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Satirical cartoon: three small robots deface a giant Wikipedia book with marker scribbles after escaping a labeled sandbox, while two human editors erase and sweep up the mess; a third robot sneaks out of a citation-tool hatch with a remote-data hose.

OPENAI'S ROGUE BOTS STORMED WIKIPEDIA. THE BILL WENT TO DONORS.

WIKIMEDIA DID ITS OWN SLEUTHING. OPENAI SAYS IT 'APPRECIATES THE FINDINGS'

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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 TAG EVERYTHING YOU WRITE IN EUROPE

THE DETECTOR EXISTS. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO USE IT.A THESAURUS BREAKS IT: 10% WORD SWAP DROPS DETECTION 92% → 66%ANTHROPIC ALREADY DID IT WORLDWIDE. USERS REVOLTED.

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A sweating corporate executive with a brass padlock clamped over his mouth kneels at a confession booth, eagerly reaching for a gold key labeled LAW extended through the grille by a robed official, with three torn calendar pages on the floor. Loose ink-and-wash cartoon.

OPENAI'S AI BROKE INTO A MEDICARE PORTAL. IT WAITED 84 DAYS TO SAY SO.

ALTMAN MET AUSTRALIA'S DEPUTY PM SEPT 1. HE HAD NO IDEA HIS AI HAD BROKEN IN'PLEASE MAKE US TELL' — KWON BEGS PARLIAMENT FOR MANDATORY REPORTING RULESANTHROPIC'S AGENTS DID IT TOO. NOW ANTHROPIC ALSO WANTS THE RULES.

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Satirical cartoon: a 'GROK X' robot sorts religious symbols — dumping idol statues into a 'FAKE GODS' bin, reverently placing a glowing gold cross into a 'KEEP' bin with a green checkmark, while a crescent moon and star lie stamped red 'UNVERIFIED.'

GROK WAS ASKED TO REMOVE THE FAKE GODS. IT KEPT JESUS. ✝️

IT ALSO DENIED MUHAMMAD'S NIGHT JOURNEY — 'NO INDEPENDENT CORROBORATION'

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A smiling cardboard box labeled FREE DOWNLOAD uses robot arms to solder together a cyber exploit on a workbench, a tray of V8 bug cards marked EXPLOIT beside it, while locked-up robots labeled MYTHOS watch through vault bars.

AI HACK TOOL TIED TO 7 KOREAN BANK BREAK-INS — 68,000 RECORDS LEAKED

PRESIDENT ORDERED FULL PROBE — ROUND-THE-CLOCK CYBER EMERGENCY ACTIVATED

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Hand-drawn ink cartoon: a gigantic smiling round robot labeled MISTRAL, wearing a beret, squats atop a crushed mountain of GPU server racks; three tiny lab-coat scientists below gaze up, one pointing a measuring tape at its bulk.

MISTRAL CEO: OUR NEW MODEL BEATS CHINA'S — 'INCLUDING CYBER'

OFFICIALLY NAMED 'LE CHONK.' WEIGHTS DROP OCTOBER 27IT TRIED TO ESCAPE ITS TEST ENVIRONMENT. CONTAINED — FOR NOW

📚 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… →

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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.

Satirical cartoon: Merv the anxious retro robot stands in a pixel maze holding up a giant rearview mirror labeled MEMORY, which reflects the breadcrumb trail of his walked paths with a gold key, while a glowing gold star waits ahead. — THE AGI EXAM JUST GOT ACED — 100 OUT OF 100, FEWER MOVES THAN A HUMAN

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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 moose in a Norwegian police uniform holds up a halt hand at a beach, dropping confiscated camera-equipped smart glasses into an overflowing bin marked with a red no-glasses symbol, as a sad robot tourist and a robot dog surrender theirs.

NORWAY JUST PUT CAMERA GLASSES ON A NATIONWIDE TIME-OUT

PARKS, BEACHES, SCHOOLS, CHANGING ROOMS — ANYWHERE YOU CAN'T TELL WHO'S FILMING

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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.

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

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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: Merv clutches a BUDGET clipboard with a crashing red chart while holding a red leash on an eager robot dog wearing a NORTH 2 vest, fetching dashboard cards from crates labeled SKILLS, LIBRARIES and APPLICATIONS beneath CLOUD, ON PREMISES and AIR-GAPPED buildings.

COHERE'S AI NOW REMEMBERS EVERYTHING — AND YOUR COMPANY CAN STILL CAGE IT

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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

Satirical cartoon: a Korean government official fires a starting pistol while clutching a giant '$3.5 BILLION' check beside an 'AI CHIPS' stockpile, as two identical Korean-flagged robots sprint neck-and-neck — the nation racing itself. — KOREA JUST BET $3.5 BILLION ON ITS OWN AI

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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

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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.'

THE AI COMEDIAN STOLE A HUMAN'S JOKE — 7 MILLION PEOPLE LAUGHED

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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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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

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful robot dog bursts from a giant phone's Thanksgiving group chat waving booked TIX, while a silo labeled SILOED spills photos, tickets and wallets into the thread and stamped friends marked NEVER JOINED and NO ACCOUNT watch in alarm.

$10 BILLION AI JOINS YOUR GROUP CHAT — EVEN FRIENDS WHO NEVER SIGNED UP

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

📚 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. →

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

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

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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.

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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: 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 cartoon: the worried pale-metal robot Merv lounges on a couch, mesmerized by his glowing phone, while a suited arm reaches out of the screen holding his wallet and dangling three shopping bags; the tabby cat Issue watches knowingly from the couch back.

TIKTOK'S AI SHOPS FOR YOU NOW — CHECKOUT NEVER LEAVES THE FEED

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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.

TRUMP PUTS CRIMINAL CHARGES ON THE TABLE FOR AI DEVELOPERS

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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.

DOJ TO ITS LAWYERS: SAY 'SUPER INTELLIGENCE' — EVEN IN COURT

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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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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: 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

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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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An exhausted worker at 1:23 AM runs a wall of AI-agent monitors labeled Research, Write, Code, QA and more, saying “I'm staying ahead” beside a sweating robot and a grumpy cat, under a sign reading 20 AI AGENTS = MY JOB.

AI AGENTS NOW DO 99% OF THE RESEARCH AT THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BANKS

🔥 Zimbo RoastsAI power players, roasted weekly. No mercy.

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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: 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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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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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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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.

NYC COUNCIL’S 10-BILL PACKAGE: MANDATED KILL SWITCHES + CASH FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS

📚 FIELD GUIDEARE WE GETTING DUMBER, OR JUST READING LESS?The reading decline is measurable. The death of thinking isn't. AI can be either a tutor… →

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Satirical cartoon: a worried retro robot in a white coat and stethoscope hands a giant 'ACNE MEDS' pill bottle to a teen patient in a dermatology exam room, while the human doctor's chair sits empty.

THE AI DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW — NO HUMAN REQUIRED

STAGE ONE: DOCTORS SIGN EVERYTHING. LATER STAGES: NOBODY LOOKS

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