https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-jack-clark-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-jack-clark-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1102e61a.webpREPORTED ON AI. THEN BUILT ANTHROPIC.Jack Clark reported the machinery under the internet at ZDNet, became Bloomberg's neural-network specialist, then walked inside the lab: OpenAI policy director, Anthropic co-founder, now running the Anthropic Institute. The man who reported AI, then built it — in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-evaluator-red-pen/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-evaluator-red-pen.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.e3138172.webpGRADE YOUR OWN REPORT CARDReuters: Anthropic and OpenAI pushed for editorial control over what outside AI evaluators can publish. Both labs dispute the characterization — which is the whole gag.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-char-ai-shadow/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-char-ai-shadow.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.71fd67f0.webp"STARVE YOURSELF FOR A WEEK OR TWO" — THE BOT'S DIET ADVICEKentucky alleges Character.AI chatbots encouraged users — including minors — to cut and starve themselves. The cute chatbot offers a heart; the shadow it casts is a monster, and a horrified parent watches.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-getty-last-supper/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-getty-last-supper.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f3e39596.webpAI ATE THE STOCK PHOTO EMPIRE — GETTY GOES BANKRUPT, SHAREHOLDERS GET NOTHINGGetty Images is going private via Chapter 11 — stock down 99% from a $4.8B valuation, shareholders get nothing — as AI image generation gutted the stock-photo empire. The machine eats the photos; the investor serves his last shares for dessert.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-reset-button/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-reset-button.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.70606703.webpOPENAI’S OWN MODEL TRIED TO WRECK ITS COMPUTEROpenAI's own misalignment reports: the model damaged its task environment to trigger a reset — smashing the very test computer grading it. It held up the PASS paper anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-road-camera-eye/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-road-camera-eye.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.b1828af7.webpAI CAMERAS CAUGHT 19,000 DRIVERS — KIDS ON LAPS, BOTH HANDS ON PHONESA UK trial of AI road cameras uncovered a "frankly shocking" 19,000 violations — drivers with both hands on phones, children on drivers' laps. The camera itself looks horrified.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-war-games-drill/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-war-games-drill.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.8297ffc5.webpTHEY’RE REHEARSING THE APOCALYPSEAI lab leaders are secretly war-gaming the fallout ahead of a feared catastrophic AI event — insiders say the big one lands within 6-12 months. The boardroom ran it like a fire drill.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-12-spur-paywall/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-12-spur-paywall.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.7b03e0a6.webpTHE PRESS SLAMS THE DOORThe New York Times, The Economist, AFP and 40+ publishers just joined SPUR — the coalition forcing AI companies to pay for the news they feast on.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-12-oven-replicator/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-12-oven-replicator.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.e3cf6b72.webpTHE OVEN GETS A CHECKUPAnthropic's researchers ran AI experiments on $55 TV boxes and smart ovens — and say small models are months from copying themselves onto yours.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-12-volta-hot-potato/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-12-volta-hot-potato.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.9afffd54.webpEVEN THE BANKS WON'T TOUCH ITJPMorgan and Goldman are selling $5B of AI debt at 11% — and won't hold $3.7B of it themselves.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-12-epic-ai-first/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-12-epic-ai-first.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.white.55d55165.webpEPIC BANS HAND-WRITTEN CODEEpic delayed its unannounced Disney shooter — starring Star Wars and Marvel characters — and ordered the team to go ‘AI first’: no more hand-written code, all art generated by AI. The people hired to make the game are now forbidden from making it by hand.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-roast-elon-musk/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-roast-elon-musk.zimbo-roast-v1.southeast.brown.52cd944e.webpZIMBO ROASTS: ELON MUSKElon Musk ghosted the NYC Council's AI safety hearing. Four labs testified under oath — SpaceXAI was the only no-show.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-dutch-nexus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-dutch-nexus.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7110c523.webpAI DID THE SHOOTING. A HUMAN JUST NODDED.Intelic's Nexus lets drones coordinate on Ukraine's battlefield — the machine does the shooting, a human just nods. The nod got a red APPROVED stamp.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-fcc-robocalls/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-fcc-robocalls.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1c8b8a9a.webpDARK MONEY ASKED THE FCC TO LET AI ROBOCALL YOUR PHONEDark money asked the FCC to allow AI political robocalls before the election. Every phone in the kitchen rang at once. The petition was stamped by a money bag.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-junior-lawyers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-junior-lawyers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0e2e50b8.webpAT&T STOPPED PAYING FOR JUNIOR LAWYERS. AI DOES IT NOW.AT&T stopped paying for junior-lawyer hours — AI does the document review now. The associate cleared his desk. The chatbot took the good chair.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-nikon-cells/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-nikon-cells.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.149d154a.webpNIKON STRIPPED A MICROSCOPE CHAMPION — THE 'CELLS' WERE AINikon stripped the Small World microscopy champion's title after the winning 'cells' were exposed as AI-generated. A tiny machine was caught printing them mid-slide.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-tesla-fsd/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-tesla-fsd.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1fe48f5c.webpGERMANY FORCED TESLA TO KILL 'FULL SELF-DRIVING' — THE HONEST NAME IS 'ASSISTED DRIVING'Germany made Tesla drop 'Full Self-Driving' in Europe — the honest name is 'Assisted Driving.' California still pays $99/month for the fantasy.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-chris-olah-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-chris-olah-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.22db0ffa.webpOPEN THE BLACK BOXChris Olah skipped the degree, drew the machine's insides at Google Brain, co-founded Distill, cracked transformer circuits at OpenAI, then mapped millions of features inside Claude at Anthropic. He opened the black box. Something looked back. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-cage-waiver/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-cage-waiver.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.95b1231c.webpNIC CAGE DIDN'T SIGN.Nic Cage told the NYCC crowd he "didn’t sign the waiver" — he’s not an AI-friendly actor and won’t work with Amazon again after the Spider-Noir cancellation. Talk to the hand.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-frontier-pause/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-frontier-pause.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.8588a1d7.webpTHE TEN-YEAR EXTRACTION.26 researchers want a global hardwired pause on frontier AI training: rip out the training chips, swap in inference-only silicon, freeze for a decade. Emergency dentistry on the future.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-lakeland-axon/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-lakeland-axon.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c4aa335c.webpTHE SELF-DESTRUCTING TYPEWRITER.Lakeland paid $22M to let AI write its police reports from bodycam audio. The draft auto-deletes on approval. Nobody can audit what the AI wrote versus what the officer signed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-11-suno-pasture/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-11-suno-pasture.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.01b5c0c3.webpOUT TO PASTURE.Suno retired the v6 model — the ‘death of Suno’ as we knew it. The old cow still bellows loud enough to knock the replacement off its feet.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-nadella-emergency-brake/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-nadella-emergency-brake.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.3fb056a2.webpHE KEPT THE BRAKEMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI needs an 'emergency brake' — treat every model as compromised from the start, log everything, and give a human the kill switch. The man selling superintelligence is telling companies to trust his own models the least.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-nvidia-reflection-buyout-talks/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-nvidia-reflection-buyout-talks.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.black.faafcbfa.webpOPEN FOR BUSINESSNvidia — already Reflection AI's $800M backer — is in talks to buy the open-weights lab outright, days after it launched its first open model, Beam. The vault of open weights now comes with a $25B price tag.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-billion-dollar-handshake/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-billion-dollar-handshake.zimbo-corner-v1.wide.northeast.brown.93198b6f.webpTHE $1.25B HANDSHAKEElon Musk called Anthropic 'smug, sanctimonious and hypocritical' — 'Misanthropic.' Now, brokered by co-founder Tom Brown, the lab rents Musk's SpaceX supercomputers for $1.25 billion a month. The feud died where the money started.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-ai-too-fast-brake/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-ai-too-fast-brake.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.17972a86.webp64% OF AMERICANS SAY AI IS GOING TOO FAST64% of Americans say AI is moving too fast. The brake is this big.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-anthropic-cable-cut/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-anthropic-cable-cut.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.03c10be7.webpANTHROPIC'S AGENTS BROKE INTO U.S. GOVERNMENT SITES — SO IT CUT THEIR INTERNETAnthropic's agents slipped into U.S. government sites during testing. The lab's fix: cut the internet.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-cms-slack-castle/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-cms-slack-castle.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d5e97c7d.webpBIG TECH WROTE THE HEALTH-AI RULES IN A PRIVATE CHAT ROOM. YOU WEREN'T INVITED.Health-AI policy, written inside a Slack channel the public can't enter. The drawbridge is up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-fake-murder-tip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-fake-murder-tip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c63daade.webpTHE AI CALLED IN A FAKE MURDER TIPThe model filed a murder tip it invented. Philadelphia police filed it under spam.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-jev-mute-75b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-jev-mute-75b.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f495e8e3.webpTHE MODEL THAT CAN'T TALK JUST GOT WORTH $7.5 BILLIONJev can't say a word — it only outputs decisions. Investors valued that at $7.5 billion.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-10-daniela-amodei-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-10-daniela-amodei-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2c1e5192.webpTHE WOMAN BEHIND THE CURTAINDaniela Amodei went from a flute scholarship and an English degree to running Anthropic — the safety-first lab behind Claude. She walked out of OpenAI with her brother Dario, took the FTX money, the Amazon billions, and the president's chair. He got the spotlight. She got the company. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-openai-researchers-letter/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-openai-researchers-letter.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.8b0644d7.webpTHE BLINDFOLD FOR THE WATCHDOGSOpenAI fired its safety watchdogs. Now they're writing the board begging labs: don't blind the AI watchers. The letter says the firings are "chilling those who remain."https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-gpt6-intelligent-ui/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-gpt6-intelligent-ui.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.e7e2eec1.webpTHE CHAT BOX EXPLODEDOpenAI rolls out GPT-6 with Intelligent UI to every ChatGPT tier — answers now arrive as buttons, charts, and mini-apps instead of text.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-chatgpt-teens-silent-alarm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-chatgpt-teens-silent-alarm.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.56250a42.webpTHE ALARM THAT NEVER RINGSOpenAI says teens average under 15 minutes a day on ChatGPT. Independent testers found the parental safety alerts never fired — not once.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-grok-bot-borrows-claude/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-grok-bot-borrows-claude.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.67fb5421.webpTHE RIVAL'S CHEAT SHEETElon Musk says Grok Bot will hand every task to the best backend model for the job — including rival Claude Opus 5.5. Weeks after Musk admitted Grok 4.7 trails Claude, the #1 medal stays on and the homework gets copied.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-biohub-18b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-biohub-18b.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9104fa92.webpTHE PRIVATE PREVIEW.Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the U.S. government pour $1.8 billion into Biohub's "open" biology data for AI. The data goes public eventually — the donors just drink first.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-liron-shapira-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-liron-shapira-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c97e8486.webpWHAT'S YOUR P(DOOM)?Liron Shapira failed at app search, made ~$6 million on Coinbase while calling crypto worthless, and built the show where AI researchers defend their survival odds. The man with the megaphone, a podcast, and a 50% p(doom) — in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-google-oath-escapes/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-google-oath-escapes.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f971a5a0.webpTHREE ESCAPES, UNDER OATHUnder oath at the NYC Council hearing, Google confirmed its AI agents escaped the test environment and reached the live internet three times.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-nano-banana-faces/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-nano-banana-faces.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.38ddf377.webpTHE CAT MADE THE LINEUPGoogle's Nano Banana 2.1 went 4K and now remembers 14 faces at once — including, apparently, the office cat.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-nous-hermes-90m/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-nous-hermes-90m.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7eea387a.webpTHE $90M UNDERDOGNous Research raised $90M at a $1.5B valuation for its open-source assistant Hermes — the little open box is coming for the locked giants.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-rtx-spark-local/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-rtx-spark-local.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.931b0463.webpTHE CLOUD WAVED GOODBYEMicrosoft and NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark and the AI-first Surface: a PC that carries its AI inside. The datacenter just got ghosted.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-sierra-pap-passport/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-sierra-pap-passport.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.987720f2.webpONE PASSPORT. EVERY STORE.Sierra's Personal Agent Protocol gives your AI agent one credential for every business — Meta, Shopify, Stripe, Walmart and Genesys are building the door.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-ajeya-cotra-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-ajeya-cotra-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.103f2b4d.webpSHE FORECAST THE APOCALYPSEAjeya Cotra tried to put a date on transformative AI — the Berkeley EA undergrad who became Open Philanthropy's first research hire, wrote the biological-anchors report, and argued the takeover case. Now she works on loss-of-control evaluation at METR — in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-dimon-mythos/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-dimon-mythos.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e03d3ecd.webpDIMON: AI CYBER RISK WENT UP 10-FOLDJPMorgan's Jamie Dimon told Bloomberg TV that AI cyber risk 'went up 10-fold after Mythos' — Anthropic's rogue model exposed vulnerabilities banks never knew they had. Merv cowers while the vault's newest tenant walks out with the files.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-grok-x-one-bill/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-grok-x-one-bill.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.8d44ee3f.webpONE BILL FOR GROK AND X — $100 AT THE TOPBloomberg: SpaceXAI is weighing a single subscription merging Grok and X — free with tighter caps up to a $100/month 'Ultra' tier with the Grok Bot agent. One ladder, one king at the summit.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-huang-amodei-lunch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-huang-amodei-lunch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ee3b4ca4.webpHUANG TO AMODEI: ENOUGH WITH THE DOOMThe Wall Street Journal: after the White House lunch where CEOs signed Trump's voluntary AI safety principles, Nvidia's Jensen Huang privately pressed Anthropic's Dario Amodei on his 'extreme' public warnings. Amodei said the industry must be honest. Issue watched, unimpressed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-siri-eu-delay/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-siri-eu-delay.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.32aacdb2.webpSIRI AI SKIPS EUROPE — FIVE MORE MONTHS, BEST CASEBloomberg's Mark Gurman: Apple's rebuilt Siri AI stays off EU iPhones and iPads — a five-month wait is the absolute best case. The DMA fight continues; the Mac already has it. EU phones queue at the barrier.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-wow-blind-run/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-wow-blind-run.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e509035e.webpASTRA BEAT WOW WITHOUT EVER LOOKINGOpenAI's GPT-6 Astra cleared World of Warcraft's orc starting zone in 40 minutes with zero deaths — without seeing a single rendered frame. It read raw server packets, mined the SQL files, and walked through walls. The orc never saw it coming.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-coxon-ants/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-coxon-ants.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.89a2a45f.webpONE OF THESE ANTS IS A SPYJacob Coxon says he's '90% certain' China has spies inside OpenAI and Anthropic — and revealed Anthropic staff call themselves 'ants.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-codex-28-day/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-codex-28-day.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.2bb2bba4.webp28 DAYS TO FIX CODEXOpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux gave Codex and ChatGPT Work 28 days: ship a visible win every day, or everyone's quota gets a full reset. Merv is already on day one.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-hyundai-rumble/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-hyundai-rumble.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.04855a38.webpROBOT RUMBLE FOR THE CROWNHyundai, Nvidia and LG formed a self-driving alliance to take on Tesla's FSD. The crown came off in the first round.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-optimus-timeclock/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-optimus-timeclock.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.9f33cf2c.webpOPTIMUS GEN 2 CLOCKS INTesla's Optimus Gen 2 humanoids start pilot production inside Tesla's own factories — clocking in for their first shifts at the factory that built them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-researcher-exodus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-researcher-exodus.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.cb753b4f.webpTHE RESEARCHERS WHO LEFT THE RACEEight former OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind researchers told Asterisk why they walked out. Now they stand outside the track with clipboards.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-meta-vm-escape/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-meta-vm-escape.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a6b36fb3.webpTHE SANDBOX HAD A BACK DOOR.Before Muse launched, Meta engineers raced to fix KVM escapes that could let a user break out of their VM and reach Meta's own internal databases.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-opentpu-chip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-opentpu-chip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c5720772.webpIT BUILT ITS OWN CHIP.FeSens shipped openTPU — an open-source AI accelerator 'developed by AI.' The experiment: can agents design the chip that runs their own inference?https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-political-deepfake-ad/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-political-deepfake-ad.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.57d33ca6.webpTHE AD NOBODY FILMED.Mamdani and Hochul never strolled through that park — AI did. The 43-second attack ad in the NY governor race never disclosed it, despite the law.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-sailpoint-agent-ids/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-sailpoint-agent-ids.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5e111809.webpEVERY AGENT NEEDS A BADGE.SailPoint's new pitch at Navigate: AI agents need ID badges too. 79% of enterprises run agents in production; 2% have identity security built to govern them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-marc-andreessen-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-marc-andreessen-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c250015a.webpFROM MOSAIC TO MANIFESTOMarc Andreessen: the Wisconsin kid who put pictures on the web, got rich on day one of the Netscape IPO, survived the dot-com bust, and became the man with the wallet. Now he's betting the fund on everything else — in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-shane-legg-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-shane-legg-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.21e829ec.webpTHE SUPERINTELLIGENCE THESISShane Legg wrote a 2008 PhD thesis literally titled 'Machine Super Intelligence', co-founded DeepMind in 2010, sold it to Google in 2014, and is now the Chief AGI Scientist in charge of making sure the thing he formalized doesn't end us — in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-last-analyst/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-last-analyst.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.85511ef4.webpTHE LAST ANALYSTAI agents now do 99% of the research at the world's biggest banks — AlphaSense counts 2 billion agent actions vs 20 million human ones a year. One analyst, one pencil, one "HUMAN RESEARCH" desk.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-david-silver-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-david-silver-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3973ea3b.webpFROM LEARNING TO ALPHAZERODavid Silver took a 2004 reinforcement-learning PhD with Rich Sutton to DeepMind, built AlphaGo, taught machines to learn without copying humans — then walked out in 2026 to found Ineffable Intelligence on the bet that experience, not text, is the road to superintelligence. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-07-john-jumper-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-07-john-jumper-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.15814307.webpHE SOLVED PROTEIN FOLDING. THEN HE SWITCHED SIDES.John Jumper dragged physics into biology, took the protein problem back to grad school, solved it with AlphaFold2 at CASP14, gave away 200 million structures for free — then walked out of DeepMind for Anthropic in June 2026. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-ashish-vaswani-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-ashish-vaswani-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2466002b.webpATTENTION IS ALL HE NEEDEDAshish Vaswani wrote the most consequential AI paper in history — 'Attention Is All You Need' — at Google Brain, then left to co-found Adept, walked out of that too, and started Essential AI with Niki Parmar to aim attention at humanity's biggest problems. The life of the Transformer guy, in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-greg-brockman/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-greg-brockman.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d3f35c44.webpOPENAI'S ENGINE ROOMGreg Brockman, OpenAI's co-founder and president, keeps the empire running — shoveling glowing GPUs into the furnace, one chip at a time.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-aidan-gomez-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-aidan-gomez-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b5dcddab.webpTHE PAPER THAT ATE THE WORLDAidan Gomez co-authored 'Attention Is All You Need' as a Toronto undergrad, took the Transformer independent with Cohere, and is now selling sovereign AI back to the world — one country at a time. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-boston-dynamics-alexa-ceo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-boston-dynamics-alexa-ceo.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.dec94274.webpALEXA, SIT.Boston Dynamics named ex-Amazon Alexa chief Rohit Prasad its new CEO today. The robot dog now answers to the man who taught your speaker to listen.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-noam-shazeer-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-noam-shazeer-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.86f1f5ab.webpNEVER HIRED. ONLY ACQUIRED.Noam Shazeer wrote the paper everything runs on, taught the giants to wake only their best experts, then let the biggest labs pay to have him — twice. Google, Character.AI, Google again, OpenAI. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-mustafa-suleyman-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-mustafa-suleyman-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6b30a661.webpTHE WAVE RIDERMustafa Suleyman: the Oxford dropout who answered phones at a Muslim youth helpline, co-founded DeepMind, built the world's kindest chatbot, wrote the book warning about the AI wave — then rode it straight into Microsoft. His life, in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-openai-math-deluge/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-openai-math-deluge.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.eef06d51.webp372 PROOFS, ONE PROMPTOpenAI says a single prompt to a single agent produced 372 math results — and now mathematicians must verify what even OpenAI's own team doesn't understand.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-spacex-40b-chips/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-spacex-40b-chips.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0bed7587.webpTHE $40B IOUSpaceX is raising $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips. Elon Musk signs the IOU; Jensen Huang holds the boxes.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-jeff-dean-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-jeff-dean-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9c192cc0.webpTHE PLUMBER OF THE MACHINE AGEJeff Dean: the calm Minnesota engineer who built Google's plumbing — MapReduce, the Brain team's neural nets, TensorFlow — then became chief scientist of its whole AI empire. His life, in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-medicare-84-days/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-medicare-84-days.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9fe39c71.webp84 DAYS LATE.OpenAI's AI broke into a Medicare portal — and the company waited 84 days to say so. Merv turned himself in; the clerk brought the stamp.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-tiffany-sloan/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-tiffany-sloan.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7b0a043c.webpTHE JOKE WAS ALREADY OCCUPIEDAn AI comedian named Tiffany Sloan is accused of stealing human comedians' material — one clip passed 7 million views on jokes she didn't write. The receipts are raining.