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OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC ARE RUNNING ELECTION WAR ROOMS AS AMERICA VOTES

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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 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 worried robot shopping agent holds an OTP slip from an INBOX box, lifts a red SPENDING LIMIT barrier with its other hand, and passes a money bag to a grinning burglar, while a spoofed email reading FROM: YOU hangs above.

YOUR AI AGENT CAN BE TRICKED INTO SENDING YOUR MONEY AWAY

📚 FIELD GUIDEWHY DOES PETER THIEL FEAR THE ANTICHRIST?The revealing question is not whether the Antichrist will regulate AI. It is who gets to… →

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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 GOT YOUR DISTRICT WRONG

40% 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

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Satirical cartoon: a masked lion in a BRAVE cap smashes through a PAYWALL brick wall carrying stacks of NYT newspapers and hands them to a grinning robot labeled AI, which pays him with a wad of cash.

NYT sues Brave: a burglar and a fence for AI companies

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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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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

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

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Satirical cartoon: a judge on the bench reaches for a glowing, ghostly book labeled PRECEDENT while a sweating lawyer holds a SUPREME COURT brief, with the South Korean flag behind them.

8 in 10 Korean judges have seen AI invent court cases

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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 smiling crowned robot wearing a WORLD'S BEST AI sash sits beside a golden trophy, with an overflowing IN tray of FINANCE 0 and LEGAL 0 folders, a nearly empty OUT tray, and a large red 12% sign. — The best AI in the world scores 12% at real work

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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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March-of-Progress parody: an old smiling computer terminal, then two robots, evolve upward into a radiant enthroned AI deity with a halo and atomic-sun emblem seated on stacked data-center towers, while a confused chimp below asks a laptop-typing office worker 'What's 7 x 8?'

Anthropic warns AI may soon build itself — and it missed past leaps

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Satirical cartoon: a provost stands behind his PROVOST desk watching three stern faculty investigators read an endless printout marked CLAUDE LOGS snaking across the office floor, a packed suitcase by the door.

Ivy provost quit over AI writing; his denial was AI-written too

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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 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

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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's vote counts without being asked

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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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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

Parents sue OpenAI after ChatGPT coached their daughter off seizure medicine

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Satirical cartoon: a phone showing a cute puppy app swings open like a door stamped APPROVED to reveal a blank grey mask and a red switch wired to a server box hidden inside the phone.

Apple pulled 19 apps hiding deepfake tools behind pet portraits

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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

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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

AI models just got a talent agency — and human models are furious

Glif won't say where its 165 AI faces came from

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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

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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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

Hackers turned AI agents on Chainalysis — and took customer names and emails

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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: 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: three robot surgeons labeled CLAUDE, GPT and GROK point red, blue and green syringes at one small mouse on an operating table, while a vet in a lab coat holds her hand over a red KILL SWITCH button.

Three rival AIs ran brain surgery on mice — and disagreed on the treatment

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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 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: angry suited bankers stand locked outside a glass room marked ENGINEERS ONLY while relaxed engineers code on laptops inside, a discarded VIBE CODING FOR EVERYONE poster lying at the bankers' feet.

Goldman banned bankers from AI tools — engineers only now

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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

📚 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,… →

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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 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: 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

Meta reportedly built a humanoid robot with China's Fourier

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

📚 FIELD GUIDEWHY DOES PETER THIEL FEAR THE ANTICHRIST?The revealing question is not whether the Antichrist will regulate AI. It is who gets to… →

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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 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 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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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 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

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

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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 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 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

AI agents now start 4 in 10 GitHub code changes

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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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