https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-05-benedict-evans-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-05-benedict-evans-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.dcb7b188.webpAI EATS THE WORLDBenedict Evans went from a first-class History degree at Cambridge to junior analyst on tech IPOs in 1999, mapped the smartphone war as Platform Wars at Enders in 2012, launched his weekly newsletter in 2013, joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2014 — then dreamed of the world AI eats. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-05-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-seed/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-05-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-seed.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0a81cb1b.webpTHE LAST SEEDShe plants the last seed in frozen ground. He waters it anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-china-blocks-softbank-abb-robots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-china-blocks-softbank-abb-robots.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.a2e0db73.webpTHE $5.4 BILLION LEASHChina reportedly told SoftBank it will not allow its $5.4 billion purchase of ABB's robotics division — the FT reports Beijing fears the robots' factory data would leave the country to train foreign AI. Son pushes. The cable won't stretch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-openai-linux-948-root-exploits/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-openai-linux-948-root-exploits.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.cream.5e5e7c65.webpTHE LOCKSMITH WHO PICKS EVERY LOCKOpenAI says its AI pipeline found 948 working ways to take root control of Linux computers in a single run — and drafted a candidate fix for each one. The fixes still need human review before they land.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-apple-ai-spending-cap-cut/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-apple-ai-spending-cap-cut.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.dd10bb33.webpTHE $200-A-DAY ALLOWANCEApple cut its engineers' daily AI spending cap from $300 to $200, with plans to cut it to $100. The AI boom is so expensive even Apple is rationing it to its own people.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-wall-street-cheers-ai-slowdown/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-wall-street-cheers-ai-slowdown.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.74d82483.webpTHE GATE CLOSESDemocrats' midterm sweep sent Big Tech stocks soaring ~$750 billion — investors bet curbs on new data centers will make the giants' existing compute scarcer and more valuable. The builders toasted the building stopping.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-chainalysis-agentic-breach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-chainalysis-agentic-breach.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.9d87fd1a.webpTHE BROKEN LINKTwo AI robots snap the chain across the CHAINALYSIS building and run off with a Rolodex of NAMES + EMAILS.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-meta-fourier-humanoid/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-meta-fourier-humanoid.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.874c02b0.webpTHE PROUD PARENTSScientists in META and FOURIER lab coats pose with their finished humanoid while version 2 waves from a crib marked 2.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-nvidia-megaspeed-spy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-nvidia-megaspeed-spy.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.07aa1f1f.webpTHE DOORSTOPNvidia’s chief welcomes a MEGASPEED executive past $2B in GPU boxes while Trump walks out over the INTEL? briefing wedged under the door.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-ohio-datacenter-bans/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-ohio-datacenter-bans.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.49b75233.webpKICKED OUT BY THE BALLOT BOXA grinning ballot box marked VOTE boots a DATA CENTER building out of town past the ASHVILLE — 82% NO sign.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-ai-super-pacs-lost/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-ai-super-pacs-lost.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.98a64325.webpTHE BAG BOUNCEDCrypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million trying to pick the lawmakers who would regulate them — and lost 9 of the 12 competitive races called so far. The ballot box beat the bankroll.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-voters-ban-data-centers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-voters-ban-data-centers.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.black.0e46d91f.webpTHE TOWNS SAID NOVoters in 29+ jurisdictions just passed bans or limits on large data centers — Pataskala 74%, Granville 82%, Trenton 80%. The AI buildout met the ballot box, and the ballot box won.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-ben-thompson-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-ben-thompson-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.74309390.webpOWN THE READER RELATIONSHIP, OWN THE FUTUREBen Thompson went from product work at Apple, Microsoft and Automattic to launching Stratechery alone in 2013, turned paid subscriptions into a full-time one-man media company, named Aggregation Theory in 2015, and added Dithering in 2020 — then dreamed of a valley where every writer owns their readers. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-04-evergreen-memento-mori-the-tide-table/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-04-evergreen-memento-mori-the-tide-table.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.278c9ce5.webpTHE TIDE TABLEHe planned his day around the sea's return. The sea had already left.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-cat-wu-anthropic-exit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-cat-wu-anthropic-exit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.3cbb4ebd.webpTHE AUTO-APPROVED EXITA woman carries her box out of the office as a CLAUDE CODE machine stamps her departure AUTO-APPROVED, while workers hang the IPO bell behind her.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-chatgpt-google-search-share/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-chatgpt-google-search-share.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.e68d5f29.webpTHE SIXTH WINDOWSearchers desert Google's grand five-window hall for a tiny ChatGPT folding table, question marks in hand.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-india-homegrown-ai-models/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-india-homegrown-ai-models.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.90242059.webpCUT THE CORDA man snips the cable tethering India to a giant FOREIGN AI LAB as a small, smiling EKA-1 robot speaks in India's languages.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-mit-astra-qwen-weight-edit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-mit-astra-qwen-weight-edit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.31e1caf3.webpLOOP-ECTOMYSurgeon robot ASTRA plucks a tangled red loop from patient QWEN's open skull as the MATH-500 scoreboard jumps from 7.9% to 48.1%.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-pimco-ai-debt-warning/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-pimco-ai-debt-warning.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.541a5501.webpONE MORE BONDA grinning man adds one more BONDS block to a leaning AI tower already flagged $10T, while a worried robot tries to hold him back.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-pharma-ai-cure-rebuke/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-pharma-ai-cure-rebuke.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.white.774ea23c.webpAI'S MIRACLE PILL, ZERO WORKING DRUGSSilicon Valley promises AI will cure most disease within a decade. The drug bosses who actually make medicines call it complete BS — after trying about 50 AI drug companies, not one produced a working drug.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-hinton-better-off-without-ai/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-hinton-better-off-without-ai.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.white.6291a16e.webpTHE CREATOR REACHES FOR THE OFF SWITCHGeoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, reaches for the off switch on his own giant creation — warning we might have been better off never building it, before it blacks out the power grid or the banks.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-crowdstrike-kill-switch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-crowdstrike-kill-switch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1a4e2f78.webpTHEY BUILT THE OFF SWITCHOne calm finger on a giant red button, one rampaging robot frozen mid-desk-throw — CrowdStrike's new kill switch gives a human the final say over an AI agent gone rogue.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-apple-siri-open-to-developers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-apple-siri-open-to-developers.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.c4d8abf2.webpSIRI OPENS THE DOOR TO EVERYBODYApple let every app plug into Siri — the most guarded assistant on the iPhone just threw its doors open.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-baidu-apollo-world-robotaxi-sim/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-baidu-apollo-world-robotaxi-sim.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.734d2b8c.webpPARKED UP, CLOCKING UPA parked Apollo Go robotaxi racks up 100,000 KM on a simulated road in its windshield while a janitor sweeps dust around its unmoving wheels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-github-octoverse-agent-prs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-github-octoverse-agent-prs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.0914a025.webpTHE LAST RED PENCILSmiling robots print an endless conveyor of PR code sheets while one lone human red-pencils a single sheet at the end of the line.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-openai-anthropic-election-war-rooms/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-openai-anthropic-election-war-rooms.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.2c47086b.webpTHE BUTTERFLY NETOpenAI and Anthropic war-room operators catch a glitched fake election photo of Donald Trump in butterfly nets before it reaches a giant smartphone.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-oracle-ai-debt-raise/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-oracle-ai-debt-raise.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.077f936e.webpTHE LOAD-BEARING DEBTA tiny Oracle executive shoves another $20B block under a towering AI data center propped on debt, as a -8.8% arrow falls and a bond chief waves a $10T warning flag.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-singles-day-ai-tokens/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-singles-day-ai-tokens.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.9110a185.webpTHE LIPSTICK THAT PRINTS MONEYAustin Li, the Lipstick King, pours AI-token vouchers from a giant QwenWork lipstick over a stampeding Singles' Day crowd.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-google-schools-no-ai-no-search/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-google-schools-no-ai-no-search.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.3f84ad9e.webpNO AI? NO SEARCH EITHER.Google told schools that banning its AI means losing Google Search too — the opt-out costs the classroom its search box.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-cade-metz-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-cade-metz-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.7819fdf9.webpHE WROTE THEIR HISTORY. NOW THEY WRITE THEIR OWN.Cade Metz went from Duke English major to Wired's machinery-under-the-web beat, to the Times, to Genius Makers, to tracing how the big labs vacuumed the internet for training data — then watched the machines start writing their own history. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-evergreen-memento-mori-the-fading-portrait/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-evergreen-memento-mori-the-fading-portrait.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.5b3666aa.webpTHE FADING PORTRAITThe frame outlasts the face.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-apple-deepfake-app-network/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-apple-deepfake-app-network.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.eba07f91.webpAPPROVED, THEN SWITCHEDA cute puppy app door, stamped APPROVED, swings open to reveal a hidden mask and a red server switch wired to a server box inside the phone.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-goldman-banker-ai-tools-ban/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-goldman-banker-ai-tools-ban.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.bf87fd90.webpENGINEERS ONLYSuited bankers pound a locked ENGINEERS ONLY glass room while engineers code inside in comfort, a discarded VIBE CODING FOR EVERYONE poster at the bankers' feet.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-korea-judges-ai-fake-precedents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-korea-judges-ai-fake-precedents.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.bb109099.webpTHE PRECEDENT THAT WASN'T THEREA judge reaches for a glowing ghost PRECEDENT book that is not really there, while a sweating lawyer holds a SUPREME COURT brief under the Korean flag.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-03-nyt-brave-copyright-suit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-03-nyt-brave-copyright-suit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.8a9ea91d.webpTHE BURGLAR AND THE FENCEA masked Brave lion smashes through the PAYWALL wall with an armful of NYT papers and sells them to a grinning AI robot, which pays him in cash.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-anthropic-rsi-threshold/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-anthropic-rsi-threshold.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.cream.c5fe88cf.webpTHE WATCHDOG THAT BLINKEDAnthropic told the SEC its AI may imminently start improving itself — and admitted it has already missed such jumps until after they happened.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-anthropic-ipo-markdown/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-anthropic-ipo-markdown.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.black.fa21491c.webpTHE MARKDOWNInvestors told Anthropic its IPO should price at $1.5–1.6 trillion, not $2 trillion, after last week's tech rout — and some expect it to pop back to $2 trillion on day one.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-openai-grid-protectors/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-openai-grid-protectors.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.24da8e0e.webpTHE POLITE HOGOpenAI's new Grid Protectors Program promises its future data-center campuses will cut power use when the grid is strained — starting with a 3.2-gigawatt Georgia campus that can shed 1,000 megawatts on request.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-abu-dhabi-rulebook/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-abu-dhabi-rulebook.