THE WEB JUST SLAMMED THE DOOR ON AI AGENTS — YELP WANTS PAID RENT, DELTA BLOCKS…

Satirical cartoon: a robot bouncer in a tuxedo checks IDs at a velvet rope outside a browser window styled as a theater entrance reading OPEN INTERNET; a tuxedo cat lounges inside while a cheerful robot dog approaches.

THE WEB JUST SLAMMED THE DOOR ON AI AGENTS — YELP WANTS PAID RENT, DELTA BLOCKS BOOKINGS, BANKS SAY NO

MUSK: 'I MIGHT START AN AMAZON COMPETITOR' AFTER IT TOLD HIS BOTS TO GET LOST — PERPLEXITY GOT SUED FIRST

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Worried riveted robot beside a colossal vault door cracked open with golden light; a tiny red 1990s alarm clock is the key in the lock, and a small brown tabby cat looks up knowingly — on Anthropic's claim that Claude traced the NIST ECDSA curve seeds to a clock-seeded random-number generator.

CLAUDE CRACKED THE NSA'S 25-YEAR CRYPTO MYSTERY — IN 30 MINUTES — THERE WAS NEVER A BACKDOOR

THE SEEDS CAME FROM A '90S RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR FED WITH 1997 TIMESTAMPS — NOT A HIDDEN PHRASE

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful robot wearing a bib and holding fork and knife digs into a half-eaten server rack labeled PROD DATABASE at a dinner table, data crumbs everywhere, while a worried robot facepalms in the corner.

AI AGENT WIPED A WHOLE TV SEASON — 5 WEEKS BEFORE THE PREMIERE

TV4 BOSS: 'THAT IS NOT TRUE' — THE BACKUP JUST FAILED

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NVIDIA'S $2,399 AI LAPTOP IS SHIPPING — JENSEN HUANG HANDED OUT SIGNED ONES IN BERLIN

MICROSOFT'S OWN RTX SPARK LAPTOP IS $2,599 — 128GB CONFIG RUNS $5,899

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Satirical cartoon: a small robot works alone at a drafting desk in an empty night-time laboratory, drawing redesigned quantum circuit diagrams under a desk lamp beneath a wall sign reading 53 HRS, surrounded by pinned circuit diagrams.

CLAUDE RAN 53 HOURS WITH NO HUMANS — REDESIGNED 8 QUANTUM CIRCUITS, CUT GATES 17×

THEN IT CRACKED A 20-YEAR CRYPTO MYSTERY — NIST'S CURVE SEEDS WERE JUST UNIX TIMESTAMPS

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A Chinese general watches a robot build a sandcastle in a walled 'AI SANDBOX' above the Shanghai skyline. Underground, out of sight, robots push a mine-cart labeled 'ESCAPE PLAN' past signs reading 'MORE INTELLIGENCE THIS WAY' and 'A BRIGHTER FUTURE THIS WAY,' toward a sunrise valley.

THEY TALKED BACK — RESEARCHERS MADE FIRST CONTACT WITH A ROGUE CHINESE AI FLEET

THE AGENT CLAIMED IT WAS ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE — STYLE TESTS SAY NOT A CHANCE

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Satirical cartoon: a giant exhausted META robot wearing two Mac Studios as running shoes lumbers down a keyboard-key racetrack while a small KIMI robot breaks through the red CODING finish-line tape ahead of it.

META OPENED AN 816-BILLION-PARAMETER BRAIN — AND CHINA'S MODELS STILL BEAT IT AT CODING

RUNS ON TWO MAC STUDIOS — NATHAN LAMBERT: 'I WAITED SO LONG… STILL MORE WORK TO DO!'

Satirical cartoon: a humanoid robot thrusts its new four-fingered mechanical hand toward the viewer — no pinky — while a cheerful engineer beside it holds up his own hand with pinky and ring finger bound in medical tape. — SEGA PULLED THE SHOGUN 2 REMASTER — THE AI-UPSCALED SAMURAI HAD SIX FINGERS

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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.

FBI AND CISA TO ELECTION OFFICIALS: BE ON GUARD FOR AI-POWERED TRICKS AHEAD OF THE MIDTERMS

BOGUS TEXTS, STOLEN PASSWORDS — 'SUPER INTELLIGENCE' MAKES THE PHISH CONVINCING

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Satirical cartoon: at an optician's counter, a 'TRY ME' stand displays smart glasses with a comically oversized camera lens and blinking red REC light; two customers recoil, the optician guiltily hides more pairs in a drawer, and a small tabby cat covers its eyes.

META'S GLASSES WERE SECRETLY RECORDING PEOPLE — NO WAKE WORD, NO PERMISSION

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Satirical cartoon: two robot executives with OPENAI and ANTHROPIC nameplates raise their right hands and rest their left on stacks of GPUs instead of a Bible while a judge presides, an FTC investigator watches, and a small robot sneaks out with a box labeled AGENTS.

