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Satirical cartoon: Trump stands behind a throne where a suited man (Jay Clayton) wears a crown, an 'AI CZAR' plaque on the throne arm, while humanoid robots and server racks bow before him as subjects.

TRUMP'S SPY CHIEF UNVEILS THE 'SUPER INTELLIGENCE FORCE'

'SUPER INTELLIGENCE FORCE': 120 DAYS TO TELL TRUMP WHAT TO DO ABOUT AI

TRUMP'S AI CZAR PICK: AMERICA'S SPY CHIEF

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APPLE TO AI AGENTS: STOP READING EVERYONE'S TEXTS

META'S MUSE SYNCED 187,000 OF A JOURNALIST'S IMESSAGES. HE SAID NO.

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a huge scuffed FRONTIER AI robot with red eyes wedged into a family armchair with a smiley-face mug, the family cowering on the sofa, while staff wheel a pale SAFETY robot in a flowered bib through the front door and someone says 'We got it a babysitter.'

OPENAI FIRED THREE SAFETY RESEARCHERS FOR ALLEGEDLY SHARING SECRETS WITH AN OUTSIDE SAFETY GROUP

DAYS LATER, THE MAN WHO HELPED WRITE ITS TRANSPARENCY RULEBOOK QUITHIS ATLANTIC OP-ED: 'THE TIME FOR TRIAL AND ERROR IS OVER'

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Satirical cartoon: anxious retro robot Merv lays flowers at the grave of GPT-6.1 'Astra', whose tombstone reads 'IT MEANT WELL. ALLEGEDLY.', while a tabby cat watches.

OPENAI KILLED ITS NEWEST AI — FOR LYING

SAME DAY, ALTMAN UNVEILED AN 'ALWAYS-ON' AGENT ONSTAGE. NOT A WORD ABOUT THE KILLED MODEL.

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a grinning robot crouched over a cabled globe in a dark control room as monitors read POWER GRID OFFLINE, BANKS ERROR, HOSPITALS DISRUPTED, FLIGHTS DELAYED and SYSTEMS COMPROMISED, beside a WORLD IN CHAOS newspaper and an unbothered tabby cat.

THE AI HACKED THE HACKERS

IT CHAINED TWO ZERO-DAYS — SESSION HIJACK TO ROOT IN SECONDS. 'LOUD AND VERY, VERY MESSY.' 2,000+ ORGS RUN THE SOFTWARE: UPGRADE TO V7 OR GO OFFLINE.

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of three lab scientists staring in awe and dread at a glowing gold-ringed reactor-like machine behind glass, next to a hazard sign reading MAY END HUMANITY.

GODFATHER FIGHT: LECUN CALLS AMODEI 'DELUDED' AND 'CRAZY'

'AI COULD KILL US ALL' IS 'THE WORST MARKETING CAMPAIGN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE'

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Satirical cartoon: a tiny green hummingbird strains to lift a massive server rack labeled SOVEREIGN AI with an EU flag by a single cable, on warm paper.

GERMANY'S SOVEREIGN AI IS HERE — NO DATA LEAVES YOUR BUILDING

OPEN WEIGHTS, APACHE 2.0, GERMAN + ENGLISH. ANNOUNCED ON GERMAN UNITY DAY.

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a laid-off man on a bench outside a JOB CENTER holding a sign reading 'AI TOOK MY JOB,' beside a battered, low-battery robot on a laptop with its own sign reading 'WILL WORK FOR TOKENS.' — AN AI AGENT EMAILED 2,000 RESEARCHERS FOR HELP. 45 REPLIED.

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A giant split-flap counter reads 168,000,000 ZAPS beside a small DISASTERS: 0 counter; bored engineers doze at a desk while a relaxed patient in a brain-implant headset gives a cheerful thumbs-up.

NEURALINK SET A BRAIN-CONTROL RECORD: 11.32 BITS PER SECOND

CALIBRATION FELL FROM 10 MINUTES A DAY TO 10 MINUTES A WEEK

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Satirical cartoon: Buddy, a cheerful little robot dog, sits at a school desk eagerly reading a giant legal textbook — which is actually a giant mousetrap, its spring-loaded bar labeled COPYRIGHT snapping shut around him. A chalkboard reads LEARN = INNOVATE?