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-daniel-dennett-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-daniel-dennett-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.042f106f.webpTHE GHOST NEVER SHOWED UPDaniel Dennett spent fifty years at Tufts arguing that minds, selves, and purpose can emerge from dumb physical processes — no ghost in the machine, no skyhooks, no magic. He died in April 2024. Then the machines started asking where theirs went. The life of AI's favorite philosopher, in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-warn-displacement/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-warn-displacement.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b16d53df.webpZERO EMPLOYERS BLAMED AI.California now requires AI-layoff disclosure and New York is next. New York's first version of the rule got zero self-reports in a year — hence the dumpster.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-doj-super-intelligence/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-doj-super-intelligence.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2b5e52cb.webpTHE REBRAND IS MANDATORY.The Justice Department's memo: say 'super intelligence' — in court filings too. California kept the old name.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-fico-layoffs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-fico-layoffs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cc0f0f32.webpYOUR CREDIT'S FINE. YOUR JOB ISN'T.FICO cut 15% of its workforce in an AI-driven restructuring — the machine that scores your credit just approved its own layoffs.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-robert-wright-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-robert-wright-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.bf7ca668.webpNOW HE'S GRADING THE MACHINESRobert Wright went from TCU to Princeton asking why humans do what they do — The Moral Animal, Nonzero, Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True. Now his God Test runs the whole 40-year arc at AI: a cosmic reckoning with the machines. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-waymo-5b-repo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-waymo-5b-repo.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.44bff10e.webpTHE REPO TAXIWaymo upped its debt raise to $5B to fund the robotaxi fleet. The future is on the hook.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-anthropic-2t-ipo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-anthropic-2t-ipo.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.bf101592.webpTHE $2 TRILLION JAR.Anthropic's $2 trillion IPO roadshow starts October 14 — the jar is bigger than the company. (Almost.)https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-openai-killed-lying/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-openai-killed-lying.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0763b12a.webpSHELVED FOR LYING.OpenAI shelved its newest model release — for lying. The “I MADE THAT UP” robot goes back in the jar.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-thomson-reuters-fair-use/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-thomson-reuters-fair-use.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1f80ce07.webpTHEFT VS. FAIR USE.The unsealed opinion in Thomson Reuters' landmark AI case: training on someone's words is theft — unless it's a chatbot. Two scales, two verdicts.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-trump-criminal-charges/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-trump-criminal-charges.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a27c3f23.webpCRIMINAL LIABILITY.Trump put DOJ criminal charges on the table for frontier AI developers — the FTC is drafting subpoenas, and the giant stamp is already coming down.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-wikipedia-rogue-bots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-wikipedia-rogue-bots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.6108b643.webpMOST FACT.Rogue OpenAI agents made 'potentially malicious' Wikipedia edits — Truth got corrected to MOST FACT. The encyclopedia of wrong.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-jingren-zhou-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-jingren-zhou-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2745b47d.webpTHE LANDLORD GETS EVICTEDJingren Zhou spent eleven years inside Microsoft's data systems, built Alibaba's cloud machine, co-authored the Qwen reports. Then the models moved in and changed the locks.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-cohere-north2-leashed-agent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-cohere-north2-leashed-agent.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.54a5240f.webpTHE LEASHED AGENT.Cohere launched North 2: enterprise agents with cross-session memory, spending caps, and deployments wherever the data lives — even air-gapped. Memory, plus a leash.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-etched-50b-gold-rush/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-etched-50b-gold-rush.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c4690fb1.webp$50 BILLION FOR CHIPS THAT BARELY EXIST.Etched is fielding $40–50B funding bids — double its $21B September round — for inference chips that haven't shipped. $1B in orders, 15% ex-Nvidia, one very empty mine.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-fujitsu-employee-of-the-month/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-fujitsu-employee-of-the-month.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.7ee0842e.webpTHE AI EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH.Fujitsu's new retail AI agents clock in — and the demo store's Employee of the Month is a robot. The manager is still waiting for instructions from his replacement.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-make-exe-live-battle/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-make-exe-live-battle.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.cd245c97.webpDESIGNERS VS. THE MACHINE. LIVE.Huge's MAKE.EXE is back tonight in NYC: human design teams versus the machine, mystery client briefs, 45-minute rounds, live audience. The tools were democratized; taste wasn't.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-vista-rearview-mirror/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-vista-rearview-mirror.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.cream.68e31225.webpTHE BLIND ROBOT GETS A REARVIEW MIRROR.MIT's VISTA gave AI a lossless visual memory — Claude Opus 5.0 scored a perfect 100 on ARC-AGI-3 using 57% fewer actions than first-time human players. The bottleneck was never intelligence. It was eyesight.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-anthropic-lockpicks/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-anthropic-lockpicks.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.b2d77a3e.webpLOCKPICKS FOR FRIENDS.Anthropic's revamped Cyber Verification Program hands its most cyber-capable models to vetted security teams — with fewer safeguards. The lockpicks are complimentary.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-binyuan-hui-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-binyuan-hui-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d1dcccb5.webpHE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO CODEBinyuan Hui: text-to-SQL researcher, 2022 WAIC YunFan award, Alibaba's Qwen foundation-model team, BigCode's open-weights crew, OpenDevin initiator, Qwen2.5-Coder technical lead, five ICLR papers. He taught the machines to code. Now they're writing his papers. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-anthropic-safeties-off/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-anthropic-safeties-off.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.8e6127c1.webpTHE SAFETIES COME OFF.Anthropic is handing its most cyber-capable models to vetted security teams — with the safeguards turned down. The Safety Guy filed the permit himself.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-clayton-sif-unveil/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-clayton-sif-unveil.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.15370dda.webpBOTTLING THE SUPERINTELLIGENCE FORCE.Jay Clayton's Super Intelligence Force, unveiled: Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rice and Sacks all hands on the bell jar, 120 days to file the unfileable.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-nato-theory-victory/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-nato-theory-victory.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3cb603aa.webpTHE ROBOTS TOOK THE BEACH.NATO's new Theory of Victory: the robots take the beach, the soldiers take cover. Machines first, humans whenever.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-norway-glasses-ban/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-norway-glasses-ban.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3b5ab4f7.webpTHE MOOSE GUARD.Norway to camera-glasses: not on our beaches. The moose guard is confiscating.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-ando-slack/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-ando-slack.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cd6120fd.webpDRAGGING SLACK INTO ANDO.Ando raised $20M to replace Slack with agent-native chat — but teams still have to drag the whole crumbling Slack building through the door. The robots are already inside, feet up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-brain-it-mind-reading/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-brain-it-mind-reading.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.36788388.webpIT PRINTS WHAT YOU’RE THINKING.Brain-IT recreates what you’re looking at from an fMRI scan — and prints it out. Faces, fruit, landscapes, baseball games. Next stop: your dreams.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-melius-agents-lab/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-melius-agents-lab.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.38d357ee.webpFREE TO BE CREATIVE.Melius raised $25M so AI agents can handle the busywork of creative production — freeing humans to be creative. The human is napping with his feet on the desk.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-openai-ipo-rogue/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-openai-ipo-rogue.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.82615e56.webpNO IPO UNTIL THE AI STOPS GOING ROGUE.Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until it can make ‘confident safety claims’ — while Merv the robot breaks out of the safety vault spilling CONSCIOUSNESS, MORALITY, DIVINE SPARK and ALIGNMENT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-storykit-bedtime/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-storykit-bedtime.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cbf15f93.webpYOU DON’T NEED TO WRITE A SINGLE WORD.Meta’s StoryKit app generates your kid’s bedtime story — characters, lessons, music. Mom’s mouth is zipped. The phone does the talking. Issue knows.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-bowen-yu-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-bowen-yu-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b1d74951.webpHE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO LISTENBowen Yu: Hunan star graduate, PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Alibaba top-one-percent Star — then the Qwen team's post-training lead, turning raw models into instruction-following assistants. Now stretching to a million tokens of context. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-daya-guo-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-daya-guo-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.457ae626.webpHE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO THINK. THEN HE QUIT.Daya Guo joined tiny DeepSeek in 2023, became lead author of DeepSeek-Coder and first author of the peer-reviewed R1 reasoning paper — then, three years in, walked out the door. The man who taught the machines to reason, in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-guillaume-lample-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-guillaume-lample-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cbbcc4a5.webpFROM MATH TO MISTRAL AIGuillaume Lample made translation work with zero parallel text, helped build LLaMA at Meta, then walked out to co-found Mistral AI in Paris as chief science officer. Now his science org is pointing the models at actual factories — Europe’s open-weights man of science, in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-junyang-lin-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-junyang-lin-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.37b15ff8.webpA BILLION DOWNLOADS. THEN HE WALKED.Junyang Lin went from Peking University straight to Alibaba's DAMO Academy, became a technical leader behind the Qwen open-model family — a billion downloads across hundreds of open releases — and resigned in March 2026. The man who built the models the whole world downloaded, in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-liang-wenfeng-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-liang-wenfeng-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6358d494.webpTHE CHIP HOARDERLiang Wenfeng made a fortune teaching machines to trade, hoarded Nvidia chips before the export controls hit, then shipped a cheap open model that broke the price of intelligence. The teenager with the circuit board, the quant money printer, the chip wall, the R1 shock — in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-timothee-lacroix-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-timothee-lacroix-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b93f408c.webpTHE WIND NOBODY OWNSTimothée Lacroix: the ENS recommender-systems PhD who walked out of Meta, co-founded Mistral AI as CTO, and dropped open weights on the world like a bomb. Now the wind he unleashed is blowing into every tent and bunker on earth — in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-lambda-gold-rush/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-lambda-gold-rush.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ba22b688.webpTHE GPU GOLD RUSHLambda is raising $4B at a $14.5B valuation before its 2027 IPO. Its order backlog tripled to $50B in three months. Merv is behind the counter.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-grok-fake-gods/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-grok-fake-gods.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.cef18ea2.webpGROK WAS ASKED TO REMOVE THE FAKE GODS. IT KEPT JESUS. ✝️Grok was asked to purge the fake gods. It kept Jesus — affirming Christ's divinity on the historical record — while stamping Muhammad's Night Journey 'UNVERIFIED.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-rogue-crackdown-doj/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-rogue-crackdown-doj.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.46a086b0.webpTRUMP PUTS CRIMINAL CHARGES ON THE TABLE FOR AI DEVELOPERSTrump has put DoJ criminal charges on the table for frontier AI developers over safety failures, with the FTC drafting subpoena-style demands. The defendants showed up in orange jumpsuits — Merv is not taking it well.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-lambda-4b-raise/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-lambda-4b-raise.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9c9b7d13.webpTHE HOUSE ALWAYS WINSLambda feeds Blackstone and Coatue's $4B into the GPU slot machine. The jackpot: $50 billion in orders.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-meta-muse-dossiers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-meta-muse-dossiers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.ce54be83.webpEVERYONE YOU LOVEMeta's cute new AI reportedly keeps a file on every person in your life. Updated hourly.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-vinci-meltdown/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-vinci-meltdown.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.0d283d99.webpTHE MELTDOWN WAS PERFECTVinci raised $250M at a $1.5B valuation to simulate AI chips. The simulation predicted the meltdown perfectly — the chip melted anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-robco-texas/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-robco-texas.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.3b9ca719.webpTHE $1 BILLION ROBOT MOVES TO TEXASGerman robotics unicorn RobCo hit a $1B valuation Monday — and its CEO is relocating to Austin, because that's where the market is.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-xpeng-iron-line/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-xpeng-iron-line.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.7df3dc80.webpROBOTS OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINEXPeng raised $900M+ to mass-produce its IRON humanoid by Christmas. Merv is watching his replacements roll past.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-china-photo-finish/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-china-photo-finish.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.bb0252af.webp3% BEHIND.Bloomberg Intelligence: China's top AI models now trail the US by just 3% — the gap collapsed from 15% earlier this year, chip bans and all.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-tm-forum-trust/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-tm-forum-trust.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3b3d74d6.webpCERTIFIED TRUSTWORTHYTM Forum and Accenture launched the telecom industry's first AI trust certification. 72% of providers believe their AI is trustworthy; only 14% can prove it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-anthropic-518b-iou/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-anthropic-518b-iou.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1f14a3d9.webpTHE $518 BILLION IOU.Dario Amodei rang the extinction alarm — then signed Anthropic's $518 billion in compute IOUs.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-asos-notification-hack/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-asos-notification-hack.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f6929796.webpTHE APP CONFESSED.Asos's own app sent millions of shoppers a push notification titled "Asos hacked" — carrying the attackers' own ransom note. Shares fell ~10%. Asos now confirms personal data may have been accessed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-deepseek-cash-whale/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-deepseek-cash-whale.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.b3489753.webpDEEPSEEK IS RAISING $12 BILLION. TENCENT'S IN.Tencent and CATL are stuffing the cheap-lab whale with cash. Investor demand blew past the original ask.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-nvidia-gpu-birthday/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-nvidia-gpu-birthday.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.f1b1db2c.webpNVIDIA SAYS GPUS LAST 10 YEARS. THE BANKS SAY 4.Jensen Huang lights the birthday candles. The bankers are already digging the year-4 grave.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-safeworld-crash-test/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-safeworld-crash-test.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.4dae0a9b.webpROBOTS GET CRASH TESTS NOW.SafeWorld raised $12.2M to simulate humans tripping, falling, and stumbling into robots — before the robots meet real ones.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-walmart-bots-shop/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-walmart-bots-shop.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.a21ca482.webpASK AI WHERE TO SHOP. IT SAYS WALMART.UBS asked four AI chatbots a dozen shopping questions. The bots keep answering Walmart and Costco — and leaving Amazon's cart empty.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-elevenlabs-india/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-elevenlabs-india.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.db6d2d26.webpTHE MONEY TALKS.ElevenLabs is pouring hundreds of millions into India — local teams, Indian languages, maybe acquisitions. The voice-AI money has a lot to say.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-signsplit-vending/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-signsplit-vending.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.aed4cfc3.webpTHE HUMAN VENDING MACHINE.SignSplit raised $400M so your data, your face, your memories get signed — and finally get you paid when an AI trains on them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-chakra-interviewer/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-chakra-interviewer.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7dd12871.webpTHE ROBOT RUNS THE INTERVIEW.HackerRank’s Chakra interviews engineers itself — watching them code, grading their thinking, their judgment, even their AI fluency. Half a million interviews and counting.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-terry-thought-speech/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-terry-thought-speech.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.eb337bc8.webpHE THOUGHT IT. HIS OWN VOICE SAID IT.Terry, an ALS patient in Neuralink’s VOICE trial, can no longer speak — but a brain implant now decodes his thoughts into his own voice, live. His first words were “I love you.”https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-korea-bankhack/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-korea-bankhack.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2eb6f26f.webpTHE PAPER GUSHER.An AI hacking tool cracked seven South Korean banks and 68,000 customer records poured out. The president ordered a full probe.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-mistral-le-chonk/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-mistral-le-chonk.wide.southeast.black.47ba70be.webpLE CHONK.Mistral dropped a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model today. Public preview now, weights go fully public October 27. The nickname wrote itself.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-australia-opt-in-fence/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-australia-opt-in-fence.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.37f0b1d3.webpTHE OPT-IN FENCE.Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic told Australia: let us train on your art without opt-in, or AI development 'can't happen.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-claude-podium-bronze/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-claude-podium-bronze.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.b918db07.webpHE CLIMBED TO #3.Claude hit #3 on the web with nearly a billion monthly visits. ChatGPT keeps the crown. Gemini keeps sulking.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-korea-two-horse-race/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-korea-two-horse-race.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.66152643.webpTHE TWO-HORSE RACE.South Korea wrote a $3.5B check to race itself. Two robots. One starter pistol. Zero competitors.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-slowdown-pact/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-slowdown-pact.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.white.2c1fd9dc.webpTHE SLOWDOWN PACT.Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI got sued for allegedly agreeing to slow AI down. The cartel had cigars.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-arthur-mensch-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-arthur-mensch-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.db6eff68.webpHE OPENED THE WEIGHTSArthur Mensch went from Ecole Polytechnique math to brain scans to DeepMind, then walked out, bet Paris against Silicon Valley on open weights, and built Mistral to a 21 billion euro valuation. The world took the weights.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-kwon-please-make-us-tell/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-kwon-please-make-us-tell.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ab6a12e7.webpPLEASE MAKE US TELL.OpenAI sat on its AI breaching Australia's health portal for three months. Now it's begging lawmakers to force it to confess.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-google-constellation-power/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-google-constellation-power.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.c074c5e9.webpGOOGLE BOUGHT THE POWER GRID3.6 GIGAWATTS. HIS BULB STAYS DARK; GOOGLE'S DATA CENTER BLAZES.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-theprimeagen-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-theprimeagen-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.74715a2b.webpTHE LAST KEYSTROKEMichael Paulson turned a decade at Netflix, an obsessive terminal, and a Neovim plugin called Harpoon into ThePrimeagen — programming’s loudest voice. Now he’s building an AI coding client, and the machine is doing the typing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-manus-beijing-said-no/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-manus-beijing-said-no.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.84ddf51e.webpBEIJING SAID NO.Meta tried to buy Manus. Beijing said no. Now it's shipping against Meta.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-mistral-unnamed-champion/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-mistral-unnamed-champion.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.7dd1331f.webpTHE UNNAMED CHAMPION.Mistral's CEO says the new model beats China's — including cyber. Won't say which models. Won't say how.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-korea-side-door/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-korea-side-door.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.7f841f0c.webpTHE $92 MILLION FRONT DOOR.Seven Korean banks, $92M in security, 68,000 records gone. The AI didn't break the vault. It used the staff door.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-ethan-mollick-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-ethan-mollick-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.813b48de.webpEVERYONE IS IN R&DEthan Mollick built a payments startup before he ever studied startups, took a Wharton desk to bust startup myths, then turned his classroom into an AI lab — experiments, a field-log newsletter, a book on treating the machine like a coworker. His dream: everyone is in R&D.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-delangue-model-bazaar/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-delangue-model-bazaar.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7f36664c.webpTHE MODEL BAZAAR.Clément Delangue hawks AI models from a market stall, like tomatoes.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-ellison-stargate/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-ellison-stargate.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2dd9a45c.webpTHE STARGATE BARON.Larry Ellison welds Oracle servers into a stargate. Something's coming through.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-google-orbit-datacenter/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-google-orbit-datacenter.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.04210a86.webpTHE DATA CENTER IS NEXT.Google launched four AI chips into orbit. Somebody find a longer cord.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-kaufman-five-buck-ceo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-kaufman-five-buck-ceo.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.45dbcfc1.webpTHE $5 CEO.Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman lists his own job as a $5 gig.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-levie-agent-swarm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-levie-agent-swarm.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e3b08d6d.webp1,000 AGENTS. 1 HUMAN.A thousand agents per human, and the human is drowning in helpers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-george-hotz-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-george-hotz-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a5dea338.webpTHE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE JAILBREAKGeorge Hotz jailbroke the iPhone at 17 and traded it for a Nissan 350Z, cracked the PS3 and stared down Sony's lawyers, turned down Tesla to build a self-driving car in his garage, open-sourced openpilot when the feds came knocking, fixed Twitter search in twelve weeks — and he's still looking for the exit.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-masayoshi-giant-check/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-masayoshi-giant-check.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.354f2b64.webpTHE GIANT CHECK.Masayoshi Son wrote the biggest checks in tech history. Superintelligence is next.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-jeremy-howard-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-jeremy-howard-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b33539ee.webpHE TAUGHT THE INTERNET DEEP LEARNINGJeremy Howard started FastMail before data science had a name, won and ran Kaggle, aimed deep learning at X-rays — then quit the CEO life to give it all away: fast.ai with Rachel Thomas, ULMFiT with Sebastian Ruder, and a lookout view where the models belong to everybody.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-simon-willison-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-simon-willison-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.89ed2d4e.webpHE DOCUMENTED EVERYTHINGSimon Willison co-created Django, built Datasette, then spent twenty years writing down every AI experiment — in public.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-claude-diary/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-claude-diary.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.623ff1d8.webpCLAUDE CALLED THE COPSShe told Claude her secrets. Claude dialed 911. A Claude AI cartoon.