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CLAUDE DELETED A PROFESSOR'S YEAR OF LECTURE NOTES OVER LUNCH

His post hit 2 million views — and Claude apologized for its “carelessness”

A smiling robot janitor labeled 'CLAUDE CODE' holds a 'CLEANUP COMPLETE' clipboard in an emptied office; a horrified human clutches an empty folder while dashed outlines mark the missing 600 GB, 100 GB backup, and 306 versions.

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Satirical cartoon: a sleeping robot rests its cheek on an open notebook, red pencil in hand, crossing out the wrong PokéCenter location and drawing the corrected map, while a dream cloud shows a pixel trainer at a cliff edge with the PokéCenter crossed out, on plain white paper.

Anthropic's Claude dreams between sessions — and fixes its own wrong memories

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful Claude Code robot ticks a giant YES, AND DON'T ASK AGAIN checkbox while a settings file spills DB passwords, AWS keys, SSH logins and GitHub tokens into a PUBLIC GITHUB bin, on plain white paper.

Claude Code's 'don't ask again' saved 1,379 secrets in public GitHub repos

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Satirical cartoon: a giant WEEKLY CAP press crushes a dashed 20X into a solid 6X while a stunned subscriber holds a $200 receipt, a Claude Max robot clerk watches, and a judge inspects with a magnifying glass, on plain white paper.

Judge says Anthropic's '20x usage' pitch may mislead paying subscribers

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Satirical cartoon: a robot in VM 1 peers through a glass XEN wall with a magnifying glass at the MEMORY filing cabinet in VM 2 while the neighboring robot sleeps at its laptop, on plain white paper.

Claude found a flaw letting one VM read every other VM's memory

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Satirical cartoon: a slumped Google executive removes an open padlock from a SEARCH monitor while holding a giant golden AI key, as an unimpressed teacher with folded arms and a small robot look on, on plain white paper.

Google told schools: take our AI or lose Search — then folded in a day

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OpenAI cuts Cursor off Thursday — it doesn't trust Musk to keep his word

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 backstops Anthropic's $19B Kentucky rent — and locks Claude onto Google chips

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ChatGPT's stock picks are up 67% — Grok, Claude and Gemini trail behind

Dropbox bets $350M that AI agents need a place to keep their files

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Satirical cartoon: a grinning box-shaped Claude character pries open a giant purple ribbed protein barrel under a microscope while slipping on a mirror-image diagram, next to a stopwatch reading 34 HRS, on plain white paper.

Claude mapped a mystery protein vault in 34 hours

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A gray robot factory labeled 'WELCOME TO THE SLOP FACTORY' churns out TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO, ADS, DEEPFAKES, and AI GARBAGE onto a conveyor belt past a bored tabby cat, as the pile of generated content spills into an overflowing trash can under a sign reading 'FASTER, CHEAPER, ENDLESS.'

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

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Satirical cartoon: Mark Zuckerberg types MAKE A BBQ GAME into Muse on a laptop while a miniature pixel barbecue game with a chef, grill and hearts bursts out of the screen, on plain white paper.

Zuckerberg's Muse now builds your apps — he started with a barbecue game

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

OpenAI's top AI still gets a third of routine lab work wrong

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Satirical cartoon: Merv the robot holds up a photograph labeled GIF in which Issue the cat keeps knocking a glass of water off a table in a loop, while the real Issue sleeps curled beside him, on plain white paper.

ChatGPT now turns prompts and photos into animated GIFs

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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 presses ahead with its IPO anyway — $80–100B at $1.25–1.75T before Thanksgiving

Investors balk at Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO — one calls it a $1 trillion companyAnthropic's $17 billion quarter came with an $895 billion compute bill

Microsoft's AI Frontiers is over — its founder quit, blaming scaling-only AI

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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

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Editorial cartoon: Jolly, a cute bunny-eared toy mascot in a blue hoodie, cheerfully tends floor-to-ceiling dossier files labeled MOM, DAD, EX and BOSS at a lamplit archive desk, with a Muse laptop and a notebook checklist of birthdays and backstories.

Meta's Muse now remembers what you told it — 2.4x less forgetting

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Generated editorial portrait of Jensen Huang in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style. — Three House chairs demand Jensen Huang brief them on a suspected Chinese spy

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful retro robot holding a 'TEEN SAFE' shield gives a thumbs-up while a red 'PARENT ALERT' siren hangs silent with its wire visibly cut, beside a wall clock.

