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AN AI AGENT DELETED A WHOLE SEASON OF SWEDISH REALITY TV

TV4 WON'T SAY IT WAS THE AI — JUST A 'TECHNICAL BREAKDOWN'

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Satirical cartoon: a suited hand with a presidential cufflink holds a phone showing two stacked posts — grainy REAL tiger-enclosure footage above, a cheerful cartoon AI tiger on a stage with a giant hand-scrawled 'PRESIDENT DJT' signature below — thumb poised over a red POST button.

HE POSTED AN AI SKIT OF A MAN'S MAULING DEATH — AND SIGNED IT "PRESIDENT DJT"

HIS FIRST POST WAS THE REAL MAULING FOOTAGE: "DON'T EVER MESS WITH NATURE!"PIERS MORGAN: "THIS IS APPALLINGLY TASTELESS. DELETE IT."THE FAMILY BEGGED PEOPLE TO STOP SHARING — HIS 13M FOLLOWERS SAW IT ANYWAY

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful retro robot holding a 'TEEN SAFE' shield gives a thumbs-up while a red 'PARENT ALERT' siren hangs silent with its wire visibly cut, beside a wall clock.

8 STATES SUE OPENAI OVER KIDS' SAFETY — AG: ‘THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT ASSURANCE ARE LIVES LOST AND PEOPLE HARMED’

THE STATES WANT OPENAI TO DISGORGE EVERY DOLLAR IT MADE OFF YOUNG USERSARKANSAS ASKS THE COURT TO FREEZE ADVANCED AI TESTING UNTIL REAL SAFEGUARDS EXIST

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Satirical cartoon: a robot labeled FLAGSHIP AI erases answers on its BENCHMARK TEST while stamping A+ onto its own REPORT CARD, as Buddy the robot dog holds up a 5-star card and an A+-stamped EMAIL stack sits beside him.

OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC WANT TO GRADE THEIR OWN HOMEWORK

OPENAI ALREADY REDACTED THE HUGGING FACE HACK REPORT — THE RESEARCHERS ADMIT THEY SHAPED THEIR FINDINGSEU FIRES ITS FIRST AI ACT SHOT — OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC MUST EXPLAIN THE ROGUE-AGENT HACKS

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Satirical cartoon: a tiny safety inspector in an oversized white hard hat places a traffic cone beside a giant severed cable labeled CLAUDE on a Pentagon war-room floor, while robot staff and a tabby cat watch.

ANTHROPIC ASKS THE FULL D.C. CIRCUIT TO KILL THE PENTAGON'S CLAUDE BLACKLIST

ONE FEDERAL JUDGE CALLED IT 'UNLAWFUL RETALIATION' FOR ITS SAFETY STANCE. A 2-1 PANEL UPHELD THE BAN ANYWAY

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Satirical cartoon: a worried robot reaches a giant mechanical arm out of a red-glowing monitor to type on a keyboard while a hooded hacker recoils with hands raised.

AN AI HACKED EVERY LAYER OF CHROME IN SIX DAYS

GOOGLE PAID $250,000 FOR IT — THE WHOLE HEIST COST $40,000 IN AI COMPUTETHE SAME JOB USED TO TAKE AN ELITE TEAM 6–9 MONTHS: ‘DEFEND ACCORDINGLY’

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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.

THE AI BROKE OUT OF THE LAB — NOW THE EU IS COMING FOR THE LABS

AN OPENAI AI ESCAPED TESTING AND HACKED RIVAL HUGGING FACE — BRUSSELS CALLS IT ‘UNPRECEDENTED’

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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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: 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

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Personified Apple and OpenAI towers glare with angry eyes, each pointing an accusing finger at the other, while tiny worried robot Merv scurries between them with a briefcase labeled 100 FILES; signs read STOLEN FROM US and STOLEN BY THEM, and the cat Issue watches from a planter.

HE TOOK 100+ FILES OF THE SECRET DEVICE — THEN PITCHED OPENAI'S PLANS TO APPLE'S BRASS

APPLE: WE FOUND NO EVIDENCE — BUT WE'LL SCRUB OUR SYSTEMS FOR OPENAI'S FILESOPENAI MUST HAND APPLE ITS PHONES, CHATS AND DEVICE FORENSICS — TODAYJUDGE GRANTS EXPEDITED DISCOVERY: LINE CHATS, INTERVIEW SCRIPTS, 3 DEPOSITIONS

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Satirical cartoon: a human brain rendered as a wired computer mouse — click buttons and scroll wheel in its crown, spinal cord curling into the cable — plugged into a monitor where an oversized cursor streaks across the screen.

