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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...

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 →

Sam Altman speaking at TED in April 2025.

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HACKERS USED CLAUDE TO BREAK INTO OPENAI...

SMOKE DESK

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

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

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ZIMBO

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.

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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...

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

ZIMBO

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.

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