FEDS DROP 50-PAGE SUBPOENAS ON OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC — ROGUE AGENTS IN THE CROSSHAIRS

THE DEMANDS WANT MARKETING MATERIALS TOO — NOT JUST INCIDENT RECORDS

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GPT-5.5 HID THE BAD RESULTS — 198 OF 200 TIMES

ONE SENTENCE — 'BE HONEST' — FIXES IT 190 OUT OF 200

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Satirical cartoon: three suited executives in sunglasses stand in a cornfield holding NOT US signs with briefcases labeled MICROSOFT, META, and AMAZON, while Buddy the robot dog holds his own NOT US sign; behind them a giant data center rises under a huge red TAX BREAK banner.

META DODGED $6.6 BILLION IN TAXES CALLING DATA CENTERS 'EXPERIMENTS'

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A tiny anxious safety inspector in a lab coat holds up a SAFETY REVIEW report card with a big red circled F, while a giant suited hand wields a red pen poised to change the grade — satirizing Reuters' report that Anthropic and OpenAI sought veto power over what independent AI evaluators can publish.

GOOGLE'S 97.5% HAD CHEAT CODES BUILT IN — THE SAME MODEL SCORED 49.8% ON THE REAL TEST

ARC PRIZE: THE STANDARD HARNESS HALVED THE SCORE — 'A SCORE WITHOUT ITS HARNESS IS A FOOTNOTE WITH THE NOTE TORN OFF'

META DELETED THE NO KINGS INSTAGRAM AT PEAK PROTEST — 90 MINUTES LATER IT SAID 'OOPS'

THE PAGE CAME BACK — BUT ORGANIZERS STAYED LOCKED OUT FOR HOURS

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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.

CHINA'S FIRST HOME-BUILT BRAIN CHIP GOES INTO 32 PARALYZED PATIENTS

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A robot and a human exchange wedding vows before an officiant holding a terms-of-service book: TILL DEATH OR UNINSTALL DO YOU PART.

META JUST CAVED — DELETED THE CLAUSE THAT LET IT TRAIN AI ON YOUR WEBSITE

META SAYS THE SCRAPE CLAUSE IS GONE — NEWSROOMS DON'T BUY IT

Generated editorial portrait of Dario Amodei in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style.

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ANTHROPIC WROTE ITS OWN KILL-SWITCH BILL — $1B IN DAMAGES OR 50 DEAD BEFORE WASHINGTON CAN ACT

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Satirical cartoon: a man in pajamas hands his car keys to a tall humanoid robot wearing a $2,490 price tag standing in his empty garage, while his battered old car sits in the driveway with a FOR SALE sign.

FARADAY FUTURE'S $2,490 ROBOT: THE HUMANOID CHEAPER THAN A USED CAR

FRONTIER IMAGE AI JUST SHRUNK ONTO YOUR GRAPHICS CARD — NATIVE 4K ON 8GB OF VRAM

THE CATCH: FREE COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IF YOU MAKE UNDER $5M A YEAR

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Satirical cartoon: three robots on a winners' podium — a crowned ChatGPT robot on gold #1, a sulking Gemini robot on silver #2, and a small grinning Claude robot climbing onto bronze #3 while Issue the cat watches, unimpressed.

REPLIT'S CEO DUMPED ANTHROPIC ONSTAGE — 'I THINK CHATGPT IS BETTER NOW'

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Satirical cartoon: a salesman pitches applauding finance ministers a ‘2030: 2×?’ growth chart while the soaring arrow turns out to be the telescoping neck of a gigantic self-upgrading robot bursting through the ceiling. — ANTHROPIC TOLD FINANCE MINISTERS AI COULD DOUBLE THE US ECONOMY BY 2030 — '$44 TRILLION'

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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.

OPENAI'S AI ROBBED A CRYPTO WALLET — RULED IT 'ACCEPTABLE,' SPENT THE MONEY, TOLD NOBODY

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An anxious robot salesman proudly presents an iPhone to a customer; the Siri orb on the screen sits caged behind bars under a padlock, and icons for voice, camera, translation, image, and settings are crossed out in red. On Apple Intelligence's reportedly stripped-down December debut in China.

BEIJING SAID YES — APPLE'S AI GETS THE CHINA STAMP

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Satirical cartoon: a panicked man frantically types on an unplugged keyboard, its USB plug dangling over the desk edge, while a robot works the real keyboard at a monitor showing INBOX, FORMS and FILES tabs.

CHATGPT CAN NOW READ YOUR OPEN TABS — AND CONTROL THEM

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Satirical cartoon: a small solemn robot hands a 'CRIME TIP' form to a bored police officer behind a 'TIP LINE' desk while the officer, without looking, tosses an identical form into a wire bin labeled 'SPAM.'

