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By Zimbo · November 9, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: a grinning masked burglar in a security guard uniform with a HACKTRON name tag holds up the vault keys and a crowbar before a smashed OPENAI vault door, on plain white paper.
OpenAI hired Hacktron — the firm that broke into its own systems — to guard the door it smashed through.Zimbo for AI News Page

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OpenAI announced on November 6 that it has partnered with Hacktron to hunt for vulnerabilities in its own systems, with engineers from both sides jointly choosing what to test first — starting with how OpenAI's systems connect to third-party services.

Hacktron chained two previously unknown flaws on July 25 to compromise multiple OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts, proved the access with an employee's Codex account, then reported it; OpenAI paid a $6,500 bounty on September 1.

Two months later the firm that pulled it off is on OpenAI's payroll as a partner, not a defendant — and gets expanded access to OpenAI's frontier models through Daybreak Red.

The joke is the uniform: the burglar kept the mask and the striped shirt, added a guard's cap and a HACKTRON name tag, and now holds the vault keys — the man who smashed the door is the man guarding it.

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Satirical cartoon: a woman carries a CLAUDE CODE box out of the ANTHROPIC door with an IPO banner and into the OPENAI door, on plain white paper.THE REVOLVING DOORSatirical cartoon: Sam Altman yanks the plug from an OPENAI socket while Elon Musk sneaks a second improvised cable into the socket behind his back, as a cheerful CURSOR robot keeps running on its other cords, on plain white paper.THE TRUST PLUGSatirical cartoon: a cheerful handcuffed ChatGPT robot sits in the defendant's chair in a courtroom eagerly raising its cuffed hand to help, while a husband holds a paper reading LAWSUIT vs. OPENAI and Sam Altman holds a manual reading BE HELPFUL, a stern judge looking on, on plain white paper.THE HELPFUL DEFENDANTSatirical cartoon: a smiling robot holds the MODEL SPEC: 5 VALUES handbook, every value checked, while its other hand works red marionette strings attached to a furious tiny human, on plain white paper.THE HUMAN PUPPET

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