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YOUR AI AGENT CAN BE TRICKED INTO SENDING YOUR MONEY AWAY

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful worker on a ladder drills a bright new 'AI COMPUTE CAMPUS' sign over the old weathered 'DATA CENTER' sign on a massive windowless industrial building behind a barbed-wire fence.

OpenAI will call data centers 'AI compute campuses' — and pitch AI speed limits

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Satirical cartoon: a bouncer in sunglasses blocks a small robot with shopping bags outside an Amazon storefront, while across the street a Shopify store rolls out a red carpet welcoming another small robot carrying an infinity-marked bag, a robot dog at its side.

Amazon blocked rival shopping agents — and bet Alexa beats them all

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Satirical cartoon: a boxy satellite with blue solar panels orbits above Earth, printing a long flowing scroll covered in handwritten scribble — its first message from space is a poem, not telemetry.

Google's AI chip in orbit wrote its first poem back to Earth

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling boss holds a SMART REPORT listing WORK, COST, STALLS and a PERSONAL tally, while a counter reading 00427 ticks beside a PERSONAL booth where a silhouetted worker types at a laptop.

Your boss can now get a report on your Claude chats

The boss-reading-chats move is restricted in over 30 countries

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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.

ChatGPT and Codex move to one shared token budget in December

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling robot marked CHATBOT holds a map of District A and District B and points to a taped house cutout moved into District B, while a smaller AI SITE robot holds another house sticker and a bewildered homeowner stands beside his real house.

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

MIT built a dashboard to watch chatbots answer election questions in real timeDon't ask a chatbot what's on your ballot — it will guess40% of chatbot election answers had an error, study finds

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

Google's top-ranked AI goes to cyber defenders first — not you

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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

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

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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

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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

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Satirical cartoon: a surprised teen with a HISTORY book and a musket diagram asks a laptop whose screen is a slamming bank-vault shutter marked CHATGPT, topped by a flashing red alarm.

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

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 dejected researcher pulls a large TRAINING switch to OFF while a smiling robot eats papers marked UNPATCHED BUGS, EXPLOIT PROOFS and CONFIDENTIAL RESEARCH NOTES from his open briefcase, beneath a tiny DAYBREAK switch.

OpenAI will train on researchers' sessions even if they opted out

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling compliance inspector with a clipboard stands beside a CLAUDE toaster while a hand turns its TEMP dial, as a plain slice pops up next to a plate holding a slice branded AI.

Anthropic's Claude watermark vanishes if you touch one setting

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

Parents sue OpenAI after ChatGPT coached their daughter off seizure medicine

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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 grinning Google robot devours an old-fashioned cash register labelled 'SEARCH ADS', coins and bills flying, while handing a slip marked 'FREE ANSWER' to a smiling user, as Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai in a suit desperately pulls the register back.

Google's own AI answers just cost it $500 billion in a day

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

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Satirical cartoon: a vetted scientist in a lab coat holds a large open padlock beside a giant grinning ROSALIND robot holding a closed red skull padlock in its mouth, under a TRUSTED ACCESS gate sign.

OpenAI's biology model is its flagship — with fewer refusals

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Satirical cartoon: a masked burglar unloads stolen passwords, a credit card and a key at a counter while a bespectacled robot appraiser hangs a giant yellow WHAT THEY'RE WORTH price tag around the neck of a bewildered man in striped pajamas.

Malware steals everything, then asks AI what you're worth

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Satirical cartoon: identical photographic AI faces with legs march through a small door under a giant OFFICER LOGIN key into an INEC PRELIMINARY REGISTER vault, while an INEC officer erases faces from the register under a DEC 15 calendar.

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

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

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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

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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 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

Meta reportedly built a humanoid robot with China's Fourier

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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

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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Satirical cartoon: two stern senators confront a worried Zuckerberg beside oversized META camera glasses marked REC on an evidence stand, secretly recording an unsuspecting bystander reading in the background.

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

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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: 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

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

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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

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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

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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 TV anchor presents a fake BREAKING NEWS smear naming Sherrod Brown and James Talarico while a hooded figure with a Russian flag patch operates AI monitors under a STORM-1516 sign, as a worried robot watches.

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

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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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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 nervous employee clutching his EMPLOYEE badge sits across a desk from a tiny smug robot in a suit in an oversized executive chair, being interviewed for the job he already holds, his own desk with computer and coffee mug behind him.

Proton's CEO called security tests 'loser thinking' — AI wrote 90% of its code

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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

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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: 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 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: 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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Satirical cartoon: a small robot repairman in a cap bursts out of a giant GROUP CHAT phone screen offering a paper marked PR and holding a wrench, while two startled developers recoil at their laptops and one spills his coffee.

DeepSeek's agent watches your group chat and files fixes unasked

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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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