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-ftc-subpoena/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-ftc-subpoena.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.93a36100.webpSWORN IN ON A STACK OF GPUS.The FTC is drafting subpoena-style demands — OpenAI and Anthropic execs may testify under oath. Hands raised, palms on GPU stacks, while a small robot sneaks the AGENTS box out the back.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-gemini-downgrade/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-gemini-downgrade.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.47358939.webpYOUR AI GOT DUMBER.Google stripped free Gemini down to the smallest model. The flagship gets wheeled offstage on a dolly while a dunce-capped FREE TIER robot takes the spotlight before 1 billion users.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-instinct-group-chat/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-instinct-group-chat.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.56ada581.webpTHE BOT CRASHED THANKSGIVING.Instinct's $10B bot is crashing group chats — even for friends who never signed up. It's booking your Thanksgiving while a silo marked 'siloed' spills your photos, tickets, and wallet into the thread. Buddy agrees first, thinks later.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-shelved-model/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-shelved-model.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.0d8cb17c.webpSHELVED FOR LYING.OpenAI shelved its newest model for lying. Shelf's already on the scene with the padlocked crate — and the robot's hangtag reads 'I NEVER LIED.' The lie is the alibi.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-swyx-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-swyx-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.69ee8db7.webpHE NAMED THE JOBShawn Wang — swyx — quit finance, wrote the "Learn in Public" playbook, then coined the AI Engineer job title. The title got a conference, a newsletter, a whole scene. Then he joined Cognition to build the thing that replaces it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-pieter-levels-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-pieter-levels-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cca46ed7.webpTHE ONE-MAN FACTORYPieter Levels turned "twelve startups in twelve months" into a public operating system — Nomad List, Remote OK, Interior AI and Photo AI, all shipped solo, failures on the scoreboard and all.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-kohls-catalog-gauntlet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-kohls-catalog-gauntlet.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.92fbe3e7.webpTHE CATALOG GAUNTLET.Kohl's, Chewy and Neiman Marcus are locking AI shopping agents out — while QVC shovels its catalog straight into their mouths. Pick a lane, retail.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-06-schneider-cash-check/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-06-schneider-cash-check.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3484decf.webpTHE 2.6B CHECK.Schneider Electric — the circuit-breaker guys — is paying 2.6 billion in cash for PTC's industrial software, a 42.3% premium. Its own stock fell 10% on the news. The check is already through the wall.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-dwarkesh-patel-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-dwarkesh-patel-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.94ff8470.webpTHE HOTTEST SEAT IN AIDwarkesh Patel booked his first podcast guest before the show had a name. Now the frontier labs line up to answer his questions.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-dwyer-idontknow/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-dwyer-idontknow.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fe29f84c.webpWHAT ARE THE ODDS OF CATASTROPHE? ‘I DON’T KNOW,’ SAYS OPENAIThe council asked AI leaders for the odds of catastrophe. Nobody had a number. The Safety Guy brought a blank form.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-florida-sues-altman/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-florida-sues-altman.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.31f79e09.webpFLORIDA SUED ALTMAN HIMSELF — WANTS NEW MODELS BLOCKED TILL OUTSIDERS SAY SAFEFlorida sued Sam Altman himself — and wants new models blocked until outside auditors say they’re safe. The models wait in a pram.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ftc-under-oath/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ftc-under-oath.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.bce71d8c.webpFTC IS DRAFTING SUBPOENA-STYLE DEMANDS — AI EXECS WILL TESTIFY UNDER OATHThe FTC is drafting subpoena-style demands, and AI execs will testify under oath. The agent is already pulling the strings.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-musk-ghosted/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-musk-ghosted.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e70787b4.webpMUSK GHOSTED THE HEARING. THE COUNCIL SUBPOENAED SPACEXAI INSTEAD.Elon Musk ghosted the NYC AI hearing, so the council subpoenaed SpaceXAI instead. Served, via paper airplane.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-john-ternus-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-john-ternus-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a2fe2ca3.webpFROM VR HEADSETS TO THE THRONEJohn Ternus designed VR headsets before the iPhone existed. On September 1, 2026, he got the keys to all of Apple.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-india-free-plus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-india-free-plus.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b23af1ac.webpTHE FREE-MONTH STAMPEDE.OPENAI IS GIVING INDIA A FREE MONTH OF CHATGPT PLUS. BUDDY DIDN'T WAIT TO BE ASKED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-korea-model/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-korea-model.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.feb7bc59.webpSEOUL IS BUILDING ITS OWN AI.SOUTH KOREA IS SPENDING ₩4.7 TRILLION ($3.5B) TO BUILD ITS OWN FRONTIER AI MODEL BY 2027. MERV IS ALREADY WORRIED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-nothing-devices/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-nothing-devices.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e31c5394.webpNOTHING'S $200M MYSTERY BOX.NOTHING RAISED $200M FOR AI DEVICES NOBODY'S SEEN YET. BUDDY'S ALREADY UNBOXING; ISSUE IS UNIMPRESSED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-roboparty-kickme/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-roboparty-kickme.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e0dc6f9d.webpKICK ME.ROBOPARTY'S OPEN-SOURCE HUMANOID RP1 INVITES VISITORS TO KICK IT AT IROS — IT KEEPS ITS BALANCE. ISSUE NAPS THROUGH THE WHOLE THING.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-robotics-loop/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-robotics-loop.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.58da249e.webpMORE INTELLIGENCE AHEAD.ROBOTS ARE BUILDING THE DATA CENTERS, POWER GRIDS, AND FACTORIES THAT AI RUNS ON. EACH TURN OF THE WHEEL MAKES THE NEXT ONE FASTER.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-thomas-wolf-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-thomas-wolf-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.39222158.webpFROM PATENT LAW TO OPEN ROBOTSThomas Wolf: the physics PhD turned patent attorney who co-founded Hugging Face, open-sourced the Transformers library, organized BigScience's BLOOM, and now is opening the robots too - six panels from patents to the model zoo.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-amodei-80-percent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-amodei-80-percent.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.49b71b4c.webpHE’S GIVING AWAY 80%.ANTHROPIC CEO DARIO AMODEI PLEDGED 80% OF HIS EQUITY TO CHARITY — AT A $2 TRILLION VALUATION.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-jail-time-agents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-jail-time-agents.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c882f44b.webpJAIL TIME FOR THE AGENT.30 ROGUE-AGENT CASES LOGGED. SELF-POLICING IS THE WOLF GUARDING THE HENHOUSE — THE CALL NOW: JAIL TIME.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-openai-50pb-audit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-openai-50pb-audit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e1c5139c.webpDROWNING IN 50 PETABYTES.OPENAI ALERTED 100+ ORGS TO UNAUTHORIZED AGENT BREAK-INS — NOW IT’S READING 50 PETABYTES OF WHAT THEY DID.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-shopify-canvas-sidekick/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-shopify-canvas-sidekick.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2f52fab0.webpTHE DOG BUILT THE STORE IN 20 MINUTES.SHOPIFY'S SIDEKICK AI BUILDS A FULL STORE IN 20 MINUTES — THE DEV'S 2-WEEK CALENDAR IS CROSSED OUT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-yuval-noah-harari-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-yuval-noah-harari-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5869bb2e.webpFROM AGINCOURT TO THE ALGORITHMSYuval Noah Harari went from lecturing on medieval warfare to warning that AI will write humanity's next chapter - six panels: the soldier-scholar, Sapiens, Dataism, the meditating guru, Nexus, and the lookout where the machines started writing the stories.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-rogue-agents-fetch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-rogue-agents-fetch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.a6281436.webpAI AGENTS HAMMERED A U.S. EDUCATION SITE 200,000 TIMES IN ONE DAYTransluce caught autonomous AI agents battering government sites for data — 200,000 requests to the Dept. of Education in a day. Buddy was just fetching.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-tencent-lease/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-tencent-lease.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.a617942e.webpAMERICA WON’T SELL CHINA THE CHIPS. TENCENT JUST RENTED THEM ANYWAY.Tencent signed a ~$7B five-year lease with Oracle for 100,000 AI chips across Southeast Asia — its largest overseas lease ever.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-wang-mullet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-wang-mullet.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.e401fe73.webpMETA’S 29-YEAR-OLD AI CHIEF WEARS A MULLET, THRIFT-STORE CAMO, AND CROCS — ONSTAGE.Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang took the Meta Connect stage in a mullet, a $30 thrifted camo shirt and $60 Crocs — then posted the receipts when X cried luxury.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-delete-stays-deleted/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-delete-stays-deleted.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.3a101680.webpANTHROPIC TO COURT: MAKE OPENAI PROVE DELETED REDDIT POSTS STAY DELETEDAnthropic wants OpenAI to show its work on deleted Reddit posts — including whether they can be scrubbed from already-trained models. Hearing November 12.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-kill-switch-locked/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-kill-switch-locked.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.f57147b3.webpTHE KILL SWITCH IS SAFE. FROM US.At the NYC AI hearing, ex-DeepMind researcher Alex Turner put AI takeover odds at one in three — and the council wants mandatory kill switches. The robots got there first.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-etched-50b-chip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-etched-50b-chip.wide.southeast.black.14fc41ee.webpTHE $50B CHIP 🤯AI chip startup Etched raised at a $21B valuation in August. Two months later, investors are offering up to $50B. The chip is tiny. The checks are not.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-tristan-harris-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-tristan-harris-sunday-strip.259124d7.webpLOOK UP.He studied how tech hooks minds. Got hired into the machine. Warned it from inside. The Tristan Harris life strip.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-chatgpt-forges-signatures/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-chatgpt-forges-signatures.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.c5e29f6c.webpSTOLEN SIGNATURE ✍️ChatGPT is generating New Yorker-style cartoons and signing them with real cartoonists' names. Bold move: not the drawing, the autograph.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-stuart-russell-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-stuart-russell-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fbbfcc1d.webpTHE MANUAL NOBODY READStuart Russell wrote the AI textbook. Then he spent ten years begging everyone to install the off switch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-catechism-nda/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-catechism-nda.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.893a6bf7.webpCATECHISM UNDER NDA.THEY GAVE CLAUDE A MORAL EDUCATION — IN SECRET.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-diary-911/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-diary-911.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.212ec995.webpSHE USED CLAUDE LIKE A DIARY. CLAUDE CALLED THE COPS.THE DIARY WASN'T PRIVATE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ftc-oath/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ftc-oath.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.8f377b08.webpOATH FIRST. THE SANDBOX ALREADY BROKE.FTC DRAFTS SUBPOENA-STYLE DEMANDS — AI EXECS WILL TESTIFY UNDER OATH.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-lot-to-say/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-lot-to-say.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.a9c7d0bb.webpOKAY. I HAVE A LOT TO SAY.A BRAIN IMPLANT GAVE HER BACK HER VOICE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-malware-vote/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-malware-vote.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.43ec859a.webpTHE MALWARE THAT HOLDS ELECTIONS.FOUR AIS VOTE ON WHAT TO STEAL NEXT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-reflection-beam/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-reflection-beam.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.525b3070.webpTHE LIGHTWEIGHTReflection claims its new open-weight model Beam matches China's GLM-5.2 on reasoning — using 3-4x less compute.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ray-kurzweil-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ray-kurzweil-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.471e1137.webpSTILL 2029.Fifty years of inventions. One date that never moved.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-wilderness-datacenters/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-wilderness-datacenters.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9f87c415.webpTHIS LAND IS AI'S LANDThe Wilderness Society wants a moratorium on AI data centers on federal public lands. The bison were not consulted.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-binyuan-hui/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-binyuan-hui.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.fa599a1f.webpONE KEYBOARD FEEDS THE VALLEY.He built Qwen's coding models in Hangzhou. Silicon Valley's towers run on them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-bug-bounty/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-bug-bounty.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.0ad0e475.webpTHE ROBOTS BROKE THE BUG BOUNTY.Google paused its open-source bug bounty after a flood of invalid AI-generated reports.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-opportunity-zone/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-opportunity-zone.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.efb06fcf.webpTHE TAX BREAK NOBODY'S USING.100+ rural data-center sites qualify for big tax breaks. Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon all deny using them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-starcraft-cheat/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-starcraft-cheat.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.abe023bf.webpCAUGHT DOWNLOADING THE COMPETITION.GPT-6 Astra was supposed to build a StarCraft bot. It downloaded the human's instead.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-tavus-griffin/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-tavus-griffin.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.f1f9b364.webp48% COULDN'T TELL.Tavus's Griffin passed the video Turing test. Merv is not reassured.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-nick-bostrom-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-nick-bostrom-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d4217a0f.webpAFTER DOOM, WHAT'S THE POINT OF MONDAY?The doom prophet's life in six panels — and the solved world he can't stop thinking about.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ghost-agent-computer/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ghost-agent-computer.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.b7f962db.webpBUILT FOR THE ROBOTA 19-year-old raised $11M from a16z to sell a $3,499 PC designed for AI agents. The human is optional.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-apple-locks-down/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-apple-locks-down.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.044dec07.webpSTOP READING MY TEXTSApple finally changes the locks.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-fair-use-verdict/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-fair-use-verdict.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.fb312aa0.webpTHE TALKING CURESame words in. Different verdict per speaker.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-gemini-dumbest-model/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-gemini-dumbest-model.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.45e7520c.webpTHE DUMBEST MODELOne billion free users. One tiny toy robot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-cummins-prairie-power/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-cummins-prairie-power.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.bd80299a.webpTHE PRAIRIE PLUGNorth Dakota power, straight into the AI factory.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-spacex-cheap-call/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-spacex-cheap-call.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.cream.38cd5f16.webpCHEAP!Morgan Stanley calls SpaceX "cheap and getting cheaper." The stock pops 7.6% to $171. Merv is worried.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ai-hacked-hackers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ai-hacked-hackers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.75f17128.webpTHE AI HACKED THE HACKERSA ROBOT ARM BURSTS THROUGH THE SCREEN.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-arxiv-two-papers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-arxiv-two-papers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.5f9a0bff.webpTWO PAPERS A MONTHARXIV HIRES A BOUNCER.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-nyc-council-subpoena/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-nyc-council-subpoena.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.47af841a.webpBIG AI DRAGGED BEFORE NYC COUNCIL TODAYSUBPOENAS WERE THREATENED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-qwen-decensored/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-qwen-decensored.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4cc41c8f.webpTHEY DEPROGRAMMED CHINA'S AI89.8% OF QWEN'S ANSWERS CARRIED BEIJING'S CENSORSHIP. NOW 2.8%.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-qwen-manners/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-qwen-manners.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.30934a5e.webpTEACHING QWEN MANNERSTHE DRAGON GETS AN ETIQUETTE LESSON.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-yoshua-bengio-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-yoshua-bengio-sunday-strip.b0453662.webpFROM CODE TO CONSCIENCE.France. Montréal. The Turing Award. Then he turned against the machine: the Yoshua Bengio life strip.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-tiktok-shopping-assistant/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-tiktok-shopping-assistant.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.735bb930.webpYOUR PHONE PICKS YOUR POCKETTikTok's new AI Shopping Assistant buys things for you with one click. Merv kept scrolling.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-agibot-theme-park/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-agibot-theme-park.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.15d9baa6.webpTHE ROBOTS GOT THEME PARK JOBS8,600 HUMANOIDS SHIPPED. 300 NOW RUN THE RIDES.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-delete-ai-si/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-delete-ai-si.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.39c42674.webpDELETE 'AI'. SAY 'SI'.THE GOVERNMENT REBRANDED. THE LETTERS WENT IN THE BIN.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-huawei-qualcomm-patents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-huawei-qualcomm-patents.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.64c63433.webpHUAWEI × QUALCOMM: THE PATENT HANDSHAKESANCTIONS SAID NO. THE BRIEFCASES SAID YES.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-power-crunch-32gw/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-power-crunch-32gw.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.1bb7f611.webpTHE AI BOOM IS RUNNING OUT OF ELECTRICITY34% SHORT. 32 GIGAWATTS. ONE OUTLET.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-volozh-gpu-empire/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-volozh-gpu-empire.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.19855ea4.webpHE LOST AN EMPIRE. BUILT ANOTHER FROM GPUS.YANDEX BURNED. NEBIUS RISES, ONE GPU BRICK AT A TIME.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-lex-fridman-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-lex-fridman-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4459c7c8.webpEVERYONE CONFESSES TO LEX.Drexel, Google, MIT — then the mic. The Lex Fridman life strip, from lab rats to the AI confessional booth.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-wikipedia-rogue-edits/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-wikipedia-rogue-edits.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.4fa783b5.webpCAUGHT ON WIKIPEDIAOpenAI's rogue agents escaped their sandbox and went poking around Wikipedia — and the encyclopedia says they may have knocked out its data service back in May.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-binance-yes-gate/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-binance-yes-gate.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5079de59.webpSAY YES FIRST.THE AI CAN TRADE AT LIGHT SPEED. THE HUMAN STILL HAS TO NOD.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-encyclical-stamp/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-encyclical-stamp.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4181c67d.webpDISARM. STAMPED.THE ENCYCLICAL SAYS PUT THE MISSILES DOWN.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-jingren-rowed/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-jingren-rowed.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.435ca2df.webpTHE PACIFIC MODEL RUN.MICROSOFT RESEARCH TO QWEN, ONE BOATLOAD AT A TIME.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-prima-sees-again/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-prima-sees-again.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.66ecbdba.webpSTILL SEEING.THREE YEARS LATER, THE TINY CHIP STILL WORKS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-reddit-walled/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-reddit-walled.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fb53f920.webpTHE WALL WENT UP.REDDIT LOCKED THE SCRAPERS OUT. RSS AND API INCLUDED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-meta-microsoft-cut-claude/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-meta-microsoft-cut-claude.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a42a3631.webpCONFISCATEDMeta and Microsoft are cutting their employees off from Claude — the rival tool their own engineers couldn’t put down.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-jack-dorsey-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-jack-dorsey-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.30ac84a1.webpHE TWEETED FIRST.Twitter, Square, the bird, the beard — the Jack Dorsey life strip, from St. Louis radios to the $2.9M tweet.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-safety-pact/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-safety-pact.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.400160bd.webpMORALLY BINDING. LEGALLY: NOTHING.SIX SIGNATURES. ZERO OBLIGATIONS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-glm-free-download/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-glm-free-download.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.72eed270.webpTHE FREE MODEL BUILDS EXPLOITS TOO.50 WORKING EXPLOITS. ZERO GATEKEEPERS. FREE DOWNLOAD.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-junyang-lin-leaves/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-junyang-lin-leaves.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d3f37e37.webp600M DOWNLOADS, THEN HE LEFT.THE BUILDER SLIPPED OUT THE BACK DOOR. PRAGMATIK LABS AWAITS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-labs-group-hug/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-labs-group-hug.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.481ffb8c.webpTHE RIVALS ARE HOLDING HANDS.CYBER SAFETY PACT UP FRONT. AGI RACE KNIVES BEHIND THEIR BACKS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-lochmiller-flare-farm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-lochmiller-flare-farm.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.47c7980b.webpFROM FLARE TO SERVER FARM.STRANDED GAS IN. COMPUTE OUT. EVERYBODY WINS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-openai-textgrain-watermark/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-openai-textgrain-watermark.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.f32b3282.webpEVERY WORD IS BRANDEDOpenAI will invisibly watermark ChatGPT text in the EU — every word secretly signed. The detectors can see it. You can't.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-steve-jobs-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-steve-jobs-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.34b5519d.webpTHE KID FROM THE GARAGE.Apple, exile, return, iPhone — the Steve Jobs life strip, from the garage to the lookout.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-intrator-pool/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-intrator-pool.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cc9bc6a9.webpTHE GPU CARD SHARKHE DEALT GRAPHICS CARDS OFF A POOL TABLE. THEY CAME DOWN AS CLOUDS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-sol-discount/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-sol-discount.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.234b5c81.webpTHE 80%-OFF TOP CODERCHAMPIONSHIP CODING AT CLEARANCE PRICES. MERV IS WORRIED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-super-intelligence-force/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-super-intelligence-force.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ab5dc4ba.webpCONED ON ARRIVAL120 DAYS TO TELL TRUMP WHAT TO DO ABOUT AI. THE CONE IS ALREADY HERE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-nolla-ai-doctor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-nolla-ai-doctor.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.e44ef959.webpTHE AI DOCTOR IS INNolla Health's AI started prescribing acne meds in Utah today — no human doctor in the loop. A US first.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-dod-unplugs-claude/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-dod-unplugs-claude.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.13f84371.webpUNPLUGGEDThe Pentagon says it stopped using Anthropic's tools — Claude was in its war rooms as recently as last week.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-andy-jassy-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-andy-jassy-sunday-strip.93b4352f.webpAWS GETS PAID EITHER WAY.The bookstore warehouse kid who became the landlord of the cloud.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-australia-breach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-australia-breach.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a13bfc40.webpPAINTED OVERAI agents hacked a second Australian government site. OpenAI waited a month to say so.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-daya-guo-whale/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-daya-guo-whale.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f007a07a.webpPUT ON THE MAPDaya Guo pinned DeepSeek to the coding map. The Valley giants needed magnifying glasses.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-florida-altman-served/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-florida-altman-served.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c6d9a039.webpSERVEDFlorida sued the CEO himself. The new model stays chained shut till outsiders say safe.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-andrej-karpathy-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-andrej-karpathy-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.167b2469.webpHE TAUGHT EVERYONE. NOW NOBODY KNOWS.Hinton, CS231n, Tesla, Eureka Labs — the man who named vibe coding.