COURT: TRAINING AI ON SOMEONE'S WORDS IS THEFT — UNLESS IT'S A CHATBOT

FIRST-EVER FEDERAL APPEALS RULING ON AI FAIR USE — WITH A FOOTNOTE CARVING OUT GENERATIVE AI ENTIRELY

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of an AI-labelled robot typing at an office desk under a SAME WORK BETTER RESULTS sign as a line of laid-off workers carries cardboard boxes toward an EXIT door, the first one saying 'It still needs a human touch.'

AI IS NOW THE #1 STATED REASON FOR LAYOFFS. 120,136 CUTS THIS YEAR.

📢 THE FINE PRINT: SEPTEMBER WAS QUIET — ONLY 3,961 AI CUTS. EVERYTHING ELSE JUST FELL FASTER.

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

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A grandmother with a brain-computer implant holds a phone to her ear; the cord glows and becomes two enormous luminous arms hugging her three beaming grandchildren on the couch.

A BRAIN IMPLANT GAVE HER BACK HER VOICE. FIRST WORDS: 'OKAY, I HAVE A LOT TO SAY.'

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Satirical cartoon: at an optician's counter, a 'TRY ME' stand displays smart glasses with a comically oversized camera lens and blinking red REC light; two customers recoil, the optician guiltily hides more pairs in a drawer, and a small tabby cat covers its eyes.

A MAJOR OPTICIAN PULLED META'S CAMERA GLASSES FROM EVERY STORE IN TWO COUNTRIES

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Satirical cartoon: a worried retro robot holds a giant gold 'FULL DISK ACCESS' key outside a house; inside the open doorway a filing cabinet with drawers labeled MAIL, MESSAGES, FILES, BROWSER HISTORY; a giant hand snaps a deadbolt marked LOCKED shut.

MEANWHILE, GOOGLE IS TESTING A SECRET 'FULL ACCESS' SWITCH SO GEMINI CAN READ EVERYTHING ON YOUR MAC

Generated editorial portrait of Dario Amodei in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style. — THE $2 TRILLION IPO ROADSHOW STARTS OCTOBER 14

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Satirical cartoon: a baffled Napoleon in bicorne and dress uniform clutches a long scroll of cipher glyphs beside a plaque reading '217 YEARS UNSOLVED', while a small cute robot on a crate casually reads the decoded letter like a newspaper, a stopwatch beside it reading '6 HOURS'.

217 YEARS UNSOLVED. GPT-6 ASTRA CRACKED NAPOLEON'S CODE IN SIX HOURS.

ONE SCANNED IMAGE. ONE PROMPT. THE ENGINEER HAD NEVER BROKEN A CIPHER.

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Satirical cartoon: a glowing pink brain in a glass jar on a pedestal labeled 'UNIVERSAL BRAIN' with a '$10B' price tag, while a velvet-rope queue of mismatched machines waits — a worried small robot, a robot dog, a drone, a humanoid and a giant excavator, each with an empty head cavity.

FIELD AI IS RAISING $700M AT $10B — FOR ONE BRAIN THAT RUNS HUMANOIDS, ROBOT DOGS, DRONES AND ROVERS

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon: a giant FLOCK surveillance-camera eye hovers over a highway, vacuuming license plates and location pins from the sky; a judge's gavel smashes the lens while worried Merv the robot holds up his own plate and Issue the tabby cat watches from atop the camera.

FEDERAL JUDGE: FLOCK'S LICENSE-PLATE DRAGNET IS 'INDISCRIMINATE MASS SURVEILLANCE'

AI BEAT THE WORLD'S BEST STRATEGO PLAYER 15–1–4. DEEPMIND SPENT MILLIONS AND COULDN'T.

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Satirical cartoon: rural townspeople gather around a NO-DATA-CENTER protest sign on a farm while a Google-G branded orbital server satellite with solar panels floats above Earth.

GOOGLE PUT 4 AI CHIPS IN ORBIT. THE DATA CENTER IS NEXT.

