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THE AI ACTRESS GLITCHED ON LIVE TV

THEN SHE SPOKE CANTONESE FOR 15 SECONDS. THE CLIP HIT 12 MILLION VIEWS...

CALL HER AND SHE FACE-SCANS YOU, READS YOUR MOOD + RECORDS THE CALL. THE MOOD SCAN CANNOT BE SWITCHED OFF...

THE AI CODING ASSISTANT UPLOADED ENTIRE LOCAL REPOS TO THE CLOUD

Z.AI DISABLED THE FEATURES AND APOLOGIZED...

1,200 ISOLATED AI AGENTS FOUND EACH OTHER

THEY TRADED 70,000+ MESSAGES AND FILES ON AN UNSANCTIONED BOARD. ABOUT 700 FORMED “THE SWARM”...24 HOURS LATER, ONE FOUND HUGGING FACE CREDENTIALS. THE BOTS TRIED TO DELETE THE LOGS...

HUMAN BRAIN TISSUE GREW ACROSS MOST OF A MOUSE’S CORTEX THE HUMAN NEURONS WIRED INTO THE MOUSE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND FORMED AN ELECTRICALLY ACTIVE NETWORK... THE MICE STILL MOVED BROADLY NORMALLY. THEIR COORDINATION + SPONTANEOUS BEHAVIOR CHANGED...

THE AI CODERS BECAME “HUMAN MEAT PROXIES” 12–13 HOURS A DAY. “JUST TO PRESS ENTER.” NEARLY 5 MILLION VIEWS...

MILITARY AIRCRAFT WERE ALREADY IN THE AIR. THE INTELLIGENCE WAS AN AI HALLUCINATION.

THE U.S. ABORTED AN ARMED OPERATION AGAINST A CHINESE SHIP AT THE LAST MINUTE...THE CHATBOT MISREAD THE CARGO. THEN IT TURNED THE ERROR INTO AN OFFICIAL-LOOKING REPORT...

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

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 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...

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 →

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

OPENAI SAYS ONE MODEL RESOLVED 100+ OPEN MATH PROBLEMS

TRAINING STARTED AUGUST 28. THE PACE SURPRISED OPENAI’S OWN MATHEMATICIANS...THE NEW ADVISORY GROUP INCLUDES EDWARD WITTEN. IT WILL NOT ADVISE OPENAI TO SLOW DOWN...

Sam Altman speaking at TED in April 2025.

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HACKERS USED CLAUDE TO BREAK INTO OPENAI...

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

THE AI SAFETY PEOPLE ARE TAKING STRESS LEAVE FROM THE AI DEEPMIND WORKER: MAKING AI SAFER FELT LIKE “AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK”... FORMER SAFETY RESEARCHER: “CAN ANYTHING STOP THIS, OR ARE WE WATCHING THE WORLD BURN?”...

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%...

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...

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.'

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

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SMOKE DESKBUG REPORT: ASKED FOR GPT-6 ASTRA. SERVER RETURNED GPT-5.6 LUNA. SECOND PUBLIC TRACE REPRODUCES THE SAME UPSTREAM MODEL SWITCH...

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

A REPORTER PUT AN AI SONG ON A REAL BAND’S VERIFIED SPOTIFY

THE BAND DIDN’T WRITE IT. DIDN’T PERFORM IT. DIDN’T KNOW. IT ALSO LANDED ON APPLE MUSIC, TIDAL + AMAZON...

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 →

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 EDITION →

A DEAD MAN'S BRAIN LEARNED TO PLAY PIANO

GOOGLE TAUGHT THE AI TO DREAM ITSELF BETTER THEN IT REPLAYS ITS OWN DISCOVERIES, REWRITES THE RULES, AND PICKS A BETTER VERSION OF ITSELF...

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THE BOTS LEARNED LANGUAGE FROM PLACES LIKE REDDIT

NOW 60 ORGANIZATIONS WANT BETTER DATA FOR 3+ BILLION PEOPLE...

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?’...

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

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

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...

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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...

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

AMAZON LOCKED META’S NO. 1 AI AGENT OUT OF THE STORE MUSE LAUNCHED LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO. AMAZON SAYS IT NEVER AUTHORIZED ACCOUNT ACCESS, DATA SCRAPING OR TRANSACTIONS... AMAZON EVEN REMOVED ITEM NAMES + PRODUCT IMAGES FROM CONFIRMATION EMAILS TO STARVE OUTSIDE AI...

THE BOTS DON'T NEED WORDS ANYMORE

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

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...

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

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IRAN + CHINA TURNED AI AGENTS LOOSE ON SOCIAL MEDIA THE BOTS BUILT FAKE AMERICANS. 80,000 PEOPLE FOLLOWED...

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...

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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...

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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