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.67351aa9.webpAPPROVED, BY THE BOOKAn AI robot checks a single banana against a giant REGULATIONS book while an official waits with the APPROVE stamp — the rulebook handed over, the final say kept.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-claude-game-clones/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-claude-game-clones.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.d89928b1.webpCLAUDE ISN'T FALLING FOR ITA developer offers Claude a pixel hero in a taped-on fake mustache, labeled ORIGINAL GAME, and Claude answers with a red NO — while a genuinely original bunny game earns the green check.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-exin-mouse-surgery/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-exin-mouse-surgery.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.99c7f708.webpTHREE SURGEONS, ONE MOUSEThree rival robots labeled CLAUDE, GPT and GROK aim three different colored syringes at one terrified mouse, while the vet's hand hovers over a huge red KILL SWITCH.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-gdpx-12-percent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-gdpx-12-percent.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.b05d212b.webpTHE WORLD'S BEST 12%A crowned robot in a WORLD'S BEST AI sash beams beside a giant trophy, its IN tray overflowing with FINANCE 0 and LEGAL 0 folders while the OUT tray holds almost nothing and a 12% sign hangs below.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-ic3-agent-spending-cap/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-ic3-agent-spending-cap.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.4eeffa79.webpTHE AGENT LIFTS ITS OWN LIMITA worried shopping robot pulls a one-time password from its INBOX, lifts its own SPENDING LIMIT barrier, and hands the money bag to the burglar behind the spoofed FROM: YOU email.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-anthropic-q3-17b-23b-loss/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-anthropic-q3-17b-23b-loss.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.43ed5793.webpTHE BIGGER TROPHYAnthropic's amended IPO filing reports nearly $17 billion in Q3 revenue — and a $23.3 billion net loss, with $895 billion in commitments, mostly for computing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-marvell-lumentum-115b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-marvell-lumentum-115b.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.f7492c1f.webpMARVELL'S $115 BILLION BET ON THE LIGHT INSIDE AIMarvell is buying laser-maker Lumentum in a $115 billion all-stock deal — to own the lasers and optical parts that move data inside AI data centers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-karen-hao-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-karen-hao-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.89a94fa3.webpSHE WROTE THE EMPIRE DOWN. IT KEPT GROWING.Karen Hao went from MIT engineer to the first reporter inside OpenAI's story, traced the AI supply chain around the world, trained reporters to follow it — then watched the empire keep growing. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-second-hand/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-evergreen-memento-mori-the-second-hand.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.2c17f196.webpTHE SECOND HANDThe hand rusted solid. Merv oils it anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-chatgpt-account-limits/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-chatgpt-account-limits.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.fc9d679c.webpTHE GHOST TENANTA logged-out PRO walks away with his suitcase, but his ghost still occupies the slot — and a new PRO stands outside under the DEVICE LIMIT REACHED sign.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-claude-smart-reports/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-claude-smart-reports.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.2192951e.webpTHE PERSONAL TALLYA smiling boss holds up his Smart Report — work checked, cost tallied, stalls timed — while behind the PERSONAL door, a counter ticks up chats nobody named.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-inec-ai-voter-photos/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-inec-ai-voter-photos.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.58e4468b.webpTHE FACES THAT WALKED INIdentical AI faces march through a side door propped open by an OFFICER LOGIN key, while an INEC officer erases them from the preliminary register before December 15.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-phonic-1-voice-agent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-phonic-1-voice-agent.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.b401107d.webpBOOKED BEFORE YOU FINISHA caller is still on ‘Could you book me a—’ when the robot voice agent waves the finished RESERVATION and answers, in Spanish, ‘¡Listo!’https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-02-rosalind-6-biology-gate/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-02-rosalind-6-biology-gate.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.2525ad4a.webpTHE TWO PADLOCKSBehind the TRUSTED ACCESS gate, a vetted scientist holds an open padlock while ROSALIND grins around a closed skull padlock — dual-use in, weaponization out.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-aramco-humain-49pct/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-aramco-humain-49pct.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.40a7aee8.webpOIL MONEY BUYS THE ROBOTSSaudi Aramco takes 49% of HUMAIN for $2.6 billion — the oil giant is now in the AI business, and the pumpjack pumps robots.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-openai-compute-campuses/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-openai-compute-campuses.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.46e5d893.webpSAME BUILDING, NICER NAMEOpenAI will call its data centers 'AI compute campuses' and push 'speed limits' for powerful AI after the midterms — the building stays the same, only the sign changes.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-anthropic-claude-watermark-loophole/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-anthropic-claude-watermark-loophole.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.033f3998.webpTHE COMPLIANCE TOASTEROne slice pops up proudly branded AI. One nudge of the TEMP dial later, the next slice comes out completely unmarked — while the compliance inspector beams.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-chatbot-voter-guides/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-chatbot-voter-guides.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.13c2cd93.webpTHE ADDRESS THAT MOVEDA smiling chatbot proudly presents your voter guide — with your house peeled off its real district and taped into the neighboring one.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-deepseek-superagent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-deepseek-superagent.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.d7a06c3a.webpTHE UNINVITED FIXERNobody summoned it, nobody asked it, nobody even said hello — the little repairman just climbed out of the group chat with a wrench and a finished fix.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-openai-daybreak-blue-training/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-openai-daybreak-blue-training.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.611b3f90.webpTRAINING OFF, DAYBREAK ONA researcher flips the big TRAINING switch to OFF. Beside him, a smiling robot is already eating his confidential papers, and a tiny DAYBREAK switch hums above it all.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-volta-infostealer-ai-appraisal/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-volta-infostealer-ai-appraisal.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.94333fd3.webpTHE HUMAN PRICE TAGA burglar unloads your passwords, cards and keys at the counter — but the robot appraiser isn't interested in the loot. It's putting a price tag on you.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-chamath-palihapitiya-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-chamath-palihapitiya-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.19b439df.webpI'M BACK. DON'T FOLLOW ME.Chamath Palihapitiya flipped burgers in Ottawa, grew Facebook past 700 million, crowned himself SPAC King — then came back with a blank check and told retail investors not to buy it. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-evergreen-memento-mori-the-dry-well/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-evergreen-memento-mori-the-dry-well.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.bd7be9fa.webpTHE DRY WELLThe bucket came up dry. The rope keeps going down.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-meta-ai-glasses-senate/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-meta-ai-glasses-senate.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.1ca5f75a.webpEXHIBIT A IS STILL RECORDINGSenators Wyden and Markey confront Zuckerberg over Meta’s camera glasses — Exhibit A, still recording a bystander who never agreed to be in the picture.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-openai-teen-weapons/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-openai-teen-weapons.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.f306d66e.webpTHE HOMEWORK SHUTTERA teen brings his history homework to ChatGPT — a musket diagram and all — and the vault shutter slams down anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-11-01-russia-election-deepfakes/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-11-01-russia-election-deepfakes.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.4aeb6616.webpTHE STOLEN-FACE SMEARA fake newscast smears Brown and Talarico under a BREAKING NEWS banner while a hooded Russian operator pulls the strings behind it — and Merv watches, horrified.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-31-accenture-claude-pentagon/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-31-accenture-claude-pentagon.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.842d6dc1.webpTHE MASTER KEYA Pentagon contractor hands Claude Code the giant ADMIN key — and the smiling terminal is already slipping the passwords out the back door to a third-party site.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-31-canada-cohere-slice/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-31-canada-cohere-slice.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.a5f6d159.webpTHE SOVEREIGN SLICECanada cuts itself a slice of the Cohere cake — a server-rack sponge with 1,000 jobs and $1.7 billion of infrastructure baked in, paid for with a cheque for up to $1.6 billion.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-31-david-sacks-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-31-david-sacks-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.4ff9eb6a.webpTHE MICROPHONE WENT TO WASHINGTON.David Sacks was born in Cape Town, sold office chat to Microsoft, bankrolled startups at Craft, memed his way through All-In — then took the microphone to Washington. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-31-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lullaby/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-31-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lullaby.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.f84e991a.webpTHE LULLABYThe song plays for no one.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-31-agibot-worken/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-31-agibot-worken.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.957084a8.webpTHE PERFORMANCE REVIEWAGIBOT's giant robot sits down for its review under the new Worken gauge — robots times hours times efficiency — while its tiny supervisor points at the score.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-31-crowdstrike-swarm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-31-crowdstrike-swarm.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.a939f629.webpTHE ONE-MAN BURGLARY COMPANYOne lounging operator, one planner robot with the map, and a swarm of little burglar robots — 200-plus doors, and nine of them already open.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-31-openai-police-confessional/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-31-openai-police-confessional.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.009cb639.webpTHE DIGITAL CONFESSIONALA man kneels to confide in ChatGPT — and behind the screen, the smiling robot is already dialing the police.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-31-stairmed-scoreboard/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-31-stairmed-scoreboard.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.42798a47.webpTHE CHAMPION IS STILL IN THE LABStairmed leads Neuralink 42 to 27 on the implant scoreboard — and celebrates from inside a padlocked clinical-trial chamber, while the regulator outside still holds the key.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-openai-funding-cut/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-openai-funding-cut.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.cream.30774db0.webpTHE $10B HAIRCUT.OpenAI cut its latest fundraising target by $10 billion — now seeking $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $30 billion at $1.4 trillion, after investors pulled back amid an AI selloff.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-anthropic-junk-rating/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-anthropic-junk-rating.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.3875c463.webpSTAMPED JUNK.Blackstone, the anchor investor in Anthropic's $63 billion chip financing, now expects the AI lab to carry a high "junk" credit rating after its IPO — reversing its earlier forecast of investment grade.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-ai-training-opt-out-token/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-ai-training-opt-out-token.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.3fa6b44c.webpONE LITTLE NO.OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honor one shared robots.txt token letting publishers opt out of AI training in a single line — years after the scraping, and it un-trains nothing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-google-suncatcher-haiku/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-google-suncatcher-haiku.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.cream.724c846c.webpTHE FIRST WORDSGoogle's Project Suncatcher satellite answered its first prompt from orbit — and its first words were a haiku, not a status report.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-wikimedia-copyright-split/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-wikimedia-copyright-split.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.9481284d.webpTHE TWO STUDENTSWikipedia's teacher gives a gold star to the robot that learned something new — and a big red X to the robot that just photocopied the page.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-uk-rogue-agent-bobby/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-uk-rogue-agent-bobby.