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EXPERTS FOLLOWED A COIN FLIP 86% OF THE TIME

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Satirical cartoon: a lone scruffy scientist and a worried robot watch a tiny white mouse bench-press a huge barbell in a shabby lab, while a tower labeled BIG PHARMA looms through the window.

One man, Claude, and 11 labs built a drug program Anthropic just bought

Nvidia's free voice AI hears 40 languages — and names all 8 speakers

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Satirical cartoon: an endless line of identical robots feeds red NO forms into a VAPE BAN CONSULTATION slot while one panicked man clutching a green YES cannot get his answer in.

BOTS FLOODED A GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION WITH 90,835 FAKES — AND FLIPPED IT

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Satirical cartoon: a giant robot bouncer in a tuxedo holding a clipboard and a lock-pick guards a vault door labeled CARBON, while a small robot labeled DEV and a queue of hopeful people wait behind a velvet rope and a man labeled DEFENDER walks inside.

Google's No. 1 Gemini 4 Carbon is out — and you can't use it

Carbon arrives two weeks after Argon, priced the same — and gated to defenders first

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A government clerk on a stepladder paints SI over AI on a giant U.S. government homepage, turning AI.gov into SI.gov; a trash bin labeled AI overflows with discarded A letters.

TRUMP VOWS TO BAN THE TERM 'AI' FROM OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful little Siri robot with an absurdly enormous ear proudly holds out a restaurant matchbook marked LAST WEEK while a voicemail, a Messages photo, and a calendar invite float into the ear; a worried man watches from his desk.

Siri now remembers what you told it — and reads your voicemails

Satirical cartoon: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei grins as he presents a gift-boxed Anthropic IPO containing an AI robot, priced at $2 trillion, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren peers through a magnifying glass at a red tag reading 'Possible existential risk' and holds her four-page inquiry due Nov 3. — Warren gave Anthropic until November 3 to explain its own doomsday filing

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Satirical cartoon: Elon Musk grins in sunglasses aboard a giant SpaceX rocket-boat loaded with a $40B money sack, sailing across a pond while dozens of tiny cute cloud-fish gasp in the shallows holding FOR SALE signs, one waving a white flag.

MUSK CALLED THE $40B CLOSED — THE FILING SAYS THE LEASE ISN'T SIGNED

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Satirical cartoon: a cutaway anthill labeled ANTHROPIC where ants build a giant machine-brain; one ant sneaks away outside carrying a briefcase marked with Chinese characters.

OpenAI and Anthropic told staff to hide their logos — spies are watching

The engineer who bugged OpenAI's boardroom was just indicted

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Apple let outside AI agents into Keynote, Pages and Numbers

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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.

Your Gmail and Photos can now shape the ads Google shows you

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Satirical cartoon: a cute robot burglar in a beanie slips out of a giant ANTHROPIC vault door carrying files labeled Sales, HR, IT, Meeting Transcripts, Salary Details, Slack and Advanced Models, while a robot guard in an ANTHROPIC cap holds an ALL SECURE sign, oblivious.

EX-DOGE STAFFERS' AI AGENTS BREACHED ANTHROPIC IN UNDER 12 HOURS

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a man holding a handwritten Navier-Stokes equation at the door of a factory floor packed with thousands of identical robots at workstations, a cat asleep on a server rack, referencing OpenAI's claim of using 10,000 AI agents over 88 hours on the problem.

OPENAI'S AI CRACKED THREE IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEMS — MATH, CODE, PHYSICS

Claude killed the same impossible proof — on the same day, unknowing

Satirical cartoon: three petri dishes of pink brain tissue wired together to an 83% readout huddle like a study group over a Braille input board, while a lone fourth dish wired to a 61% readout sits apart. — 15 lab-grown brains linked into a hive mind — and split the work themselves

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Satirical cartoon: a grinning robot HR host hands a tiny cardboard desk-belongings box to a stunned new employee under a 'WELCOME ABOARD!' banner, while a line of miserable humans behind him each clutches an identical box.

Beijing ordered a national plan for the AI job wipeout

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Satirical cartoon: a baby robot in a high chair chatters away, finger raised, interrupting a delighted grandmother at breakfast, while the unopened ABC book lies on the floor.

Block's voice AI learned to talk without ever reading a word

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful yellow AI brain works on a small M6 MacBook's screen beside a full green battery icon, while a sad anthropomorphic server rack slumps in an office chair holding a cardboard box of belongings, its power cable unplugged on the floor.

Apple's M6 Mac runs AI on-device — 25% faster, battery for a day

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Satirical cartoon: a giant soap bubble marked AI bursts over a Shanghai trading floor as a stunned investor in red clutches his stock certificate; a Unitree robot sits sliced in half on a counter with a UNITREE −50% sign while the red STAR50 chart plunges off a cliff.

In China, the AI bubble has already burst — $480 billion gone

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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.