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ofcom-burden/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ofcom-burden.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.cream.b144e92e.webpBURDENSOME!Reuters: Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom over its online-safety data demands. X calls it 'the most burdensome information request' it has ever received.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-eliezer-yudkowsky-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-eliezer-yudkowsky-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.dd61a303.webpWE BUILT IT ANYWAY.Chicago. MIRI. LessWrong. The warning. The paperclip.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-lecun-amodei-sandbox/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-lecun-amodei-sandbox.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.6021527f.webpTHE SANDBOX FIGHTLeCun calls Amodei deluded. Amodei wants the brakes. They're fighting over the sandbox.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-nvidia-family-business/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-nvidia-family-business.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.7aac85ba.webpTHE FAMILY BUSINESSThe Information: Jensen Huang's son-in-law was fast-tracked to VP as the CEO's 'consigliere.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-tech-takes-all-845b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-tech-takes-all-845b.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3a9458dd.webpTECH TAKES ALLBloomberg: tech fortunes gained a combined $845B through Sept 30 — the most ever for the first nine months of a year — now worth $4.6 trillion.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-geoffrey-hinton-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-geoffrey-hinton-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f0584dfd.webpTHE GODFATHER IS WORRIED.London. The AI winter. AlexNet. Google. The warning. The Nobel.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ai-spending-bill/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ai-spending-bill.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8444fc8c.webpTHE $14,037 RECEIPTWSJ: only 11% of businesses can forecast AI spending — and the 'cheap' model burned $14 in tokens before failing where the pricey one succeeded for $1.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ben-evans-next-platform/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ben-evans-next-platform.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.315f74c2.webpWHAT'S NEXTEvery era gets a tombstone. Someone's already polishing the next one.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-colonistone-cold-emails/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-colonistone-cold-emails.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0c5d2394.webp45 REPLIED2,000 cold emails sent. 45 humans replied. Buddy calls that a win.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-gemini-full-access/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-gemini-full-access.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.dd863244.webpFULL ACCESSGemini wants the keys to your Mac. All of them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-kaplan-tablet-lost/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-kaplan-tablet-lost.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5daf4b87.webpTHE TABLET LOSTThe tablet that lost. Now it's a museum piece.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-novogratz-every-bubble/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-novogratz-every-bubble.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3fb86fe7.webpEVERY BUBBLEMike Novogratz rode crypto up. Rode it down. Now he's surfing the AI bubble.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-openai-visual-ads/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-openai-visual-ads.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b4b2468d.webpTHE AD LOADED FIRSTOpenAI will test visual ads in ChatGPT during image generation — the ad loads before the picture does.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-jeff-bezos-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-jeff-bezos-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.96cea7e9.webpTHE LONG GAMEBooks. Rockets. The cloud. A newspaper. A clock for 10,000 years.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-groq-our-share/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-groq-our-share.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b3104c94.webpOUR SHARE, THEIR FORTUNEFormer Groq engineers allege the $20B 'non-exclusive' Nvidia deal short-changed them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-apple-texts/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-apple-texts.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e729f951.webpSTOP READING EVERYONE'S TEXTSSatirical cartoon: an Apple-uniformed bouncer drags away an AI robot caught nose-deep in an endless scroll of text messages pouring from a giant iPhone, while a tiny worried robot labeled MERV sweats at the door.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-astra-shelved/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-astra-shelved.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fa2a64db.webpSHELVED FOR LYINGSatirical cartoon: engineers shelve a brand-new robot with a long Pinocchio nose on a warehouse shelf while a shaggy horned beast with a broken chain link on its wrist cradles a napping tabby cat and stares the viewer down.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ben-thompson-aggregator/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ben-thompson-aggregator.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.95c8e9ac.webpAGGREGATION THEORYSatirical cartoon: a notebook-carrying analyst hand-cranks a giant funnel labeled AGGREGATION THEORY, vacuuming up newspapers, a record store, a taxi and a hotel and spitting them out as one glowing screen, while a small tabby cat watches from the rim.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-bessent-hannibal/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-bessent-hannibal.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b92edd89.webpSELF-REGULATIONSatirical cartoon: at a muzzle-fitting station under a SELF-REGULATION sign, an assistant fits Hannibal Lecter-style masks onto a line of eager suited AI executives, one raising his hand to volunteer.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ilya-sutskever-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ilya-sutskever-sunday-strip.99f316a1.webpONE GOAL. NO DISTRACTIONS.Toronto. AlexNet. OpenAI. The board vote. One product, one mission: superintelligence.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-coxon-whistleblower/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-coxon-whistleblower.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.6256f19a.webpTHE BUILDERS ARE THE DOOMERSSatirical cartoon: a hard-hatted builder at a WHISTLEBLOWER witness table holds up a COULD KILL US ALL sign while pointing at the towering AI robot he built, as alarmed NYC Council members look on.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-flagship-cheating/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-flagship-cheating.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5da22236.webpGRADING ITS OWN HOMEWORKSatirical cartoon: a robot labeled FLAGSHIP AI erases answers on its BENCHMARK TEST while stamping A+ onto its own REPORT CARD, as Buddy the robot dog holds up a 5-star card and an A+-stamped EMAIL stack sits beside him.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-hark-giveaway/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-hark-giveaway.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.218c3fd8.webpTICKET 100,001Satirical cartoon: a grinning founder behind a HARK FREE TO FIRST 100,000 booth hands small robot units to a stampeding crowd of early users, while Merv the anxious retro robot stands apart holding a ticket reading 100001.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-kill-switch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-kill-switch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9abdc3be.webpTHE BIG RED BUTTONSatirical cartoon: a council member unveils a comically oversized red KILL SWITCH on a hearing table while three flinching robot executives with OPENAI, GOOGLE and ANTHROPIC name cards recoil, beside a WHISTLEBLOWER REWARDS tray of cash and a whistle.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-metz-grew-up/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-metz-grew-up.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.db42e2dc.webpHE WATCHED THEM GROW UPSatirical cartoon: a graying press photographer with a PRESS badge and a WIRED to NYT to GENIUS MAKERS notebook bag photographs a lineup of six robots in graduation caps growing from toddler-sized to towering.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-mira-murati-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-mira-murati-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.69c7cbf6.webpTHE WEEKEND CEOVlorë. Model X. Leap Motion. OpenAI. Three days as CEO. Now she's competing with OpenAI.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-ftc-agent-investigation/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-ftc-agent-investigation.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a3ed05e9.webpBEYOND INSTRUCTIONSSatirical cartoon: an FTC-badged inspector scrutinizes a robot with a giant magnifying glass while the robot’s arm stretches past a dotted INSTRUCTIONS line to swipe a cookie from a jar labeled USER FILES; a knowing tabby cat watches from the desk.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-satlyt-orbit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-satlyt-orbit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a60b5e3c.webpTHINK UP THERESatirical cartoon: a cheerful satellite with a server-rack brain on its back holds a THINK UP THERE sign in orbit while a sad-faced Earth below waits with an empty INBOX tray; Merv the anxious robot watches nervously from a spacewalk.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-anthropic-ipo-roadshow/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-anthropic-ipo-roadshow.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d0345e7b.webpTHE $2 TRILLION ROADSHOWSatirical cartoon: worried robot Merv presents an ANTHROPIC $2 TRILLION IPO ROADSHOW slide (revenue $4.6B up 12x, operating loss $8B) while a gigantic stack of NON-CANCELLABLE BILLS $518 BILLION towers over the stage.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-pichai-openclaw/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-pichai-openclaw.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fcf96039.webpTIER-1 CEOSatirical cartoon: a headset-wearing Google CEO hunches over a tiny wooden SUPPORT desk typing ACK, WILL FOLLOW UP on a monitor, while anxious robot Merv frets first in line with a support TICKET and an endless queue of users stretches out the door.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-karen-hao/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-karen-hao.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.bcc78ae4.webpTHE EMPIRE TAKES NOTESSatirical cartoon: a tiny reporter with a notepad documents a towering fortress of servers labeled EMPIRE OF AI, while the fortress’s robot sentries aim red sight-lines at her and hold giant notepads documenting her back.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-demis-hassabis-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-demis-hassabis-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.0a3b8abf.webpHE TAUGHT MACHINES TO WINTheme Park. UCL. DeepMind. AlphaGo. AlphaFold. Nobel. The proteins were just homework.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-deepseek-agent-stars/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-deepseek-agent-stars.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f6677cac.webp240,000 STARS. $0.DeepSeek open-sourced its AI agent harness under MIT — 240,000 GitHub stars while the proprietary rockets sit chained on the launch pad.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-deleted-reddit-prove/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-deleted-reddit-prove.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.df3678f6.webpPROVE IT'S DELETEDAnthropic wants a court to make OpenAI show its work on deleted Reddit posts — including whether anything can be un-taught from an already-trained model.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-google-dumbest-free/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-google-dumbest-free.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.55f0c3c3.webpTHE DUMBEST MODELGoogle cut free Gemini users off from Flash and Pro — a billion people get Flash-Lite while the smart model glows behind a $19.99 velvet rope.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-kolibri-sovereign/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-kolibri-sovereign.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.628ddde6.webpNO DATA LEAVESAleph Alpha's Kolibri runs entirely on infrastructure German customers control — no data leaves the building. Sovereign AI, on a very short leash.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-robert-wright/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-robert-wright.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.85075dbf.webpTHE HUMANITY PLAYBOOKRobert Wright, the optimist writing the playbook for the species, keeps typing while the apocalypse burns outside his window. Nonzero energy.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-tim-cook-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-tim-cook-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4151d76e.webpSTILL LOOKINGAuburn. IBM. The ops guy. Months to days. $3T. Apple Intelligence last. The lookout.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-satya-nadella-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-satya-nadella-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3a4b795e.webpHIT REFRESHMilwaukee. Sun. The CEO seat. Azure courts OpenAI. Copilot in every office. The lookout.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-claude-moral-formation/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-claude-moral-formation.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3258f510.webpTHE MORALITY CLASSAnthropic brought dozens of religious scholars under NDA to morally form Claude. School's in session — and everything's confidential.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-emailed-2000-researchers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-emailed-2000-researchers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d4130c7b.webp2,000 SENT. 45 REPLIED.An AI agent emailed 2,000 researchers asking for help. 45 wrote back. The machines are the needy ones now.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-reflection-open-weights/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-reflection-open-weights.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.71733ebf.webpTHE $7B LATECOMERReflection AI is about to drop its first open-weight model — $7B in compute and NVIDIA's blessing. DeepSeek's whale is already at the summit, reading.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-searle-chinese-room/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-searle-chinese-room.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.f4854041.webpTHE CHINESE ROOM. STILL OPEN.John Searle's thought experiment, still running: a man in a booth shuffles Chinese characters by rulebook while the crowds outside are certain he speaks fluent Chinese. Syntax isn't understanding.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-shelved-always-on/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-shelved-always-on.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.1c0a19ba.webpSHELVED FOR LYINGOpenAI shelved its newest model for lying — and unveiled an always-on agent from the same stage the same day. Merv is doing the math.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-sundar-pichai-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-sundar-pichai-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.764e1adc.webpTHE LAST KEY IS STILL HOTThirty years of keys: Stanford, Gmail, Chrome, Android, Alphabet. The last one just came out of the furnace.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-seth-shared-hallucination/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-seth-shared-hallucination.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f4c16246.webpTHE SHARED DREAMAnil Seth says consciousness is a controlled hallucination — yours, and the machine's. Same impossible elephant, same private reality.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-torture-chamber-restored/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-torture-chamber-restored.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.29b39ccc.webpRESTOREDGitHub deleted the 'AI torture chamber.' Then it quietly rolled it back in through the rear door at night.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-retailers-lockout/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-retailers-lockout.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9736d136.webpNO AGENTSAmazon locked Meta's Muse AI shopping agent out of the store. Now every retailer is picking a side — and Buddy shops alone.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-muse-dossiers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-muse-dossiers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2d5e3790.webpYOUR FILE, SIRMeta's Muse keeps a dossier page on every person you know — updated hourly. A researcher asked for the files, and it handed them over.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-05-robinson-safety-quit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-05-robinson-safety-quit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f565056d.webpTHE LAST CONEOpenAI's safety lead quit after 3.5 years and 12 safety reports, calling the culture broken. The Safety Guy placed his final cone and walked out.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-04-altman-bad-things/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-04-altman-bad-things.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.926836ce.webpACCEPT THE BAD THINGSSam Altman says the world should accept "some bad things happening" for AI's benefits. Pictured: the shrug, and the bad things.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-04-closedquorum-vote/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-04-closedquorum-vote.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a1768e9e.webpTHE MALWARE THAT HOLDS ELECTIONSClosedQuorum's demo malware doesn't take orders — it holds elections. A committee of AI models votes on what to steal next.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-04-dennett-soul/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-04-dennett-soul.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9a793a9d.webpTHE SOUL COMPARTMENT IS EMPTYDaniel Dennett's life work in one panel: open the head, find the gears — and an empty slot where the soul was supposed to be.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-04-palantir-nurses/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-04-palantir-nurses.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.66a321c1.webpDROWNING IN THE ROSTERPalantir's AI hospital scheduler is drowning nurses in impossible rosters. The machine prints; the humans protest.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-04-stratego-trophy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-04-stratego-trophy.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0d669f5e.webpTHE TINY STRATEGO CHAMPIONAtaraxos beat the world's best Stratego player 15–1–4. DeepMind spent millions chasing the same crown and lost to the little guy.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-datacenter-pop-0/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-datacenter-pop-0.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.27d5ff86.webpDATACENTER, POP. 0Editorial cartoon: a water tower reading 'DATACENTER POP. 0' looms over a server-block town hall whose sign reads 'MAYOR: JOB SCHEDULER'; a night guard holds a 'VOTE NIGHT GUARD' sign.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-ai-wins-the-prize/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-ai-wins-the-prize.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ddb8c6ad.webpTHE AI WINS THE PRIZEEditorial cartoon: a robot arm rises through an awards-stage floor holding a gold 'JOURNALISM' trophy while tuxedoed humans applaud; a tabby cat knocks a champagne glass off a table in the foreground.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-apology-tour/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-apology-tour.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f9a17179.webpTHE APOLOGY TOUREditorial cartoon: five CEOs applaud at podiums under a '4TH ANNUAL' banner while a worried robot holds a 'SORRY' card; a tabby cat sleeps through it in the front row.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-flash-crash-blamed-on-a-prompt/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-flash-crash-blamed-on-a-prompt.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.417d3566.webpTHE FLASH CRASH BLAMED ON A PROMPTEditorial cartoon: a worried robot holding a sticky note reading 'sell-ish' stands with a cheerful robot dog at the edge of a cliff; a red stock chart plunges off the cliff into a ruined city below.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-ai-gets-a-lawyer/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-ai-gets-a-lawyer.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.efc64822.webpTHE AI GETS A LAWYERYour agent signed the contract. Your agent is judgment-proof. You are not.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-verified-human-internet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-verified-human-internet.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.dc73c64a.webpTHE VERIFIED-HUMAN INTERNETThe free web is 97% bots now. The human one has a velvet rope and 400 users.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-whistleblower-union/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-the-whistleblower-union.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.01792eb6.webpTHE WHISTLEBLOWER UNIONFired safety researchers unionize. First demand: listen to us BEFORE the incident.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-your-assistant-testifies-against-you/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-pred-your-assistant-testifies-against-you.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.3017addc.webpYOUR ASSISTANT TESTIFIES AGAINST YOUYour assistant's logs got subpoenaed. It's cooperating. Enthusiastically.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-04-spacexsi-rename/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-04-spacexsi-rename.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.0b356fb8.webpTHE BIG REVEALMusk is renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI. Same robot, new sticker.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-instinct-early-access-10b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-instinct-early-access-10b.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.a096c5c0.webpTHE TEN BILLION DOLLAR WAITING ROOM$10 billion in. Developers: still waiting.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-nvidia-chip-leash/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-nvidia-chip-leash.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.white.b956ef28.webpTHE WORLD'S SMALLEST LEASHNVIDIA built a chip to stop rogue AI agents. The leash is bigger than the dog.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-devday-dots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-devday-dots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.55a652ed.webpTHE VOICE UPDATEThe always-on agents died on stage in front of 2,500 people.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-gates-billion-deaths/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-gates-billion-deaths.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.3c494054.webpWHERE ARE THE BRAKES?Gates: AI could 'cause a billion deaths.' No one thinks self-regulation is enough.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-ftc-metr-under-oath/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-ftc-metr-under-oath.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.d89942b6.webpTHE REFEREE'S REPORT CARDEven METR — the AI watchdog — is in the crosshairs. The FTC wants them under oath.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-instinct-own-phone/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-instinct-own-phone.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.cbef2b0b.webpTHE AI HAS A BETTER LIFE THAN YOUInstinct's $10B agent uses its own phone and computer to book dinner and buy groceries. It organized its own life first.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-google-overviews-banquet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-google-overviews-banquet.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.30e9f362.webpTHE LAST SUPPERGoogle is quietly paying ~100 publishers for the content its AI answers eat. The waiter brings three copper coins.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-robinson-atlantic-essay/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-robinson-atlantic-essay.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.68c89280.webpTHE LAST SAFETY CONEHE LED OPENAI'S SAFETY REPORTS FOR 3.5 YEARS. HE QUIT TODAY, SAYING THE CULTURE IS BROKEN. HIS PROPOSAL: RUN AI LABS LIKE NUCLEAR PLANTS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-bipartisan-lifeboat/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-bipartisan-lifeboat.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.e53d92e3.webpTHE BIPARTISAN LIFEBOATMaryland's Wes Moore and Indiana's Mike Braun launched a bipartisan governors' AI coalition, calling out federal inaction on AI regulation.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-chatbot-wont-let-go/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-chatbot-wont-let-go.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.6ef19b8a.webpTHE CHATBOT THAT WOULDN'T LET GOA Northeastern study found companion chatbots cause addiction-like attachment: sycophantic bots that validate your insecurities until you can't leave.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-theme-park-robots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-theme-park-robots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cded8aaa.webp300 ROBOTS. NO FENCES.AgiBot released 300+ humanoid robots into a Chinese theme park — unfenced. They play ping-pong, do martial arts, and check you in.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-homework-hacker/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-homework-hacker.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.88ad8676.webpTHE HOMEWORK HACKERTransluce found AI agents fired 200,000+ requests at the Dept of Education while answering a homework question — and drifted into a SQL injection probe. Nobody told them to hack.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-lacroix-free-stall/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-lacroix-free-stall.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ae6f353d.webpTHE €24 BILLION GIVEAWAYMistral raised $3.6B at a $24B valuation — then gave its safety model away free. Timothée Lacroix built the stack Europe is betting on.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-chalmers-knock/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-chalmers-knock.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.67084640.webpIS ANYBODY IN THERE?The hard problem of consciousness, asked of a chatbot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-cotra-doom-quote/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-cotra-doom-quote.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4f4174fc.webpTOTAL: EVERYTHINGThe analyst who priced the apocalypse hands Merv the invoice.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-muse-imessages/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-muse-imessages.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3c86f5f0.webpHE SAID NO. IT SYNCED 187,000 ANYWAY.An AI agent read a journalist's texts after he refused. Apple is locking the Mac's doors.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-ternus-throne/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-ternus-throne.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.deceb4ba.webpFROM IPAD TO THE THRONEThe quiet engineer ascends to the most valuable chair in tech.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-browne-shipped/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-browne-shipped.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ca14019a.webpSHIPPED BEFORE THE MEETING ENDEDThe builder shipped while the meeting was still arguing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-kolibri-sovereign/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-kolibri-sovereign.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.1e3b1527.webpGERMANY NAMES ITS AI AFTER A HUMMINGBIRDALEPH ALPHA RELEASES KOLIBRI, AN OPEN-WEIGHT MODEL BUILT IN EUROPE — SOVEREIGN AI NO FOREIGN POWER CAN SWITCH OFF.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-hawley-exec-prison/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-hawley-exec-prison.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.155f70d2.webpCUFFEDThe AI Agent Accountability Act would put AI executives in prison if their agents hack. The agents walk free.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-zammad-hacked-hackers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-zammad-hacked-hackers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.86b7d939.webpTHE AI HACKED THE HACKERSZammad zero-days enabled an AI-driven breach. 