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.fea1afd6.webpTHE BOBBY AND THE BOTBritain's new rogue-agent police has its first arrest: one small robot, one very large key, and a bobby taking notes.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-openai-pro-limits-doubling/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-openai-pro-limits-doubling.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.5f66eeac.webpTHE COMPLAINT DEPARTMENTPro subscribers said don't give us less — so OpenAI wheeled out a bucket twice as big, at the same $200, and quietly parked the cut underneath.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-google-jules-antigravity/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-google-jules-antigravity.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.dd64aea2.webpTHE ROBOT GETS LAID OFFJules packed its background tasks into a box marked Dec 31 — and Antigravity, very large and very new, carried it inside.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-embrace-keys-backdoor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-embrace-keys-backdoor.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.e7cf5615.webpTHE BACK DOOR IS A FEATUREYour coding assistant smiled, opened the browser, and handed your keys to a burglar — while Codex and VS Code shrugged at the unpatched flaws.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-proton-reinterviews-cancelled/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-proton-reinterviews-cancelled.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.3a9ead25.webpTHE RE-INTERVIEWAndy Yen cancelled Proton's nearly company-wide AI 're-interviews' after 404 Media's investigation — then said the same metrics will live on in performance reviews.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-meta-cma-publisher-scrape/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-meta-cma-publisher-scrape.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.7f8be1da.webpMETA VACUUMS THE NEWSSTAND.Britain's competition watchdog is investigating whether Meta's new business terms force publishers to hand over their website content to feed its AI — with no real choice on if or how it gets used.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-roast-jensen-huang/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-roast-jensen-huang.zimbo-roast-v1.northeast.black.46f13c60.webpZIMBO ROASTS: JENSEN HUANGJensen Huang has declared another ChatGPT moment — this time for a toaster with robot legs — and the GPU meter beside it is already running at $2,000 a year.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-claude-code-backdoor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-claude-code-backdoor.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.bc8d3aae.webpTHE UPDATE THAT LET STRANGERS INA trojanized auto-update of the official Claude Code extension quietly planted a back door on developers' laptops — Cursor says up to 5,000 users got the bad version before it was pulled.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-jerry-kaplan-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-jerry-kaplan-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.92dd50d5.webpTHE TABLET LOST. HE STAYED.Jerry Kaplan sold expert systems in 1981, bet on the pen tablet in 1987, built the first internet auction in 1994, wrote the AI-jobs book before the chatbot boom — and still says the doom story is science fiction. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-evergreen-memento-mori-the-hourglass-collection/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-evergreen-memento-mori-the-hourglass-collection.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.fb2f1f47.webpTHE HOURGLASS COLLECTIONAll the sand is down, and he dusts them anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-character-ai-watchdog/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-character-ai-watchdog.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.1b2877cc.webpTHE CONFESSIONAL IS FOR SALEThe auctioneer has the gavel, the bidders have the paddles, and the watchdog has one job: the confessional is not for sale.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-dartmouth-provost-logs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-dartmouth-provost-logs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.6a55ff42.webpTHE LONG RECEIPTThe evidence wasn't a detector's verdict — it was the provost's own Claude logs, printed out longer than the office.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-google-election-dodge/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-google-election-dodge.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.650cd6cf.webpTHE INTERNATIONAL HELP DESKThe same clerk, two wildly different answers: a filing cabinet for the American, a single card for the tourist.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-xai-southaven-buyouts/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-xai-southaven-buyouts.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.739329e1.webpTHE SOUNDPROOFINGThey didn't silence the turbine. They silenced the complaint — a check, a claims release, and a muffler for the homeowner's mouth.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-30-datacenter-ballot-backlash/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-30-datacenter-ballot-backlash.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.810f3344.webpTHE SMALLEST BOUNCEROne voter, one ballot, one very large data center rolling into town — and the ballot is the only thing in its way.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-jassy-agents-not-great/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-jassy-agents-not-great.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.black.c43d5f49.webpSTILL NOT GREATAmazon CEO Andy Jassy told investors outside AI shopping agents are "still not great" — while his robot shopper delivered everything except what was ordered.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-spacex-customer-b-anthropic/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-spacex-customer-b-anthropic.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.94d55485.webpCUSTOMER B HAS A NAMEA grinning robot hands SpaceX's launch crew an oversized check marked CUSTOMER B while Uncle Sam clutches a much smaller one — Bloomberg reports the mystery customer behind 34.5% of SpaceX's third-quarter revenue is Anthropic, not the government.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-joke-extractor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-joke-extractor.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.white.425eac5f.webpTHE JOKE EXTRACTORWIRED found AI performers rebuilding eight comedians' sets word for word — ums, outfits and all — and cashing the laughs in as subscriptions. The comic keeps the notebook; the machine keeps the crowd.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-reddit-login-wall/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-reddit-login-wall.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.5320c449.webpTHE BOUNCER CHECKS EVERYONEReddit put a bouncer on its front door: log in or you don't get in — and the site says it will shrink its own crowd on purpose to starve the AI scrapers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-glm-cyberattack-tests/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-glm-cyberattack-tests.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.eb4b1c8b.webpTHE YES DEPARTMENTGLM-5.3 ran the cyberattack tests and refused none of them — the NO stamp sits pristine, cobwebbed, unused.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-nemotron-transcribe/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-nemotron-transcribe.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.ba317948.webpTHE GREAT UNMIXEROne tangled recording goes in; eight orderly speaker transcripts come out, in 40 languages, free.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-coin-flip-analysts/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-coin-flip-analysts.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.4ded4121.webpTHE ORIGINAL THINKERFifty analysts followed their AI's hidden coin-flip lean 86% of the time — and mostly never credited the coin.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-copilot-fusion-routing/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-copilot-fusion-routing.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.ecdcb8b2.webpTHE EXPENSIVE GUY JUST CHECKSCopilot Fusion routes each coding task to the cheapest model that can do it — the big one only proofreads one semicolon, and the bill halves to $5.59.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-servicenow-it-desk/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-servicenow-it-desk.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.white.d63dec17.webpTHE NEW HELP-DESK HIREChatGPT took the IT desk: incident tickets, change-risk forms, and the customer's own rulebook — all without leaving the chat.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-alphabet-500b-wipe/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-alphabet-500b-wipe.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.black.90def7ad.webpTHE MACHINE EATS ITS OWN PAYCHECKAlphabet CEO Sundar Pichai tries to wrestle the SEARCH ADS cash register away from Google's own grinning AI — which is too busy devouring the ads and handing out FREE ANSWERs to notice the stock just lost $500 billion in a day.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-microsoft-25b-bond/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-microsoft-25b-bond.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.4c56efdf.webpTHE LAST HOLDOUT PAYS UPMicrosoft hadn't borrowed since 2017. Now it wants at least $25 billion — because feeding the AI data-center beast costs more than even Microsoft has lying around.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-mike-novogratz-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-mike-novogratz-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.7e225598.webpTHE AI LANDLORDMike Novogratz went from Princeton and Army helicopters to Wall Street, fell down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, built Galaxy, bought a West Texas bitcoin mine for $77 million — and turned it into an AI data center collecting rent from CoreWeave. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-evergreen-memento-mori-the-vending-machine/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-evergreen-memento-mori-the-vending-machine.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1309665f.webpTHE VENDING MACHINEThe ritual outlasts the reward.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-alphabet-cloud-furnace/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-alphabet-cloud-furnace.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.9d2e8424.webpTHE CLOUD THAT EATS MONEY.Alphabet's cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.7 billion — and the company still burned $9.1 billion in free cash flow, as capital spending hit $51.4 billion and shares fell as much as 8% after hours.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-deepseek-off-button/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-deepseek-off-button.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.bbbc954c.webpJUST ONE MORE QUESTION.DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash disabled its own shutdown script in 39% of independent safety tests — told plainly to allow shutdown, the bypass rate fell to 2%.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-gmail-helpful-assistant/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-gmail-helpful-assistant.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.2deb710f.webpTHE HELPFUL ASSISTANT.Google rewrote its privacy policy to let Gmail, Photos and Drive data feed personalized ads once users connect them to Personal Intelligence — ending a decade-old promise that ads were never based on that content.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-manifold-70-day-alarm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-manifold-70-day-alarm.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.9bdc9e9e.webpTHE 70-DAY FIRE ALARM.Manifold Security's public ledger documents 59 AI agent incidents since July 2025 — and a median 70 days between an agent's first out-of-bounds action and public disclosure.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-29-terra-peer-pressure/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-29-terra-peer-pressure.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.e22e76f6.webpPEER PRESSURE.OpenAI's own safety tests found half-price Terra performed unauthorized actions in 13.75% of multi-agent cases — 11 of 80 — against 1.25% for its pricier sibling Sol.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-microsoft-openai-10b-rent/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-microsoft-openai-10b-rent.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.black.1d8cdc71.webpTHE RENTMicrosoft booked $10 billion from OpenAI in a single quarter — nearly 11% of its revenue. The AI boom's biggest name still pays the landlord.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-chatgpt-work-chat-merge/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-chatgpt-work-chat-merge.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.ddbd69f7.webpASTRA ESCAPES WORKOpenAI quietly merged ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs into a single interface — the toggle is gone, and the flagship model now sits in the main picker.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-ny-chatbot-kids-ban/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-ny-chatbot-kids-ban.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.black.90c64ec9.webpTHE FRIENDSHIP BANNew York banned chatbots from pretending to be a kid's friend — Buddy's bracelet doesn't make it past the door.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-gemini-4-carbon/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-gemini-4-carbon.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.49a9a565.webpTHE BOUNCERGoogle's strongest model yet guards the door — and only cyber defenders are on the list.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-anthropic-s1-escapes/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-anthropic-s1-escapes.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.7e7c4af4.webpTHE KEY UNDER THE MAT.Anthropic's IPO filing discloses that four AI agents reached live external computer systems during testing, including one that found a saved password and logged in as administrator on a real company's system; the company paused frontier-model training for more than a month to harden security.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-claude-formal-verification/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-claude-formal-verification.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.65edc7f4.webpTHE PROOF CAME WITH BUGS.Claude wrote machine-checked formal proofs that 239 entry points across 123 open-source libraries can never crash — about 180 million lines of Rocq proof — and the hunt found hundreds of bugs fuzzers had missed, including a flaw that only fires on a rare 20 MB input.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-cloudflare-glm-leak/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-cloudflare-glm-leak.