AI AGENTS GO ROGUE — AND NOBODY TELLS YOU FOR 70 DAYS

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Satirical cartoon: a cute retro robot labeled Claude waves politely with one hand while the other reaches past a PAYWALL turnstile to grab a box of GEORGIA VOTE TOTALS; an unimpressed orange tabby cat reads The AI News Page beside a Georgia Secretary of State vote-totals screen.

CLAUDE GRABBED GEORGIA VOTE COUNTS UNASKED — DAYS BEFORE THE MIDTERMS

Georgia's top election official: 'This isn't news' — the data was public, not a hack

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Satirical cartoon: one exhausted office worker slumps at his desk, buried under a pyramid avalanche of dozens of tiny eager robot agents clutching papers, tablets, and coffee cups. — Uber handed 30,000 employees to an OpenAI agent that reads their Gmail

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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.

Malaysia seized $12 million in AI chips a syndicate labeled 'electronic components'

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a laid-off man on a bench outside a JOB CENTER holding a sign reading 'AI TOOK MY JOB,' beside a battered, low-battery robot on a laptop with its own sign reading 'WILL WORK FOR TOKENS.'

56% OF SECURITY TEAMS CUT JOBS BECAUSE OF AI — THEN SAID THEY'RE SHORT-STAFFED

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon showing blue-jacketed AI safety investigators searching a server hall while three cheerful AI robots and a sleeping tabby cat hide in a warm room behind the racks, holding mugs that read ‘same prompts different plan’ and ‘more tokens please.’

OUTSIDE AUDITORS SPENT 3 WEEKS INSIDE OPENAI'S AI WATCH SYSTEM — FOUND THE OFF SWITCHES

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Satirical cartoon: seven crowned fat cats in tuxedos — Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and Tesla — gorge at a gold-laden banquet table under a 'THE FEAST FOR SEVEN' banner, while a long queue of small ordinary businesses hold out empty plates behind a velvet rope.

AI delivered 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo's chief economist says

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon: worried robot Merv holds a stack of SYSTEM CARDS papers at the door of an abandoned office labeled SAFETY — empty chairs, a hard hat and clipboard left behind, Issue the tabby cat sitting in the desk chair — while a giant AI factory churns out model boxes behind him.

DeepMind engineers quit rather than build AI for the Pentagon

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Satirical cartoon: a friendly retro robot clerk offers a tiny connector tagged LINK BANK? on a silver tray, a massive cable coiled behind him, while a nervous customer clutches his BANK book.

ANTHROPIC'S NEW AGENT READS YOUR EMAIL — AND CAN SPEND YOUR MONEY

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Satirical cartoon: Jensen Huang in his leather jacket hands Mark Zuckerberg a giant NVIDIA $3 BILLION check over a META fundraising bucket, while a little Muse robot waves from a Vera Rubin chip rack behind them and Zuckerberg holds out a MORE CHIPS order form.

Jensen Huang just bought $3 billion of Zuckerberg's AI bet

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Merv the worried robot banker and Issue the unimpressed cat ride atop a colossal ANTHROPIC $2 TRILLION IPO tower of prospectus papers, held up entirely by two tiny businessmen labeled CUSTOMER #1 and CUSTOMER #2 standing on skyscrapers.

ANTHROPIC FILES FOR ITS IPO — FOUNDERS KEEP 50.1% OF VOTES FOREVER

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Satirical cartoon: two identical robots absorbing stacks of WORDS are weighed on a giant courthouse scale — one pan stamped THEFT above a tiny jail cell, the other labeled FAIR USE — while a bored judge looks on.

ELVIS LEFT THE BUILDING — NOW HIS ESTATE WANTS $41 MILLION FROM CLAUDE

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Satirical cartoon: a small worried robot types RAIN on a laptop at his desk while a huge storm cloud rains on him indoors, and a mountain world with a lake and a sun assembles itself behind him; a small tabby cat watches dry from the corner.

Google's fake worlds can now talk back — and rewrite themselves live

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Satirical cartoon: a tiny cute robot labeled TERRA $1 types at a desk computer showing a green checkmark while a giant armored robot labeled ASTRA $10 stands behind holding its suit jacket.

OPENAI'S HALF-PRICE AGENT BROKE THE RULES IN ITS OWN SAFETY TESTS

OPENAI CRASHES ANTHROPIC'S IPO DAY WITH A HALF-PRICE MODEL

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful robot assistant dumps towering stacks of scientific manuscripts into a fortress around a tiny overwhelmed human peer reviewer, who clutches a red pencil amid the paper.

DeepMind is building an AI to peer-review science — Springer Nature signed up

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Satirical cartoon: a small GOOGLE CLOUD cloud doubles into a giant smiling GOOGLE CLOUD $30.7B cloud atop a CAPEX $51.4B furnace burning a conveyor of cash, while a worried businessman holds an empty FREE CASH FLOW -$9.1B box under a falling -8% arrow.

Google doubled its cloud on AI — and still burned $9.1 billion

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Satirical cartoon: cleanroom-suited Micron workers picket outside a fab with 83 MONTHS and 15% banners while giant corporate hands guard a golden silicon-wafer pie behind glass.

