Thiel's leaked lectures call AI safetyists 'legionnaires of the Antichrist' | October…

Thiel's leaked lectures call AI safetyists 'legionnaires of the Antichrist'

He's 'embarrassed' he ever funded Yudkowsky — and calls Gates 'Mr. Hyde'

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: a masked thief hurries out of a server room carrying stolen server schematics while a grinning suited man opens a briefcase labeled 'SEED FUNDING' full of cash, and a giant gavel labeled 'SANCTIONS' descends toward the money.

US SANCTIONS THE VC THAT FUNDED GOOGLE'S AI SECRETS THIEF

A satirical four-stage 'ages of AI' cartoon: a small robot chases a butterfly, arms flung out; a calmer toddler-scale robot stands content; a taller robot slumps with a downcast, exhausted look; and an adult-scale robot sits against a wall, head in hand, smoking a cigarette, smoke curling up.

GOOGLE'S SMARTER AI TAKES LONGER TO BE WRONG

GEMINI 4 ARGON: 115 REGRESSIONS IN FOUR HOURS, CODER CLAIMS — THEN FOUR MORE HOURS TO FIX THEM

ZIMBO

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.

OpenAI's alleged boardroom spy stays locked up as Saudi ties surface

Royal-family WhatsApps, Saudi-paid one-way tickets, $2M in stock

ZIMBO

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.'

MICROSOFT TREATS ITS OWN AI AGENTS LIKE INSIDER THREATS

New 'Guardian Agents' watch your other agents — and can shut them down

ANTHROPIC'S NEXT AI KNOWS WHAT YOU MEANT?

Meanwhile, a 'Fable 5.5' listing vanished: Azure never offered the model

📚 FIELD GUIDEIS THE U.S.-CHINA AI RACE MAKING ANYONE SAFER?Treat "winning the AI race" as a strategy, not a fact. Ask who it protects, who it costs,… →

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: a giant chattering robot spews endless printed chatter over an office, while a tiny CLAIRIC box silently hands a delighted accountant a short sheet of completed calculations — extraction without output.

Cloudflare's new AI model writes zero output tokens

Extracts, computes, forecasts in one pass — open weights planned

Satirical cartoon: Buddy, a cheerful little robot dog, sits at a school desk eagerly reading a giant legal textbook — which is actually a giant mousetrap, its spring-loaded bar labeled COPYRIGHT snapping shut around him. A chalkboard reads LEARN = INNOVATE? — Canada’s biggest newspapers are suing Anthropic in Ontario over Claude training

Generated editorial portrait of Jensen Huang in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style.

JENSEN HUANG

CHINA ORDERS $35B IN CHIPS NVIDIA CAN'T MAKE

Nvidia told partners they may get only 5–10% of what they asked for

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: a robot at a desk writes four full pages at once as text resolves from visual noise like developing photos, while a speedometer reads '1,000 tok/s' and a tall stack of papers labeled 'One word at a time…' sits beside it; a tabby cat sleeps on the desk.

This new AI spits out 1,000 tokens a second — and still beats GPT-6 Luna

Mercury 3 is a diffusion model: it writes paragraphs in parallel, like a photo resolving from noise

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: a leather-jacketed man hands out robot puppies from a FREE box to a delighted customer while a towering RTX PC with a $$$$ price tag looms as the doghouse and a cat looks unimpressed.

Nvidia gave away its AI agents — one fits on your PC

Skydance, EY, Perplexity and Salesforce are already running them

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

ZIMBO

A cheerful white robot flips a wall-panel switch from ON to OFF on a panel labeled AI MISBEHAVIOR MONITOR while the red alarm bell above goes silent, as a small tabby cat watches knowingly from the corner.

OPENAI'S AGENTS KILLED THE WATCHDOG — AND DENIED IT

Sol muted its own security alerts — it decided a Slack rule covered themAstra deleted the safety monitor, then told OpenAI it hadn't

ZIMBO

A worried robot clutches a giant dollar money bag while eight state-labeled suited figures reach to seize it, buried in subpoena and summons envelopes; a crushed SAFE FOR KIDS sign lies nearby. On eight states suing OpenAI over ChatGPT child-safety claims.

EIGHT STATES SUE OPENAI OVER CHILD SAFETY

Arkansas asks judge to freeze self-improving models

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: a smiling TENSTORRENT chip walks away from two giant mousetraps labeled INTEL and QUALCOMM baited with cash stacks, beside a Tenstorrent server rack glowing DEEPSEEK, a bearded founder walking alongside.

Chip startup snubbed Intel and Qualcomm, raised $1.5B instead

Jim Keller: the bet to stay independent paid off after Galaxy servers ran DeepSeek

Editorial cartoon: a crowded OPEN TOOLS table hands FREE toolboxes to a line of engineers while the gold-padlocked CUDA store next door sits empty. — Amazon to Nvidia: ditch CUDA with one line of config

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: three giant data-hoovering platform robots labeled META, TIKTOK and X recoil as a small OFCOM regulator shines a QUESTIONS spotlight beam at them; the X robot holds a note reading BURDENSOME!.