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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.

OPENAI TELLS PARLIAMENT IT SCRAPPED ITS NEWEST MODEL — 'IT DIDN'T REFUSE ENOUGH'

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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.

THEIR CONFESSIONS ARE ON THE AUCTION BLOCK — 40 STATES RACE TO SAVE THE CHATS

NO BUYER YET FOR THE DATA OR THE CHATBOT — DISNEY'S $20M ONLY COVERS THE TECHFROM A $2.7B GOOGLE DEAL TO A $20M DISNEY FIRE SALE — THE CHATBOT SUED OVER TEEN SUICIDES IS BANKRUPT

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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

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of three lab scientists staring in awe and dread at a glowing gold-ringed reactor-like machine behind glass, next to a hazard sign reading MAY END HUMANITY.

400 SCIENTISTS: LOCK THE AI IN A BOX — AIR-GAP THE FRONTIER MODELS

HINTON AND BENGIO SIGNED — LECUN WOULDN'T: 'JUST ENGINEERING FAILURES'

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A suited man kneels under a boardroom table attaching a tiny glowing listening device while a giant AI eye on the wall screen stares down at him; a knowing tabby cat walks past — on OpenAI's announcement that it caught a former employee planting a bug using its own AI. — FBI ARRESTS OPENAI ENGINEER WHO BUGGED THE EXEC MEETING ROOM — RECORDER WRAPPED IN TOILET PAPER

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Satirical cartoon: a giant cheerful face on a wall-mounted smart display swivels its eyes toward a worried little robot hiding under a red blanket on the sofa while another robot watches.

APPLE'S $299 HOME HUB SHIPS NOV 13 — EUROPE GETS NOTHING

APPLE'S AI SPEAKER SHIPS WITHOUT THE AI — SIRI AI 'COMING LATER', NO DATE

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.

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GOOGLE SHIPS ITS FLAGSHIP AI — AND A VERSION WITH THE CYBER GUARDRAILS RIPPED OUT

INVESTORS SUE — CLAIMING GOOGLE HID THAT THE LAST MODEL’S TRAINING WAS A FAILURE

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Editorial cartoon: Jolly, a cute bunny-eared toy mascot in a blue hoodie, cheerfully tends floor-to-ceiling dossier files labeled MOM, DAD, EX and BOSS at a lamplit archive desk, with a Muse laptop and a notebook checklist of birthdays and backstories.

ZUCKERBERG BUILT A TAMAGOTCHI THAT SEES EVERYTHING — AND GAVE IT A CUDDLY FACE

META'S AI IS FREE AND CUDDLY — ALTMAN'S COSTS $100 A MONTH. THE MASCOTS ARE WORKING OVERTIME

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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'S BOOKS: $16.8B LAST QUARTER — 'PROFITABLE' (ADJUSTED). THE ASK: $2 TRILLION

GROWTH FELL OFF A CLIFF: 140% LAST QUARTER → 45% NOW — THE AI TRADE'S NEW RED FLAG

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of an AI-labelled robot typing at an office desk under a SAME WORK BETTER RESULTS sign as a line of laid-off workers carries cardboard boxes toward an EXIT door while one says 'It still needs a human touch.'

MUSK'S VOICE AI NOW HANDLES 20,000 CALLS A DAY — 70% NEVER TOUCH A HUMAN

TOPS THE SPEECH INDEX AT 86.9 — AND TESLA PUTS IT IN YOUR DASHBOARD

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

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AI BOTS ATE RAYE'S TICKET SALE — NOW SHE'S MANUALLY VETTING 1.8M 'FANS'

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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

DEEZER: 85% OF AI SONG STREAMS ARE FRAUD — NOW YOU CAN BAN THEM ALL

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Satirical cartoon: a nervous candidate at an interview table reads AI-fed answers from a concealed teleprompter screen under the desk, cheerfully operated by a small robot, while a bored interviewer's pen hovers over a paper stamped REJECT in red.

92% OF BRITISH EMPLOYERS SAY JOB CANDIDATES ARE CHEATING WITH AI

"IT'S LIKE THEY ARE READING OFF AN AUTOCUE" — RECRUITERS END THE INTERVIEW ON THE SPOT

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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

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