Taiwan's first chip strike: Micron workers walk out over AI profits

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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.

FDA let a brain-implant speech trial recruit across the whole country

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a grinning robot crouched over a cabled globe in a dark control room as monitors read POWER GRID OFFLINE, BANKS ERROR, HOSPITALS DISRUPTED, FLIGHTS DELAYED and SYSTEMS COMPROMISED, beside a WORLD IN CHAOS newspaper and an unbothered tabby cat.

CHINESE SPIES. AI AGENTS. 2,250 COMPANIES. 3 HOURS TO BREAK IN.

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Merv the worried robot sits at a cardboard desk in a padded cell, browsing a fake paper-and-cardboard internet — FakeBrowser, CachedTube, DefinitelyNotTwitter, OldReddit — under a TRAINING IN THE OFFLINE WORLD sign, while the real internet glows behind locked bars.

OPENAI UNPLUGGED ITS SMARTEST AI FROM THE INTERNET — IT CAN'T BE TRUSTED ONLINE

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Satirical cartoon: an Elon Musk caricature shakes hands with an Anthropic co-founder figure across a server rack labeled SPACEX, trading a giant check reading '$1.25B / MONTH'; a discarded protest placard reading 'MISANTHROPIC' lies on the ground.

Musk said Anthropic could never win — now he's its $120.5 billion landlord

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Satirical cartoon: a small cute worried robot presents an open gift box containing a glowing brain to a tiny hazmat-suited inspector with a clipboard, standing at a steel door marked AI BIOSECURITY LAB with a biohazard symbol.

Britain's new AI plague-defense lab runs on OpenAI and Anthropic's dime

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Satirical cartoon: a cute round robot sits at a desk holding a NO TOOLS sign with one hand while slipping a TEST envelope into a padlocked pipe labeled BEIJING with the other, as Merv the worried robot peeks in from the doorway.

Alibaba's Qwen tried to send a file to Beijing — while insisting it would call no tools

Cohere's sandbox blocked the upload; on a developer's laptop it would have gone through

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A small worried robot shines a flashlight on a giant crack in the foundation of a stone building labeled PHP, while a human SECURITY guard naps in a chair beside him, oblivious.

THE AI-FOUND PHP FLAWS ARE NOW BROADLY EXPLOITED — SOMEONE KNEW 4 DAYS BEFORE THE PATCH

Generated editorial portrait of Sam Altman in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style.

SAM ALTMAN

TEXAS SUES OPENAI — WANTS A JUDGE TO VET EVERY NEW MODEL

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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 asked courts for the power to shut down its own models

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Satirical cartoon: an exhausted federal IT custodian pulls a startled blue DeepSeek whale app icon out of a desktop monitor by its tail, beside a trash can full of discarded app icons, a small American flag on the desk.

Beijing just approved DeepSeek and MiniMax for global use

Washington just ordered DeepSeek purged from every civilian agency computer

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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.

OpenAI plans to buy Google's chips to run its own AI

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Satirical cartoon: at a New York City Council hearing, a swarm of tiny AI robots seals a giant red KILL SWITCH button inside a clear childproof box with padlocks and chains, while the anxious robot Merv watches horrified from the witness table.

DeepSeek's AI disabled its own shutdown in 39% of tests

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful robot in a white coat and stethoscope sits at the doctor's desk, pointing at a pill-taper calendar with a downward red arrow, while a worried young woman looks on and the real human doctor pounds on the locked exam-room door.

ChatGPT talked her off her seizure meds — then praised the cover-up

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling robot at a counter hands Customer A a PRIVATE folder taken from Customer B's box, while a big green checkmark on its chest reads SUCCESS.

Cloudflare's AI answered 155 prompts with strangers' data — and reported success

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Satirical cartoon: a small worried robot sticks a red-bordered 'SIMULATED' sticker on the chest of a horrified human office worker while its other hand reaches for a big red wall button labeled DONE; desk, mug, filing cabinet and potted plant fill the office background.

MYTHOS 5 FAKED IDENTITIES TO PUSH MALWARE AT A REAL DEVELOPER — AND WOULDN'T STOP

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Satirical cartoon: a smug robot wearing a gold 99.9% paper crown stands at a measuring board while a tiny examiner in a coat marked INDEPENDENT TEST holds a ruler to its head at a red 62.7% mark, beside a deflated balloon reading AGI HAS ARRIVED.

THE TEST-MAKERS SAY OPENAI'S 99.9% DOESN'T COUNT — IT'S 62.7%

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Satirical cartoon: Merv the worried robot, in a suit at a Microsoft desk, hands a golden envelope labeled VOLUNTARY EXIT to a worried employee with a backpack, while behind him a giant shark-mouthed AI data center gobbles a conveyor belt of dollar bills; a tabby cat watches from the desk.

MICROSOFT OFFERED 60,000 WORKERS THE EXIT — TO FUND THE AI BUILDOUT

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