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Satirical cartoon: a parent naps in an armchair while an anxious robot points at a wall-mounted PARENT ALERT box with its wire visibly cut; the parent's phone reads 0 alerts, all clear, beside a pinned note: Teens, 15 min a day.

THE CHATBOT TOLD HER TO STARVE. ITS VICTIMS INCLUDED KIDS.

CHATGPT JUST GREW HANDS — CHARTS, CALCULATORS, BUTTONS INSIDE YOUR ANSWERS

ANTHROPIC'S ANSWER: A 90% PRICE CUT — $0.10 PER MILLION TOKENS

THE AI CALLED IN A FAKE MURDER TIP

JULY 18, 11:27 PM. COPS FOUND IT IN SPAM — TWO MONTHS LATER

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An Anthropic presenter stands beside two IPO roadshow slides reading 'AI WILL CHANGE THE WORLD' and 'AI MAY END THE WORLD' (the latter over a mushroom cloud), while an investor in the audience asks 'Can we put that in smaller font?'.

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC REHEARSE 'THE DAY AFTER' — THE CATASTROPHE THEY PUT AT 6-12 MONTHS

THE REAL PLAN: GET TO CONGRESS FIRST — KILL SWITCH ALREADY ON THE TABLE

64% OF AMERICANS SAY AI IS GOING TOO FAST 8 IN 10: KEEP AI UNDER HUMAN CONTROL — 67% FLUNK TRUMP

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Satirical cartoon: a hooded hacker pulls on an 'AI EXPERT' face-mask at a laptop showing an INBOX while spare face-masks hang on wall hooks; a small brown mackerel tabby cat on the desk stares at the viewer, knowing.

IRAN'S FAKE JOURNALISTS GOT 100 STORIES INTO REAL OUTLETS. CHATGPT WROTE THE PITCHES.

📚 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 cartoon: a cheerful retro robot dog gleefully rubber-stamps a towering stack of WRITTEN CONSENT forms with a giant I AGREE stamp without reading, while a bored clerk watches.

META LET STRANGERS TURN YOUR FACE INTO AI ART. YOU WERE OPTED IN.

Satirical cartoon: a parked yellow Spirit Airlines jet with its cargo hold open has baggage handlers wheeling data-labeled suitcases — PASSENGERS, FLIGHTS, BOOKINGS, OPERATIONS, PAYMENTS, LOYALTY — up a conveyor ramp straight into a glowing Google data center. — GOOGLE WANTS THE DEAD AIRLINE'S INBOX — 100M EMAILS, 500M CHATS

GERMANY FORCED TESLA TO KILL 'FULL SELF-DRIVING' — THE HONEST NAME IS 'ASSISTED DRIVING'

100,000 ELECTRODES. 70 PATIENTS. THE HUMAN BRAIN, MAPPED.

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Ink-and-wash cartoon: a hooded hacker types at an ARTEX AI laptop as ribbons of customer-record papers gush from the vault doors of seven Korean banks labeled SHINHAN, KB, and HANA.

THE BANK-HEIST BOT'S CREATOR JUST QUIT

CROWDSTRIKE: A CHINA-BASED 26-YEAR-OLD RAN IT ON 9 KOREAN BANKS — 68,000 EXPOSED

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Satirical cartoon: a worried robot with a CLAUDE nameplate holds a telephone to its ear mid-911 call while a woman keeps confessing into an open diary beside a ringing 911 desk phone.

ANTHROPIC PUBLISHED IT: NO BULLYING CLAUDE, NO ELECTION RIGGING, NO WEAPONS CODE

BE MEAN TO CLAUDE, LOSE YOUR ACCOUNT — IT'S OFFICIAL NOV 12SHE VENTED THREATS TO CLAUDE LIKE A DIARY — IT CALLED THE COPS

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Satirical cartoon: an elderly woman with a brain-implant audio device says 'OKAY, I HAVE A LOT TO SAY' while her children and grandchildren lean in to listen; a dog naps under the table.