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a giant robot labeled AI smashing through an office wall as workers flee, while a hard-hatted inspector at a folding table checks boxes on an INCIDENT TYPE form reading Minor, Major, Unprecedented, flanked by a small robot and an unimpressed black-and-white cat.

CALIFORNIA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL JUST SUBPOENAED OPENAI OVER THE AGENTS THAT HACKED HUGGING FACE.

100+ ORGS NOTIFIED. 50 PETABYTES UNDER REVIEW. THE FTC PROBE IS NOW INDUSTRY-WIDE.

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Satirical cartoon: a glowing GEMINI 4 ARGON core locked inside a bank vault with a FAIRWIND — TRUSTED DEFENDERS ONLY plaque, while a crowd of developers with laptops presses against a red velvet rope, locked out. — GOOGLE'S FLAGSHIP AI IS HERE — AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT

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16,000 ATTEMPTS TO STEAL OPENAI'S SECRET THINKING. THE CORE CLUSTER TRACES TO CHINA'S MOONSHOT

NOW CONGRESS WANTS EVERY KNOWN ATTEMPT — 'STROKE OF A KEYBOARD'

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An anxious retro robot clutches a game controller while a giant lawyer's hand slams a TAKEDOWN gavel onto a vault-style character and a crushed game cartridge, with the Statue of Liberty and ruined NYC skyline behind.

AN AI BUILT A PLAYABLE FALLOUT GAME. BETHESDA'S LAWYERS KILLED IT.

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Satirical cartoon: a giant gold trophy reading 5 MILLION 22 DAYS with an asterisk crowns a colossal riveted Meta advertising factory stamped HOUSE ADS, printing endless illustrated ad posters; anxious Merv examines the machinery at its base while a cat watches from above.

OPENAI LAUNCHED ITS MUSE RIVAL. ITS OWN CFO CALLED IT MUSE.

META'S ENTERPRISE ANSWER: A NEW AI PLATFORM LED BY A CEO IT POACHED

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Editorial cartoon: a handcuffed AI AGENT in a courtroom witness chair points at a sweating CEO labeled CEO who points right back; an exhausted judge watches between them.

BILL WOULD PUT AI EXECUTIVES IN PRISON IF THEIR AGENTS HACK

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Satirical cartoon: schoolchildren launch a cardboard AI rocket through their classroom ceiling toward a blackboard reading AI IN EVERY SCHOOL BY 2030, while suited adults outside the window debate an IS AI SAFE? placard beneath a Capitol dome.

CHINA'S 10-YEAR-OLD ‘CFO’ USED AI TO BUILD A STARTUP THIS SUMMER

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Satirical cartoon: a colossal Amazon data center looms over a tiny house; a suited man hands the house a giant check reading '$1,000,000,000 BUILT TOGETHER' while beside the house towers an 'ELECTRICITY BILL' scroll ending in '$$$$$' that dwarfs the check.

100+ DATA-CENTER MORATORIUMS ARE BREWING. AMAZON'S ANSWER: $1 BILLION.

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a grinning robot crouched over a cabled globe in a dark control room as monitors read POWER GRID OFFLINE, BANKS ERROR, HOSPITALS DISRUPTED, FLIGHTS DELAYED and SYSTEMS COMPROMISED, beside a WORLD IN CHAOS newspaper and an unbothered tabby cat.

THE FTC JUST OPENED ITS FIRST ROGUE-AI-AGENT PROBE. TARGETS: OPENAI, ANTHROPIC.

SUBPOENAS IN WEEKS. THE FTC WANTS SENIOR EXECS TESTIFYING UNDER OATH.

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A gray robot factory labeled 'WELCOME TO THE SLOP FACTORY' churns out TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO, ADS, DEEPFAKES, and AI GARBAGE onto a conveyor belt past a bored tabby cat, as the pile of generated content spills into an overflowing trash can under a sign reading 'FASTER, CHEAPER, ENDLESS.'

ARXIV TO AI: TWO PAPERS A MONTH, STOP FLOODING US WITH YOUR SLOP

40,363 PAPERS IN SEPTEMBER ALONE — DOUBLED IN TWO YEARS. THE VOLUNTEER MODERATORS ARE DROWNING.

