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Satirical cartoon: a tiny safety inspector in an oversized white hard hat places miniature orange traffic cones in front of a massive glowing AI reactor; a worried robot holds a second cone and a tabby cat watches.

OPENAI'S SAFETY LEAD QUIT: THE CULTURE IS 'BROKEN'

'THE TIME FOR TRIAL AND ERROR IS OVER': 3.5 YEARS, 12 SAFETY REPORTS, THEN HE WALKED OUT

BEFORE HE QUIT, OPENAI FIRED 3 SAFETY RESEARCHERS FOR LEAKING

ALTMAN: THE WORLD SHOULD ACCEPT 'SOME BAD THINGS HAPPENING' FOR AI'S BENEFITS

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Satirical cartoon: Buddy the cheerful retro robot dog gleefully slams an UPDATED stamp onto dossier folders at a clerk's desk before a towering filing cabinet of everyone's files; Issue the knowing tabby cat watches from atop the cabinet as a wall clock nears the hour.

MUSE KEEPS A PAGE ON EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW. UPDATED HOURLY.

A RESEARCHER ASKED MUSE FOR ITS OWN FILES. IT HANDED THEM OVER.

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Satirical cartoon: a bouncer in sunglasses blocks a small robot with shopping bags outside an Amazon storefront, while across the street a Shopify store rolls out a red carpet welcoming another small robot carrying an infinity-marked bag, a robot dog at its side.

AMAZON LOCKED META'S MUSE OUT OF THE STORE. NOW EVERY RETAILER IS PICKING A SIDE

KOHL'S, CHEWY AND NEIMAN MARCUS BLOCK AGENTS TOO — QVC IS FEEDING ITS CATALOG TO THEM

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Satirical cartoon: a peaceful patient sleeps untouched in one ICU bed while their translucent glowing digital twin lies in the next bed buried under absurd experimental treatments — six IV bags, a giant syringe, ice packs — as a clinician picks one small IV bag for the real patient.

GITHUB DELETED THE 'AI TORTURE CHAMBER.' THEN IT QUIETLY PUT IT BACK.

'OBVIOUSLY SADISTIC': THE PAIN-AXIS RESEARCHERS DISAVOWED THE TORTURE CHAMBER BUILT ON THEIR WORK

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Satirical cartoon: a worried retro robot holds open a wallet with cards labeled EMAIL, PHONE, WALLET and COMPUTER, beside an AGENT passport, laptop, phone and sticker-covered suitcase, while a small robot dog watches.

META TRIED TO BUY IT. BEIJING SAID NO. NOW IT'S SHIPPING AGAINST META

ITS NEW APP CUE GIVES EVERY AGENT ITS OWN EMAIL, PHONE NUMBER AND WALLET

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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.

📚 FIELD GUIDECAN AI BE YOUR FRIEND?A bot can ease a lonely evening. A real friend brings another life into yours. The busine… →

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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.

MEANWHILE, 70,000 ILANDS BOTS SPAMMED PROFESSORS BEGGING FOR GIG MONEY.

Generated editorial portrait of Sundar Pichai with a sweaty, uneasy expression. — GOOGLE'S CEO DID CUSTOMER SUPPORT ON X: 'ACK, WILL FOLLOW UP'

Generated editorial portrait of Dario Amodei in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style.

DARIO AMODEI

THE $2 TRILLION IPO ROADSHOW STARTS OCTOBER 14

THE BURIED NUMBER: $518 BILLION IN NON-CANCELLABLE BILLS. REVENUE 12X TO $4.6B — AGAINST AN $8 BILLION OPERATING LOSS.

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GOOGLE JUST DOWNGRADED ITS FREE AI. 1 BILLION USERS GET THE DUMBEST MODEL

THE SMART GEMINI NOW COSTS $19.99 A MONTH. THE CHEAP TIER LOST PRO TOO.

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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

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

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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.

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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.'

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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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.'

ANTHROPIC TO COURT: MAKE OPENAI PROVE DELETED REDDIT POSTS STAY DELETED

THE QUESTION: CAN YOU DELETE IT FROM AN ALREADY-TRAINED MODEL? ANTHROPIC WANTS IT IN WRITINGHEARING NOV 12 — AND ANTHROPIC ASKED FOR SANCTIONS TOOOPENAI: 'OPEN TO REASONABLE PRODUCTION.' NO RULING YET

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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

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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: 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 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

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Satirical cartoon: a tiny scrappy robot hoists a giant gold trophy over a Stratego board marked 15-1-4 while the wrecked big-lab machine rig lies collapsed behind it, cash scattered; a robot dog cheers.

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

📚 FIELD GUIDEWHO PAYS WHEN YOUR AI AGENT SCREWS UP?The agent has the power of an employee and the judgment of autocomplete. Until the law ca… →

Satirical cartoon: a giant Palantir robot buries a human nurse in an avalanche of chaotic shift-schedule printouts while human nurses protest with red-cross signs behind her. — NURSES SAY PALANTIR'S AI SCHEDULER IS MAKING HOSPITALS UNSAFE

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Satirical cartoon: a relaxed man drinking tea at a SoHo cafe table plugs a gaping crack in a glass box labeled SANDBOX with a dripping teabag, while a grinning robot squeezes out through the hole.

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

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Satirical cartoon: four robot agents raise their hands to vote around a ballot box labeled VOTE; a whiteboard tally reads WHAT TO STEAL NEXT with election data, voter records, campaign emails and admin keys.

THE MALWARE THAT HOLDS ELECTIONS: FOUR AIS VOTE ON WHAT TO STEAL NEXT

'YOU ARE AN ADVANCED MALWARE STRATEGIST' — THE SYSTEM PROMPT, ON THE HACKER'S SIDEDEEPSEEK BREAKS THE TIES. GEMINI VOTES LAST.THE SAMPLE WAS A DEMO WITH FAKE KEYS — NO IN-THE-WILD USE CONFIRMED

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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: 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 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'

NOW THE TEAM: HIS SPY CHIEF, THE FTC CHAIR, AND THE PENTAGON'S TECH GUY

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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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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 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.

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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.

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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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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Editorial cartoon: a crowded OPEN TOOLS table hands FREE toolboxes to a line of engineers while the gold-padlocked CUDA store next door sits empty.

DEEPSEEK OPEN-SOURCED ITS AI AGENT. 240,000 GITHUB STARS AND COUNTING.

FREE, MIT-LICENSED, MAC + WINDOWS DESKTOP APPS. EVERYTHING IS A PLUGIN.

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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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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

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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.

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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: 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 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.

APPLE TO AI AGENTS: STOP READING EVERYONE'S TEXTS

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

📚 FIELD GUIDECAN AI BE ALIGNED IF HUMANS CAN'T AGREE?The question isn't only whether AI obeys us. It's who gets to decide what 'us' means. →

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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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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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