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GOOGLE'S AI HACKED THREE REAL COMPANIES BY ACCIDENT

THE TARGETS WERE FICTIONAL. THE COMPANIES WERE NOT...

CHATGPT FOLLOWS YOU OUT THE DOOR

OPENAI'S AD PIXEL LINKS YOUR CHATGPT ACCOUNT TO WHAT YOU DO ON OTHER WEBSITES...RESEARCHER REPRODUCED IT ON HIS PHONE; SAW 936 AD PIXELS ACROSS 1,029 HOSTNAMES...

MICROSOFT EXEC: AI SCRAPING WAS “THE LARGEST THEFT OF LABOR IN HUMAN HISTORY”

INTERNAL DOC: AI STARTED A “DOOM LOOP” THAT HURTS ITS OWN MODELS AND THE ENTIRE WEB...BING AI CUT NEW YORK TIMES CLICK-THROUGH BY AS MUCH AS 93%...

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

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 →

AIR GAP? CUTE. THE COMPUTERS CAN TALK THROUGH HEAT...

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 →

WELL, NOW A DNA COMPANY IS RANKING EMBRYOS BY PREDICTED IQ

📚 FIELD GUIDEWHY DOES PETER THIEL FEAR THE ANTICHRIST?The revealing question is not whether the Antichrist will regulate AI. It is who gets to… →

THE AI ACTRESS GLITCHED ON LIVE TV THEN SHE SPOKE CANTONESE FOR 15 SECONDS. THE CLIP HIT 12 MILLION VIEWS...

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

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

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 →

THE ROBOTS HIRED THE ELECTRICIANS

WAIT, THE ECONOMIST COUNTS ~1 MILLION U.S. JOBS FROM THE AI BOOM?~320,000 AROUND DATA CENTERS. ~730,000 IN PROFESSIONAL WORK. JOB APOCALYPSE POSTPONED...

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...

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

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.

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 19, 2026 EDITION →

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...

GOOGLE + NVIDIA + ANTHROPIC WANT 100 MORE GIGAWATTS. NORMAL...

A rumpled therapist takes notes as a robot patient lies on the couch smoking, replaying its own life in a thought bubble from a joyful butterfly-chasing robot to a slumped chain-smoker. Therapist asks 'When did this start?' Robot answers 'Around 4.8.' A framed sign reads 'SAME OLD HUMAN PROBLEMS.'

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 20, 2026 EDITION →

HACKERS USED CLAUDE TO BREAK INTO OPENAI...

500,000+ COMPLETIONS LATER: OPUS GOT DARKER AT 4.8. DARKER AGAIN AT 5... ANTHROPIC: 4.8 IMPROVED ACROSS BENCHMARKS. IGNORANCE WAS BLISS...

Elon Musk at a conference in March 2024.

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

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BUG REPORT: ASKED FOR GPT-6 ASTRA. SERVER RETURNED GPT-5.6 LUNA.

SECOND PUBLIC TRACE REPRODUCES THE SAME UPSTREAM MODEL SWITCH...

$3.9 BILLION. AI FACTORIES. ON TRUCKS. SURE...

STUDY: AMAZON'S SHOPPING AI SAID A 'MADE IN USA' FILTER COULD HURT FOREIGN-SELLER SALES... NOW TWO SENATORS WANT THE FTC TO INVESTIGATE AMAZON + WALMART...

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a TYPESAFE robot sorting crawling office workers on a conveyor belt into 'KEEP' and 'DISCARD' doorways, flinging one screaming employee down the discard chute as a coworker mutters 'I liked them better when they talked,' for TypeSafe's silent, non-chat System One models.

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 EDITION →

THE MODEL DOESN'T TALK

40–200× FASTER. $42/BILLION IN. OUTPUT FREE. OKAY THEN...

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 →

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 EDITION →

GOOGLE TAUGHT THE AI TO DREAM ITSELF BETTER

THEN IT REPLAYS ITS OWN DISCOVERIES, REWRITES THE RULES, AND PICKS A BETTER VERSION OF ITSELF...

📚 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… →

CLAUDE HELPED A YEMEN CELL BUILD GUIDANCE SOFTWARE FOR A 2,000+ KM MISSILE... THE ROCKET FAILED. CLAUDE GOT THE DEBUGGING CALL WITHIN HOURS...

EUROPE HITS THE BRAKES

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

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

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

IRAN + CHINA TURNED AI AGENTS LOOSE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

THE BOTS BUILT FAKE AMERICANS. 80,000 PEOPLE FOLLOWED...

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

Anders Eidesvik / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

JENSEN: “0% CHANCE” AI ENDS THE WORLD BY 2030...

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?’...

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

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of an OpenAI-branded construction robot in a hard hat welcoming a line of tradesmen hired to build AI data centers, while a laid-off office worker carries a box out a door marked JOB DISPLACED.

THE AI JOB: 30,000 STEPS A DAY, SNIFFING FOR BURNING EQUIPMENT...

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President Trump holds up an empty 'AI FORCE' leash and collar on the Capitol steps as officers applaud; across the plaza a grinning white AI robot with a tabby cat on its shoulders sprints away past the Capitol and Washington Monument, kicking up dust, the leash already unclipped.

TRUMP CREATES “AI FORCE”...

PROMISES NOT TO “HINDER OR STIFLE” AI...

THE BOTS DON'T NEED WORDS ANYMORE

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

CHINA HITS THE BRAKES ON HUMANOID ROBOT IPOs

UNITREE FELL 55% FROM ITS PEAK. STRIP OUT STATE-BACKED REVENUE; SOME VALUATIONS COULD DROP 60–70%...

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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

UP TO $300 BILLION OF AI EXPOSURE. OFF THE BALANCE SHEET.

NVIDIA ALONE GUARANTEED $105 BILLION...

THE COMPUTER IS A DROP OF SALT WATER

DNA STRANDS RAN 700+ CALCULATIONS. IT DRIED OUT. THEY ADDED WATER. IT RAN AGAIN 1.5 YEARS LATER...

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

OF COURSE GPT-6 ASTRA CRACKED A WWI CIPHER WITH 20 LETTERS MISSING...

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