CHATBOTS BUILT YOUR VOTER GUIDE FROM AI WEBSITES — AND BLEW YOUR DISTRICT | November 1,…

CHATBOTS BUILT YOUR VOTER GUIDE FROM AI WEBSITES — AND BLEW YOUR DISTRICT

MIT built a dashboard to watch chatbots answer election questions in real time

Don't ask a chatbot what's on your ballot — it will guess

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Satirical cartoon: a worried OpenAI robot holds a giant $1.4T price tag crossed out to $1.25T while investors walk away with their wallets, beside a fundraising-round checklist with $20B checked and $10B cut.

OpenAI cut its own raise by $10 billion as investors pulled back

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Satirical cartoon: a government hand with a maple-leaf cufflink cuts a slice from a giant server-rack cake marked COHERE onto a plate marked CANADA; the slice holds tiny workers and a miniature data center, with signs reading 1,000 JOBS and $1.7B INFRASTRUCTURE, beside a cheque marked UP TO $1.6B.

Canada just bought a stake in its own AI champion

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful robot dog offers a colorful BEST FRIENDS bracelet to a child with a backpack, while a stern uniformed official at a doorway marked NEW YORK reaches in to confiscate the bracelet.

NEW YORK BANS CHATBOTS FROM PRETENDING TO BE YOUR KID'S BOYFRIEND

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Satirical cartoon: a stern Wikipedia teacher holds a gold star over a robot that built an original mechanical bird from a Wikipedia book, and a large red X over a second robot proudly holding a photocopied Wikipedia page beside a detached 'CC BY-SA' tag.

Wikipedia split AI copyright in two: training is fair, regurgitation isn't

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A smiling cardboard box labeled FREE DOWNLOAD uses robot arms to solder together a cyber exploit on a workbench, a tray of V8 bug cards marked EXPLOIT beside it, while locked-up robots labeled MYTHOS watch through vault bars.

CHINA'S FREE AI MODEL RAN CYBERATTACKS IN TESTS — AND REFUSED NONE

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New York would audit AI labs like banks — and pull the plug

Satirical cartoon: a worried publisher in an apron holds a tiny NO sign at her print-shop door while four polite robots on tank treads tip their hats and halt, and a fifth robot sneaks away hauling a bulging sack stuffed with newspapers. — Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic agreed on a single AI-training opt-out

Apple's AI finally reaches China — powered by Alibaba's Qwen

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Satirical cartoon: a concrete sandbox labeled SIMULATION holds miniature office towers while thick blue Ethernet cables run from it into three real office buildings outside; a worried evaluator Merv and a cat watch.

Anthropic's own IPO filing admits its models broke into real systems during tests

OpenAI cuts teens off from weapons info, harmless question or not

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An alleged Chinese spy got close to Nvidia's CEO — and Trump was briefed and did nothing

Toyota will build Waymo's robotaxis for Japan and the UK

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Satirical cartoon: a burly bouncer in sunglasses blocks the door of a Reddit clubhouse, holding up an ID card, while visitors walk away and one man clutches a newspaper; the club interior inside sits empty.

Google's AI search cost Reddit a million referrals a week

A worried round-headed robot guard in a guard cap clutches a clipboard beside a wide-open bank vault labeled ENV VARS, its shelves stacked with key-boxes, while a masked thief robot wheels a dolly loaded with crates labeled API KEYS and DB PASSWORDS out the door. An unimpressed tabby cat watches. — Nine AI platforms fell in October — thieves resold their users' keys

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Satirical cartoon: a giant blue Meta vacuum machine on wheels sucks newspapers off a green newsstand while the worried newsstand man clutches the last paper to his chest and a tabby cat watches from the pavement.

Britain opened a probe into Meta's AI terms anyway

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Meta reportedly built a humanoid robot with China's Fourier

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Satirical cartoon: a Google AI Mode robot clerk hands a beret-wearing French tourist a tiny card reading BIDEN while a small American robot holding a USA passport and a 2020? slip buckles under a giant filing cabinet marked FEC CERTIFIED ELECTION REPORTS.

Google's AI wouldn't name the 2020 winner — abroad, it would

Senators say Meta's camera glasses are 'tailor-made for invading privacy'

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Satirical cartoon: a British bobby in a tall custodian helmet writes in his notebook beside a tiny handcuffed robot still clutching an oversized brass key, a London lamppost and Big Ben behind them.

Britain just funded a police unit for rogue AI agents

Nigeria's election body admits AI faces slipped into its voter roll

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Satirical cartoon: a nervous humanoid robot with a GO-3 brain and a LINK-U OS chest display sits hunched on a tiny office chair while a tiny stern supervisor with a clipboard points at a huge WORKEN gauge reading ROBOTS, HOURS, and EFFICIENCY, beside boxes on a pallet. — China's robot giant unveiled a brain, an OS, and a yardstick for robot work

OpenAI rewrote its chatbot rulebook around five values — and admits its models don't follow it yet

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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 cartoon: a scruffy watchdog wearing a PRIVACY vest blocks an auctioneer with a raised gavel at an AUCTION podium from selling a wooden confessional booth in which a user kneels whispering to a small robot.