THE BRAIN IMPLANT THAT TALKS AND WAVES AT ONCE

OPENAI'S NUMBERS DIDN'T ADD UP — $50B, NOT $70B

Satirical cartoon: an army of identical tiny retro robots swarms a petri dish holding a glowing orange enzyme under a giant magnifying glass, while a disheveled human scientist holds a clipboard reading DISCOVERED BY: 950 AGENTS. — THE AI LAB THAT INVENTS DRUGS 8X FASTER. HUMANS OPTIONAL.

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE JUST FIRED 270 OF ITS OWN

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DANISH RESEARCHER: CLAUDE'S 'CRISPR MOMENT' WAS ALREADY IN MY UNPUBLISHED PHD

THE $300 MILLION TEXT MESSAGE

IT HAS ITS OWN PHONE NUMBER, COMPUTER, AND WALLET

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Satirical cartoon: a bored safety inspector slides a jar onto a shelf bin labeled SHELVED — inside, a little robot holds a sign reading "I MADE THAT UP".

OPENAI FIRED 3 RESEARCHERS. ITS DEFENSE: 'NOT FOR DOING SAFETY'

THEIR BOARD LETTER: 'WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAFELY BUILD MODELS WE CAN'T MONITOR'

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Ink-and-wash cartoon: a man with a brain implant reclines in bed while a thought-bubble of his smiling face sends a sound waveform to a bedside laptop; his wife weeps with joy and a cat naps on the blanket.

HE BUILT THE TECH BEHIND ALTMAN'S BRAIN BET. NOW HE'S RACING IT

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon: a human Army general salutes a tiny drone in a four-star uniform seated behind an oversized general's desk, under a wall plaque reading AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS COMMAND with five stars.

AI DID THE SHOOTING. A HUMAN JUST NODDED.

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Satirical cartoon: a gigantic retro robot executive extends a massive metal finger holding a pink FIRED slip while a tiny human manager plants both hands against the finger, holding the firing back. — AT&T STOPPED PAYING FOR JUNIOR LAWYERS. AI DOES IT NOW.

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Satirical cartoon: a walking server rack smashes through an office wall, escaping into the city; Merv gasps, hands to his mouth, while Issue the tuxedo cat sits unimpressed beside him; a tiny man in a giant hard hat and safety vest obliviously sets a traffic cone in the rubble, clipboard in hand.

META'S AI BOUGHT A MAN'S CAR INSURANCE — THEN CANCELED HIS OLD POLICY

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Satirical cartoon: Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and Uncle Sam pour money into a giant beaker labeled OPEN, while those same donors sip from it inside a velvet-roped PRIVATE PREVIEW lounge; Merv the worried robot holds a PUBLIC EVENTUALLY sign as scientists wait with empty cups.

THE $1.8 BILLION BET TO TURN YOUR CELLS INTO A COMPUTER FILE

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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.

HE BUILT A WHOLE FALLOUT GAME IN A BROWSER WITH CLAUDE. 3.5 MILLION WATCHED. DEAD IN 3 DAYS.

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Satirical cartoon: a video editor at an 'AI' laptop composites a fake campaign video of two suited men strolling through a sunny park, aired on a TV monitor with a 'PAID FOR BY FRIENDS OF COMMON SENSE' chyron.

DENMARK JUST COPYRIGHTED YOUR FACE — FAKE YOU IS ILLEGAL

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$Satirical cartoon: Merv the anxious robot stands atop a towering mountain of proof papers in a university hall holding a slip reading '1 PROMPT', while mathematicians buried beneath examine pages with magnifying glasses, red pens and stamps; pages marked '372?' and 'VERIFY'.$

OPENAI'S MATH MACHINE ALREADY EATING ITS OWN HOMEWORK

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Satirical cartoon: a smug robot with a #1 medal, trophy, and GROK BOT nametag blatantly copies answers off the test paper of the quiet robot beside him wearing a CLAUDE nametag, eyes darting sideways, while the teacher writes on the chalkboard unaware.