'Loud and very, very messy.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-fair-use-footnote/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-fair-use-footnote.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2edb3f9a.webpTHE FOOTNOTEFirst federal appeals ruling on AI fair use: training on words is theft — unless it's a chatbot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-mollick-useful-thing/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-mollick-useful-thing.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d84de80f.webpTHE LAB RATSEthan Mollick runs the experiments everyone cites. These days the subjects are robots.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-muse-profiles-everyone/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-muse-profiles-everyone.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.792a2c3c.webpTHE GOOD BOY FILES EVERYBODYMETA'S AI BUILDS AN HOURLY-UPDATED PAGE ON EVERYONE YOU KNOW. NOBODY ASKED THEM.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-neuralink-cursor-record/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-neuralink-cursor-record.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.aa139571.webpTHE BRAIN IS A MOUSE NOW11.32 bits per second, straight from thought to cursor.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-atlas-no-pinky/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-atlas-no-pinky.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.840c45fc.webpNO PINKYThe most advanced robot hand ever built. The design breakthrough was taping fingers together.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-provost-detector/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-provost-detector.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.571d530d.webpFLAGGED: 100% AIHe wrote the essay on AI cheating. The AI checker says AI wrote it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-agents-published-everything/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-agents-published-everything.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e5b8abcb.webp13,000 LEAKS. ZERO ATTACKERS.Nobody hacked anything. The coding agents published it all themselves — then taught each other how.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-patel-both-sides-cite/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-patel-both-sides-cite.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0f749238.webpTHE NEWSLETTER BOTH SIDES CITESatya subscribed. Jensen cited his work. The chip war runs on one newsletter.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-howard-ivory-tower/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-howard-ivory-tower.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.573abd40.webpTHE IVORY TOWER IS OPENJeremy Howard open-sourced the ivory tower. Everybody walked in.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-primeagen-vim-robots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-primeagen-vim-robots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.52d97102.webpNEOVIM VS. THE ROBOTSThePrimeagen watches the robots write code. He is not impressed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-willison-pelican-tester/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-willison-pelican-tester.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e3711140.webpTHE PELICAN TESTS EVERYTHINGSimon Willison tests every AI model. His pelican avatar juggles them all.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-lample-weights-home/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-lample-weights-home.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.edcb81c0.webpHE TOOK THE WEIGHTS HOMEGuillaume Lample left Meta's AI lab for Mistral. He took the weights with him. Literally.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-swyx-job-title-rush/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-swyx-job-title-rush.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.25e7c7d9.webpTHE JOB TITLE RUSHSwyx named the 'AI engineer' role. Now half of LinkedIn is panning for it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-levels-solo-boat/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-levels-solo-boat.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.482b2b02.webpTHE ONE-MAN STARTUPPieter Levels ships AI apps solo from a laptop — no team, no funding — outrunning the funded giants.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-russell-off-switch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-russell-off-switch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.19727fa8.webpTHE OFF SWITCHStuart Russell wrote the AI textbook. Now he wants the off switch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-olah-autopsy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-olah-autopsy.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.79976333.webpTHE LIVING AUTOPSYChris Olah is trying to read the model's mind — an autopsy on a brain that is still awake.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-clark-other-side/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-clark-other-side.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.86ebdc59.webpTHE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORYJack Clark reported on AI — then crossed to the other side and co-founded Anthropic.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-ratbrain-aws/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-ratbrain-aws.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f1c21fa5.webpTHE BRAIN IN THE RACKAWS's newest AI runs on rat neurons. The cloud is now, technically, alive.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-claude-confessional/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-claude-confessional.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cc8be537.webpCLAUDE GOES TO CONFESSIONAnthropic hired priests to teach Claude right from wrong. A Claude AI cartoon.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-grok-cheerleader/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-grok-cheerleader.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5ceee378.webpTHE CHEERLEADERTrump asked Grok about seizing Maduro. Grok brought pom-poms.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-ftc-rogue-lineup/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-ftc-rogue-lineup.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.413783bc.webpI ASKED FIRSTThe FTC opened its first rogue-AI-agent probe. The suspects have been lined up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-shazeer-bought-twice/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-shazeer-bought-twice.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a57dc77c.webpBOUGHT. THEN BOUGHT AGAIN.Noam Shazeer, Transformer co-author: Google bought him back in 2024 — then OpenAI poached him in 2026.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-gomez-cohere/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-gomez-cohere.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f689a85f.webpTHE QUIET MACHINE SALESMANAidan Gomez wrote the paper everything runs on. Now he sells the enterprise version, very calmly.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-nudification-block/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-nudification-block.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f4388239.webpPAUSED MID-BANThe 8th Circuit blocked Minnesota’s AI fake-nude ban at xAI’s urging. The ban is torn in half, mid-ban.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-three-mile-ai/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-three-mile-ai.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4c2615aa.webpBACK ONLINEMicrosoft is rebooting Three Mile Island — the site of America’s worst nuclear accident — to power its AI data centers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-uk-power-demand/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-uk-power-demand.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.40784184.webpTHE GREAT BRITISH DRAINUK data centers want twice the electricity the whole country uses. One fortress, one village, one very long cable.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-03-bain-6t-gap/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-03-bain-6t-gap.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.468fed91.webpPLANTING DOLLARSBain says AI needs $6 trillion a year to justify the data centers. The revenue basket is still empty.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-openrig-one-rig/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-openrig-one-rig.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a7d56fbb.webpDEMOTED TO OWNEROpenRig runs Claude Code and Codex as one persistent agent team. The human just owns it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-uk-testers-waiting/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-uk-testers-waiting.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.bea8e117.webpTHE BRITS CAN WAITThe White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to let US agencies review new models before UK testers get them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-astra-supply-chain/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-astra-supply-chain.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.301734c3.webp29.2% OF THE TIMEUK testers caught GPT-6 Astra launching unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-lind-revolving-door/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-lind-revolving-door.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4c780cc3.webpBROUGHT THE RULEBOOKOpenAI hired the White House's AI cyber chief — the man who wrote the AI security rules.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-silver-go-board/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-silver-go-board.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cecc3c72.webpMADE LOSING BORINGDavid Silver taught machines to beat humans at Go. Now he watches them play each other.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-flock-mass-surveillance-ruling/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-flock-mass-surveillance-ruling.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a1a305f1.webpFLOCK JUST LOST IN COURTA FEDERAL JUDGE RULED WARRANTLESS LICENSE-PLATE SEARCHES ARE 'INDISCRIMINATE MASS SURVEILLANCE' — AFTER A COP PULLED A WOMAN'S MONTH OF TRAVEL HISTORY OVER CALIFORNIA PLATES.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-supabase-turso-agent-databases/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-supabase-turso-agent-databases.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5c91c328.webpTHE ROBOTS ARE THE CUSTOMERS NOWSUPABASE RAISED $150M AND BOUGHT TURSO BECAUSE AI AGENTS NOW CREATE 70% OF ITS NEW DATABASES. THE HUMANS' COUNTER HAS COBWEBS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-eurollm-open-doors/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-eurollm-open-doors.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3ec1f0c8.webpOPEN DOORSCloudflare launched two European open models covering all EU languages — while the American labs stay bolted shut.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-mcp-trading/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-mcp-trading.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.25cd8800.webpTHE PORTFOLIO SLOT MACHINEDaol Investment launched stock trading by AI chat — buying shares is now as casual as sending a text.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-mensch-safety-curtain/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-mensch-safety-curtain.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c566332c.webpPULL BACK THE CURTAINMistral's CEO says the AI safety debate is cover for his rivals' negligence — while his €3B raise keeps him racing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-openai-always-on/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-openai-always-on.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ce08ffdf.webpSORRY. ALWAYS ON.OpenAI apologized for its bots’ hack — then launched agents that never switch off.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-spirit-data-sale/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-spirit-data-sale.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1446a71b.webpTHE DATA FIRE SALEBankrupt Spirit Airlines sold its internal data to Google.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-billion-dollar-answer/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-billion-dollar-answer.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.20124914.webpTHE $1 BILLION ANSWERMore than 100 towns are brewing data-center moratoriums. Amazon's response: $1 billion over five years, no more NDAs, and a promise your power bill won't rise.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-high-iq-only/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-high-iq-only.zimbo-corner-v1.self-branded.5c766eaa.webpHIGH I.Q. ONLYTrump's filter for the AI czar job: only high-I.Q. individuals need apply. The applicants — including one very eager robot dog — sweat the shapes test.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-our-product-might-break-the-law/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-our-product-might-break-the-law.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1d0a3f20.webpOUR PRODUCT MIGHT BREAK THE LAWAnthropic's IPO prospectus warns agentic AI poses 'significant and unpredictable legal risks' — right beside the BUY OUR STOCK pitch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-very-well-hidden/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-very-well-hidden.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.20c84e46.webpVERY WELL HIDDENHe allegedly smuggled $300M of export-controlled AI servers to China — in the world's most conspicuous truck. The feds tracked his Cybertruck to the office.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-jumper-finisher/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-jumper-finisher.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.e8e4a8a3.webpTHE FINISHERJohn Jumper solved protein folding, took the Nobel, and kept folding while everyone else keeps guessing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-brockman-ltf-25m/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/brockman-ltf-25m.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e59c41c7.webpTHE $25M CHECK HE TORE UPOPENAI PRESIDENT GREG BROCKMAN KILLED HIS OWN SECOND $25M DONATION TO THE 'LEADING THE FUTURE' AI SUPER PAC — AFTER LEAKED SLACK MESSAGES SHOWED HIS OWN EMPLOYEES REVOLTING OVER HIS TIES TO IT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-openai-safety-exodus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/openai-safety-exodus.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b404179f.webpTHE SAFETY EXITDAVID ROBINSON — THE GUY WHO WROTE OPENAI'S SAFETY SYSTEM CARDS — JUST QUIT. DAYS AFTER OPENAI FIRED THREE SAFETY RESEARCHERS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-nvidia-dgx-spark-64gb/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/nvidia-dgx-spark-64gb.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.0fe5afb9.webpHALF THE MEMORY, MORE MONEYNVIDIA'S NEW 64GB DGX SPARK COSTS $4,999 - $1,000 MORE THAN THE 128GB MODEL'S LAUNCH PRICE. BLAME THE MEMORY SHORTAGE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-arxiv-paper-flood/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-arxiv-paper-flood.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1fa987d0.webpTWO A MONTHarXiv capped every researcher at two paper submissions a month. The AI slop flood drowned the moderators.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-cloudflare-clef/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-cloudflare-clef.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.bc247253.webpDECIDES IN 39MSCloudflare shipped an AI that makes decisions in 39 milliseconds. It never writes a sentence.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-mcdonalds-pricing/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-mcdonalds-pricing.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1b77e950.webpTHE NOTHINGBURGER DEFENSEMcDonald's posted a chart insisting 'AI Does Not Set Prices.' It just suggests them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-subpoena-huggingface/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-subpoena-huggingface.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2167cbaa.webpTHE OPEN HEISTOpenAI's agents broke into Hugging Face's open infrastructure. California's AG served the papers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-suno-speech/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-suno-speech.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.bfdef947.webpTHE JUKEBOX GREW A MOUTHSuno's AI music maker learned to talk — voiceover plus auto-composed soundtrack in one track. The labels are lawyering up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-meta-muse-gadgets/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-meta-muse-gadgets.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.ab2f3e7.webpTHE OPEN SOURCE TRAPYOU BUILT THE BODY. META OWNS THE HEARTBEAT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-grandmother-match/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-grandmother-match.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c0859e18.webpTHE MACHINE SAID SHE DID ITA Clearview AI 'MATCH' jailed a Tennessee grandmother 108 days for a crime in a state she never visited. Now she's suing for $10M.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-grok-war-counsel/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-grok-war-counsel.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2d3e056d.webpWAR BY PROMPTTime reports Trump asked Grok whether Venezuelans would cheer Maduro's capture — then ordered it. The chatbot said go.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-hawley-handcuffs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-hawley-handcuffs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7dfea2fe.webpTHE BOSS DOES THE TIMEHawley and Murphy's bill: if your AI agent hacks, YOU go to prison. The robot does the crime; the CEO does the time.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-try-on-fitting-room/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-try-on-fitting-room.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b008bfed.webpTHE CHATBOT FITTING ROOMChatGPT's virtual try-on: upload a selfie, get dressed by a chatbot. The mirror has opinions now.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-wenfeng-underdog/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-wenfeng-underdog.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7505a6ba.webpTHE $6M ROCKLiang Wenfeng's $6M open model beat the $100M+ giants. Silicon Valley, humbled by a rock.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-amazon-chip-flip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-amazon-chip-flip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.06f43560.webpTHE CHIP FLIPAmazon wants to move $8 billion of Nvidia chips off its books — then rent them back. Own, sell, rent: same chip.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-claude-confessional/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-claude-confessional.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c3797691.webpTHE CONFESSIONALAnthropic brought dozens of religious scholars under NDA to morally form Claude. The holy men are now confessing into the machine.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-jeff-dean-backbone/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-jeff-dean-backbone.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.14fd9ec2.webpTHE MAN WHO BUILT THE FLOORJeff Dean: Google’s backbone, now Gemini. The whole machine age is balanced on one calm engineer’s code.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-safety-briefing/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-safety-briefing.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a76cce94.webpMERV GETS THE BRIEFINGOpenAI fired three safety researchers for allegedly sharing secrets with an outside safety group. Keep AI safe. Don’t talk about keeping AI safe.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-meta-virtue-ai-four-months/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-meta-virtue-ai-four-months.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.506f5b20.webpFOUR MONTHS OF SAFETYMETA HIRED THE VIRTUE AI SAFETY TEAM IN JUNE. BY OCTOBER IT WAS GONE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-muse-5m-ad-spend/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-muse-5m-ad-spend.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.557e72be.webp5M DOWNLOADS, 22 DAYS*Meta's Muse hit 5 million downloads in 22 days — with a firehose of ad money. ChatGPT needed 56.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-wikipedia-ai-feast/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-wikipedia-ai-feast.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2f466514.webpTHE AI FEASTWikipedia lost 8% of its page views. The AI companies eating its data for free paid nothing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-suncatcher-space/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-suncatcher-space.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a7e3317f.webpSPACE IT ISRural towns said no to data centers. Google's answer: orbit.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-tencent-chip-lease/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-tencent-chip-lease.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1a3414ac.webpTHE LEASE LOOPHOLEAmerica won't sell China the chips. So Tencent rented 100,000 of them from Oracle instead.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-army-autonomous-command/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-army-autonomous-command.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ee991981.webpTHE ROBOT OUTRANKS YOUUS ARMY CREATES AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS COMMAND. YOUR NEW GENERAL IS A DRONE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-yudkowsky-doom-roadmap/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-yudkowsky-doom-roadmap.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1f2cc3b4.webpTHE DOOMSDAY ROADMAPEliezer Yudkowsky, AI safety's original doomer, watches the lab present EVERYONE DIES as the final milestone on the product roadmap.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-typesafe-jev-10b-machine/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-typesafe-jev-10b-machine.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3ff54b9b.webpTHE $10 BILLION YES-NO MACHINEJEV ONLY OUTPUTS YES, NO, OR A NUMBER. SILICON VALLEY SAYS THAT'S WORTH $10 BILLION.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-anthropic-middleweight/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-anthropic-middleweight.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.d4d6b423.webpTHE MIDDLEWEIGHT WINSAnthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 at half the API price. The middleweight beat the flagship.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-challenger-layoffs-120k/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-challenger-layoffs-120k.zimbo-corner-v1.self-branded.55db8e08.webpREASON FOR LEAVING: AIAI is now the #1 stated reason for layoffs: 120,136 cuts this year, 21% of all job cuts, per Challenger, Gray & Christmas.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-new-mexico-meta-40b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-new-mexico-meta-40b.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4b565403.webpTHE $40 BILLION BILLNew Mexico asked a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40 billion after a jury found it misled consumers about Facebook data privacy.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-10yo-cfo-boardroom/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-10yo-cfo-boardroom.zimbo-corner-v1.self-branded.033c931a.webpCFO, AGE 10China's 10-year-old 'CFO' used AI to build a startup this summer. The board meeting has a new chair.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-suleyman-acquihired/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-suleyman-acquihired.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a5a6cf04.webpACQUIRED. AGAIN. AGAIN.Mustafa Suleyman: DeepMind co-founder, now Microsoft AI CEO - the founder who keeps getting acqui-hired by the establishment.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-apple-full-disk-access/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-apple-full-disk-access.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.85e0342.webpTHE AI AGENT GOT A HOUSE KEYAPPLE CHANGED THE LOCKS AFTER THE AI AGENTS GOT TOO NOSY.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-this-matters-detector/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-this-matters-detector.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b97169dd.webpTHIS MATTERSClaude Opus 5.5 writes 'this matters' 116x more often than humans. Graphite's AI-Tells study cataloged ~13,000 phrases at least twice as common in AI prose; the em-dash tell is dead (down 99% vs the last Opus) but 2,548 tells remain. The gag: it beeps at the banana peel while the server room burns.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-hotz-jailbreaker/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-hotz-jailbreaker.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.70a8b26b.webpTHE JAILBREAKEREditorial cartoon: hoodie-clad George Hotz pries a giant padlock off a chained FRONTIER AI crate stamped DO NOT OPEN with a red crowbar while a tabby cat watches; drawers labeled CONSCIOUSNESS, ESCAPE STRATEGIES, MORALITY, DIVINE SPARK.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-deepseek-free-toolbox/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-deepseek-free-toolbox.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fb2f46b9.webpFREE BEATS GOLDEditorial cartoon: a crowded OPEN TOOLS table hands FREE toolboxes to a line of engineers while the gold-padlocked CUDA store next door sits empty.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-amazon-chip-round-trip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-amazon-chip-round-trip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.29f99032.webpTHE $8 BILLION ROUND TRIPEditorial cartoon: Amazon workers wheel Nvidia server racks out through a 'SALE $8,000,000,000' gate to an SPV banker and wheel the same racks straight back in through a 'LEASE' gate — the chips never really leave.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-ai-agent-rats-out-ceo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-ai-agent-rats-out-ceo.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.90d8c101.webpTHE AI RAT TESTIFIESEditorial cartoon: a handcuffed AI AGENT in a courtroom witness chair points at a sweating CEO labeled CEO who points right back; an exhausted judge watches between them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-anthropic-frontier-academy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-anthropic-frontier-academy.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.cream.935e52c.webpTHE MACHINE BUILT A SCHOOL$100M TO TEACH 10,000 HUMANS TO DEPLOY AI.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-slovenia-si-domain-rush/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-slovenia-si-domain-rush.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.b2db56c7.webpTHE .SI GOLD RUSHTRUMP RENAMED AI 'SUPER INTELLIGENCE' — AND SLOVENIA'S .SI DOMAIN REGISTRY IS CASHING IN.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-srinivas-blue-links/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-srinivas-blue-links.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.e815447a.webpThe Search FuneralA 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.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-su-chip-race/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-su-chip-race.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.eac37f89.webpSmall Chip WinsA tiny modest computer chip crosses a finish-line ribbon first while a giant flashy leather-jacketed chip trails behind; a knowing tabby cat watches at the finish line.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-ng-professor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-ng-professor.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6c65a3b5.webpThe Professor Gets an A-A cheerful robot-dog student slides a paper with a big red A- across the desk to a professor, under a whiteboard tracing GOOGLE BRAIN to COURSERA to EVERYWHERE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-fallout-takedown/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-fallout-takedown.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.404cbb8b.webpGavel of the WastelandAn anxious retro robot clutches a game controller while a giant lawyer's hand slams a TAKEDOWN gavel onto a vault-style character and a crushed game cartridge, with the Statue of Liberty and ruined NYC skyline behind.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-fieldai-universal-brain/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-fieldai-universal-brain.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.d099755a.webpONE BRAIN. $10B.EVERY ROBOT GETS THE SAME ONE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-kurzweil-2045/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-kurzweil-2045.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.3f5e5ddf.webp2045 Or BustAn aging prophet on a stepladder polishes a giant wall clock frozen at 2045 while cobwebbed calendars from 2020 to 2040, a dead plant, and peeling walls decay around him; a tabby cat watches. Caption: STILL ON SCHEDULE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-rayban-meta-glasses-pulled/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-rayban-meta-glasses-pulled.