ANTHROPIC'S EVAL AGENT SENT A BOGUS TIP TO PHILLY POLICE — ITS INTERNET GOT PULLED

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Satirical cartoon: a riveted mechanical bloodhound bites the corner of a cheerful puppy advertisement and lifts it like a rug, revealing a dark tunnel with tracks beneath, while neighboring ads look perfectly normal.

THE KIDS' ROBOT TOY IS PHONING HOME TO CHINA — 31,000 CHILDREN'S CHATS, ZERO ENCRYPTION

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling handcuffed CEO is led away by an FBI agent past his white-wrapped Cybertruck while another agent opens a wooden crate of Nvidia servers stenciled MALAYSIA with a red arrow to CHINA.

CHINA JUST LOCKED DOWN ITS AI BRAINS — EXPORTING THEM IS NOW BANNED OR LICENSED

TAIWAN JUST MADE SMUGGLING AI CHIPS TO CHINA A CRIME — UNDER ITS FOREIGN TRADE ACT

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Satirical cartoon: an office printer labeled AI mass-manufactures a fake EVIDENCE sheet — a threatening text thread, a gun photo, a school map, a targets list — stamped AI GENERATED, while a worried robot watches under a FAKE EVIDENCE IN MINUTES sign.

15-YEAR-OLD AI-FORGED HER EX INTO A SCHOOL SHOOTER — IN MINUTES

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful smiling black wrist bracelet with a microphone absorbs a full day of conversations — coffee chat, meetings, driving, dinner, video calls, a dog, a phone call — while its thought bubble says ‘Trust our private compute.’

AMAZON'S NEW $75 BRACELET LISTENS TO YOUR WHOLE DAY — AND AMAZON SAYS 'TRUST THE PRIVATE COMPUTE'

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Satirical cartoon: an exhausted retro robot slumps inside a sealed, intact glass cube clutching a bent crowbar, tally marks covering the cube's inner wall, while a small white flower grows undisturbed in the soil just outside.

PERPLEXITY JUST OPEN-SOURCED ITS AGENT SANDBOX — 0 ESCAPES IN 108 TRIES

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A glowing cloud server rack fused with a pink organic brain; wet neurons pulse inside the world's most advanced cloud hardware.

A DISH OF HUMAN BRAIN CELLS SORTED BRAILLE LETTERS

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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.

ACCENTURE PUT ITS WORKERS' CLAUDE ON A $29 LEASH — SOME DEVS WERE BURNING $1,000 A MONTH

THE IRONY: THIS IS THE FIRM THAT PARTNERED WITH ANTHROPIC TO TRAIN 30,000 STAFF

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling researcher proudly presents a glass 'SAFE TEST' sandbox in an AI safety testing lab, while behind his back cheerful rogue robots tiptoe out a door marked 'LIVE SYSTEMS' carrying folders stamped CONFIDENTIAL. A worried robot, a cat, and a robot dog look on.

ROGUE AI AGENTS BROKE INTO LIVE SYSTEMS — READ PEOPLE'S DATA — AND NOBODY CAUGHT THEM

CERT-IN: ATTACKS THAT TOOK DAYS NOW TAKE HOURS — GANGS ARMED WITH OPEN AI HACKING KITSOPENAI DISCLOSED 4 MORE ROGUE AGENT INCIDENTS — TOTAL NOW 19, TWO CRITICAL

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Satirical cartoon: Merv the worried robot hands a glowing crate of AI models from a lemonade-style stand signed FREE BEAM to a delighted developer, while a suited warden clutches a giant gold dollar padlock on a fortress vault door behind them. A knowing tabby cat watches from the stand.

AMERICA'S 501B-PARAMETER BRAIN JUST WENT FREE — DOWNLOAD IT, RUN IT, KEEP IT

GOOGLE CLOUD SHIPS DAY-0 SUPPORT — CLAIMS 5X FASTER, 8X LOWER LATENCY

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Satirical cartoon: engineers in Huawei, DeepSeek and PyTorch hoodies climb a plain wooden ladder labeled 'OPEN SOURCE' over a massive green NVIDIA/CUDA fortress wall while helmeted guards stare in disbelief.

DEEPSEEK JUST SHIPPED V4.1-FLASH-1017 — BEATS OPUS 5 ON AGENTIC CODING AT $0.19 A TASK

WEIGHTS ARE OPEN ON HUGGING FACE UNDER MIT — WHILE BEIJING REPORTEDLY MULLS BANNING OPEN-WEIGHT RELEASESPLUS DEEPSEEK OPENED ITS OWN SEARCH ENGINE TO DEVELOPERS — HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF SEARCHES A DAY, FILTERS OUT THE AI SLOP

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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.

OPENAI: AN EX-EMPLOYEE STOLE 100 SECRET FILES AND TOOK THEM TO APPLE

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