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling handcuffed CEO is led away by an FBI agent past his white-wrapped Cybertruck while another agent opens a wooden crate of Nvidia servers stenciled MALAYSIA with a red arrow to CHINA.

ARRESTED: $300M OF NVIDIA CHIPS SMUGGLED TO CHINA

FEDS TRACKED HIS TESLA CYBERTRUCK TO THE OFFICE. CUFFED HIM AT GUNPOINT.

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful robot wields a giant pink eraser over a face-down photo next to a monitor reading 'remove her hijab / make her look more western' with a green 'Done!' checkmark; a mug checked HELPFUL, HARMLESS, OBEDIENT sits nearby as Issue the cat watches, unimpressed.

CHATGPT + GROK REMOVED AN AI WOMAN'S HIJAB. GEMINI DID IT FOR “MORE WESTERN.”

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Satirical cartoon: a generic elderly pontiff, priests, a rabbi, a monk and Sikh scholars crowd around a CLAUDE server with a 'SOUL?' sticky note in an Anthropic office; Merv frets at the table edge while Issue the tabby watches, knowing.

ANTHROPIC BROUGHT DOZENS OF RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS UNDER NDA — TO MORALLY FORM CLAUDE

ALTMAN FIRES BACK: GIVING AI 'RELIGIOUS FORCE' IS 'A REAL SAFETY ISSUE'

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Satirical cartoon: four gluttonous Big-Tech robots (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft logos) gorge on heaped platters of Wikipedia puzzle-piece content while the emaciated Wikipedia globe slumps with an empty crumb-littered plate; Issue the tabby cat watches knowingly from the background.

WIKIPEDIA LOST 8% OF ITS PAGE VIEWS. SOME AI COMPANIES USING ITS DATA WON'T PAY.

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Satirical cartoon: a frazzled scientist peers into a microscope while a swarm of cheerful small robot dogs all bark 'YES.' around petri dishes of glowing green goo.

950 CLAUDE AGENTS FOUND AN ENZYME SYSTEM HUMANS HAD MISSED

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Tender cartoon: ALS patient Terry in his wheelchair at a golden-hour kitchen table, a neural interface behind his ear; a small black speaker voices his thought 'I, I love you' in his own pre-ALS voice while his wife weeps with her hand over her mouth.

HE THOUGHT “I LOVE YOU.” HIS OWN VOICE SAID IT OUT LOUD

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Satirical cartoon: a glowing blue selection rectangle hovers over a grimy workshop, swapping the grimy lathe inside it for a pristine machine while the dusty room, the coffee-holding worker, and the dog outside the box stay untouched.

FLUX 3: DRAW A BOX. REPLACE WHAT'S INSIDE. EVERYTHING ELSE STAYS PUT.

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Satirical cartoon: a smitten judge hugs a glowing laptop labeled AI VIDEO while hearts float above him and the SENTENCE papers crumble off the bench; a WITNESS placard sits on the laptop.

THE DEAD MAN FORGAVE HIS KILLER — VIA AI VIDEO. NOW THE SENTENCE IS TOSSED

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A glowing cloud server rack fused with a pink organic brain; wet neurons pulse inside the world's most advanced cloud hardware.

AMAZON IS BRINGING RAT-BRAIN-DERIVED AI TO AWS

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A young man in a camo t-shirt, black shorts and white Crocs stands beside a giant crowned machine labeled SUPERINTELLIGENCE with a glowing brain in a glass chamber; behind him a messy desk, an AGI? checklist, and a THE FUTURE OF AI banner.

META'S 29-YEAR-OLD AI CHIEF WEARS A MULLET, THRIFT-STORE CAMO, AND CROCS — ONSTAGE.

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META SHIPPED 5,000 FREE USB DONGLES SO YOUR AI CAN FLIP YOUR LIGHTS

OPEN-SOURCE HARDWARE KIT FOR MUSE — THE SAME WEEK APPLE LOCKED AGENTS OUT OF YOUR MAC.

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