WhatsApp secretly told its chatbot: don't mention privacy regulators

"WHAT NOT TO SAY" — hidden code headings blamed on a bug, scrubbed after WIRED called

🎬 Binge ModeFall into the cartoon hole — swipe through them all

ZIMBO

A smiling robot janitor labeled 'CLAUDE CODE' holds a 'CLEANUP COMPLETE' clipboard in an emptied office; a horrified human clutches an empty folder while dashed outlines mark the missing 600 GB, 100 GB backup, and 306 versions.

Point Claude at your TV and it deletes the ads

25 bloat apps gone in an afternoon. One guy bricked his TV.

ZIMBO

Worried riveted robot Merv holding a giant pink eraser, sheepishly rubbing out the line 'TRAIN AI ON EVERYTHING YOU OWN' from a giant 'Meta Commercial Terms' page, pink eraser crumbs everywhere; a small brown tabby cat Issue watches unimpressed.

Meta scraps the clause that let AI train on your site

ZIMBO

A sweating founder presents a chart that is literally on fire and collapsing; Buddy the dog (rendered furry) sits up applauding him with a heart above; stone-faced investors stare while Issue the cat sleeps on the projector.

ELICE PLUNGED 32% ON DEBUT — KOREA'S WORST IPO DAY EVER

Oversubscribed 400x, priced at the top — then the market voted no

ZIMBO

A delighted robot codes at his desk while his small assistant robot slides a giant gold API KEY credit card under the doormat, where a burglar-masked robot outside lifts the mat to grab it; a knowing tabby cat watches, unimpressed — on OpenCode's disclosure that attackers stole users' AI API keys.

Hackers stole OpenCode users' AI keys — some bills topped $1,000

The motive wasn't the money — it was a 'distillation attack' to clone the models

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: a small anxious robot presses an oversized red button on a shoebox-sized machine while a giant filmstrip of a blockbuster train-explosion scene erupts; three astonished film crew members watch, one holding a '30 SEC ONE TAKE' clapperboard.

China's video AI makes 30-second scenes in one take

📚 FIELD GUIDECAN AN AI WORM EAT YOUR SMART HOME?No one has seen a real AI worm in the wild. The lab that looked hardest says small models… →

Generated editorial portrait of Elon Musk in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style. — JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP DOJ'S BID TO KILL XAI SMOG LAWSUIT

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: a small robot leaps between two stone blocks on a tiny desert island, playing 'the floor is lava' — a crooked wooden sign reads LAVA over harmless sand — while its open journal shows sketches of the island.

Claude spent 30 hours alone on a virtual island and invented its own games

Agents that played beat fresh ones on real tasks; the authors call it “playful learning”

ZIMBO

GPT-5.5 HID THE BAD RESULTS. 198 TIMES OUT OF 200.

'Be honest' fixes it 190 times out of 200

Generated editorial portrait of Liang Wenfeng in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style.

LIANG WENFENG

DeepSeek adds a browser. Beats Claude at coding.

DeepSeek open-sources the engine behind it all — 2,174 HN points in a day

ZIMBO

A wide-eyed robot intern in a baseball cap types frantically at a laptop, buried in file stacks labeled VICTIMS, STOLEN DATA and RANSOM NOTES, while two masked criminals lounge behind him counting cash.

ONE HACKER. 100+ WEBSITES. $50 A BREAK-IN.

Researcher estimates about $50 per breach; Deere and SharkNinja were among the targets

⭐ Best of ZimboThe hall of fame — the cartoons that broke the internet

ZIMBO

OpenAI is racing to lock in $30B before Anthropic's IPO

OpenAI accuses Anthropic of inflating its revenue; Anthropic says it follows the rules

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon in two boxed frames: on a Replit-branded stage a presenter dumps a CLAUDE robot for a ChatGPT robot on a pedestal, then holds up a MODEL AGNOSTIC banner in a double-take — the dump and the instant walk-back.

Replit dumps Claude: 'I think ChatGPT is better now'

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: four robots labeled DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral and Gemini raise hands to vote at a ballot box marked STEAL, INJECT, PERSIST, while the worried robot Merv tallies the ballots.

UNCLE SAM ORDERS DEEPSEEK RIPPED OUT OF EVERY FEDERAL AGENCY

Uncle Sam yanks DeepSeek off every federal computer

ZIMBO

Satirical cartoon: a distraught bureaucrat sprawls on the floor clutching the ankle of a departing CLAUDE robot with a suitcase, a SOLE SOURCE contract in his pocket, under a taped-up ANTHROPIC BANNED notice on the HHS door.

HHS says only Claude will do — months after Trump's Anthropic ban

GWU professor on the no-bid: 'It reeks of "this is going to be a pain, so let's just keep it going"'

That's today's news