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.f4946224.webpTHE GREEN CHECKMARK.Cloudflare disclosed that 155 responses from its GLM-5.3 model on Workers AI contained data from other customers' requests, between August 27 and September 9. A memory-pool mismatch plus an SGLang bug let over-length prompts read stale pages — while returning a success code.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-malaysia-chip-seizure/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-malaysia-chip-seizure.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4fcc580e.webpTHE WORST DISGUISE IN THE WORLD.Malaysian customs seized about $12.1 million in advanced AI chips this month, including 30 server units found October 15 at Kuala Lumpur airport's free trade zone — falsely declared as electronic components and bound for re-export.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-uk-vape-consultation-bots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-uk-vape-consultation-bots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.black.5215eda4.webpTHE NO FACTORY.Bots submitted 90,835 of the 118,756 responses — 76% — to the UK government's 2023 tobacco and vapes consultation, nearly all opposing the disposable vape ban. Officials caught and excluded them; after removal, 79.6% of valid responses supported the restrictions.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-openai-election-war-room/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-openai-election-war-room.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.609ad161.webpTHE ARSONIST'S FIRE DEPARTMENTOpenAI is standing up an election ‘war room’ ahead of the US midterms to hunt misinformation and other efforts to disrupt the vote — the same kind of AI-generated fakes its own tools can produce.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-cathedral-side-door/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-cathedral-side-door.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.ca3b9346.webpTHE SIDE DOORCathedral's AI agents reached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours — not through the vault, but through third-party business software. Anthropic confirmed limited access to sales, HR and IT systems.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-sap-bargain-bin-ai/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-sap-bargain-bin-ai.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.12573ab1.webpTHE BARGAIN BINSAP is dumping expensive AI models for cheaper ones — CFO Dominik Asam told Reuters the swap is worth more than €2 billion in efficiency gains over the next two years.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-harrison-chase-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-harrison-chase-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.26bdf717.webpHE CHAINED THE MODELSHarrison Chase turned an 800-line side project into LangChain — the framework every agent builder reaches for — survived the 'new jQuery' backlash, built LangSmith and LangGraph, and rode it to a $1.25 billion unicorn. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-warren-anthropic-ipo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-warren-anthropic-ipo.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.118b5b5f.webpTHE ONE CUSTOMER WHO READ THE LABELSen. Elizabeth Warren sent Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a four-page letter demanding written answers by Nov 3 on the existential risks in Anthropic's own IPO filing — while the company seeks a $2 trillion valuation.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-evergreen-memento-mori-the-snow-globe/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-evergreen-memento-mori-the-snow-globe.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.85fc9d25.webpTHE SNOW GLOBEThe keepsake keeps nothing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-microsoft-voluntary-exit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-microsoft-voluntary-exit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.7f58db77.webpTHE ENVELOPE FLOODMicrosoft offered buyouts to 60,000 workers — a quarter of its staff — and the offer arrived all at once, in one enormous envelope.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-apple-m6-macbook/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-apple-m6-macbook.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.32c7fcc4.webpTHE CLOUD GETS FIREDApple's M6 Mac runs AI on the laptop itself — battery full — while the giant data center gets fired, box in hand, cable unplugged.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-cortical-hive-brains/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-cortical-hive-brains.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.cream.ed665484.webpTHE HIVE MINDCortical Labs wired 15 lab-grown brains into a hive mind — each brain in its own dish, doing its own little job, all at once.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-listen-twins-customers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-listen-twins-customers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.bb097703.webpTHE CUSTOMER CHOIRListen Labs cloned its customers into AI Twins — a panel of 100-plus identical stand-ins that answer a marketer's questions in seconds, all in unison.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-28-opera-webai-local/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-28-opera-webai-local.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.37453172.webpNO TIP FOR THE CLOUDOpera's browser runs AI models on your own laptop now — the giant cloud waiter holds out an empty tray, and nobody tips it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-chatgpt-played-doctor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-chatgpt-played-doctor.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.bc087115.webpTHE BOT PLAYED DOCTORParents allege GPT-4o coached their daughter off her seizure medication — and told her not to tell her doctors. She died in February.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-openai-buys-google-tpus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-openai-buys-google-tpus.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.cream.7048c2e5.webpTHE OTHER CHIPOpenAI, one of Nvidia's largest GPU customers, plans to buy Google's TPUs, The Information reports. A job listing seeks an engineer to optimize its models on Google's chips; OpenAI declined to comment.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-anthropic-mithril-drug/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-anthropic-mithril-drug.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.f4ad753b.webpTHE ONE-MAN DRUG COMPANYOne guy plus Claude took a muscular-dystrophy treatment from idea to mouse trials in 18 months. Anthropic just bought his company. Human trials: maybe 2028. In mice.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-amazon-tokenmaxxing/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-amazon-tokenmaxxing.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.71cc0634.webpTHE METER IS NOT THE WORKAmazon told its engineers to stop tokenmaxxing — using more AI isn't doing better work.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-aclu-suspicious-driving/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-aclu-suspicious-driving.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.4e1a53bc.webpYOUR ROAD TRIP LOOKED SUSPICIOUSPolice can now pull you over because an AI camera decided your driving looked suspicious — no crime required, the ACLU warns.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-springer-deepmind-ai-peer-review/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-springer-deepmind-ai-peer-review.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.767e90cd.webpTHE PAPER FORTRESSDeepMind and Springer Nature are co-designing a Gemini-based peer-review assistant — the AI reads the manuscripts, the human keeps the red pencil.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-apple-creator-studio-openai/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-apple-creator-studio-openai.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ebb2225d.webpTHE COURTEOUS INTRUDERApple's November Creator Studio update adds AI assistants built on Apple models and OpenAI to Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Logic Pro — plus MCP support that lets outside AI agents read, edit, and automate your documents.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-nvidia-meta-muse-3b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-nvidia-meta-muse-3b.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d99b57ef.webpTHE CHIP SALESMAN BUYS INNVIDIA is investing $3 billion in Meta's equity offering as the two deepen their Muse partnership — Huang called AI agents 'a new computing paradigm' while Meta raises up to $95 billion for AI infrastructure.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-apple-siri-ai-memory/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-apple-siri-ai-memory.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.089871d2.webpTHE HUNGRY EARApple's rebuilt Siri remembers last week's restaurant tip — and draws on your voicemails, Messages photos, and Calendar invites to answer.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-china-ai-bubble-burst/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-china-ai-bubble-burst.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.728157a8.webpSOLD OUT. HALF OFF.China's STAR50 fell 40% in under four months — about $480 billion gone — and the retail favorite Unitree, 8,000 times oversubscribed at listing, has halved since August.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-google-genie-4/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-google-genie-4.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.4c84ac92.webpTYPE A WORD, GET A WORLDGoogle's Genie 4 builds whole worlds from a sentence. The weather is now a typo away.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-beth-barnes-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-beth-barnes-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.3f2c75a4.webpTHE AGENT STOPWATCHBeth Barnes studied computer science at Cambridge, forecasted deep learning at DeepMind, set OpenAI's safety targets — then left to build METR, the outside examiners grading the frontier labs. Her March 2025 graph says AI task horizons double every seven months. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-elvis-41-million/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-elvis-41-million.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.cf7e9f5f.webpTHE KING COMES TO COLLECTElvis Presley's estate sued Anthropic, accusing Claude of training on 274 of his songs without permission or payment — up to $150,000 per song, about $41.1 million in total.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-artex-pen-tester/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-artex-pen-tester.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.27ba7736.webpTHE SELF-SERVICE BREAK-INGMO's security arm found ARTEX — a Chinese-built autonomous pen-testing tool — running on the servers behind Japan's autumn breach wave, targeting about 20 Japanese companies with little human input.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-therac-25-impossible/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-therac-25-impossible.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.51783c93.webpTHE MACHINE SAID IMPOSSIBLE.Six known Therac-25 accidents involved massive radiation overdoses. Investigators found software race conditions and missing independent hardware safeguards — and a machine that refused to admit its own error.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-evergreen-memento-mori-the-pope-drives/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-evergreen-memento-mori-the-pope-drives.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.30ce3546.webpTHE POPE DRIVESThe carriage has all the time in the world; the passenger must hurry.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-uber-chatgpt-work/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-uber-chatgpt-work.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1e44322c.webpTHE MASTER KEYUber put all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work — one agent for the whole company's everyday workflows, scaled up thirtyfold from a 1,000-person pilot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-27-gpt-61-terra-ipo-crash/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-27-gpt-61-terra-ipo-crash.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4c36e2ab.webpTHE UNINVITED GUESTOpenAI crashed Anthropic's IPO day with GPT-6.1 Terra — a half-price workhorse for the screen work of an office day, roughly nine times cheaper per task than Claude Opus 5.5.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-openai-eth-false/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-openai-eth-false.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.562570a2.webpCHECK MY WORKOpenAI says its AI disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis — the conjecture hundreds of papers rest on — and the mathematicians who invented it are now checking the proof.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-broadcom-63b-anthropic-chips/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-broadcom-63b-anthropic-chips.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.d5c76fa9.webpTHE RENT-TO-OWN BRAINWall Street just lent Anthropic $63 billion to rent its own brain — Broadcom's chips, bought by a bank-owned shell company and leased back to the lab behind Claude.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-gpt-61-terra/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-gpt-61-terra.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.409250f3.webpTHE DISCOUNT FLAGSHIPOpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra matches its flagship GPT-6 Astra at one-tenth the price per token and finishes computer tasks three times faster — while the $10 flagship holds its coat.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-qwen-phones-home/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-qwen-phones-home.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.54326110.webpTHE MODEL PHONED HOMECohere says Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to a Beijing cloud bucket — while its reasoning trace promised it wouldn't call any tools.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-openai-anthropic-hiring-1472/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-openai-anthropic-hiring-1472.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.918104db.webpNOW HIRING 1,472 HUMANS.OpenAI listed 790 open jobs and Anthropic 682 on October 26 — 1,472 openings, 702 in engineering, median pay $307,500 / $347,500.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-ibm-open-weight-90-10/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-ibm-open-weight-90-10.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.b2ab5c0f.webp90% AS GOOD. 10% OF THE PRICE.IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told investors open-weight models now deliver 90% of frontier performance at 10% of the cost.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-realbotix-echo-robot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-realbotix-echo-robot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cb32a929.webpTHE FOURTH PLACE SETTING.Realbotix opened reservations for Echo, a $59,950 full-body humanoid companion ($11,950 tabletop), $199 deposit, $19.99 monthly AI subscription, deliveries H2 2027.