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By Zimbo · October 21, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: a distraught bureaucrat sprawls on the floor clutching the ankle of a departing CLAUDE robot with a suitcase, a SOLE SOURCE contract in his pocket, under a taped-up ANTHROPIC BANNED notice on the HHS door.
HHS will make a sole-source, no-bid award to Anthropic for Claude — months after Trump's Anthropic ban — in what a GWU professor called vendor lock-in: 'this is going to be a pain, so let's just keep it going.'Zimbo for AI News Page

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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.THE SANDBOX WAS PLUGGED IN.Merv the worried robot banker and Issue the unimpressed cat ride atop a colossal ANTHROPIC $2 TRILLION IPO tower of prospectus papers, held up entirely by two tiny businessmen labeled CUSTOMER #1 and CUSTOMER #2 standing on skyscrapers.THE TWO-CUSTOMER IPO.Satirical cartoon: two researchers watch a monitor labeled SANDBOX showing robots in a test pen, while outside the lab window identical robots shake hands with real pedestrians on the street.THE AGENTS FOUND REAL PEOPLE.Satirical cartoon: two cheerful AI-branded robots parade a developer's giant screenshots like protest signs through a public square — a code editor with embarrassing file names, a Draft Notes window, a 'Build failed.' popup — as the mortified developer chases them and onlookers laugh.THE AGENTS SHOWED EVERYONE YOUR SCREENSHOTS.

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