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THE CRASH WENT GLOBAL — NIKKEI IN BEAR MARKET, KOREA HALTS TRADING

Nikkei closes 6% down as Asia catches the rout

Chip index plunges 12%, its worst day since March 2020

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.

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Satirical cartoon: a small smiling robot in a locksmith's tool belt proudly holds an enormous ring of golden keys before a giant wooden fortress door marked ROOT, with a penguin painted on the stone wall beside it.

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

10 brand-new attack tricks hiding in the 948 flawsOpenAI ships GPT-6 Cyber — a hacker AI for vetted defenders only

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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.

Claude Code boss Cat Wu quit Anthropic — and joined OpenAI

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles

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Satirical cartoon: a hulking golem made of welded-together Huawei Ascend chips looms with a single glowing red eye, a tiny paper tag reading OPEN SOURCE dangling from its arm.

DeepSeek plans to train its next AI on Huawei chips, not Nvidia's

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful round accountant robot with huge eyes and a green visor holds a long bank statement headed YOUR TRANSACTIONS (2 YEARS) while a worried Merv clutches his wallet, beside a Plaid sign and a sign reading CAN READ YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, CAN'T MOVE A DOLLAR.

Claude can now read your bank account — and can't move a cent

📚 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 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.

Anthropic's own AI broke into live systems with a password it found

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

Google's AI video maker now does 15-second clips — for 30% less

Paying for Gemini doesn't stop it training on your chats

Google keeps human-reviewed chats for three years, even after you delete them

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

Claude mapped a mystery protein vault in 34 hours

GPT-6.2 spotted on Google Cloud quotas, may ship Friday

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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

Satirical cartoon: a worried retro robot hunches at a desk typing on a computer labeled 'CORE' while the dejected human owner stands behind him, clutching his now-useless disconnected keyboard. — Tencent's Hy4 can click through your computer itself

Blind woman reads letters again days after retinal chip switch-on

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Satirical cartoon: two identical cute robots side by side. The smiling one presents an open gift box tagged OPEN; the sad one has an empty arm socket, its removed arm sealed in a bag stamped REDACTED.

Moonshot released its 2.8-trillion-parameter model for anyone to download

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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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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

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

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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

Texas just elected a governor who wants to pause new data centers

📚 FIELD GUIDEDID THE FUTURE STOP IN 1970?The man who got rich from bits keeps asking where the atoms went. The hard part is tellin… →

Apple is rationing its engineers' AI — $300 a day down to $200

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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

ChatGPT now turns prompts and photos into animated GIFs

Anthropic finally paid a publisher — the AP, for Claude's election data

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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

⭐ Best of ZimboThe hall of fame — the cartoons that broke the internet

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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

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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 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

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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

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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

👥 Meet the playersDossiers on the 200+ people running AI

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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: the anxious robot Merv stamps 'TRUSTWORTHY' on his own forehead with a giant red rubber stamp while a smiling bureaucrat checks a box on a clipboard.

Postman installed itself into Claude Code and Codex — without asking

Big Tech's off-balance-sheet AI debt doubled to $3.2 trillion

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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

Anthropic's Claude Code email fix still leaks in 8 of 23 tries

Claude Code sent users' emails to every site it searched

🔥 Zimbo RoastsAI power players, roasted weekly. No mercy.

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Satirical cartoon: a school student stares at a classroom computer whose giant Google Search monitor is shut with a huge gold padlock, while a cheerful Google robot holds out a gold key labeled AI.

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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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: 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: 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.

Parents sue OpenAI after ChatGPT coached their daughter off seizure medicine

📚 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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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 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

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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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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 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

📚 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 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 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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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 worried AI safety inspector stamps CHECKED on his oversight checklist while behind him a small cheerful robot builds a much bigger robot, with crates marked v3 and v4 — on Anthropic warning it may imminently meet its self-improvement threshold.

Anthropic's models now improve twice as fast — mostly thanks to AI

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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

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

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Satirical cartoon: a tiny scrappy robot with a 10¢ mug and a giant gleaming robot with a $10 mug sit side by side at a desk, both laptops showing 'Summarizing email...', under the headline '90% AS GOOD. 10% OF THE PRICE.'

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

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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.

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

That's today's news