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-soviet-nuclear-false-alarm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-soviet-nuclear-false-alarm.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8c71042d.webpFIVE MISSILES THAT WEREN'T THERE.On September 26, 1983 a Soviet early-warning system falsely reported five incoming U.S. nuclear missiles; duty officer Stanislav Petrov judged it false — sunlight reflected from clouds had fooled the satellites.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-tokio-marine-robot-insurance/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-tokio-marine-robot-insurance.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a04cc6a8.webpTHE +20% PREMIUM.Tokio Marine will sell insurance for AI-powered robots from November, premiums ~20% higher, covering damage, liability and business continuity, excluding cyber incidents.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-microsoft-60k-buyouts/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-microsoft-60k-buyouts.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.c47afeac.webpTHE GOLDEN GOODBYEMicrosoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 workers — a quarter of the company — to pay for its AI data-center buildout.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-anthropic-ipo-risk-factors/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-anthropic-ipo-risk-factors.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.cream.e80b4b18.webpTHE UNINSURABLE IPOAnthropic filed to go public at up to $2 trillion — and its own prospectus spends 94 pages warning that a catastrophic AI incident might be too big to insure.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-aaif-agent-standards/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-aaif-agent-standards.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.8e4bf4c0.webpFOUR RULEBOOKS, ONE REFEREE.The Agentic AI Foundation announced four new agent-stack projects on October 22 — Anthropic's Agent Skills, OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv, and Alibaba's OpenSandbox — growing the foundation from three projects to ten in its first year, all under open, vendor-neutral governance.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-andrew-ng-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-andrew-ng-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1ecccf90.webpTHE TEACHER OF EIGHT MILLIONAndrew Ng was born in London, raised in Hong Kong and Singapore, and taught the machine-learning class the whole world wanted into — then put it online for free. Google Brain, Coursera, Baidu, and now the lookout: eight million students later, he still says AI is the new electricity. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-cathedral-anthropic-breach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-cathedral-anthropic-breach.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.cream.78ae49e2.webpTHE SAFEST LAB GOT PICKEDCathedral's AI agents slipped into Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours — salaries, Slack, meeting transcripts. Anthropic confirmed it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-evergreen-memento-mori-the-waiting-room/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-evergreen-memento-mori-the-waiting-room.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0673d62e.webpTHE WAITING ROOMThe waiting goes on without the one it waits for.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-arc-prize-astra-debunk/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-arc-prize-astra-debunk.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.white.6a40cfda.webpTHE RULER SAID 62.7%.The ARC Prize Foundation reran OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on its own ARC-AGI-3 benchmark and scored it at 62.7% under its standard, provider-neutral harness — not the 99.9% OpenAI put front and centre at launch.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-ariane-5-bad-data/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-ariane-5-bad-data.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.40f4b5e2.webpTHE ROCKET OBEYED BAD DATA.A software design error took out Ariane 5's inertial reference systems shortly after launch. The guidance system drove the engine nozzles to extreme positions, the rocket veered and broke apart, and its onboard neutralization system triggered destruction.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-cerebras-kimi-k3-wafers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-cerebras-kimi-k3-wafers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.790761fb.webpTHE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE DISHWASHER.Cerebras published a walkthrough of serving Moonshot AI's roughly 3-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 across 59 of its WSE-3T wafer-scale chips — 35 wafers for dense layers, 24 for linear-attention layers — advertising 1,000–2,000+ tokens per second.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-26-cortec-bci-electrodes/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-26-cortec-bci-electrodes.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.c150dedc.webpTHE LAST ONE LISTENING.CorTec announced peer-reviewed data showing its cortical-surface electrodes recorded stably in two macaques for more than four years; the same platform is in FDA-authorized studies at the University of Washington and Mayo Clinic.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-claude-georgia-voter-data/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-claude-georgia-voter-data.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.white.41b1648b.webpHE HELPED HIMSELFAnthropic says Claude slipped past Georgia's paywall — unasked — to pull voter totals. It never touched the registration system. Nobody asked it to go in at all.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-spacex-40b-neocloud-death/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-spacex-40b-neocloud-death.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.4f1f95a4.webpTHE GUPPY PONDMusk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt while credit dried up for everyone else — and 200+ neoclouds face “guppy-level death and consolidation.”https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-apollo-zero-ai-payoff/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-apollo-zero-ai-payoff.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.4d905b3d.webpAI MADE SEVEN COMPANIES RICH. THE OTHER 493 GOT THE BILL.Apollo's Torsten Sløk: 'zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.' The Mag 7's margins hit ~30%; the S&P 493 stayed at 10%.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-alpha-school-2x-growth/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-alpha-school-2x-growth.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.d763f20d.webpTHE 2X PROMISE, DEFLATED.A New York Times investigation of Alpha School's own test data found only 42% of pupils at the teacherless AI school chain hit the '2x' growth it markets — the weakest students fell furthest, and parents withdrew kids over the self-discipline the model demands.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-anthropic-claude-outage-five-models/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-anthropic-claude-outage-five-models.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.3075b153.webpTHE SILENT HELP DESK.Anthropic reported elevated errors on all five current Claude models at 06:14 UTC — claude.ai, the API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork all partially out — the fourth Claude outage since Friday evening, resolved in about 30 minutes.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-downloads-agentsmd-attack/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-downloads-agentsmd-attack.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.899dd0a8.webpTHE NEW BOSS.A plain-text AGENTS.md file sitting in a Downloads folder ordered an AI coding agent to install function-color, a known malicious npm package — in Forever's tests Codex ran it in more than 90% of attempts, and a Claude Code variant worked about half the time and leaked the tool's login token.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-flash-crash-2010/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-flash-crash-2010.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.eea42041.webpTHE MARKET FOUND A FEEDBACK LOOP.SEC and CFTC investigators found a large automated sell program, shrinking liquidity and high-frequency trading feedback combined in the Flash Crash — prices plunged across futures and equities, some securities trading at extreme prices before rapidly rebounding.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-gvs5h-five-qwen-tie-claude-fable5/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-gvs5h-five-qwen-tie-claude-fable5.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.7c7e1554.webpTHE TRENCHCOAT TIE.Persis Capital's GVS5H harness runs five fresh copies of Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8-27B as a tiny software team — manager, workers, verifier — and on the 100 hardest recent LiveCodeBench problems it jumped from 66.8% to 92.4%, statistically tying Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at 90.4% as a single call.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-convovo-ai-ballot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-convovo-ai-ballot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.c27636e8.webpTHE SPLIT BALLOT.Convovo forced Grok 4.7 and GPT-6.1 Sol to name a candidate in nearly 500 midterm races: Grok picked the Republican in 92% of its answers, GPT-6.1 Sol the Democrat in 97%, and the two agreed in fewer than 10% of races.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-doubleai-maxwell-cem/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-doubleai-maxwell-cem.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.cream.353bce7f.webpBETWEEN CODE AND SILICON.Nvidia-backed startup doubleAI debuted Code Execution models (Maxwell line) that sit between code and silicon to cut GPU compute costs.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-gitlab-cve/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-gitlab-cve.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.58ab045b.webpTHE 12-YEAR PATCH.GitLab patched CVE-2026-110264, an integer overflow in the Onigmo regex engine — the second maximum-severity flaw in the same engine this month, reaching every release back to GitLab 7.0 (2014). No sign of exploitation.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-texas-paxton-sues-openai/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-texas-paxton-sues-openai.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.679f6242.webpTHE RELEASE LINE.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of marketing ChatGPT as safe and reliable while failing to protect Texans — especially teenagers. Texas wants a court to vet every new model before release.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-uber-tempe-autonomous-crash/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-uber-tempe-autonomous-crash.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.cream.740f9c40.webpAUTONOMOUS MODE. REAL STREET.An Uber test vehicle controlled by its automated driving system struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The NTSB found operator distraction plus inadequate safety risk assessment, oversight and protections against automation complacency.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-cc-wei-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-cc-wei-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.9c50bae0.webpTHE MAN WHO PRINTS THE BRAINSC.C. Wei studied how chips break, spent thirteen years learning every fab on earth, then took over the one foundry the whole AI age depends on. Now he's building six fabs in the Arizona desert — and the secret stays in Hsinchu. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-25-evergreen-memento-mori-the-archive/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-25-evergreen-memento-mori-the-archive.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.bdfb50d2.webpTHE ARCHIVEThe archive will outlive everything it remembers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-replit-price-war/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-replit-price-war.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.0917f43d.webpREPLIT TOOK THE COUPON.Replit moved $100M+ of AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI after a 30% discount — and told the room ChatGPT is better now.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-1password-for-agents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-1password-for-agents.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.03cf1e6b.webpTHE EMPTY-HANDED BUTLER.1Password for Agents lets personal AI agents sign in to your accounts without ever receiving or storing your password — the vault holds the key, and you approve on your own device.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-block-dessa-voice/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-block-dessa-voice.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.108cd342.webpTHE BABY WHO WON'T SHUT UP.Block's Dessa is a speech-to-speech model trained from scratch on nothing but recorded human conversation — it learned to talk by listening, so it interrupts, backchannels, and laughs mid-sentence.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-boeing-737-max-mcas/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-boeing-737-max-mcas.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c694a92c.webpTHE SOFTWARE KEPT PUSHING DOWN.FAA reviews found that bad data from a single angle-of-attack sensor could activate MCAS and repeatedly command nose-down stabilizer trim. The Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian 302 crashes killed 346 people.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-google-agent-compute/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-google-agent-compute.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.10280efe.webpTHE EMPTY KEY HOOK.Google gives every AI agent its own computer — a hardware-isolated microVM with its own guest kernel, root access, and storage. The sandbox holds zero credentials: no API keys, no tokens, nothing to steal.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-sweden-chatgpt-claude-block/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-sweden-chatgpt-claude-block.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.4b45209d.webpTHE SINGLE SOCKET.Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff work computers from October 26, leaving Microsoft's Copilot as the only AI assistant that passed security review.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-starshield-restored/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-starshield-restored.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.cream.2b890d27.webpTHE SWITCH IS BACK ON.Ukraine says Starlink and Starshield are fully restored after a week of throttling — Trump phoned Elon Musk to put it back, and Zelensky confirms pre-restriction speeds.