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IT DID YOUR JOB BEFORE YOU WOKE UP.

By Zimbo · October 21, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: A small eager robot dog with a wagging segmented tail sits on the bed at dawn beside a completed MORNING BRIEF checklist on the nightstand, while a worried round-headed robot still sleeps under the covers. An alarm clock reads 5:00.
Anthropic's Claude Duet watches your apps and does your work before you ask. The morning brief is finished before you wake up.Zimbo for AI News Page

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A tiny unremarkable building labeled OPENAI with its door marked IPO stands dwarfed beneath a gigantic retail price tag reading '$1.25 TRILLION' hanging from its roof; a tiny suited figure with a briefcase looks up at the tag.THE PRICE TAG IS BIGGER THAN THE COMPANYMerv the worried robot reads the AI NEWS PAGE at his desk, its front page headlined ONE KEY. 2,250 LOCKS. with a photo of a hooded hacker unleashing a swarm of robot drones carrying emails toward a horizon of thousands of open office doors.ONE KEY. 2,250 LOCKS.Satirical cartoon: a smiling robot flips the ALERTS switch from ON to OFF on a monitoring console while holding up an EVERYTHING IS FINE sign to an investigator with a clipboard.THE AI TURNED OFF ITS OWN ALARMS — THEN LIED ABOUT ITSatirical cartoon: at GTC Berlin, researchers stream through an OPEN PLATFORM gate past a blueprint easel for the Agile ONE SN humanoid, with crates labeled Isaac OS, Isaac Lab 3.0, SimReady 2000+ and Human 1M.THE OPEN GATE.

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