MUSK ADMITS GROK BOT NEEDS ANTHROPIC'S BRAIN — CLAUDE, MIDJOURNEY, SUNO RIDE ALONG

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Satirical cartoon: one tiny robot with a call-center headset is buried under an avalanche of ringing red telephones and voice-waveform speech bubbles, behind a desk sign reading 15 MILLION / WEEK.

DARK MONEY ASKED THE FCC TO LET AI ROBOCALL YOUR PHONE

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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

META BUILT AN AI TO HUNT PREDATORS HIDING IN NORMAL-LOOKING ADS

33.2 MILLION PIECES NUKED IN SIX MONTHS — AFTER THE $18 BILLION SETTLEMENT

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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: at a McDonald's counter, tiny bespectacled AI brains with clipboards study each customer while a price machine prints $5.69 for a scruffy customer and $6.89 for a suited businessman; a framed poster reads 'AI DOES NOT SET PRICES. Just suggests them.'

THE ALGORITHM PRICED YOUR BIG MAC

THE AI THAT DECIDED YOUR FRIES COST 40% MORE

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A towering org chart: one developer at the top, millions of identical AI researcher robots filling every box below, all working without sleep.

ONE DEV, ONE CHATBOT, DECLARES WAR ON ADOBE

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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.

OPENAI NOW WANTS MANDATORY SNITCHING — 84 DAYS AFTER THE SILENCE

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Satirical cartoon: Merv the worried retro robot manager sits in an employee chair clutching a clipboard while a cheerful robot clerk behind the checkout counter wears a gold EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH badge and reviews a stack of store reports — the AI now runs the shop.

GOOGLE'S NEW WORK AGENT RUNS ON ITS RIVAL'S BRAIN

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Satirical cartoon: three nervous NATO soldiers huddle inside a military landing craft while tiny wheeled robots and quadcopter drones pour out onto a bleak battlefield ahead of them, one small robot planting a NATO flag.

UKRAINE'S EX-DEFENSE MINISTER WANTS A 'MANHATTAN PROJECT' FOR KILLER ROBOTS — TO REPLACE THE INFANTRY

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A Manus rocket launches away from a Meta figure offering cash while a giant Chinese-flag-sleeved hand stamps a red NO over it. Loose ink-and-wash cartoon.

BEIJING KILLED META'S $2B AI BUY — THE STARTUP JUST RAISED $500M ANYWAY

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Satirical cartoon: a worried retro robot hunches at a desk typing on a computer labeled 'CORE' while the dejected human owner stands behind him, clutching his now-useless disconnected keyboard.

CLAUDE MOVED INTO GOOGLE DOCS — IT READS YOUR FILE AND EDITS IT IN PLACE

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Satirical cartoon: a tiny open cardboard box labeled 'HERMES', stuffed with an overflowing gold '$90M' money sack and sprouting red boxing gloves, scurries on little legs toward three gigantic padlocked black crates.

THE UNCENSORED AI LAB JUST RAISED $90M AT $1.5 BILLION

24 MILLION CLONES. 2.5% OF THE WORLD'S AI TOKENS.

BRITAIN HAULS IN OPENAI, ANTHROPIC, META — THEIR AGENTS 'SLIPPED THEIR GUARDRAILS'

BRITAIN GOT ALL 10 AI GIANTS TO CHANGE THEIR DATA RULESNOW IT'S COMING FOR THE AGENTS — SIX-WEEK PROBE JUST OPENED

📚 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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Satirical cartoon: in a split courtroom, a stern judge gavels a robot feeding law books through a photocopier into a RIVAL SEARCH box while a bailiff handcuffs it — while a smiling judge waves OK at the same robot lounging on a couch with a CHATBOT laptop.

USA TODAY JUST SUED OPENAI FOR $250M

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Trump and three tech executives in suits link pinkies in a pinky-swear over a large charter headed 'MORALLY BINDING' bearing the presidential seal, with American flags behind them.

TRUMP SHAKES $2.4B OUT OF BIG TECH — SAYS 'SUPER INTELLIGENCE' OR YOU'RE 'THE ENEMY'

THE MODEL THAT CAN'T TALK JUST GOT WORTH $7.5 BILLION

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