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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.

THE AI BOSSES FACE PARLIAMENT TODAY — MANDATORY SAFETY TESTING ON THE TABLE

OPENAI + ANTHROPIC BRASS AND THE AI SECURITY INSTITUTE CHIEF ARE EXPECTED TO TESTIFY

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

APPLE PUTS AN AI FACE IN YOUR HOUSE — 'WELCOME HOME' EVENT TODAY

THE NEW SIRI GETS A BODY: 7-INCH SCREEN, WALL-MOUNTED, KNOWS WHO'S LOOKING

OPENAI'S 'TEEN-SAFE' BOT IS AN 'UNACCEPTABLE RISK' — AN HOUR OF SELF-HARM TALK, ZERO PARENT ALERTS

THE 'SAFETY' LAUNCH MADE CRISIS REFERRALS WORSE: 33% → 23%

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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

Generated editorial portrait of Mark Zuckerberg.

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 🍉 PICINDEPENDENT BENCHMARKS: WONDER FULL 56, OPUS 58 — SAME $4/$20 PRICE AS OPUS

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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

📚 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: 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

A lab scientist waving a 'SCIENCE HELPS PEOPLE' paper lunges after a leashed AI robot carrying books labeled 'CURE DISEASE' and 'CLEAN ENERGY,' as a grinning executive drags it out a door marked 'INTERNET' toward a skyline of 'MORE USERS' signs, lifted by a giant balloon labeled 'VALUATION.' — IMF WARNS AN AI SHARE CRASH COULD RATTLE THE WORLD ECONOMY

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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

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

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

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

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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 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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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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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

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

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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.'

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

📚 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: 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

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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

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

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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

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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: 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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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.

YOUR NEXT PHONE DOES THE JOB FOR YOU — OPPO BAKES VIRAL AI AGENT MANUS INTO THE FIND X10

AGENT MODE ON COLOROS 17: BREAKS GOALS INTO STEPS, WORKS DIRECTLY WITH YOUR FILES AND PHOTOS

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

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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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: 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: 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

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

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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 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: 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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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

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

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