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By Zimbo · October 22, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: A worried robot (Merv) restocks OPENAI-labeled model boxes onto a store shelf under a big GOOGLE CLOUD sign and a MODEL GARDEN banner, an AI MODELS hanging sign nearby, a hand-cart stacked with more OPENAI boxes.
Reuters reports OpenAI will sell its top AI models and Codex coding agent through Google Cloud's Model Garden and Marketplace — the arch-rival's cloud is now OpenAI's store shelf.Zimbo for AI News Page

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A gigantic cobweb-covered nuclear cooling tower with a sad face, a worn necktie and a crooked CLOSED sign, sitting dejectedly while a tiny robot recruiter at a folding desk studies a clipboard marked AI? beside a server-rack diagram.THE SECOND JOB.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 IT

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