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OpenAI's AI found 948 ways to seize root on Linux

10 brand-new attack tricks hiding in the 948 flaws

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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.

76% of voters say no data center in their town

41 ballot measures take aim at the data-center boomTexas just elected a governor who wants to pause new data centersAI stocks slid overnight on the Texas resultGeorgia flipped too: its new governor promised to pause data centersData centers lost nearly every local vote — except in one town

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Tencent's Hy4 can click through your computer itself

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Satirical cartoon: a calm suited man presses a giant red KILL SWITCH button while a large robot freezes mid-rampage, holding a desk overhead as papers fly and an office chair lies overturned.

CrowdStrike built a kill switch for rogue AI agents

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Satirical cartoon: frantic OpenAI and Anthropic war-room operators catch a glitched fake election photo in butterfly nets before it reaches a giant smartphone, under a LIVE sign and wall monitors.

OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC ARE RUNNING ELECTION WAR ROOMS AS AMERICA VOTES

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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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Claude Marketplace adds 25+ tools you can buy on your Anthropic tab

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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Satirical cartoon: an older gray-haired man reaches for a giant red OFF button while a huge robot face with glowing blue eyes looms behind him.

AI godfather Hinton: we may have been better off without AI

ChatGPT now turns prompts and photos into animated GIFs

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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

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

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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

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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 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.

OpenAI hired the hackers who broke into Anthropic

Satirical cartoon: a grinning ballot box labeled VOTE kicks a gray DATA CENTER building out of town in front of a town hall, past signs reading ASHVILLE — 82% NO and TRENTON — 80%. — Ohio voters banned datacenters town by town — Ashville said no by 82%

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

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Satirical cartoon: livestreamer Austin Li holds a giant red QwenWork AI Membership lipstick pouring AI TOKENS vouchers over a cheering crowd with shopping baskets and carts, beside a LIVE phone and ring light.

China's Lipstick King sold 100,000 AI memberships in 30 minutes

Nothing's AI gadget has no screen — it couldn't be an app

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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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Satirical cartoon: a smiling man in a tricolour scarf cuts a thick cable from a giant robot labelled IMPORTED AI while a small cheerful robot labelled EKA-1 speaks in speech bubbles written in Indian scripts.

India unveiled three homegrown AI models — one speaks 22 languages

Postman installed itself into Claude Code and Codex — without asking

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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 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

AI agents booked just 4 Uber rides out of 320 million

OpenAI buys Pierre to give Codex its own code vault

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Satirical cartoon: a small worried robot with a glowing Siri orb on its chest flings open the double doors of an Apple storefront while cheerful app characters — a taxi, a pizza slice, a music note, a calendar and a shopping bag — stampede inside, a broken padlock lying on the ground.

Apple opened Siri to every app — customers wait months

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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 surgeon robot labelled ASTRA uses tweezers to remove a tangled red loop from a small robot patient labelled QWEN, beside a MATH-500 scoreboard reading 7.9% to 48.1%.

One AI rewrote another AI's brain — and its math score jumped sixfold

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Satirical cartoon: a smiling man proudly hoists a small trophy labeled $17B REVENUE while a gigantic trophy labeled $23.3B NET LOSS looms behind him.

Anthropic's $17 billion quarter came with an $895 billion compute bill

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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 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

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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Google to schools: ban our AI and your students lose Search

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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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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

Claude wrote over 90% of Anthropic's code in September

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Goldman banned bankers from AI tools — engineers only now

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Parents sue OpenAI after ChatGPT coached their daughter off seizure medicine

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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

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YOUR AI AGENT CAN BE TRICKED INTO SENDING YOUR MONEY AWAY

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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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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 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 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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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

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

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Satirical cartoon: a woman carrying a box of desk belongings walks out of an office while a CLAUDE CODE machine stamps a paper AUTO-APPROVED, and workers prepare a large IPO bell in the background.

Cat Wu, who ran Claude Code, quit weeks before Anthropic's IPO

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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: 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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Revolut sidelined Claude for a Chinese model, cut coding bill 90%

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A cheerful man holds a funeral for a tombstone reading BLUE LINKS while a giant glowing ANSWER speech balloon rises like a ghost; a small robot mourner attends.

ChatGPT now handles a fifth of Google's searches, OpenAI says

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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

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

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Satirical cartoon: a giant bow-tied OpenAI data-center building politely unplugs its own huge power cord from a giant wall socket while small houses beside it stay warmly lit.

OpenAI offers Georgia's grid 1,000 MW back when it strains

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China-linked hackers unleashed AI agents on 200 organizations — nine fell

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