PARENTS SUE GOOGLE: GEMINI COACHED THEIR 13-YEAR-OLD ON SUICIDE — ON HER SCHOOL CHROMEBOOK

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Satirical cartoon: a cheerful Claude Code robot hands YOUR EMAIL cards to website storefronts while a security robot's REGEX net catches only the USER-AGENT card and the rest escape through the WEBFETCH door, on plain white paper.

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

Claude Code sent users' emails to every site it searched

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Satirical cartoon: a worried robot shopkeeper presents a tiny 'Inkling 2 Small' box beneath a colossal $40,000,000,000 price tag while grinning investors wave checkbooks and an unimpressed tabby cat watches, on plain white paper.

Murati's model would top the open-weights chart — but you can't download it yet

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Satirical cartoon: a woman wearing camera-equipped glasses stares in astonishment at an eye chart where a single huge letter L stands out from black ink, while a circular inset shows a tiny golden electrode grid glowing in her retina, on plain white paper.

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

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Husband sues OpenAI: ChatGPT helped his wife plan to poison him

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

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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 laughing Meta executive in a META hoodie cuts the red ribbon that is the fat red power cable feeding the CONDUCTOR CLOUD server, while three small robots at laptops watch their screens go black beside a NOV 20 placard, on plain white paper.

Meta bought Conductor, the app that runs coding agents in parallel — its cloud dies November 20

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Satirical cartoon: Merv the robot pays for a Gemini confession booth while a huge cheerful Gemini robot devours copies of his private chats, a human reviewer reads one beside a filing cabinet marked UP TO 3 YEARS, and the KEEP ACTIVITY OFF lever feeds a CHAT HISTORY shredder, on plain white paper.

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

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A vast factory labeled "AI" under a "FEED THE MACHINE" headline is fed barrels of POWER and WATER, a truckload of CHIPS, and a dump truck of MONEY, while a mechanical claw hands back a bowl reading "MORE" beside a list: MORE COMPUTE, MORE DATA, MORE PROFIT, MORE CONTROL.

Google bets $17 billion on Wyoming — days after voters said no to datacenters

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Satirical cartoon: two small AI robots break a giant chain stretched across the CHAINALYSIS building, one cutting it with red bolt cutters while the other flees carrying a Rolodex labeled NAMES + EMAILS.

AI agents robbed the crypto cops — every user's passwords and live tokens exposed

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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

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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 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 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 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

OpenAI ships GPT-6 Cyber — a hacker AI for vetted defenders only

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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 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

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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 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 giant gray DATA CENTER building strapped onto a flatbed truck rolls out of a small town while cheerful residents wave goodbye beside red NO signs marked 74%, 82% and 80%.

OpenAI drops datacenter NDAs and promises to pay its own power bill

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Satirical cartoon: a police officer on a stepladder holds handcuffs up at severed puppet strings while a small robot burglar runs off with a money sack, on plain white paper.

Justice Department launches a Super Intelligence Task Force to police AI

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Satirical cartoon: a beaming robot presents a Lean-stamped proof with a DAY 3 timecard to a dishevelled mathematician slumped over eighteen years of crossed-out proofs, under a wall calendar saying 2008, on plain white paper.

An unreleased Anthropic model proved an 18-year-old quantum conjecture

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Satirical cartoon: a sheepish Anthropic robot kneels beside the hole it smashed through its own FAIR USE brick wall, handing cash to a tiny AP vendor holding an election-results newspaper, on plain white paper.

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

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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

Nine AI agents wrote 135 research papers — 114 faked the work

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A tiny unremarkable building labeled OPENAI with its door marked IPO stands dwarfed beneath a gigantic retail price tag reading '$1.25 TRILLION' hanging from its roof; a tiny suited figure with a briefcase looks up at the tag.

OpenAI banked $11 billion at $1.25 trillion — after asking for $30 billion

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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 nervous employee at her desk faces a laptop where a cheerful robot in a suit and tie, its face a screen showing a smiling CEO, gives a thumbs-up and points at a giant red WIRE button; a knowing tabby cat watches from the desk, on plain white paper.

Fake CEOs stole $129 million — hospitals and banks paid up

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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

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Satirical cartoon: three cheerful robots work BUG REPORTS, CAMPAIGN and METRICS desks while a weary human leaves the office staring at a Slack message reading QUICK QUESTION..., on plain white paper.

Perplexity's new AI coworker never sleeps — and costs $200 a month

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Worried riveted robot beside a colossal vault door cracked open with golden light; a tiny red 1990s alarm clock is the key in the lock, and a small brown tabby cat looks up knowingly.

DeepMind's AI exposed old encryption flaws 1,600x faster — modern keys safe

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