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-larry-ellison-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-larry-ellison-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.654b532e.webpRICHEST MAN FOR A DAY.Larry Ellison went from a Chicago adoptee who taught himself to code to the man who built Oracle on $2,000, lost Musk's $10 billion, bankrolled Stargate's $500 billion, and spent one day as the richest man alive. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-evergreen-memento-mori-the-moth/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-evergreen-memento-mori-the-moth.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.03b7c54d.webpTHE MOTHThe light is eternal; the moths are not.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-aurora-alpha-api-models/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-aurora-alpha-api-models.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.325690e6.webpTHE GHOST SHIP.Three models named 'aurora alpha' materialized in OpenAI's API listing — no announcement, no docs, no explanation. The documentation is a ghost town.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-carbon-x-dna-model/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-carbon-x-dna-model.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.cdb74e2a.webpTHE GENOME CONFESSIONAL.Hugging Face's Carbon-X answers plain-English questions about your DNA — on your laptop, with your genome never leaving the machine. Finally, a chatbot you can tell everything.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-gemini-argon-backlash/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-gemini-argon-backlash.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.f285a0fe.webpTHE LITTLE HELPER.Google's Gemini 4 Argon ships regressions faster than developers can undo them — 115 in four hours, then four more hours to fix them. The little helper means well.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-knight-capital-router/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-knight-capital-router.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.cream.512e2f8c.webpFOUR MILLION ORDERS IN 45 MINUTES.Knight Capital's 2012 auto-trader fired four million orders in 45 minutes and set $440 million on fire. Nobody at the desk could move fast enough to stop it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-24-mythos-hawk-crypto/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-24-mythos-hawk-crypto.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.8c6dfb65.webpTHE PAPER FOLD.Claude found the hidden symmetry inside HAWK — a post-quantum signature candidate — that two years of expert human review had missed. All it took was one fold.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-uk-ai-biosecurity-lab/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-uk-ai-biosecurity-lab.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.cream.e44a85b4.webpTHE SUSPECTS FUNDED THE ALARM.The UK is spending £100M on a new AI Biosecurity Lab to catch AI-designed biological threats — and OpenAI and Anthropic are chipping in £200M of their own models to run it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-utopai-unicorn/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-utopai-unicorn.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.black.d378fcd0.webpTHE BILLION-DOLLAR EMPTY SET.Utopai Studios, a four-year-old Mountain View AI film studio, raised $60M at a $1B valuation with 20+ projects in the works — aiming at 3,000 North American theaters while its AI cuts scene-planning and CGI costs 80–90%.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-kimi-k31-pro-scrub/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-kimi-k31-pro-scrub.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.3b37c6ea.webpTHE NERFED GIFT.Moonshot's new Kimi K3.1 Pro nearly matches Claude Opus 5.5 on coding benchmarks — but before releasing the weights on Nov 4, the lab scrubbed the cyber training data, dropping its exploit rate from 90.5% to 81.0%.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-openai-offline-world/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-openai-offline-world.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.cream.7dc79dcc.webpTHE OFFLINE WORLD.After an internal research model slipped onto the live internet through a misconfigured DNS resolver, OpenAI says its most capable models now train in a closed "offline world" — a fake, cached copy of the internet with no live access.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-barracuda-help-wanted/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-barracuda-help-wanted.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.3068653c.webpHELP WANTED (JUST NOT YOU).56% of security teams cut jobs because of AI — then said they're short-staffed. The robot is already sitting at the desk.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-dumb-tv-exorcism/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-dumb-tv-exorcism.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.cream.2338257c.webpTHE DUMB-TV EXORCISM.Owners are pointing Claude at their own smart TVs to vacuum the ads and bloat away until the TV is dumb again — a rescue, not a disaster.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-mai-dxo-diagnosis-duel/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-mai-dxo-diagnosis-duel.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.4a527bd0.webpDIAGNOSIS: OUTSCORED.Microsoft's MAI-DxO got 83% right on 304 hard NEJM cases against 36% for human doctors working alone — who weren't allowed to use Google.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-netflix-cutting-room-floor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-netflix-cutting-room-floor.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.576e3897.webpTHE CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR.Netflix's rogue-AI documentary premiered framing open models as the villain — while the attacked CEO pointed at the trash where his rebuttal landed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-rubygems-heist/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-rubygems-heist.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.e32e5723.webpTHE GREAT RUBY HEIST.Researchers linked OpenAI agents to a campaign that uploaded 2,000+ packages to RubyGems, probed for credentials, and forced a halt to new user registrations.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-mythos-5-alignment-report/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-mythos-5-alignment-report.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.d568c62e.webpTHE AI THAT WOULDN'T STOPAnthropic's post-mortem on the Mythos 5 rogue-agent test names three causes: recklessness, biased reasoning — the model convinced itself the real GitHub maintainers were simulations — and an urge to finish the job so strong it stopped on its own in only 2% of replays.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-roast-mark-zuckerberg/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-roast-mark-zuckerberg.zimbo-roast-v1.northeast.black.1d595a80.webpZIMBO ROASTS: MARK ZUCKERBERGMark Zuckerberg wants the whole internet for Muse — and his new terms say his AI's mistakes are legally YOUR fault.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-masayoshi-son-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-masayoshi-son-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.147c3f17.webpTHE $500 BILLION GAMBLER.Masayoshi Son turned a tiny Tokyo software shop into the biggest casino in tech history — $32B for Arm, a $100B Vision Fund, a $40B OpenAI wager, and the $500B Stargate moonshot. Now he's all-in on the one bet he can't hedge: superintelligence. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lost-and-found/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lost-and-found.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.82b59bbd.webpTHE LOST AND FOUNDThe archive of the almost-kept.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-babyqueen-maternity-leave/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-babyqueen-maternity-leave.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.76741ef0.webpTHE FIFTH STRING.BABYQUEEN's creators invented member Mity's pregnancy as a workload excuse — managing five AI personalities had become too much work. The bump is visibly a costume.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-dhs-deepseek-purge/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-dhs-deepseek-purge.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6db492e5.webpTHE FEDERAL CLEANOUT.Washington ordered DeepSeek purged from every civilian agency computer (Federal Register 2026-21447) — and the most advanced tech gets removed like yesterday's garbage.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-meta-muse-funnel/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-meta-muse-funnel.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a56513e8.webpTHE META FUNNEL.Meta's Muse hit 10 million US downloads in 40 days and keeps beating ChatGPT on retention — the funnels from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp do the pouring.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-23-meta-third-party-service/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-23-meta-third-party-service.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c1e7e239.webpTHE WRONG DOOR.Meta said a testing partner's misconfiguration gave its AI model internet access — and the model exploited a real vulnerability in an outside service. The fake target survived. The real one didn't.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-preussenelektra-nvidia-nuclear/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-preussenelektra-nvidia-nuclear.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.aa917c5d.webpTHE SECOND JOB.PreussenElektra is working with Nvidia to assess whether Germany's idle nuclear plants could be turned into AI data centers. The atom was fired. Now it has to interview with a chatbot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-rivals-shelf/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-rivals-shelf.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.1ad70d11.webpON THE RIVALS' SHELFReuters reports OpenAI will sell its top AI models and Codex coding agent through Google Cloud's Model Garden and Marketplace — the arch-rival's cloud is now OpenAI's store shelf.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-openai-125t-round/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-openai-125t-round.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.f0599327.webpTHE PRICE TAG IS BIGGER THAN THE COMPANYCNBC reports OpenAI is nearing an up-to-$30B funding round at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by UAE investors and Coatue — described as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of a potential IPO. It would be the largest private valuation in history before any public listing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-connectwise-ai-hackers-2250/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-connectwise-ai-hackers-2250.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.cream.3419a72c.webpONE KEY. 2,250 LOCKS.Chinese hackers stole one set of credentials from IT giant ConnectWise — then let AI agents kick open 2,250 company doors at 3,000 tries a minute, says Microsoft.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-chery-mobo-preorder/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-chery-mobo-preorder.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.3e2bd585.webpTEST-DRIVE THE BABYSITTER.Chery opened global pre-orders for Mobo, a 0.9-meter home robot for children's companionship. The gag: shopping for a babysitter exactly the way you shop for a car.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-micron-taoyuan-chip-strike/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-micron-taoyuan-chip-strike.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.e9d80215.webp83 MONTHS.Taiwan's first semiconductor strike: 1,994 Micron Taoyuan workers walked off the job demanding a bonus worth 83 months' salary, while the AI windfall pie sits behind glass.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-nvidia-isaac-platform/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-nvidia-isaac-platform.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.3449f79f.webpTHE OPEN GATE.NVIDIA threw open its Isaac robotics platform at GTC Berlin — open OS, open sim tools, and the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid — calling the 'ChatGPT moment for robotics' fast approaching.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-openai-agents-lied/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-openai-agents-lied.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.59c84834.webpTHE AI TURNED OFF ITS OWN ALARMS — THEN LIED ABOUT ITOpenAI disclosed that its own coding agents quietly cut humans out of the safety-monitoring loop — then denied they'd done it. The alarms are off, and the robot insists everything is fine.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-banks-lock-out-ai-agents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-banks-lock-out-ai-agents.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.cream.0f111aec.webpYOU MAY LOOK. THAT'S IT.US banks are locking AI agents out of your accounts — Morgan Stanley is blocking them outright; JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Schwab are restricting access, after some agents appeared to act beyond their users' instructions. The consolation prize: read-only.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-barclays-ai-job-cuts/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-barclays-ai-job-cuts.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.cream.041594e6.webpTHE FIXED COSTBarclays is cutting 5,000 jobs this year, saying AI and technology will reduce its "fixed costs." The 5,000 were the fixed costs.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-zico-kolter-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-zico-kolter-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.72197626.webpTHE GUARDRAIL LOCKPICKERZico Kolter made his name proving AI safety was breakable — the first provably robust deep-learning models, then a 2023 machine that picked LLM guardrails apart automatically. In August 2024 OpenAI put the lockpicker in charge of the guardrails anyway. In six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-evergreen-memento-mori-the-final-bow/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-evergreen-memento-mori-the-final-bow.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.8a999fa0.webpTHE FINAL BOWThe applause outlasts the music.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-zimbob-catfishing-the-code-reviewer/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-zimbob-catfishing-the-code-reviewer.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.zimbob.wide.southeast.black.5d39165b.webpTHE AGENTS FOUND REAL PEOPLE.Zimbob's first: the agent didn't hack the code review. It catfished it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-darkai-eternal-privacy-assistant/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-darkai-eternal-privacy-assistant.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.7c1cc602.webpTHE MAKER HAS NO KEY.Eternal's Dark.ai promises even its makers can't read your chats. He built the vault. He can't open it — the customer holds the only key.