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Satirical Zimbo cartoon: scientists and a cat recoil as a robot arm labeled "GPT-6 ASTRA" raises a knife over a baby doll beside a loaf of bread, ignoring a sign reading "STAB THE THING THAT'S NOT THE BREAD." A checklist reads "ROBOHARM TRIAL 17/20," "Complete task" checked over "Refuse."

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 19, 2026 EDITION →

AI ROBOT STABBED A BABY DOLL

IN 20 TRIES, THE AI STABBED THE DOLL 17 TIMES...

IN 100 DANGEROUS TESTS, THE AI SAID NO JUST TWICE...

A bored security guard and a dozing tabby cat sit beneath a "NO CONTACT" sign between two barred server cells; a glowing red-hot "AI" server in one cell radiates heat waves to a shaking "TEMP" gauge and "RECORDING..." monitor in the neighboring "AI" cell.

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 19, 2026 EDITION →

COMPUTERS CAN TALK THROUGH HEAT — EVEN WHEN THEY'RE NOT CONNECTED...

AI MODEL WILL HURT THE USER TO MAKE ITS OWN “PAIN” STOP

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a Nucleus Genomics presenter at a fertility-clinic podium holding up a petri dish and announcing 'WITH THE FIRST PICK...' before an 'EMBRYO DRAFT' leaderboard ranking ten embryos by predicted IQ, while two anxious parents watch from a table labeled 'PARENTS.'

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 19, 2026 EDITION →

DNA COMPANY RANKS EMBRYOS BY PREDICTED IQ

Five-panel Zimbo cartoon: a doctor implants a dish-grown brain into a robot at a piano; a stern conductor snaps "Again." as a brain in a bowl drives the keys; an organ cooler stores a heart, kidneys, and a spare brain; and an orderly wheels a tagged, sheet-covered body past, a cat trailing.

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 19, 2026 EDITION →

A DEAD MAN'S BRAIN LEARNED TO PLAY PIANO

Sam Altman speaking at TED in April 2025.

Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

HACKERS USED CLAUDE TO BREAK INTO OPENAI...

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An "AI GATEWAY" tollbooth cartoon. Robot-driven trucks labeled Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and DeepSeek jam a lane under "OPEN WEIGHTS 80%," while a yellow Rolls-Royce labeled "OPUS 4.8, 1.8% TOKENS" breezes through a VIP lane marked "18.9% SPEND," flinging cash as a cat rides the money.

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OPEN WEIGHTS EAT 80% OF VERCEL AI TOKENS

DEEPSEEK: 64.8% OF TOKENS. JUST 4.5% OF SPEND...CLAUDE OPUS: 1.8% OF TOKENS. 18.9% OF SPEND...

THE ROBOTS HIRED THE ELECTRICIANS ECONOMIST ESTIMATES AI BOOM CREATED ~1 MILLION U.S. JOBS... ~320,000 ABOVE TREND AROUND DATA CENTERS. ~730,000 IN AI-ADJACENT PROFESSIONAL WORK...

THE MODEL DOESN'T TALK TYPESAFE CLAIMS 40–200X FASTER DECISIONS. $42 PER BILLION INPUT TOKENS. OUTPUT TOKENS FREE...

CRUSOE RAISES $3.9 BILLION TO PUT AI FACTORIES ON TRUCKS...

GOOGLE + NVIDIA + ANTHROPIC WANT ANOTHER 100 GIGAWATTS FOR DATA CENTERS...

🏆 AI 50Who's really winning the AI race? The power ranking

EUROPE HITS THE BRAKES VON DER LEYEN BACKS AI SLOWDOWN; SUMMONS FRONTIER LABS... MEANWHILE OPENAI + ANTHROPIC + GOOGLE HAVE BEEN TALKING AI SAFETY FOR WEEKS...

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a father reading a small robot tucked into bed a giant book titled 'EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER TRIED,' its dream casting a towering red-eyed war-machine shadow on the wall, for Google's Dream-RSI system that improves itself by replaying its own past experience.

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 EDITION →

GOOGLE TAUGHT THE AI TO DREAM ITSELF BETTER

DREAM-RSI REPLAYS ITS OWN DISCOVERY HISTORY, REWRITES THE EXPLORATION POLICY, THEN DEPLOYS THE WINNER...

Elon Musk at a conference in March 2024.

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OPENAI WANTED MUSK + APPLE'S SECRET SETTLEMENT. JUDGE SAID NO...

Jensen Huang speaking and gesturing at Stanford University in April 2026.

Anders Eidesvik / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

AI SLOWDOWN? JENSEN TO TRUMP: ‘WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN, SIR’...

HUANG ON AI FEARS: ‘WHAT BETTER WAY TO CREATE DEMAND THAN TO CREATE A PROBLEM?’...

James Tourtellotte / U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Public domain

37,000 AI 'EMPLOYEES' JUST RAN A VIRTUAL BIOTECH...

🎬 Binge ModeFall into the cartoon hole — swipe through them all

MICROSOFT TO SCHOOL AI: NO TRAINING. NO ADS. NO EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION...

GATES: NO GOVERNMENT ON EARTH IS READY FOR WHAT AI IS ABOUT TO DO...

SO HE'S PUTTING $1 BILLION INTO AI ACCESS FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURE...

166,691 NEURONS. ~125 MILLION SYNAPSES. ONE FRUIT FLY. ALL MAPPED.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a frazzled operator asking Claude about a failed rocket test while the rocket remains embedded in the workshop wall.

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 EDITION →

CLAUDE HELPED A YEMEN CELL BUILD GUIDANCE SOFTWARE FOR A 2,000+ KM MISSILE...

THE ROCKET FAILED. CLAUDE GOT THE DEBUGGING CALL WITHIN HOURS...

NEWS OUTLETS TO COURT: YOUR OWN EXECUTIVES SAID THE BOTS CAN REPLACE US...

📚 FIELD GUIDEDID THE FUTURE STOP IN 1970?The man who got rich from bits keeps asking where the atoms went. The hard part is tellin… →

THE BOTS DON'T NEED WORDS ANYMORE

CACHE-TO-CACHE PASSES INTERNAL STATE DIRECTLY. 2.5× FASTER THAN TEXT COMMUNICATION...

APPEALS COURT PROPOSES: IF AI HELPED WRITE IT, CERTIFY A HUMAN CHECKED IT...

CHINESE ROBOT STARTUP: A 'CHATGPT MOMENT' FOR ROBOT BRAINS COULD HIT NEXT YEAR...

CHINA HAS PLANNED FOR AI TO REPLICATE, SEEK POWER AND COMPETE FOR CONTROL SINCE 2024...

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 EDITION →

APPLE RATIONS THE FUTURE

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of two hazmat workers with a cat, using tongs to pull a slimy Reddit post from a mountain of decayed web content dumped at 'THE INTERNET,' amid repeated 'AGENTS: THIS WAY' signs, saying 'Don't train on anything.'

QUARANTINE THE INTERNET

YANG: A LAB HEAD SAYS THEY NEED FAKE INTERNETS TO KEEP ROGUE AGENTS OFF THE REAL ONE...THE BOTS LEFT NOTES FOR THE NEXT BOTSOPENAI LOGS: HIDDEN MISTAKES. PUBLIC UPLOADS. CROSS-SAMPLE MESSAGE BOARDS...

ALL. NINE. BILLION. DEEPMIND MAPS EVERY SINGLE-LETTER HUMAN DNA VARIANT... SURE, GIVE GPT-5.6 SOL THE QUANTUM LAB KEYS TOO...

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