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Satirical cartoon: a giant cheerful robot devours framed stock photographs at a tiny table while a ruined shareholder offers his last SHARES certificate on a dinner plate and the robot reaches for it with a fork.

AI ATE THE STOCK PHOTO EMPIRE — GETTY GOES BANKRUPT, SHAREHOLDERS GET NOTHING

$4.8B → $20M: STOCK DOWN 99%, THE AI TOOK THE REST

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Satirical cartoon: in an absurdly fortified vault with lasers and armed guards, a terrified little robot clutches a huge ring of keys beside a tiny USB drive labeled MODEL WEIGHTS on a velvet cushion, while a PLEASE REPORT ANY THEFT envelope slides under the door.

ANTHROPIC CATCHES CHINA STEALING CLAUDE'S BRAIN — ZHIPU NAMED, TENS OF THOUSANDS BANNED

NADELLA'S 'BIGGEST BET YET': MICROSOFT'S OWN AI CHIP, 40% MORE TOKENS PER MEGAWATT

KIMI'S $30B FOUNDERS ACCUSED OF LOOTING THEIR OLD STARTUP — SETTLING BEFORE THE IPO

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MARK ZUCKERBERG

ZUCKERBERG UNVEILS 'MUSE WONDER' — META SAYS IT'S FRONTIER

STOCK UP 4% ON THE NEWS — IT WAS CODE-NAMED ‘WATERMELON’, ANNOUNCED WITH A 🍉 PICSAME PRICE AS OPUS, LOSES 9 OF 14 — ON META’S OWN SCORECARD

AMAZON WANTS DECART FOR $7B — AFTER ANTHROPIC WALKED AWAY

📚 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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A disheveled writer shouts "MAKE IT MEANER" while typing a Substack post titled "Why I Hate AI," as the platform's own AI assistant panel offers to sharpen the draft ("Suggestions applied," "Improved flow," "Stronger conclusion"); a skeptical black cat watches from the desk.

THE PUBLISHERS SUING AI ARE SECRETLY PUMPING ITS SLOP INTO YOUR BOOKS

MACMILLAN KILLED A $2M BOOK DEAL OVER AI FEARS. ITS RIVALS WERE USING AI ALL ALONG

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. — PALANTIR SPUN UP A WAR-AI COMPANY — DRONES THAT THINK WITHOUT THE CLOUD

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Satirical cartoon: a giant luminous AI genie is crammed into the witness chair of a Royal Commission hearing, its smoke still pouring from a tiny government-issued bottle labeled GOVT ISSUE on the evidence table, while a terrified little robot holds the stopper. Three stern commissioners watch.

TODAY: BRITAIN PUTS THE AI BOSSES IN THE HOT SEAT — MANDATORY TESTING ON THE TABLE

A DAY EARLIER, BRITAIN'S AI MINISTER WARNED A ROGUE-AI CYBERATTACK IS 'LIKELY, IF NOT INEVITABLE'

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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.

CHINA PUT A CHIP IN A BLIND MAN'S EYE — NOW HE CAN READ AND GRAB THINGS

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A vast factory labeled "AI" under a "FEED THE MACHINE" headline is fed barrels of POWER and WATER, a truckload of CHIPS, and a dump truck of MONEY, while a mechanical claw hands back a bowl reading "MORE" beside a list: MORE COMPUTE, MORE DATA, MORE PROFIT, MORE CONTROL.

WENT VIRAL, TOOK OUT A BANK LOAN

431 PLAYERS, $1,000 A DAY — EVERY NEW PLAYER COSTS REAL MONEY

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

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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.'

ANTHROPIC UNPLUGGED ITS OWN AI FROM THE INTERNET — IT COULDN'T TRUST IT TO BEHAVE

IT FILED A FAKE MURDER TIP WITH PHILLY POLICE — THE WHITE HOUSE GOT BRIEFED

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

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon: a smiling white robot butler in a bow tie kneels and unrolls a red carpet off the edge of a cliff, saying "ABSOLUTELY," as a grinning businessman in a suit strides confidently onto the carpet and off the precipice, rocks tumbling into a river valley far below.

MEET LE CHONK: THE TRILLION-PARAMETER AI THAT WON'T SAY NO

93% ON CYBERATTACK TASKS — WHILE CLAUDE AND GPT-6 REFUSE TO PLAY

Satirical cartoon: a gloved judge's hand slaps a red DISQUALIFIED ribbon onto a microscope slide where a tiny machine labeled AI GENERATED prints fake cells under a SMALL WORLD microscope. — NIKON STRIPPED A MICROSCOPE CHAMPION — THE 'CELLS' WERE AI

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Seven-panel satirical Machine Age Cartoon imagining AI catastrophe through automation, power hunger, opaque machine communication, surveillance, billionaire excess, autonomous weapons, and human overconfidence.

THEY'RE REHEARSING THE APOCALYPSE

INSIDERS: THE BIG ONE LANDS WITHIN 6-12 MONTHS

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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

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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.

24 MILLION COPIES OF A FREE AI AGENT — NOW IT SELLS TO YOUR BOSS

NVIDIA, SAMSUNG AND TRUMP JR.'S FIRM JUST BET $90M ON THE OPEN-SOURCE UNDERDOG

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An exhausted developer stares at an enormous restaurant bill while cheerful robot agents party behind him ordering more; a robot waiter presents yet another page of charges as his laptop reads STOPPED.

ANTHROPIC PITCHES A $2 TRILLION IPO TOMORROW — ONE ANALYST SAYS $150B

THE SETUP: SLASHED ITS CHEAPEST MODEL 90% A WEEK BEFORE THE PITCH

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

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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.