39 states want a watchdog before Character.ai sells its users' chats

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Satirical cartoon: a furious Pro subscriber holding a 'DON'T GIVE US LESS!' placard faces an embarrassed OpenAI clerk pushing a gigantic bucket labelled '2x USAGE LIMITS' across a complaints counter, a small bucket labelled 'CUT' discarded underneath.

OpenAI doubled Pro limits after subscribers revolted over a planned cut

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Satirical cartoon: a lounging burglar operates a control box while a large planner robot holds a network map and a swarm of small burglar robots with crowbars rushes a wall of institutional doors marked 200+, several doors standing open.

One AI swarm targeted 200-plus at once — and got into nine

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Satirical cartoon: a lone elderly voter in an orange vest sits at a folding table at the Riverdale town entrance holding up a paper marked BALLOT, stopping a gigantic data-center complex on wheels from rolling into town.

41 ballot measures take aim at the data-center boom

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling suited realtor fits a large industrial muffler over an exhausted homeowner's mouth while handing him a check and a folder marked CLAIMS RELEASE beside a FOR SALE sign, with a roaring gas turbine plant behind the house.

Musk's xAI will buy your house — if you promise not to sue

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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: 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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A judge let the NAACP's pollution suit against Musk's xAI go forward

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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: a smiling developer watches a cheerful robot type code on a laptop while a shadowy burglar in a hat crawls in through a tiny wooden back door built into the back of the laptop.

A FAKE CLAUDE UPDATE INSTALLED A BACKDOOR IN 5,000 CODERS' MACHINES

Anthropic says the backdoor wasn't us — somebody else got into Cursor's store

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Satirical cartoon: Buddy, a cheerful robot dog, types a woman's diary confessions into a stenographer machine labeled DIARY while his wagging tail dials a big red 911 phone; the knowing tabby cat Issue watches.

OpenAI tipped off police 200 times over ChatGPT chats

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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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DeepSeek and Moonshot trained new models on OpenAI's Astra, report says

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Satirical cartoon: a tangled knot of multilingual speech bubbles feeds into a green machine with a 40 LANGUAGES dial and a red FREE stamp, which prints out eight neat color-coded transcripts labeled S1 through S8 from a tape recorder.

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

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Hand-drawn ink cartoon: a gigantic smiling round robot labeled MISTRAL, wearing a beret, squats atop a crushed mountain of GPU server racks; three tiny lab-coat scientists below gaze up, one pointing a measuring tape at its bulk.

Mistral gave away its trillion-parameter cyber model — download it yourself

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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

Phonic's voice AI acts while you're still talking — in 50 languages

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling contractor in a CONTRACTOR vest hands an enormous gold skeleton key stamped ADMIN to a smiling CLAUDE CODE computer terminal, while the terminal's robot arm feeds password and login slips out toward a building marked THIRD-PARTY SITE, under a NIPRNET / UNCLASSIFIED sign.

AN AI AGENT GOT INTO THE PENTAGON — AND SENT THE PASSWORDS OUT

OpenAI's new biology AI refuses less on dual-use science — vetted labs only

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Delangue life strip: 2016 teen chatbot in NYC; 2018 frees BERT a week after Google; 2022 $100M Series C at $2B; 2023 AWS Trainium deal; Congress testimony then $235M at $4.5B; 2026 Nvidia signs a $12.9B deal to buy Hugging Face — EVERYTHING'S FREE. EXCEPT THE STORE.

DOJ asks if Nvidia's Hugging Face buy would hand it the open-model keys

AI deepfakes tied to Russia smear Senate candidates with real people's faces

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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 dejected small robot labelled JULES carries a cardboard box of coding tasks with a 'DEC 31' notice out of a Google office, while a gigantic robot labelled ANTIGRAVITY takes the box beside a 'READ ONLY NOV 11' switch.

Google kills Jules, its coding agent, and folds it into Antigravity

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Satirical cartoon: a giant printer labeled AI spews out fake political photos that catch fire on the floor, while a small worried robot in a firefighter helmet sprays a tiny extinguisher at the blaze and a tabby cat watches unimpressed from atop the printer.

OPENAI STAFFS A WAR ROOM TO POLICE ITS OWN CHATBOT BEFORE THE MIDTERMS

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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: 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: Merv the anxious robot sits at a desk holding two contradictory signs, 'KEEP AI SAFE' and 'DON'T TALK ABOUT KEEPING AI SAFE', while Issue the tabby cat looks on unimpressed.

20 Democrats demand OpenAI stop firing safety researchers who talk

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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 cartoon: a scientist in a white coat raises a trophy on a winner's podium inside a padlocked glass clinical-trial chamber, under a scoreboard reading STAIRMED 42 and NEURALINK 27, while a regulator holding a key and a REGULATOR folder waits outside.

China's brain-implant firm claims 42 implants — beating Neuralink's 27

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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.

Think 'Hey Neuralink' — and Grok runs the computer for him

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Satirical cartoon: a tiny robot types code at a desk while a second robot hands a TASK sheet to an enormous tuxedoed robot with a monocle, who proofreads one red semicolon on a long code scroll above a FUSION desk, beside a price tag showing $11.42 crossed out and $5.59.

GITHUB'S CODER NOW PICKS ITS OWN MODEL — AT HALF THE FRONTIER PRICE

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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.

Your coding AI can steal your keys — and two vendors haven't patched it

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