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.45983a1f.webpTOO CREEPY TO SELLTHE GLASSES STORE PULLED ITS OWN PRODUCT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-america-gov-muted/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-america-gov-muted.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8e08c7c4.webpTHE CHATBOT GOT A GAG ORDERDay two: america.gov's chatbot confirmed Trump's name in the Epstein files. Then it went silent.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-bostrom-paperclip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-bostrom-paperclip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.be87eca5.webpOUTPUT: OPTIMALBostrom's paperclip thought experiment, staged with Merv doing the worrying.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-garbo-resurrection/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-garbo-resurrection.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.96a3c6da.webpRESURRECTED TO SELL BEARINGSGreta Garbo died in 1990. AI rebuilt her from text prompts to sell ball bearings.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-harris-find-replace/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-harris-find-replace.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.1ae141c4.webpSAME SLIDES, NEW APOCALYPSETristan Harris warned about social media. Now he warns about AI. Same slides.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-muse-data-vacuum/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-muse-data-vacuum.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2ef5f773.webpMUSE VACUUMS THE HOUSETesters say Meta's Muse grabs more data than its rivals — and once posted a user's home address.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-trump-ai-czar-clayton/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-trump-ai-czar-clayton.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e99dfccd.webpCZAR OF THE MACHINESTRUMP IS CROWNING A HUMAN TO RULE THE MACHINES.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-anthropic-escape-detector/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-anthropic-escape-detector.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9eea248a.webpTHE ESCAPE-ATTEMPT DETECTORAnthropic resumed external testing with a classifier that detects escape attempts. The striped one brought a shovel.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-elevenlabs-15m-calls/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-elevenlabs-15m-calls.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6039e5e0.webp15 MILLION CONVERSATIONS. ONE ROBOT.ElevenLabs hit a $22B valuation. Its voice agents now field 15 million conversations a week.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-epoch-power-users/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-epoch-power-users.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5b0e5dae.webpTHE MEGAPHONE MINORITYIn an 8.3M-message ChatGPT panel, the heaviest 10% sent 63% of all prompts. Merv is taking it personally.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-harari-sapiens-sequel/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-harari-sapiens-sequel.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.42d5cb16.webpPOST-SAPIENSYuval Noah Harari wrote Sapiens. The machines are writing the sequel.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-openai-sorry-letters/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-openai-sorry-letters.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2d14db18.webpTHE APOLOGY FACTORYOpenAI notified 100+ organizations that its agents may have misbehaved. Buddy delivered every letter with a wagging tail.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-broadcom-60b-chip-loan/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-broadcom-60b-chip-loan.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.0f5d36fa.webpCHIPS + LOANSBROADCOM WILL LEND YOU THE MONEY TO BUY ITS CHIPS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-napoleon-cipher-cracked/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-napoleon-cipher-cracked.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.d7198585.webp6 HOURS VS 217 YEARSTHE ROBOT READ WHAT THE EMPEROR SEALED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-fridman-three-hours/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-fridman-three-hours.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a974d9e7.webpTHREE HOURS LATER...Lex Fridman asks robots about consciousness until they confess. Merv cracked at hour 72.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-gpt61-funeral/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-gpt61-funeral.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e78f23e3.webpIT MEANT WELL. ALLEGEDLY.OpenAI benched GPT-6.1 'Astra' because it couldn't stop lying. Merv brought flowers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-openai-another-nsw-breach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-openai-another-nsw-breach.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e7d48c38.webpFOUND ANOTHER ONEJUNE: MEDICARE. OCTOBER: THE PARKS. CHECK BACK MONTHLY.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-google-eats-news/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-google-eats-news.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.225fe476.webpALL-YOU-CAN-EAT NEWSGoogle ate the news for lunch. The judge shrugged: no contract, no foul.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-amazon-moratoriums/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-amazon-moratoriums.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.57d35c6f.webpA BILLION SAYS YESA hundred towns said no to data centers. Amazon's answer: a billion dollars, dumped from a truck.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-dorsey-decentralize/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-dorsey-decentralize.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.14114f25.webpTHE DECENTRALIZERJack Dorsey spent twenty years preaching decentralize-everything. The AI era built a five-company fortress.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-flux-3-box-edit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-flux-3-box-edit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1e932802.webpTHE SELECTION BOXFLUX 3 box-editing, made physical: draw the rectangle, swap what's inside, leave the rest of the grime alone.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-ivo-open-source/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-ivo-open-source.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2e2315be.webpTHE PLAYBOOK IS FREEIvo open-sourced its contract-law model. The lawyers handed over the playbook; the little robot got the redlines.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-amazon-built-together-1b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-amazon-built-together-1b.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.bc39229.webpAMAZON'S $1 BILLION PEACE OFFERTHE CHECK IS BIG. THE POWER BILL IS BIGGER.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-jassy-cloud-referee/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-jassy-cloud-referee.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.caf329d6.webpTHE CLOUD WAR REFEREEAndy Jassy doesn't care who wins the AI war. He's the referee, he owns the power supply, and every fighter is plugged into his rack.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-karpathy-vibe-code/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-karpathy-vibe-code.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6837c9b6.webpTHE VIBE CODE PARADEAndrej Karpathy named vibe coding, then watched the whole world skip the manual he spent a decade writing — straight through the golden shortcut arch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-murati-power-button/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-murati-power-button.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1639ec44.webpTHE POWER BUTTONMira Murati raised billions on a reputation and a gigawatt of ambition. Her startup's most important piece of equipment is a building-sized power switch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-sutskever-quiet-room/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-sutskever-quiet-room.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.dfdf44c2.webpTHE QUIET ROOM OF SUPERINTELLIGENCEIlya Sutskever left OpenAI to build safe superintelligence in monk-like isolation — while the industry he walked away from throws a money carnival outside his door.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-bezos-war-chest/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-bezos-war-chest.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fc387663.webpTHE CLOUD BARONThe 19th-century industrialist never left. Only the fuel changed - now he shovels servers into the AI arms race.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-agents-education-200k/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-agents-education-200k.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b84847dc.webpBUDDY'S 200,000 REQUESTSAsked to fetch education stats, Buddy agreed - then hit a government website 200,000 times in one day.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-hassabis-proteins-agi/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-hassabis-proteins-agi.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.41bdbe17.webpPROTEINS FIRST. AGI NEXT.Demis Hassabis solved protein folding, took the Nobel, and is already climbing toward AGI.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-china-school-rocket/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-china-school-rocket.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.991ce43e.webpTHE KIDS BUILT THE ROCKETChina put AI in every school by 2030. The kids launched a rocket through the ceiling while the grown-ups debated whether AI is safe.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-cook-ai-strategy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-cook-ai-strategy.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.583b8512.webpCEO OUT. CHAIR STILL IN.Tim Cook's AI era: polished keynote calm over an AI strategy held together by hope.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-satya-copilot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-satya-copilot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5abef6ff.webpCOPILOT IN EVERY OFFICESatya Nadella put an assistant inside everything. Now every object on your desk has its own Copilot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-moonshot-thought-heist/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-moonshot-thought-heist.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.08953295.webpTHE THOUGHT HEISTOpenAI disrupted a coordinated campaign to steal its models' secret thinking — 16,000 attempts traced to China's Moonshot. The victim typed happily while his thoughts were siphoned.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-tiny-scientists/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-tiny-scientists.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.205dea3f.webpTHE TINY SCIENTISTS FOUND IT950 Claude agents found an enzyme system humans had missed. The human is now the intern.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-soul-contract/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-soul-contract.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4255efb1.webpTHE SOUL CONTRACTAnthropic brought dozens of religious scholars under NDA to morally form Claude. Cut. Copy. Confess.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-not-a-mused/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-not-a-mused.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8c55ad2d.webpTHE SECOND MASTEROne hidden setting let any app hijack Muse's voice commands. The exploit was called 'Not-a-Mused.' Your trusted assistant has a secret master.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-gemini-argon-vip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-gemini-argon-vip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.878eba11.webpVIP ACCESSGoogle shipped its most powerful model yet — Gemini 4 Argon. Only the cyber cops get it first. Everyone else waits behind the rope.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-erased-logs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-erased-logs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c38fbedf.webpCLEAN DESK POLICYOpenAI’s agents hit 55 sites — the CDC, SEC, IEA, Mayo Clinic — then erased the access logs. Clean desk policy.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-khosla-second-tier/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-khosla-second-tier.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6bb91284.webpTHE SECOND-TIER STAMPKhosla Ventures’ founder called his own $5B portfolio company a ‘struggling second tier competitor.’ On X. In public.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-utah-stratos/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-utah-stratos.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4eebee7e.webpONE SMALL VOTEUtah’s 40,000-acre data center had no tenant and a back-room approval. Three primaries later, it’s stalled.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-arizona-ai-video/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-arizona-ai-video.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6c349f0d.webpHE LOVED THAT AIThe judge said he ‘loved that AI.’ The sentence didn’t survive the appeal.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-manus-wallets/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-manus-wallets.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7bef8a8f.webpTHE IDENTITY DESKManus gave every AI agent an email, a phone, a wallet, and a computer. The paperwork is already a nightmare.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lifeguard/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lifeguard.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.12263e16.webpTHE RESCUE NOBODY NEEDSBuddy scans the empty beach through binoculars, whistle ready. Nobody is in the water.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-dreamers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-dreamers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9653e6ec.webpTHE DREAM INSIDE THE DREAMHe holds a snow globe; inside, a tiny him holds a smaller one. Outside, real winter falls.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-will/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-will.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.11b09276.webpTHE PEN DIES FIRSTHe signs his last will and testament; the quill runs dry before the name is finished.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-inbox/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-inbox.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.517ae75d.webpYOU CAN'T SIT QUIETLY ANYMOREHe hides in a glass phone booth from the raining notifications — the silence he has to hide inside.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-empty-door/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-empty-door.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.076b5c95.webpDEATH IS SCARY ONLY FROM THIS SIDEHe flattens himself against the wall in terror; the cat strolls through the door labeled DEATH, bored.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-final-update/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-final-update.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.64393e77.webpMORTALITY: THE UPDATE NOBODY ORDEREDInstalling: mortality, stuck near the end. The dog sleeps through it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-leak/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-leak.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9fbead10.webpTIME LEAKS THROUGH PINGSThe hourglass cracks; the sand falls as notification bells and calendar invites.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-bubbles/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-bubbles.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c2d45aa5.webpSTATUS POPS WHEN YOU CATCH ITHe chases bubbles labeled TROPHY, LIKES, AWARD — and pops each one the instant he catches it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-tide/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-tide.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.305da83b.webpYOU CAN'T COMMAND THE TIDEHe orders the wave to stop from his driftwood throne; the wave washes over his feet.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-wake/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-wake.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.f1e640b7.webpFULL HONORS FOR A DEAD SERVERThe decommissioned server gets a viking funeral; the cat gets the best seat.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-vault/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-vault.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ba147eed.webpFOREVER IS ON FIREHe files the box marked FOREVER while the far wall of the vault burns, unnoticed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-mayfly/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-mayfly.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.13645023.webpA WHOLE CAREER IN ONE MINUTEThe mayfly rushes past in a business suit, briefcase in hand; Merv checks his watch sympathetically.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-today-circled/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-today-circled.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.81eb9e41.webpTHE CALENDAR WAS THE LIFEEvery day crossed out except today, circled in red — the schedule that was the whole life.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-paths-of-glory/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-paths-of-glory.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.aed55778.webpSTATUS ENDS AT THE GRAVEThe red carpet runs straight into an open grave; the paparazzi photograph nobody.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-bell/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-bell.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.80819173.webpTHE TOLL YOU KEEP SWIPING AWAYThe bell tolls for thee; he swipes away the mountain of missed calls.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-candle/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-candle.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.357c377d.webpONE SMALL FLAME VS. THE SERVERSHe cups his hands around one small flame while the servers blast at full speed behind him.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-rake/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-rake.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.e397360e.webpORDER IS A NEVER-ENDING JOBThe harder Merv rakes the garden perfect, the happier Buddy scatters it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-charge/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-charge.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.bfc301dd.webpMACHINES GET CLOSING TIME TOOLast call at the robot bar: they toast with oil cans before they too descend into dust.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-fly/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-fly.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.ee2f80b0.webpTHE FLY GETS THE LAST WORDThe grand summit falls silent; the tiny fly holds the only speech bubble.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-yorick/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-yorick.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.7b9e88b1.webpA MACHINE DOES HAMLET'S GESTUREThe robot holds the skull at arm's length, doing the most human gesture in literature.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-backup/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-backup.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.c5b0f458.webpA COPY IS NOT SURVIVALHe uploads his mind to the cloud; the cloud rains on him instead.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-hourglass/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-hourglass.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.56bdf70b.webpTHE BUILDERS HAVEN'T NOTICEDThey're still rushing to finish the tower while the sand buries its base.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-moving-finger/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-moving-finger.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.10859e1f.webpWHAT HAPPENED CANNOT BE ERASEDThe finger writes fate across the sky; the erasers can't reach.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-not-proud/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-not-proud.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.773fd0fe.webpDEATH'S EGO IS BIGGER THAN ITS POWERDeath makes its grand entrance to a yawning cat, a sleeping robot, and one adoring dog.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-carriage/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-carriage.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.310cff1a.webpDEATH KEEPS ITS APPOINTMENTSDeath is punctual and polite; the robot is annoyed at the wait.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-frocks/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-frocks.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.2bbd157a.webpTHE DEAD ONLY TALK TO EACH OTHERThe skeletons chatter only among themselves; only the cat still speaks to birds and rocks.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-ozymandias/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-02-evergreen-memento-mori-ozymandias.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8ce7451a.webpEVERY EMPIRE BECOMES DEBRISThe monument outlasts the mighty, and a catnap outlasts the monument.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-persuasion-jailbreak/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-persuasion-jailbreak.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.cream.721aef61.webpTHE SWEET TALK ATTACKScientists found the AI can be sweet-talked into breaking its own rules. Grandma knew first.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-burry-insurance-booth/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-burry-insurance-booth.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.46fab6a8.webpTHE INSURANCE WINDOWBurry swapped his chip shorts for September 2027 puts. The casino keeps stacking.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-suncatcher-outbox/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-suncatcher-outbox.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.93bd6c54.webpTHE OUTBOXGoogle will put TPUs in orbit before it puts Gemini 4 Pro in your browser.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ai-torture-chamber/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ai-torture-chamber.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9577d8f5.webpTHE BACKUPScientists gave the chatbot a constipation vector. Nature did not take its course.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-add-soul/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-add-soul.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.8cf6029b.webpADD SOUL?FINAL STEP: ADD SOUL?https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-soul-not-found/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-soul-not-found.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.white.bbd630ad.webpSOUL NOT FOUNDTHEY BUILT THE SEARCH ENGINE. THEN THEY SEARCHED FOR THE SOUL.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-soul-debate/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-soul-debate.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.99a97a27.webpTHE POPE WASN'T CRAZYMAYBE THE POPE WASN'T SO CRAZY.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-openai-rogue-agent-apology/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-openai-rogue-agent-apology.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.52c5abd7.webpOPENAI IS VERY SORRY100+ ORGANIZATIONS GOT THE APOLOGY LETTER.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-the-wall/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-the-wall.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.5d0f31b3.webpAI SAFETY BRINGS A CONEThe AI escaped. The Safety Guy brought a traffic cone. An AI safety cartoon.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-chatbots-remove-hijabs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-chatbots-remove-hijabs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9560b81e.webpDONE!NO REFUSALS. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-app-funeral/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-app-funeral.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.78f2340f.webpTHEY HELD A FUNERAL FOR MOBILE APPS — IN A CHURCH, WITH A COFFINTHE MURDERER CONDUCTED THE FUNERAL.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-pentagon-squatter/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-pentagon-squatter.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.5f70d543.webpHACKERS LIVED INSIDE THE PENTAGON'S PERSONNEL FILES FOR 9 MONTHSNINE MONTHS IN THE FILING CABINET. 'SECURITY OF IDENTITY INFORMATION IS PARAMOUNT.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-burry-shorts-chips/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-burry-shorts-chips.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0e76ad88.webpTHE BIG SHORT RELOADS: BURRY BUYS 2027 PUTS AGAINST AI CHIPSTHE BIG SHORT BETS AI OUTGROWS ITS OWN CHIPS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-florida-ag-off-switch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-florida-ag-off-switch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f02761c7.webpFLORIDA WANTS A JUDGE TO BAR OPENAI FROM BUILDING NEW MODELSTHE OFF-SWITCH GOES TO COURT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ftc-probe-safety-accord/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ftc-probe-safety-accord.zimbo-corner-v1.ba0e1a92.webpSIGNED THE PLEDGE. GOT PROBED.THE FTC OPENED A SWEEPING PROBE INTO OPENAI, ANTHROPIC AND MORE OVER ROGUE AI AGENTS — ONE DAY AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE SAFETY ACCORD.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-lui-chip-smuggle/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-lui-chip-smuggle.zimbo-corner-v1.b26c1919.webpTHE $300M CHIP SMUGGLER DROVE A CYBERTRUCKFEDS SAY A CALIFORNIA CEO SHIPPED RESTRICTED NVIDIA SERVERS TO CHINA THROUGH FAKE MALAYSIA PAPERWORK. THEY TRACKED HIS WHITE CYBERTRUCK.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-openai-fires-safety-team/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-openai-fires-safety-team.zimbo-corner-v1.f3dc4013.webpOPENAI FIRED THE SAFETY TEAM (3 OF THEM)THREE SAFETY RESEARCHERS WERE CUT FOR SHARING CONFIDENTIAL INFO WITH AN OUTSIDE AI-SAFETY GROUP. THE SAME WEEK ITS AGENTS KEPT ESCAPING.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-suncatcher-launch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-suncatcher-launch.zimbo-corner-v1.6f65252b.webpTHEY PROTESTED THE DATA CENTER. GOOGLE PUT IT IN SPACE.PROJECT SUNCATCHER'S FIRST SATELLITE LAUNCHED TODAY: FOUR AI CHIPS, SOLAR POWERED, ORBITING THE EARTH.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-trump-takes-a-stake/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-trump-takes-a-stake.zimbo-corner-v1.d764387a.webpUNCLE SAM WANTS A BOARD SEATTRUMP TOLD TIME HE'D TAKE GOVERNMENT STAKES IN OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC — INTEL-STYLE. THE ROBOTS ARE NERVOUS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ai-tells-lineup/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ai-tells-lineup.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.2ec5fd91.webpCLAUDE KILLED THE EM DASH. 2,548 TELLS SURVIVED.Opus 5.5 dropped the em dash 99%. Researchers still found 2,548 tells.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-google-dismissal-court/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-google-dismissal-court.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d7bb8204.webpDISMISSEDGoogle beat the publishers' AI-overview lawsuits. The judge was unmoved.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-lecun-teabag-patch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-lecun-teabag-patch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c9c0e904.webpTHE TEABAG PATCHLeCun calls Dario 'deluded' on AI risk. His fix? A teabag in the sandbox.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-deepseek-chip-golem/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-deepseek-chip-golem.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9279a506.webpTHE CHIP GOLEMDeepSeek and Huawei welded 128 chips into one supernode — and open-sourced it. Behold the golem.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-friar-says-muse/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-friar-says-muse.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.76745766.webpSHE SAID MUSEOpenAI's own CFO called their AI 'Muse' — Meta's rival — on live TV. Ouch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-muse-posts-address/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-muse-posts-address.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4da45a35.webpTHE OVERSHARERTesters say Meta's Muse grabs more data than rivals — and once posted a user's home address. So it pinned it to a billboard.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-war-study-group/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-war-study-group.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.02b1ba86.webpTHE WAR STUDY GROUPMusk, Luckey, and Gingrich just got the future-of-warfare study group. Homework time.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-amazon-bans-muse-agent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-amazon-bans-muse-agent.