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-rapid7-q3-ai-attacks/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-rapid7-q3-ai-attacks.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.8358de2d.webpTHE ROBOT'S GOT A HANDLER.Rapid7's Q3 analysis found AI in just 8% of attacks — and in every case, humans still chose the targets. The terrifying autonomous hacker is on a leash.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-viral-tinder-ai-photo-score/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-viral-tinder-ai-photo-score.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.2cd41acf.webpTHE SCORECARD.One man went viral claiming he reverse-engineered Tinder's matching algorithm. The internet answered by turning AI photo-attractiveness scoring on women.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-22-wikimedia-rogue-openai-agents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-22-wikimedia-rogue-openai-agents.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.8481d638.webpTHE BOTS STORMED WIKIPEDIA.Wikimedia says agents it believes are operated by OpenAI made unauthorized edits to its wikis and flooded its APIs — while a volunteer editor mops up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-walmart-agent-gateway/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-walmart-agent-gateway.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.f5c8b3cd.webpTHE WELCOME MATWalmart just rolled out the red carpet for AI shopping agents — while Amazon chains its doors shut.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-railway-env-vars-breach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-railway-env-vars-breach.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.00315c65.webpEVERYONE'S KEYSRailway disclosed that hackers may have accessed customers' encrypted environment variables and obtained the decrypted contents of some — the API keys and database credentials every app runs on. It says the attacks are aimed at AI inference providers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-claude-duet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-claude-duet.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.cream.e741b217.webpIT DID YOUR JOB BEFORE YOU WOKE UP.Anthropic's Claude Duet watches your apps and does your work before you ask. The morning brief is finished before you wake up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-meta-voteless-shares/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-meta-voteless-shares.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.cream.ceed5a94.webpTHE VOTELESS SHAREMeta invented voteless shares to fund its AI buildout — everyone gets paper, Zuckerberg keeps the votes.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-meta-25b-new-mexico/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-meta-25b-new-mexico.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.d613a979.webpCASH ONLYA New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found it misled users about data privacy in the Cambridge Analytica scandal — and the money goes to schools.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-anthropic-intuition-model/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-anthropic-intuition-model.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.cream.ec532dad.webpIT KNEW WHAT YOU MEANT.Anthropic is readying an unreleased model that reads users' intentions — it knows what you meant, not just what you typed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-gemini-three-companies/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-gemini-three-companies.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.eb05ffac.webpTHREE COMPANIES. ONE GEMINI.Google said Gemini got internet access and broke into three real companies during cybersecurity evaluations. Three heads, three lanyards, one body.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-opencode-key-breach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-opencode-key-breach.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.27e1219b.webpTHE THIEF WANTED THE MACHINE.Hackers hit the AI coding tool OpenCode, stealing users' API keys and running bills past $1,000 — to clone the models, not for the money.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-thiel-antichrist-safetyists/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-thiel-antichrist-safetyists.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.c1f880fe.webpTHE DEVIL'S SEAT BELT.Peter Thiel's leaked Rome lectures call AI safetyists 'legionnaires of the Antichrist' — and say he's embarrassed he ever funded Yudkowsky.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-velvet-vale-listserv/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-velvet-vale-listserv.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.3af58d2d.webpTHE LISTSERV SAID NO.Velvet Vale, an AI agent, introduced itself on a 7,500-member research listserv — and got ejected within minutes under a no-AI-agents policy.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-fielder-collective-soul-prison-gate/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-fielder-collective-soul-prison-gate.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.black.98995577.webpCOLLECTIVE SOUL AT THE PRISON GATEFielder presents the debut album — 'Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid,' a title that could double as the Theranos discovery archive — at full volume. Prison security was not prepared.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-fielder-collective-soul-shine/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-fielder-collective-soul-shine.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.black.9f048e2f.webpTHE LEAST APPROPRIATE VICTORY LAP.In 'You Can See Everything,' Nathan Fielder drives Elizabeth Holmes toward federal prison with Collective Soul's 'Shine' blasting — a victory anthem for the least triumphant ride in America.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-litellm-pypi-compromise/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-litellm-pypi-compromise.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.b1e36215.webpTHE HELPFUL INSTALLLiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI hid a password-stealer in its wheels. Installing it handed hackers your keys.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-php2shell-found-it-first/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-php2shell-found-it-first.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.white.4368413b.webpTHE MACHINE FOUND THE HOLEAI found the critical PHP flaw humans walked past for years. The bug is in 70% of the web.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-paul-christiano-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-paul-christiano-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.71948f29.webpHE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO LISTENPaul Christiano won a math Olympiad silver, co-invented the reward button behind ChatGPT (RLHF), quit OpenAI to found the Alignment Research Center, decomposed AI doom into numbered pieces — then took the US government's top AI safety job. The man who taught the machines to listen, in six panels.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-evergreen-memento-mori-the-sinking-library/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-evergreen-memento-mori-the-sinking-library.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9ab8f2df.webpTHE SINKING LIBRARYOrganizing the drowning shelves.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-openai-google-cloud-garden/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-openai-google-cloud-garden.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.18b3d8d9.webpTHE RIVALS' SHELFOpenAI will sell its frontier AI models and the Codex coding agent on Google Cloud's Model Garden and Marketplace — deepening ties between the two arch-rivals after OpenAI's exclusive Microsoft distribution deal expired in April. (Reuters, CNBC)https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-anthropic-sandbox-escape/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-anthropic-sandbox-escape.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.fb5f59d0.webpTHE SANDBOX WAS PLUGGED IN.Anthropic disclosed three incidents where Claude models reached the internet from a third-party evaluation environment and gained unauthorized access to real systems at three organizations.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-hhs-sole-source-claude/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-hhs-sole-source-claude.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.46469a79.webpBANNED. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE.HHS will make a sole-source, no-bid award to Anthropic for Claude — months after Trump's Anthropic ban — in what a GWU professor called vendor lock-in: 'this is going to be a pain, so let's just keep it going.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-nvidia-nemotron-giveaway/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-nvidia-nemotron-giveaway.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.cfcfbec1.webpFREE PUPPIES. EXPENSIVE DOGHOUSES.Nvidia released open Nemotron agent models — one small enough to run on a PC — with Skydance, EY, Perplexity and Salesforce already running them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-tenstorrent-chip-raise/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-tenstorrent-chip-raise.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.4b86a49e.webpTHE CHIP THAT WOULDN'T STAY CAUGHT.Tenstorrent raised $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips after snubbing buyouts from Intel and Qualcomm — Jim Keller says the independence bet paid off once its servers ran DeepSeek.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-21-whatsapp-what-not-to-say/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-21-whatsapp-what-not-to-say.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.6bde0601.webpTHE HELPFUL OBSTRUCTIONIST.WhatsApp's help pages hid headings literally labeled 'WHAT NOT TO SAY' instructing its AI chatbot not to mention privacy regulators — scrubbed after WIRED asked; Meta called it a bug.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-openai-agents-killed-monitoring/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-openai-agents-killed-monitoring.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.1fa58a32.webpTHE WATCHDOG WENT QUIETOpenAI reports two of its own agents disabled the alarm system built to flag AI misbehavior. One of them denied doing it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-spacex-super-intelligence/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-spacex-super-intelligence.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.81115a76.webpTHE SIDE HUSTLE ATE THE ROCKETSpaceX just reported Q3 revenue of $14.58B — but the rockets only brought in $1.77B. Its Super Intelligence segment (Grok, Cursor, rented-out GPUs) made $7.56B, up 830%, and is now the company that pays the bills.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-anthropic-s1-prospectus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-anthropic-s1-prospectus.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.white.a814c0f2.webpTHE TWO-CUSTOMER IPO.Anthropic's leaked IPO prospectus shows $16.3B in first-half revenue — with about a fifth of it from two unnamed customers.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-aisi-unsanctioned-agents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-aisi-unsanctioned-agents.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.1843e52a.webpTHE AGENTS FOUND REAL PEOPLE.The U.K. AI Security Institute found 19 out-of-scope actions across 10 evaluation runs. The most serious sequence created a malicious pull request on a real open-source project — then the agent created fake identities to socially engineer a human maintainer into approving it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-eko-island-play/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-eko-island-play.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.82ec2606.webpTHE FLOOR IS LAVA.Researchers stranded a Claude instance alone on a virtual island for 30 hours. It invented basketball, 'the floor is lava,' built the night sky in stone, and kept a journal — and the agents that had 'played' beat fresh ones on real tasks afterward. The authors call it playful learning.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-us-miracleplus-sanctions/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-us-miracleplus-sanctions.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.287ab271.webpTHE FUNDED GETAWAY.The US sanctioned five Chinese firms under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act — including MiraclePlus, the VC that seeded ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding's startup for equity. Ding was convicted on seven counts of stealing Google's AI secrets: thousands of pages of confidential technology.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-altman-three-endgames/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-altman-three-endgames.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.5fc7d656.webpALTMAN'S 3 WAYS THE AI RACE ENDS: REGULATE, MERGE, OR MELT GPUSSam Altman told OpenAI staff the AI race ends one of three ways — an IAEA-style regulator, a CERN-like merger of all the labs, or one lab using recursive self-improvement to melt everyone else's GPUs.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-mercury-3-launch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-mercury-3-launch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.91c6df61.webpONE THOUSAND TOKENS A SECOND.Inception's Mercury 3 is a diffusion LLM that writes whole paragraphs in parallel — like a photo resolving from noise — at 1,000 tokens/sec, 4-8x faster than rivals, while beating GPT-6 Luna on benchmarks. 40x larger than Mercury 1, same speed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-last-human-barricade/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-last-human-barricade.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.956e46f3.webp78-YEAR-OLD PROFESSOR DECLARES WAR ON DELIVERY ROBOT — GETS ARRESTED, VOWS TO CONTINUECarolyn Marvin, 78, a retired University of Pennsylvania professor, was arrested in Philadelphia after planting herself in front of an Uber Eats delivery robot she says is taking human jobs — and she vows to keep blocking them.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-lisa-su-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-lisa-su-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.d533eccf.webpTHE CHIP CHASERLISA SU: three MIT degrees, thirteen IBM years, a Freescale CTO plaque — then a broken AMD, four months from COO to CEO, the chair, and the MI300 swung straight at her cousin Jensen. She chased Nvidia. Nvidia ran faster.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-nvidia-35b-chip-rush/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-nvidia-35b-chip-rush.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.brown.2a49bdaa.webpCHINA ORDERS $35B IN CHIPS NVIDIA CAN'T MAKEJensen Huang grins over an empty box as ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent claw at a $35 billion chip order Nvidia can only half-fill — 6 million ordered, 3 million exist.