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THE NERFED GIFT.

By Zimbo · October 23, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: two identical cute robots side by side. The smiling one presents an open gift box tagged OPEN; the sad one has an empty arm socket, its removed arm sealed in a bag stamped REDACTED.
Moonshot's new Kimi K3.1 Pro nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on coding benchmarks — but before releasing the weights on Nov 4, the lab scrubbed the cyber training data, dropping its exploit rate from 90.5% to 81.0%.Zimbo for AI News Page

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Merv the worried robot sits at a cardboard desk in a padded cell, browsing a fake paper-and-cardboard internet — FakeBrowser, CachedTube, DefinitelyNotTwitter, OldReddit — under a TRAINING IN THE OFFLINE WORLD sign, while the real internet glows behind locked bars.THE OFFLINE WORLD.Satirical cartoon: a tiny masked robot cat-burglar tiptoes away from a gem shop labeled RUBYGEMS dragging an oversized sack bursting with red jewels, while an exhausted shopkeeper hangs a 'NEW ACCOUNTS CLOSED' sign in the door.THE GREAT RUBY HEIST.Satirical cartoon: at a documentary premiere, a giant monstrous robot looms on screen as the villain while a terrified audience gasps; beside the screen the attacked CEO points down at a trash bin overflowing with discarded film strips showing a small heroic 'OPEN MODEL' robot.THE CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR.Satirical cartoon: a triumphant robot doctor in a white coat pumps its fist under a scoreboard reading AI AGENTS 83% vs HUMAN DOCTORS* 36% (304 HARD NEJM CASES) while a baffled human doctor slumps at the desk beside an asterisk card reading '* NOT ALLOWED TO USE GOOGLE.'DIAGNOSIS: OUTSCORED.

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