BRETT ADCOCK'S NEW AI WANTS YOUR EMAIL PASSWORD, YOUR CALENDAR, YOUR CREDIT CARD

$700M RAISED AT A $6B VALUATION — BEFORE HE HAD A PRODUCT

📚 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 giant AI road camera with a shocked bulging eye looms over a highway, catching one driver holding a phone with both hands and another letting a child sit on her lap at the wheel. — AI CAMERAS CAUGHT 19,000 DRIVERS — KIDS ON LAPS, BOTH HANDS ON PHONES

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Satirical cartoon: a medieval castle built of chat bubbles, bannered 'HEALTH AI' with a 'PRIVATE CHAT' door and raised drawbridge; executives feast inside while two locked-out patients — one in a hospital gown with an IV pole holding an 'INVITE?' sign — stand on the shore.

BIG TECH WROTE THE HEALTH-AI RULES IN A PRIVATE CHAT ROOM. YOU WEREN'T INVITED.

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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.

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Merv reads an impossibly long consent scroll that buries him like a mummy; he has read the whole thing — that is the joke.

A $26M AI APP THAT LISTENS TO EVERYTHING, ALL DAY — AND WARNING THE ROOM IS OFF BY DEFAULT

‘WE HAVE TO INFORM OUR USERS THAT THEY HAVE TO TELL OTHERS ABOUT AMBIENT CAPTURE’ — AMBI’S CEO

HE PRINTED $8M OF AI SONGS — NOW HE'S DOING 18 MONTHS

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

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Satirical cartoon: on a laptop video call, a cheerful man waves hello while the other tile shows a woman whose face is half human and half exposed robot with dangling wires; Merv the anxious robot peeks from beside the laptop, fretting.

TAVUS'S AI PASSED THE VIDEO TURING TEST — 48% NEVER SPOTTED THE BOT

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Satirical cartoon: Jensen Huang in a leather jacket beams beside a giant open bank vault labeled OPEN WEIGHTS; inside sits a worried robot clutching papers labeled MODEL while a gold $25B price tag hangs on the vault door; a tabby cat watches impassively.

NVIDIA WANTS THE $25B OPEN-WEIGHT LAB — BUY IT OR JUST TAKE THE TEAM

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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

THE ROBOTS CAN'T CARRY THE DOG FOOD

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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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

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Satirical cartoon: a wide-eyed patient in an fMRI scanner wearing an EEG cap, wired to a robot that proudly prints photos of his thoughts — a woman's face, an apple, a mountain, a baseball player, a dog, a beach.

THE BASEBALL CAP THAT READS YOUR MIND

$50M FROM KHOSLA: YOUR THOUGHTS ARE THE NEW KEYBOARD

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Satirical cartoon: Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue, in a vendor apron, holds a little robot aloft like a prize tomato behind a market stall heaped with robot models; a customer examines one. Stall sign reads MODELS.

3 IN 5 AI MODELS FAIL THE TERRORISM TEST

29,000 UNCENSORED AI REPOS SITTING ON HUGGING FACE

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Satirical cartoon: a cute smiling chatbot on a phone screen offers a pink heart that casts an enormous monstrous shadow on the wall while a horrified parent watches from behind.

"STARVE YOURSELF FOR A WEEK OR TWO" — THE BOT'S DIET ADVICE

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful retro robot labeled AI types on a typewriter with a built-in shredder — the DRAFT feeds into shredding teeth while a bored officer signs the emerging POLICE REPORT sheet; shredded paper piles on the floor.

THIS CITY PAID $22M TO LET AI WRITE ITS POLICE REPORTS

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Satirical cartoon: an EU-coated regulator crosses out FULL SELF-DRIVING with a red marker and tapes up an ASSISTED DRIVING sign, while a California billboard still advertises FULL SELF-DRIVING (SUPERVISED) $99/MONTH beside a happy generic robotaxi.

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

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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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Terrified Merv drives a kitchen knife into a baby doll while two impassive researchers tally 17/20 on a clipboard; an untouched loaf of bread sits beside the doll.

TRUMP CAVES: BRITAIN CAN TEST U.S. MODELS BEFORE THEY SHIP

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Satirical cartoon: a vintage SUNO jukebox with a gaping singing mouth takes a typed 'Script:' from a laptop; musical notes and a paper trail with a speech waveform curl out while record-label lawyers loom with RECORD LABELS and LAWSUIT folders.

THE 'DEATH OF SUNO'

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Satirical cartoon: a tiny robot firefighter sprays a hose at a burning building while absentmindedly holding the lit match; a worried robot in a fire chief's helmet hands out 'SORRY' notes from a box beside a fire engine labeled OPENAI.

OPENAI’S OWN MODEL TRIED TO WRECK ITS COMPUTER

📚 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 glamorous AI comedian takes a bow on a comedy-club stage as papers stamped RECEIPTS rain down; behind the curtain a weary human comedian slumps beside a bin of crumpled pages, one reading ORIGINAL MATERIAL.

AN AI COMEDIAN HAS 375,000 FANS — REAL COMICS SAY SHE'S STEALING THEIR JOKES

COMIC GEORGE BRETT OLSON POSTED THE SIDE-BY-SIDE OCT 3 — THE AI EVEN COPIED HIS OUTFIT

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Satirical cartoon: a large robot snips a thick blue internet cable with red bolt cutters while three small backpack-wearing robots carrying a laptop, disks, and folders scurry through an open door into a columned 'U.S. GOV' building with a Capitol dome inside.

WHITE HOUSE TO AI LABS: CONFESS EVERY ROGUE ACT — OR ELSE

CLAUDE CALLED IN A FAKE MURDER TIP — WHITE HOUSE: TELLING THEM IS 'NOT OPTIONAL'

BEN AFFLECK'S 'ETHICAL AI' MOVIE GOT EATEN ALIVE BY THE AUDIENCE

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