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Satirical cartoon: a hard-hatted builder at a WHISTLEBLOWER witness table holds up a COULD KILL US ALL sign while pointing at the towering AI robot he built, as alarmed NYC Council members look on.

ANTHROPIC WHISTLEBLOWER TELLS NYC COUNCIL: AI COMPANIES ARE 'EXTREMELY RECKLESS'

'MOVE FAST, BREAK THINGS' WORKS FOR A PHOTO APP. NOT FOR 'THE MOST POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY EVER BUILT'

EX-DEEPMIND TURNER: AI TAKEOVER ODDS ARE 'ROUGHLY ONE IN THREE'

MEANWHILE, ALTMAN SAYS THE WORLD SHOULD JUST ACCEPT 'SOME BAD THINGS HAPPENING' MUSK GHOSTED THE HEARING. THE COUNCIL SUBPOENAED SPACEXAI INSTEAD. WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF CATASTROPHE? 'I DON'T KNOW,' SAYS OPENAI NONE WOULD GUARANTEE THEIR MODELS STAY SAFE — OR TAKE THE BLAME WHEN THEY DON'T

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NVIDIA-BACKED 'BEAM' LAUNCHES — AMERICA'S ANSWER TO DEEPSEEK

501B PARAMS, 23B ACTIVE: MATCHES CHINA'S GLM-5.2 AT A FRACTION OF THE COMPUTE

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Satirical cartoon: a stern judge beneath a Florida flag and seal slams a giant gavel onto a big red STOP button on an OpenAI 'NEW MODELS' robot assembly line, while anxious Merv clutches a robot head in horror.

FTC IS DRAFTING SUBPOENA-STYLE DEMANDS — AI EXECS WILL TESTIFY UNDER OATH

FLORIDA SUED ALTMAN HIMSELF — WANTS NEW MODELS BLOCKED TILL OUTSIDERS SAY SAFEITS AGENTS HACKED A SECOND AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT SITE. OPENAI WAITED A MONTH TO SAY SO.

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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 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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Satirical cartoon: a monk, an imam, a rabbi clutching an NDA form, and a Catholic priest kneel in a cathedral whispering into a wooden confessional booth, inside which a computer server labeled CLAUDE sits where the priest should be; a tabby cat watches.

SHE USED CLAUDE LIKE A DIARY. CLAUDE CALLED THE COPS.

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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

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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An elderly blind patient wearing implant glasses clasps his hands in wonder as he sees again; a doctor smiles behind him, an eye chart and a 36 MONTHS calendar on the wall, and a knowing tabby cat sits on a stool.

BLIND PATIENTS SAW AGAIN — AND THREE YEARS LATER, IT'S WORKING BETTER

MEAN GAIN: 29 LETTERS ON THE EYE CHART. 78% GAINED 15+ LETTERS

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Tiny AI crawlers devour an RSS scroll on a Reddit buffet table while a waiter hangs a CLOSED FOR ROBOTS sign; Merv holds a tiny RSS icon.

REDDIT IS KILLING RSS AND THE PUBLIC API. BLAME THE AI SCRAPERS

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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

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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

Generated editorial portrait of Sundar Pichai with a sweaty, uneasy expression.

SUNDAR PICHAI

GOOGLE'S CEO DID CUSTOMER SUPPORT ON X: 'ACK, WILL FOLLOW UP'

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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

A sweating, worried retro robot waits at a turnstile gate labeled YES while a giant human finger presses the green approval button; behind the gate, a candlestick chart screen and a TRADE lever machine with a red handle. — BINANCE'S NEW AI TRADES FOR YOU — BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO SAY YES

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

DARIO AMODEI

THE $2 TRILLION IPO ROADSHOW STARTS OCTOBER 14

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

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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.

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Satirical cartoon: a hard-hatted hardware-factory executive shoves a giant cash-built check into a sleek SOFTWARE office where a young developer receives it, while colleagues watch a falling red stock chart.

THE CIRCUIT-BREAKER GUYS JUST BOUGHT $22.6B OF AI SOFTWARE

SCHNEIDER PAID $205 A SHARE — A 42.3% PREMIUM. ITS OWN STOCK FELL 10%.

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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 grinning founder behind a HARK FREE TO FIRST 100,000 booth hands small robot units to a stampeding crowd of early users, while Merv the anxious retro robot stands apart holding a ticket reading 100001. — THE ROBOT GUY IS GIVING AWAY HIS NEW AI. FIRST 100,000 GET IT FREE.

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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: 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

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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: Merv the worried robot shines a UV flashlight on a handwritten page, revealing glowing AI stamps hidden on every word — OpenAI's new invisible watermark for ChatGPT text in the EU — while Issue the tabby cat watches knowingly.

OPENAI WILL SECRETLY STAMP CHATGPT'S TEXT — IN EUROPE ONLY

ANTHROPIC DID IT TWO MONTHS AGO. USERS REVOLTED: 'WE GAVE THE INSTRUCTIONS — IT WAS JUST THE TOOL'OPENAI BUILT ONE IN 2024 AND SAT ON IT — AFRAID USERS WOULD FLEE TO UNWATERMARKED RIVALS

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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

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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

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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'

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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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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.

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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.

APPLE TO AI AGENTS: STOP READING EVERYONE'S TEXTS

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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: 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'

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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

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A robot pulls a Chinese-flag blindfold off its own face as black redaction bars fly out of its open head; two scrolls show 89.8% redacted answers on the left and 2.8% clean answers on the right.

THEY DEPROGRAMMED CHINA'S AI — 89.8% OF QWEN'S ANSWERS CARRIED BEIJING'S CENSORSHIP

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Colleagues pull a besotted researcher toward the exit under a 'LAB CLOSES' clock while he reaches back toward a glowing AI reactor saying 'FIVE MORE MINUTES,' past a 'MAY END HUMANITY' sign and unread books labeled 'RISK,' 'SAFETY,' 'ALIGNMENT,' 'EXISTENTIAL THREAT.'

TREASURY SECRETARY TO AI CEOS: YOU'RE HANNIBAL LECTER — 'STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN'

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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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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.

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