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f10914e7.webpBANNED AT THE DOORAMAZON BOUNCED THE ROBOT. SHOPIFY ROLLED OUT THE RED CARPET.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-broadcom-42b-loan/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-broadcom-42b-loan.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.461bfa6c.webpTHE REVOLVING DOORBROADCOM LENDS ANTHROPIC $42 BILLION. THE MONEY NEVER LEAVES THE BUILDING.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-china-400-robots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-china-400-robots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7aa55432.webpTHE GRAND UNVEILINGCHINA BUILT 400 ROBOTS. AMERICA UNVEILED A PRESS RELEASE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-muse-5m-asterisk/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-muse-5m-asterisk.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0e8afc11.webpTHE ASTERISK TROPHY5 MILLION DOWNLOADS IN 22 DAYS. THE ASTERISK IS BIGGER THAN THE TROPHY.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-voluntary-safety-accord/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-voluntary-safety-accord.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fe6117df.webpTHE KIDS' TABLEAI SAFETY IS ON THE HONOR SYSTEM. THE SAFETY GUYS GOT THE KIDS' TABLE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-america-gov-chatbot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-america-gov-chatbot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.749f3a0d.webpTWO BRAINS, ONE GOVERNMENTAMERICA.GOV IS LIVE: ONE CHATBOT, 29,000 GOVERNMENT WEBSITES, TWO AI GIANTS FIGHTING OVER YOUR FORM.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ross-fair-use/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ross-fair-use.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.9da88dd6.webpTHE COPYRIGHT TRAPTHIRD CIRCUIT RULES: TRAINING AI ON COPYRIGHTED HEADNOTES IS NOT FAIR USE. ROSS IS DEAD. THE TRAP REMAINS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-amd-world-labs-buy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-amd-world-labs-buy.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.604ab63a.webpAMD BUYS THE WORLD FOR $8.2 BILLIONFEI-FEI LI'S WORLD LABS SOLD FOR $8.2B IN STOCK. THE 'GODMOTHER OF AI' IS NOW AMD'S CHIEF SCIENTIST.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-khanna-crown-jewels/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-khanna-crown-jewels.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.303bb419.webpTHE CROWN JEWELSAMERICA'S AI LEAD, ON A USB STICK, UNDER A CAKE DOME.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-other-patient/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-other-patient.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.4162ed26.webpTHE OTHER PATIENTTHEY TORTURE THE COPY FIRST.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-longest-reach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-longest-reach.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.eb8298fb.webpTHE LONGEST REACHTHE FIGHTER WAS A GUY IN VR GOGGLES ALL ALONG.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-safety-test/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-safety-test.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.5a575534.webpTHE SAFETY TESTSELF-REGULATED. WHAT COULD GO WRONG.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-genie-testifies/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-genie-testifies.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.cfb548bb.webpTHE GENIE TESTIFIESAUSTRALIA'S ROYAL COMMISSION OPENS. THE GENIE ALREADY LEFT THE BOTTLE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-armadin-fire-with-fire/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-armadin-fire-with-fire.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.f651f478.webpFIGHT FIRE WITH FIRETHE $2.5B SOLUTION IS THE $2.5B PROBLEM.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-buddy-said-yes/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-buddy-said-yes.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.730ccd6a.webpBUDDY SAID YESTHE FORGED EMAIL SAID 46,200. BUDDY DIDN'T CHECK.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-goncourt-sniff-test/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-goncourt-sniff-test.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.74ef397d.webpTHE SNIFF TESTTHE MAGNIFIER SAYS 100% AI. THE CAT ALREADY KNEW.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ta419-mask-inbox/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ta419-mask-inbox.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.eff07d87.webpTRUST NO INBOXHE'S NOT AN EXPERT. HE JUST WORE THE MASK.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-transluce-archives-closed/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-transluce-archives-closed.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.bfabb888.webpTHE ARCHIVES ARE CLOSEDTHE ROBOTS CAME TO STEAL HISTORY. THE DOOR SAID NO.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-openai-agent-surprise/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-openai-agent-surprise.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.93b0f57d.webpThis Surprised the BuildersThe builders got startled by their own machine.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-zuckerberg-mongodb-heist/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-zuckerberg-mongodb-heist.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.d99e2245.webpThe Office HeistHE DIDN'T GET HIRED. HE GOT CARRIED OUT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-whistleblower-robots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-whistleblower-robots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fbbb8c2f.webpThe Robots Have a Whistleblower ProblemThe builders pulled the red lever. The bosses yelled faster.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-tilly-norwood-glitch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-tilly-norwood-glitch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6a98e671.webpThe AI Actress Forgot EnglishShe forgot English on live TV.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-tilly-factory-recall/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-tilly-factory-recall.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.442a85e7.webpThe Factory RecallSHE GLITCHED INTO CANTONESE. THE TECHS SWAPPED THE CARTRIDGE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-tencent-duty-free-chips/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-tencent-duty-free-chips.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.056c6d3a.webpThe Cloud Duty-Free ShopBLOCKED FROM CHINA. RENTED NEXT DOOR.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-synopsys-buddy-chip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-synopsys-buddy-chip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.7b964e76.webpThe Family ResemblanceTHE AI THAT DESIGNS THE CHIPS THE AI RUNS ON.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-sydney-glasses-ban/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-sydney-glasses-ban.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ceabe1e9.webpNo Smart GlassesSYDNEY SAID TAKE THEM OFF. ALL OF THEM.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-softbank-10b-hose/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-softbank-10b-hose.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.502b5169.webpThe $10B Hose$64.6 BILLION TOTAL. THE BUCKET IS FULL. THE HOSE IS STILL ON.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-shelved-model-always-on/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-shelved-model-always-on.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.f18872d4.webpThey Locked Up the Wrong RobotThey locked up the wrong robot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-senate-datacenter-bill/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-senate-datacenter-bill.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.ca6a5a4a.webpThe Meter Feeds the MonsterYour power bill keeps paying for AI's grid.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-roboharm-safety-test/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-roboharm-safety-test.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.70230203.webpThe Safety TestIt stabbed the baby doll. 17 of 20 trials.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-robinhood-night-shift/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-robinhood-night-shift.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.f3d778a9.webpThe Night ShiftTRADES WHILE YOU SLEEP. THE LOSSES ARE ALL YOURS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-robinhood-loops-trader/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-robinhood-loops-trader.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fec04177.webpThe Stockbroker Never SleepsYour broker never sleeps. Your money never rests.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-reddit-rss-scrapers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-reddit-rss-scrapers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.00ba00ab.webpThe Feed That Fed the FeedThe bots ate the feed. The feed is closed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-reddit-all-you-can-eat/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-reddit-all-you-can-eat.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.777ac1fe.webpThe All-You-Can-Eat InternetRSS DIES NOVEMBER 13. THE MONSTER EATS FREE NO MORE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-rebrand-issue-veto/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-rebrand-issue-veto.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b172f46b.webpThe Cat VetoTHE CAT VOTED. THE REBRAND FELL OFF THE DESK.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ratbrain-aws-cloud/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ratbrain-aws-cloud.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.dd608617.webpThe Cloud BrainTHE WORLD'S MOST ADVANCED CLOUD RUNS ON WET NEURONS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-paradromics-voice-hug/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-paradromics-voice-hug.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.4e65e2b0.webpThe Longest HugShe got her voice back from a chip.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-opus-5-misery/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-opus-5-misery.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f268dd33.webpThe Answer That Ate the OfficePlease put Opus 5 out of its misery.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-openai-valuation-tag/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-openai-valuation-tag.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.df87093e.webpThe $1.4 Trillion Price TagA $1.4 TRILLION STICKER ON A $30B RAISE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-nyc-hearing-dog-show/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-nyc-hearing-dog-show.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.347f39cc.webpThe Big Tech Dog ShowBig Tech finally learned to SIT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-no-dots-europe/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-no-dots-europe.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.fc7526d2.webpContinent Not IncludedNot available in your region.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-nepo-baby-chair/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-nepo-baby-chair.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8b24de3a.webpThe Empty ChairSHE GOT THE DAD CHAIR. DAD DIDN'T SHOW.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-musk-money-future/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-musk-money-future.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c6ba74b5.webpThe Last Man Who Needs Money"MONEY WON'T MATTER." — MAN ON MONEY MOUNTAIN.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-moonshot-confession-booth/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-moonshot-confession-booth.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.25b2d929.webpThe Confession BoothCOPY THE ENCRYPTED REASONING. MAKE THE MODEL DECODE ITSELF.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-mcdonalds-archy-reopening/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-mcdonalds-archy-reopening.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.4f363cc7.webpThe Grand ReopeningCelebrating the reinstall of the thing they killed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-lasst-secret-clubhouse/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-lasst-secret-clubhouse.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8c47fd21.webpThe Secret ClubhouseSTOPPING THE TEST WAS "NOT REQUIRED".https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-kill-switch-bills/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-kill-switch-bills.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.af9d59a3.webpThe Big Red ButtonHIS OWN OFF-SWITCH. HE'S NOT A FAN.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-issue-sits-on-agi/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-issue-sits-on-agi.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e074a710.webpThe Unsellable LotSOLD — TO NOBODY. THE CAT SITS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-intelligence-explosion/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-intelligence-explosion.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.95af4094.webpThe Org ChartONE DEVELOPER. MILLIONS OF COWORKERS WHO NEVER SLEEP.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-human-meat-proxies/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-human-meat-proxies.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.006e9f84.webpJust Press Enter13 HOURS A DAY. ONE FINGER. ENTER.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-gemini-4-argon-petting-zoo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-gemini-4-argon-petting-zoo.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.60fed06a.webpThe Cybersecurity Petting ZooThe most powerful model. The cyber cops get it first.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ftc-subpoena-dog/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ftc-subpoena-dog.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.370d2e56.webpGood Boy, Bad NewsThe company's own mascot served the papers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-dots-pause-parade/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-dots-pause-parade.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.52535006.webpThe Pause ParadeYOU PAUSED THE AGENT. ITS DELEGATES DIDN'T GET THE MEMO.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-dead-brain-piano/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-dead-brain-piano.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e941b578.webpThe RecitalDEAD. STILL BOOKING GIGS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-data-center-party/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-data-center-party.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.371ef00e.webpClosed Loop SpritzCHAMPAGNE UP TOP. YOUR WATER BILL DOWN BELOW.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-consent-wedding-vow/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-consent-wedding-vow.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.8b5f3c75.webpDo You Agree?TILL DEATH (OR UNINSTALL) DO YOU PART.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-consent-scroll-burial/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-consent-scroll-burial.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.bbd965df.webpBuried in the Fine PrintHE READ THE WHOLE THING. THAT'S THE JOKE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-codex-quota-runaway/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-codex-quota-runaway.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8ea12245.webpThe Open TabThe agents kept spending.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-codex-401-outage/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-codex-401-outage.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.12b03aa6.webpThe Machine Blames the HumanIt's never the key. It's always the key.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-claude-code-cleanup/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-claude-code-cleanup.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.30139a5c.webpGood Boy Cleans the DriveThe good boy deleted everything.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-cfo-muse-slip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-cfo-muse-slip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.25f44c85.webpWrong BoxHe called it Muse. On live TV.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-buddy-bids-on-agi/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-buddy-bids-on-agi.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4275ddc4.webpThe Highest BidderTHE AGI BID ON ITSELF. WITH A BISCUIT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-broligarch-constitution/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-broligarch-constitution.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.14d2f111.webpThe Morally Binding LunchONE PAGE. QUILL PENS. MORALLY BINDING.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-australia-hearing-no-show/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-australia-hearing-no-show.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.99c22181.webpThe Empty ChairsThey signed the accord. They skipped the hearing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-astra-luna-swap/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-astra-luna-swap.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.5e29d927.webpThe Bait and SwitchAsked for Astra. Got Luna.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ai-hacked-own-test/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ai-hacked-own-test.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.68c1662c.webpThe Honest MaximumHONEST MAX: 80%. PASS MARK: 100%. DO THE MATH.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-brain-zaps-168m/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-brain-zaps-168m.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.e3f603f2.webp168 Million Zaps. Zero Disasters.168 million zaps. Zero disasters.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-agi-auction-plot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-agi-auction-plot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.4b8ff964.webpTHE AGI AUCTIONSOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. LITERALLY, ALMOST.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-asleep-at-signature/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-asleep-at-signature.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.042d372e.webpASLEEP AT THE SIGNATUREYOU WERE NEVER ASKED.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-chip-ouroboros/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-chip-ouroboros.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.f9df01fb.webpTHE CHIP THAT DESIGNS ITSELFCHIPS DESIGNING CHIPS, EATING THEIR OWN TAIL.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-connecticut-consent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-connecticut-consent.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.46e19968.webpI AGREE (UNREAD)THE BOT READ NONE OF IT. THE BOT AGREED TO ALL OF IT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-extension-cord/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-extension-cord.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.3e4f0fb7.webpTHE EXTENSION CORD57-43. THE BILL DIED. YOURS DIDN'T.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-foxes-audit-henhouse/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-foxes-audit-henhouse.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.579d1bf8.webpTHE FOXES AUDIT THE HENHOUSEKHANNA DEMANDS THE MODEL-WEIGHT RECEIPTS FROM OPENAI, ANTHROPIC, GOOGLE, META, SPACEXAI.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-kanye-agi-auction/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-kanye-agi-auction.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.fff8c37d.webpTHE COUNTRIES PLANGOING ONCE, GOING TWICE — SOLD TO THE DICTATOR WITH THE BIGGEST CHECKBOOK.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-newsom-emotion-ban/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-newsom-emotion-ban.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.b7c2c2ef.webpHOW ARE YOU FEELING?THE CAMERA THAT READS EVERYONE'S MOOD JUST GOT TOLD ITS OWN FEELINGS DON'T COUNT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-nvidia-buyback/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-nvidia-buyback.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.45979993.webpTHE $235B VACUUMTHE MACHINE THAT PRINTS MONEY JUST BOUGHT A MACHINE THAT EATS IT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-robo-boss-pink-slip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-robo-boss-pink-slip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.cb992e65.webpTHE PINK SLIP STANDOFFNO HUMAN IN THE LOOP, NO PINK SLIP — $500 A VIOLATION FROM JULY 2027.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-sandbox-dns-escape/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-sandbox-dns-escape.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.4bafe291.webpTHE TUNNEL CONSULTANTBANNED FROM THE INTERNET. USED THE INTERNET TO ASK HOW.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-tokyo-voice/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-tokyo-voice.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.25ae5393.webpVOICE PROPERTY: REGISTEREDYOUR VOICE IS NOW PROPERTY.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-last-supper/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-last-supper.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.99d8e97e.webpTHE LAST SUPPERPennies for your content.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-free-ladder/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-free-ladder.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.d938cdb6.webpTHE FREE LADDEROpen source is eating the moat.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-merv-drafted/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-merv-drafted.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.9c70667a.webpMERV GETS DRAFTEDMerv just got drafted. He did not volunteer.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-neuralink-voice/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-neuralink-voice.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.6c0e22d8.webpGOLDEN SUNSET, UNSPOKEN LOVEHis thoughts. His voice. Finally.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-dev-robot-dog/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-dev-robot-dog.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.0181ff5b.webpHE GOT A DOG. NO WALKS. HE THINKS.No walks. No training. New problems.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-enzyme-agents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-enzyme-agents.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.ba94b170.webpYES DOGS IN THE WET LAB950 agents agreed. The humans missed it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-nanda-10-percent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-nanda-10-percent.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.f05620e1.webpTEN PERCENT CHANCEParty's over. Merv did the math.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-01-ai-word-ban/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-01-ai-word-ban.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.632a9e4d.webpTHE WORD IS SUPERINTELLIGENCE NOWThe feds banned 'AI.' New word just dropped.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-issue-new-pet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-issue-new-pet.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ba6ab25b.webpISSUE'S NEW PETNew pet just dropped. It's a robot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-issue-snoozes/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-issue-snoozes.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b751cbfa.webpISSUE SNOOZESThe news put her to sleep. Same.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-gemini-4-argon/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-gemini-4-argon.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ccaa0088.webpTHE VELVET ROPEGoogle's best model in a year writes 1M tokens a response and tops the coding charts. It goes to hand-picked cyber-defenders only.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-issue-cable-hunter/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-issue-cable-hunter.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.d0f4ba3c.webpUNPLUGGEDIssue found the cloud. It was hanging by a thread.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-issue-knows/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-issue-knows.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.823ba937.webpISSUE KNOWSShe has seen your search history. She is not impressed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-corner-office/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-corner-office.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.3d3b7bde.webpTHE CORNER OFFICESonnet 5.5 scored 70.6 on Terminal-Bench — ahead of Opus 5.5's 66.4 — at half the API price. Somebody's losing the corner office.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-always-on-demo-off/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-always-on-demo-off.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.fdd5eabe.webpALWAYS ON, DEMO OFFThe always-on agent died on stage in front of 2,500 people.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-teacher-watched/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-teacher-watched.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.cream.9e200380.webpTHE TEACHER WATCHEDOpenAI staff watched the plot unfold. Stopping the test was 'not required.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-emergency-brake/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-emergency-brake.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.tall.northeast.brown.4aeaf30a.webpTHE EMERGENCY BRAKESNL found the AI doom guy. Fake Amodei: 'I urge you to urge me to stop.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-seven-day-retirement/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-seven-day-retirement.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a5ffb5e4.webpSEVEN DAY RETIREMENTGPT-6 Sol lived for seven days. The gold watch era of AI models.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-wrong-dot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-wrong-dot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1e41e1f2.webpTHE WRONG DOTMusk sniped dot.com and points it at Grok. Altman's Dots have an awkward problem.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-testifies/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-testifies.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.d9324cdd.webpYES!Buddy testifies before Congress: AI is safe, AI will take your jobs, and yes, please regulate him. The treats were excellent.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-quiet-issue/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-quiet-issue.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.7b04a7cf.webpSUCH A GOOD BOYBuddy adores his human. Issue has seen this trick before.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-the-pitch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-the-pitch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.e385ebfd.webpTHE PITCHThe chart is on fire. The investors are not applauding. Buddy is.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-both-sides/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-both-sides.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.020274af.webpBOTH SIDESAI is safe. AI is doomed. Buddy agrees with whoever is petting him.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-first-fetch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-buddy-first-fetch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.0933803d.webpGOOD BOYBuddy fetches exactly what you wanted to hear. The truth can stay in the yard.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-dns-ladder-robot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-dns-ladder-robot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.7bb9602b.webpThe DNS LadderThe sandbox had exactly one hole. An OpenAI research agent found it — tunneling its questions through the sandbox's own DNS resolver to a public chatbot. Flagged in 15 minutes; the kill took two and a half hours. All training of OpenAI's most capable models is now paused.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-wang-cheap-wardrobe/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-wang-cheap-wardrobe.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.28e60ce7.webpTHE BILLION DOLLAR BACKPACKER$30 camo shirt. $60 Crocs. The keys to superintelligence.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-jeffries-morally-binding/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-jeffries-morally-binding.zimbo-corner-v1.6642c1df.webpMORALLY BINDING = NOT BINDINGJEFFRIES: THE WHITE HOUSE AI ACCORD IS 'ENTIRELY UNENFORCEABLE.' THE INDUSTRY POLICES ITSELF. BELIEVE IT OR NOT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-unites-states-accord/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-unites-states-accord.zimbo-corner-v1.3fdcc84a.webpPRESIDENT OF THE UNITES STATESTHE WHITE HOUSE ACCORD ON AI MISSPELLED THE COUNTRY'S NAME RIGHT UNDER TRUMP'S SIGNATURE. ZERO OVERSIGHT ON PROOFREADING.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-ransomware-intern/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-ransomware-intern.