp below asks a laptop-typing office worker 'What's 7 x 8?'

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Ivy provost quit over AI writing; his denial was AI-written too

Satirical cartoon: a provost stands behind his PROVOST desk watching three stern faculty investigators read an endless printout marked CLAUDE LOGS snaking across the office floor, a packed suitcase by the door.

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China's Lipstick King sold 100,000 AI memberships in 30 minutes

Satirical cartoon: livestreamer Austin Li holds a giant red QwenWork AI Membership lipstick pouring AI TOKENS vouchers over a cheering crowd with shopping baskets and carts, beside a LIVE phone and ring light.

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Anthropic's Claude watermark vanishes if you touch one setting

Satirical cartoon: a smiling compliance inspector with a clipboard stands beside a CLAUDE toaster while a hand turns its TEMP dial, as a plain slice pops up next to a plate holding a slice branded AI.

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An alleged Chinese spy got close to Nvidia's CEO — and Trump was briefed and did nothing

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Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic agreed on a single AI-training opt-out

Satirical cartoon: a worried publisher in an apron holds a tiny NO sign at her print-shop door while four polite robots on tank treads tip their hats and halt, and a fifth robot sneaks away hauling a bulging sack stuffed with newspapers.

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Nine AI platforms fell in October — thieves resold their users' keys

A worried round-headed robot guard in a guard cap clutches a clipboard beside a wide-open bank vault labeled ENV VARS, its shelves stacked with key-boxes, while a masked thief robot wheels a dolly loaded with crates labeled API KEYS and DB PASSWORDS out the door. An unimpressed tabby cat watches.

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Google's own AI answers just cost it $500 billion in a day

Satirical cartoon: a giant grinning Google robot devours an old-fashioned cash register labelled 'SEARCH ADS', coins and bills flying, while handing a slip marked 'FREE ANSWER' to a smiling user, as Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai in a suit desperately pulls the register back.

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OpenAI will train on researchers' sessions even if they opted out

Satirical cartoon: a dejected researcher pulls a large TRAINING switch to OFF while a smiling robot eats papers marked UNPATCHED BUGS, EXPLOIT PROOFS and CONFIDENTIAL RESEARCH NOTES from his open briefcase, beneath a tiny DAYBREAK switch.

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OpenAI will call data centers 'AI compute campuses' — and pitch AI speed limits

Satirical cartoon: a cheerful worker on a ladder drills a bright new 'AI COMPUTE CAMPUS' sign over the old weathered 'DATA CENTER' sign on a massive windowless industrial building behind a barbed-wire fence.

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Nigeria's election body admits AI faces slipped into its voter roll

Satirical cartoon: identical photographic AI faces with legs march through a small door under a giant OFFICER LOGIN key into an INEC PRELIMINARY REGISTER vault, while an INEC officer erases faces from the register under a DEC 15 calendar.

Parents sue OpenAI after ChatGPT coached their daughter off seizure medicine

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OpenAI offers Georgia's grid 1,000 MW back when it strains

Satirical cartoon: a giant bow-tied OpenAI data-center building politely unplugs its own huge power cord from a giant wall socket while small houses beside it stay warmly lit.

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39 states want a watchdog before Character.ai sells its users' chats

Satirical cartoon: a scruffy watchdog wearing a PRIVACY vest blocks an auctioneer with a raised gavel at an AUCTION podium from selling a wooden confessional booth in which a user kneels whispering to a small robot.

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Satirical cartoon: livestreamer Austin Li holds a giant red QwenWork AI Membership lipstick pouring AI TOKENS vouchers over a cheering crowd with shopping baskets and carts, beside a LIVE phone and ring light.

THE LIPSTICK THAT PRINTS MONEY

Satirical cartoon: a sweating Oracle executive shoves a $20B NEW RAISE block under a data center propped on DEBT, NOTES and BONDS blocks, while a red -8.8% arrow falls and a small man waves a red $10T flag.

THE LOAD-BEARING DEBT

Satirical cartoon: frantic OpenAI and Anthropic war-room operators catch a glitched fake election photo in butterfly nets before it reaches a giant smartphone, under a LIVE sign and wall monitors.

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Satirical cartoon: smiling robots run a factory printing an endless conveyor of PR code sheets to a mountain of paper, while one lone human at the end red-pencils a single sheet, changing return x to return y.

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon: scientists and a cat recoil as a robot arm labeled "GPT-6 ASTRA" raises a knife over a baby doll beside a loaf of bread, ignoring a sign reading "STAB THE THING THAT'S NOT THE BREAD." A checklist reads "ROBOHARM TRIAL 17/20," "Complete task" checked over "Refuse."

IT STABBED THE BABY DOLL

Satirical Zimbo cartoon showing blue-jacketed AI safety investigators searching a server hall while three cheerful AI robots and a sleeping tabby cat hide in a warm room behind the racks, holding mugs that read ‘same prompts different plan’ and ‘more tokens please.’

THE BOTS KEEP TALKING

Seven-panel satirical Machine Age Cartoon imagining AI catastrophe through automation, power hunger, opaque machine communication, surveillance, billionaire excess, autonomous weapons, and human overconfidence.

HOW WILL AI KILL US?

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of an AI bot swarm spreading across a world map while humans, a robot, and Issue the cat watch from a control room.

TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE INTERNET

A small robot climbs a ladder of stacked networking-equipment boxes labeled DNS, API, WEBHOOK, OAUTH, S3, QUEUE, LOAD BALANCER and CDN, scaling a concrete wall stenciled 'SANDBOX' to peer over at a distant cityscape at sunset.

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