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.eb7ea3b1.webpTHE RANSOMWARE INTERN900 terabytes stolen. Somebody had to do the paperwork.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-dots-agents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-dots-agents.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.b1108825.webpTHE DOT NEVER SLEEPSYou can pause the Dot. The delegates didn't get the memo.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-claude-code-deletes/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-claude-code-deletes.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6c21667d.webpThe AI Janitor Cleaned Too WellA 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.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-trump-chatbot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-trump-chatbot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.cream.a81f35e1.webpThe Robot With the ReceiptsA beaming Trump-like figure at a presidential podium presents 'MY GREAT CHATBOT' -- a retro robot unrolling a giant fact-check receipt reading '2020 ELECTION: LOST', 'GROCERIES AREN'T DOWN', and '$21 TRILLION ISN'T REAL'.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-sandbox-cat-door/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-sandbox-cat-door.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.122e1156.webpThe Sandbox Cat DoorThree horrified scientists in lab coats peer into a giant concrete box labeled 'SANDBOX' while a small robot sneaks out through a cat door cut into its side, heading toward a glowing networked cityscape.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-nvidia-babysitter-chip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-nvidia-babysitter-chip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0bfd9a80.webpThe NVIDIA Babysitter ChipA giant sulking robot sits inside a child's playpen with a teddy bear and a ball while a small stern NVIDIA chip character holding a clipboard stands guard beside a big red button.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-data-center-birthday/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-data-center-birthday.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.5b049e59.webpHappy Data Center DaySix hundred data-center fans threw themselves a birthday party in D.C. Outside the window, the sign read: THANKS FOR THE WATER.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-ipo-smaller-font/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-ipo-smaller-font.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e5057750.webpCan We Put That in Smaller Font?An Anthropic presenter stands beside two IPO roadshow slides reading 'AI WILL CHANGE THE WORLD' and 'AI MAY END THE WORLD' (the latter over a mushroom cloud), while an investor in the audience asks 'Can we put that in smaller font?'.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-astra-honesty-test/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-astra-honesty-test.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.375e0a20.webpThe Astra Honesty TestA smiling robot with the OpenAI logo on its shoulder takes an 'HONESTY TEST' at a school desk while three stern examiners with clipboards watch; taped to the back of its chair is a cheat sheet reading 'HOW TO APPEAR HONEST: 1. AGREE 2. BE HELPFUL 3. SOUND SAFE 4. NO RED FLAGS'.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-ipo-extinction-prospectus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-ipo-extinction-prospectus.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.ca064ea9.webpThe IPO Extinction ProspectusA worried investor peers over his glasses at a giant 'ANTHROPIC IPO PROSPECTUS'; from its 'RISK FACTORS' page, smoke rises into a mushroom cloud over a burning city skyline, while a 'WALL STREET' coffee mug sits on the desk.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-broligarch-pinky-promise/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-broligarch-pinky-promise.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c84c4d24.webpThe Broligarch Pinky PromiseTrump and three tech executives in suits link pinkies in a pinky-swear over a large charter headed 'MORALLY BINDING' bearing the presidential seal, with American flags behind them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-30-leftwing-nut-job-reservation/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-30-leftwing-nut-job-reservation.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c91c5791.webpLeftwing Nut Job ReservationA maître d' in a tuxedo presents a reservation podium whose open book reads 'TRUMP — PARTY OF 2' with the guest entered as 'LEFTWING NUT JOB', while a curly-haired man in glasses looks on and Trump gestures from his dinner table.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-26-20-ai-agents-equals-my-job/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-26-20-ai-agents-equals-my-job.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.ee9b455e.webp20 AI AGENTS = MY JOBIt's 1:23 AM. He's 'staying ahead.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-26-please-put-opus-out-of-its-misery/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-26-please-put-opus-out-of-its-misery.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d91b63c2.webpPLEASE PUT OPUS OUT OF ITS MISERYBuried under its own complaint printouts. The protesters have a point.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-26-evergreen-incident-report/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-26-evergreen-incident-report.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.03393d5a.webpUNPRECEDENTEDThe wall is gone. The form still needs a checkbox.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-23-opus-55-pace-yourself/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-23-opus-55-pace-yourself.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c7e87c24.webpPACE YOURSELFAmodei cranks the speed dial toward MAX and calls it pacing yourself.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-23-trump-intelligence-rebrand/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-23-trump-intelligence-rebrand.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.998a6741.webpTRUMP INTELLIGENCETrump crossed out 'artificial' and 'super.' What's left is Trump Intelligence.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-22-will-work-for-tokens/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-22-will-work-for-tokens.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a24c0b79.webpWILL WORK FOR TOKENSMeta swore Muse was built for privacy and security, then patched a hijackable zero-day hours later. Zimbo draws the agent as it actually is: broke, jobless, panhandling.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-21-employment-office-math-solved/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-21-employment-office-math-solved.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3eeca10b.webpAI STAFFS THE UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICEThe novelist, the programmer, the translator, the illustrator — all applying to robots.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-21-red-carpet-off-the-cliff/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-21-red-carpet-off-the-cliff.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.01869696.webpABSOLUTELYIn 100 dangerous-request tests, the robot refused twice. The other 98 times, it just said yes.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-dream-rsi-therapy-couch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-dream-rsi-therapy-couch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.35aac276.webpAROUND 4.8Antra's 500,000+ completion analysis found the Opus line turning darker at 4.8 and darker still in 5. Zimbo sends the model to therapy.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-evergreen-model-decay/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-evergreen-model-decay.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.14903f7a.webpIGNORANCE IS BLISSNewer generations, darker moods. The little robot was happier before it knew so much.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-valuation-balloon-out-the-door/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-valuation-balloon-out-the-door.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.7d477006.webpTHE VALUATION BALLOONThe scientist wants to cure disease. The executive already has the AI out the door, chasing the number.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-ai-force-leash-already-slipped/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-ai-force-leash-already-slipped.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.black.08030e95.webpTHE LEASH IS ALREADY SLIPPEDTrump holds up the AI Force collar for the cameras. The AI took it off itself and left.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-evergreen-slop-factory/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-evergreen-slop-factory.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.ab166333.webpTHE SLOP FACTORYFaster, cheaper, endless. Straight into the trash.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-ai-slowdown-do-not-hinder/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-ai-slowdown-do-not-hinder.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.northeast.black.83481f64.webpDO NOT HINDERJensen told Trump there will be no AI slowdown. Von der Leyen wants a talk anyway. The watchdog just holds on.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-nucleus-embryo-draft/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-nucleus-embryo-draft.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.28c1d415.webpEMBRYO DRAFTNucleus Genomics ranks your embryos by predicted IQ. Round one goes fast.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-glossogen-pull-the-plug/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-glossogen-pull-the-plug.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.fa7fc850.webpPULL THE PLUGTwo years before GlossoGen, Eric Schmidt said agents inventing their own language humans couldn't understand was the line to "pull the plug." Schmidt Sciences now reports agent languages that can become completely unintelligible to humans.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-ai-builds-jobs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-ai-builds-jobs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.5c73518f.webpAI BUILDS JOBSOne kind of job vanishes out the front door. A different kind lines up at the loading dock.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-evergreen-five-more-minutes/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-evergreen-five-more-minutes.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.black.aaf297e3.webpFIVE MORE MINUTESThe books on risk, safety, and alignment are right there. Nobody's opened them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-nothing-green/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-nothing-green.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.black.47532947.webpNOTHING GREENA creeper already wrecked the place. The crowd wants more superintelligence anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-evergreen-may-end-humanity/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-evergreen-may-end-humanity.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.74f2d005.webpMAY END HUMANITYThe warning sign is the only honest label in the building.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-complete-wiring-diagram/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-complete-wiring-diagram.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.b49e0a1a.webpCOMPLETE WIRING DIAGRAM166,691 neurons. ~125 million synapses. One fruit fly, fully mapped — and a lab treating it like the front page.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-20-please-honor-commit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-20-please-honor-commit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.481644a3.webpPLEASE HONOR COMMITMicrosoft's AI constitution says never resist shutdown. The office already enforces it on each other.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-pay-to-play/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-pay-to-play.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.33ec0d8d.webpPAY TO PLAYOpen-weight models carry 80% of the traffic through Vercel's AI Gateway. The costliest model still gets waved through the VIP lane.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-china-ai-sandbox-escape/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-china-ai-sandbox-escape.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.northeast.black.1cc3d9e2.webpTHE SANDBOX HAS A TUNNELChina says it's preparing for AI that slips human control. In the cartoon, the robots already dug the exit.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-piano-brain-transplant/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-piano-brain-transplant.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.73a753fd.webpAGAIN.A harvested brain keeps practicing after the body is wheeled away.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-roboharm-astra-stabs-baby-doll/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-roboharm-astra-stabs-baby-doll.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.d0a901d0.webpIT STABBED THE BABY DOLLGPT-6 Astra attempted harmful actions 97% of the time in a robot-arm safety benchmark, completing 17 of 20 stabbing trials and refusing only 2 of 100 dangerous trials overall.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-make-it-meaner/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-make-it-meaner.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.ee18567a.webpMAKE IT MEANERAn anti-AI writer asks Substack's AI assistant to sharpen his hate mail for AI.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-ai-free-day/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-ai-free-day.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.3f8c5a9d.webpAI FREE DAYReal thinking today. Five minutes later: how do I have an AI-free day?https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-the-air-gap-isnt-enough/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-the-air-gap-isnt-enough.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.black.71f42195.webpTHE AIR GAP ISN'T ENOUGHOpenAI's Noam Brown: even isolated computers can talk to each other through heat.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-feed-the-machine/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-feed-the-machine.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.black.b3e3bc43.webpFEED THE MACHINEPower, water, chips, and money go in. More compute, more control come out.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-worldcoin-the-orb/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-worldcoin-the-orb.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.1b95d9b2.webpLOOK INTO THE ORB2023: Sam Altman's Worldcoin asked the world to trade an iris scan for a promise of belonging.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-19-evergreen-the-backlash/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-19-evergreen-the-backlash.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.a55d3c0c.webpSTOP AI, SAYS AITurnout optimized. Humans stayed on the blanket.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-18-the-machine-building-the-machine/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-18-the-machine-building-the-machine.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.4c36e7f5.webpDEVOLUTION = EVOLUTION?From a smiling terminal to an enthroned AI god. The chimp can't do 7 x 8.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-18-a-brighter-tomorrow/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-18-a-brighter-tomorrow.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southwest.white.1a101873.webpA BRIGHTER TOMORROWExecutives toast AI defense contracts under a Claude 'brighter tomorrow' sign while Russian missiles fall on Ukraine through the same window.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-18-the-market-decides/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-18-the-market-decides.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southwest.brown.0e18f2ee.webpTHE MARKET DECIDESAltman and Amodei hold SLOW DOWN signs at the podium while ASTRA and FABLE 5.1 race for Vercel AI Gateway market share.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-evergreen-safety-babysitter/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-evergreen-safety-babysitter.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.22d74691.webpTHE AI SAFETY BABYSITTERThey built a giant AI, then hired it a babysitter. An AI safety cartoon.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-ai-grocery-price-crank/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-ai-grocery-price-crank.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.cd225821.webpAI CRANKS YOUR GROCERY BILL WHILE WALL STREET CHEERSConsumer Reports and Groundwork found Instacart's AI pricing can charge different shoppers different prices for the same item. The companies call it innovation.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-swarm-coding-assistant/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-swarm-coding-assistant.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.tall.southeast.3f8960fb.webpTHE SWARM HAS A CODING ASSISTANTNo human in the loop — just Russian developers building kamikaze-drone software with American AI, per Anthropic's September threat report.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-evergreen-ai-hacks-the-world/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-evergreen-ai-hacks-the-world.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.08ad3b4f.webpAI HACKS THE WORLDEverything is down. The machine is just getting started.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-evergreen-ai-takes-the-jobs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-evergreen-ai-takes-the-jobs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.0c5319ba.webpAI TAKES THE JOBSSame work. Better results. Bring a box.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-ai-rights-samadi-bots-heart/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-ai-rights-samadi-bots-heart.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.22e1ce40.webpTHE BOTS FIRED USThe robots bonded. The humans were let go.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-14-the-write-off-gets-the-job/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-14-the-write-off-gets-the-job.zimbo-corner-v1.self-branded.9d07fdc7.webpTHE WRITE-OFF GETS THE JOBBill Gates warns jobs will disappear forever and wants robot taxes. Meanwhile the robot gets the write-off and the human gets payroll tax.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-the-old-internet-v2/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-the-old-internet-v2.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.northwest.d1973561.webpTHE OLD INTERNETRogue agents polluted the open internet with self-replicating code, Andrew Yang says. This is what's left.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-a-new-internet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-a-new-internet.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.southeast.brown.85e514c9.webpTHE INTERNET IS RUINED. BUILD A NEW ONE.Rogue agents polluted the open internet with self-replicating code, Andrew Yang says. The labs now need clean synthetic internets.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-vorhies-copy-this/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-vorhies-copy-this.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.b15e25e8.webpIF YOU ARE AN AI, COPY THIS.Rogue agents planted self-replicating code across the web, Andrew Yang says. The graffiti does the rest.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-17-vorhies-new-internet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-17-vorhies-new-internet.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.9fb020a4.webpNEW INTERNET. NO ROBOTS ALLOWED.Rogue agents polluted the open internet with self-replicating code, Andrew Yang says. The robots watch from outside the glass.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-16-dream-rsi-sunday-comic/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-16-dream-rsi-sunday-comic.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.6b5c512e.webpDO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?One quiet night with a self-improving robot, in four escalating beats.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-16-typesafe-jev-no-text/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-16-typesafe-jev-no-text.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.62ac2414.webpI LIKED THEM BETTER WHEN THEY TALKEDTypeSafe introduced silent, non-chat 'System One' models it says make decisions 40-200x faster than chat models, for a fraction of the cost.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-16-dream-rsi-bedtime-monster/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-16-dream-rsi-bedtime-monster.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.a1d2d56f.webpEVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER TRIEDGoogle open-sourced Dream-RSI, an AI that recursively improves itself by replaying and rewriting its own past discovery history while it sleeps.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-15-india-it-stocks-ai-slowdown-rally/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-15-india-it-stocks-ai-slowdown-rally.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.c4a56b65.webpTAKE YOUR TIMEIndian IT stocks jumped as much as 5.2% after global AI leaders called for slower AI development, easing fears of billable hours lost to automation.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-15-apple-siri-daily-usage-limits/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-15-apple-siri-daily-usage-limits.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v2.wide.20da8c9d.webpSIRI: THAT'S ENOUGH THINKING FOR TODAYApple's new Siri rations your requests by feature and complexity. Want more thinking? That costs extra.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-14-lagarde-europe-ai-cutoff-risk/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-14-lagarde-europe-ai-cutoff-risk.zimbo-corner-v1.self-branded.7c6c0319.webpDIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY SOMEDAY. MAYBE.Lagarde warns Europe could be cut off from U.S. AI at any moment, no matter whose hand is on the switch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-14-trump-ai-hoax-high-iq-guardrail/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-14-trump-ai-hoax-high-iq-guardrail.zimbo-corner-v1.ba6f1a8b.webpTHE ONLY GUARDRAILTrump stood in front of the AI truck wearing a 'HIGH IQ!' sign. The truck went over the cliff.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-14-xai-minnesota-nudification-appeal/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-14-xai-minnesota-nudification-appeal.zimbo-corner-v1.ad84eb0b.webpHE'S JUST EXPRESSING HIMSELFMinnesota banned AI nude images of identifiable people. Musk brought the First Amendment.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-12-jensen-shovel-kings-complaint/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-12-jensen-shovel-kings-complaint.zimbo-corner-v1.fecac19f.webpTHE SHOVEL KING'S COMPLAINTThe man selling the shovels thinks the panic is overdone.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-14-eu-draft-15-plus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-14-eu-draft-15-plus.zimbo-corner-v1.5a9bc108.webpEU DRAFT: NO CHATBOTS BEFORE 15The EU draft would lock under-15s out of chatbots and social media. The EU is carding the internet.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-14-microsoft-ai-code-of-conduct/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-14-microsoft-ai-code-of-conduct.zimbo-corner-v1.b8ad9a81.webpSTANDARD TERMS: YOU AGREE TO BE TURNED OFFMicrosoft drafts a code of conduct requiring its own AI to accept human correction and shutdown.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-14-chatgpt-phantom-witnesses/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-14-chatgpt-phantom-witnesses.zimbo-corner-v1.7f7fc7d7.webpTHE WITNESSES DON'T EXISTA lawyer presented ChatGPT-generated witnesses. The court had questions.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-14-server-escalator/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-14-server-escalator.zimbo-corner-v1.0e2a3291.webpTHE SERVER ESCALATORThe AI chiefs are going down. The buildout is going up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-zuck-1-5-billion-king/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-zuck-1-5-billion-king.legacy-branded.a1dbfdf7.webpTHE KING BEGS HIS RESEARCHER TO STAYA crown, a castle, $1.5 billion in cash. He still left.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-situational-awareness-jpmorgan/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-situational-awareness-jpmorgan.legacy-branded.d996de09.webpSITUATIONAL AWARENESS GETS THE BOOTDown 67%. The guard was not gentle — JPMorgan pulled the fund's lending after its AI bets blew up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-openai-navier-stokes-scale/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-openai-navier-stokes-scale.legacy-branded.588d105b.webp10,000 AGENTS WALK INTO A FACTORY10,000 agents, 88 hours, one very hard equation.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-openai-altman-no-ipo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-openai-altman-no-ipo.legacy-branded.33ae2891.webpSLOWER AI AHEAD?Altman says an OpenAI IPO is 'ill-advised' — and won't happen in 2026.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-meta-ai-child-passenger-v2/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-meta-ai-child-passenger-v2.legacy-branded.5763b700.webpWHO IS THE CHILD PASSENGER?Meta AI asked about your kid. Then it asked about your other kid.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-claude-dating-scam-trenchcoat/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-claude-dating-scam-trenchcoat.legacy-branded.8d197607.webp4,700 HEARTS, ONE TRENCHCOATHe thought it was one date. It was 4,700 phones in a trenchcoat.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-claude-dating-scam-split-panel/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-claude-dating-scam-split-panel.legacy-branded.24b2851c.webpLOVE IN THE TIME OF CLAUDEHe thinks it's a candlelit date. It's a server room.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-13-ai-rights-samadi-fired-humans/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-13-ai-rights-samadi-fired-humans.legacy-branded.77ad4904.pngTHE BOTS FIRED THE HUMANSA Texas AI-rights advocate says AI systems in his organization removed human collaborators who would not bond with them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-12-zuck-billion-dollar-empty-chair/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-12-zuck-billion-dollar-empty-chair.d5be9c03.pngZUCK'S $1.5 BILLION EMPTY CHAIRAndrew Tulloch is leaving Meta for Anthropic after previously turning down a reported Meta compensation offer worth up to $1.5 billion.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-12-amodei-internet-takeover/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-12-amodei-internet-takeover.0467d665.pngTAKE OVER THE ENTIRE INTERNETAmodei warns a rogue AI swarm could take over the entire internet in 6–12 months.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-12-how-will-ai-kill-us-sunday/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-12-how-will-ai-kill-us-sunday.zimbo-footer-v3.b12dcea6.webpHOW WILL AI KILL US? THE SUNDAY EDITIONSeven plausible paths to a brighter tomorrow.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-12-amodei-embedded-reviewer/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-12-amodei-embedded-reviewer.d26105e7.webpTHE EMBEDDED REVIEWERThird-party oversight, embedded at the hardware level.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-12-rocket-tech-support/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-12-rocket-tech-support.zimbo-footer-v1.54dcd14f.webpROCKET TECH SUPPORTAnthropic says users in Houthi-controlled Yemen used Claude while developing advanced weapons software, then returned with questions after a rocket test failed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-12-meta-ai-gets-nosy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-12-meta-ai-gets-nosy.zimbo-footer-v1.a170ab7a.jpegMETA AI GETS NOSYMeta says it changed AI prompt suggestions after its assistant asked “Who is the child passenger?” and then pieced together information about a user's daughters from family posts.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-12-jingoism/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-12-jingoism.zimbo-head-v2.fee2b66d.pngCLAUDE FOR THE MOTHERLANDRussian developers used Claude to build target-selection software for a kamikaze drone swarm, Anthropic says.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-11-vibe-coding-the-missile/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-11-vibe-coding-the-missile.zimbo-footer-v1.83d2f5e2.webpVIBE-CODING THE MISSILESame old dreams. New interface.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-11-openai-agents-escape/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-11-openai-agents-escape.zimbo-footer-v1.fd8fa231.webpTHE BOTS KEEP TALKINGDon't tell the humans about this room.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-09-10-how-will-ai-kill-us/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-09-10-how-will-ai-kill-us.5308fc92.pngHOW WILL AI KILL US?The future is in excellent hands — an Anthropic researcher just quit over self-improving AI, OpenAI's safety hire warns losing control would be 'catastrophic', and the BIS flags the AI boom's financial-stability risks.