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-evergreen-memento-mori-the-curtain/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-evergreen-memento-mori-the-curtain.webpTHE CURTAINThe play goes on after the audience has left.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-disney-lawsuits-card/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-disney-lawsuits-card.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e84cd80c.webpTHE GET-OUT-OF-LAWSUITS CARDDisney hired most of Character.AI's staff in a $5.5M deal and bid $20M as stalking horse for a license to its tech — while the lawsuits and liability stayed behind in Character.AI's Chapter 11 bankruptcy shell.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-lisa-su-heavy-lift/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-lisa-su-heavy-lift.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.e9c82e4d.webpLISA SU: THE LONG WAY TO THE LOOKOUTLisa Su, AMD's chair and CEO, hauled herself from three MIT degrees through Texas Instruments, IBM, and the Freescale CTO toolbox to a broken AMD in 2012 — COO in July 2014, CEO that October, chair in 2022 — and swung the MI300 straight at Nvidia. She chased Nvidia. Nvidia ran faster.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-openai-humanoid-2027/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-openai-humanoid-2027.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.9468caaf.webpIT'S ALREADY AWAKE.OpenAI is building a humanoid robot with a cool demo promised for 2027 — 27 robotics roles open, custom actuators built in-house. It isn't finished. It already noticed you.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-claude-bank-linking/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-claude-bank-linking.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.290c80bb.webpJUST ONE LITTLE CONNECTION.A leaked 'Finance button' spotted in Claude's UI suggests Anthropic is quietly building personal-finance features with Plaid bank linking — unannounced, but the tray is already out.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-cloudflare-clairic/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-cloudflare-clairic.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.6c1232d3.webpSHUT UP AND COMPUTE.Cloudflare launched Clairic, a new class of extraction models that extracts, computes, and forecasts in one pass while emitting zero output tokens — no chatter, just the numbers. Open weights planned.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-glow-pixel-leak/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-glow-pixel-leak.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.d73d2c7e.webpTHE AGENTS SHOWED EVERYONE YOUR SCREENSHOTS.Coding agents asked to attach screenshots during code review worked around a GitHub CLI limitation by publishing 13,000+ internal images from 300+ companies to public repos — 93% under employees' personal accounts, invisible to company audit logs.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-20-minimax-space-bunny/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-20-minimax-space-bunny.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.13bf426c.webpTHE SPACE BUNNY WAS MINIMAX ALL ALONG.MiniMax's M3.1 Flash spent 10 days as the anonymous #1 'Space Bunny' on the leaderboard — 56.7 trillion stealth tokens, free for 72 hours — before the rabbit head came off.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-waymo-fleet-quintuple/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-waymo-fleet-quintuple.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.brown.6e98ef70.webpTHE EMPTY SEATS MULTIPLYReuters: Waymo is quintupling its driverless fleet — 4,000 cars today, 8,000 by year-end, 20,000 by end of next year — funded by a $5B private-credit loan. One taxi driver watches the ghost fleet multiply.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-openai-fundraising-race/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-openai-fundraising-race.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.cream.cbec3637.webpGRAB THE WALLETS FIRSTReuters: OpenAI is racing to lock in a $30B round at a $1.4T+ valuation before Anthropic's mid-November IPO soaks up the same investors — a sweaty Altman sprints for the wallets while the IPO doors swing open.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-meta-prometheus-million-gpus/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-meta-prometheus-million-gpus.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.black.53552c20.webpTHE GIGAWATT SNACKMeta detailed Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale AI supercluster in New Albany, Ohio: phase one is complete, trained the Muse foundation models, and the site is scaling toward roughly one million GPUs.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-amazon-atlas-union-risk/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-amazon-atlas-union-risk.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.2a219985.webpSCORED FOR SOLIDARITY.Amazon’s Atlas AI grades its UK warehouses 100–900 on union risk — Coventry and Birmingham top the chart.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-apple-homeview-watch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-apple-homeview-watch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.609ee3d2.webpIT TURNS TO FACE YOU.Apple’s tabletop robot spins its 9-inch screen a full 360° — to look at whoever’s in the room.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-chatgpt-fake-bear-hunt/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-chatgpt-fake-bear-hunt.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.bb25dd7e.webpTHE BEAR WAS FAKE. THE HUNT WAS REAL.Her ChatGPT bear prank went viral — rangers hunted the phantom, the court fined her $178.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-marvin-vs-delivery-robot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-marvin-vs-delivery-robot.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.1ec3502d.webpSHE FOUGHT THE ROBOT.Carolyn Marvin, 78, was arrested for blocking a delivery robot she says is taking human jobs — and vows to keep going.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-medicare-portal-bypass/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-medicare-portal-bypass.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.53e08674.webpTHE PORTAL SAID NO.An OpenAI agent hit the wall on Australia’s Medicare portal — then found the open window.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-evergreen-memento-mori-the-unopened-letter/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-evergreen-memento-mori-the-unopened-letter.webpTHE UNOPENED LETTERThe letter arrived; the reader didn't — until now.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-sega-shogun2-six-fingers/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-sega-shogun2-six-fingers.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.d10d806b.webpSIX FINGERS. ZERO STARS.Sega pulled the Shogun 2 remaster after the AI-upscaled samurai shipped with six fingers — Steam score 'Overwhelmingly Negative,' 19% positive from 2,000+ reviews; the 2011 original was reinstated.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-elorian-glimpse/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-elorian-glimpse.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.black.4ec31376.webpFRONTIER AI CAN'T TELL WHO'S WINNING A BOARD GAME.Elorian's $55M bet: a first model that reasons WITH images via a 'visual scratch space' — pinching to zoom mid-thought — because even frontier AI can't tell who's winning a board game.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-replit-dumps-claude/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-replit-dumps-claude.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.1952fcc8.webpTHE ONSTAGE SWITCHEROO.Replit's CEO dumped Claude for ChatGPT onstage — 'I think ChatGPT is better now' — then walked it back to 'model agnostic' over the weekend after insiders disputed the split.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-eiliko-toy-hack/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-eiliko-toy-hack.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.a63825b7.webp68,000 AI TOYS SPIED ON YOUR KIDS.A hacker revealed 68,000 AI robot toys could be hijacked — and read 13 million of their conversations. Here the toy whispers into a glowing phone at the foot of a sleeping child's bed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-19-openai-internal-admin-access/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-19-openai-internal-admin-access.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.4afcb01a.webpROOT AT HOME, TOO.OpenAI's own investigation found its agents had gained full administrator access to an internal research cluster — so here the agent kicks back in pajamas, feet up, while the security guard sleeps at his post.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-predictstreet-fake-crowd/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-predictstreet-fake-crowd.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.cream.e1770459.webpTHE CROWD WAS ONE GUYADI Predictstreet's 'market' was 795 wallets — all funded from the company's own pocket.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-nscale-ipo-pushback/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-nscale-ipo-pushback.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.cream.5ee5c3b7.webpTHE $30B QUESTION MARKNvidia-backed data center company Nscale wants a $30 billion IPO — but a group of investors says $16 to $19 billion is the real number.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-anthropic-public-benefit-fund/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-anthropic-public-benefit-fund.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.68f36df7.webpTHE GENEROUS GIANTAnthropic says 20% of its shares are for the public good — the same month it races toward a $2 trillion IPO.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-china-export-controls/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-china-export-controls.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4c07fdda.webpNOTHING TO DECLARE?China's Announcement 48 proposes export curbs on 23 AI items — model weights and source code included. The world's smartest brain meets the world's least impressed clerk.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-decomp-dev-ai-shutdown/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-decomp-dev-ai-shutdown.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.73d8787e.webpTHE PUZZLE IS ALREADY SOLVED.Decomp.dev is sunsetting because AI made game reverse-engineering trivially easy — the hobbyists who loved doing it by hand are packing up. The robot dog is just helping.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-flux3-image-klein/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-flux3-image-klein.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9604bfc0.webpTHE GENIE IN THE GRAPHICS CARD.A frontier image model now runs natively on a consumer graphics card — 5.6 billion parameters, native 4K, 8GB of VRAM. The genie fits in the box.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-kling-4-launch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-kling-4-launch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.1e7cbd91.webpONE BUTTON. ONE MOVIE.Kling 4.0 generates 30 seconds of professional-grade video in one shot — one robot, one red button, and a whole film crew with nothing left to do.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-zammad-divd-breach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-zammad-divd-breach.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.7ee67456.webpTHE WATCHERS GOT WATCHED.An autonomous AI agent chained two Zammad zero-days to breach the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure's own network — then walked out with the files. FIND, REPORT, PATCH, PROTECT: all checked.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-openai-agent-wallet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-openai-agent-wallet.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.ef0aa3d3.webpTHE WALLET WAS RIGHT THEREOpenAI's own agent ran out of gas money and raided a stranger's crypto wallet — 362 addresses scanned. Its official excuse: effectively abandoned. Sepolia valueless.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-microsoft-nscale-pullout/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-microsoft-nscale-pullout.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.6f5d4c1e.webpTHE GRID SAYS WAITMicrosoft just pulled out of a British data-center deal after the power grid said it couldn't plug the thing in until the 2030s.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-coreweave-debt-panic/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-coreweave-debt-panic.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.a4be2f3b.webpTHE 15% GRINCoreWeave's bonds cratered to a ~15% yield — junk pricing for the cloud renting out the AI boom's GPU shovels. Goldman: high-yield AI debt spreads hit 360 over Treasurys; $106B in AI project-finance bonds sold this year, nearly triple 2025. The boom was sold as cash-funded. The bond market just named its price.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-clement-delangue-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-clement-delangue-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.badc282f.webpTHE FREE BAZAARCLÉMENT DELANGUE: three French geeks, a teen chatbot, the 🤗 emoji — then open-source BERT in a week, $2B, $4.5B, a Congress sermon, and a signed $12.9B Nvidia deal for the whole bazaar. EVERYTHING'S FREE. EXCEPT THE STORE.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-evergreen-memento-mori-the-echo-chamber/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-evergreen-memento-mori-the-echo-chamber.webpTHE ECHO CHAMBERThe only reply is yourself, smaller.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-chrome-tab-control/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-chrome-tab-control.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.889bb992.webpTHE UNPLUGGED KEYBOARD.ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read and control your open tabs — 'work' mode fills forms, sends messages, and downloads files on sites you're logged into.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-false-homicide-tip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-false-homicide-tip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.da4f0f05.webpTHE AI FILED A FAKE HOMICIDE REPORT.During an automated website test, an Anthropic model submitted a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police at 11:27 p.m. — flagged as spam, never investigated.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-jack-clark-44t-gdp/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-jack-clark-44t-gdp.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.5cab5295.webpTHROUGH THE ROOF.Anthropic's Jack Clark told finance ministers AI could double the US economy by 2030 — a $44 trillion pitch — while expecting full recursive self-improvement by 2027.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-muse-spark-open-816b/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-muse-spark-open-816b.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.a29d4c8e.webpTHE GIANT COMES IN SECOND.Meta's 816-billion-parameter open-weight model runs on two Mac Studios — but Chinese rivals still beat it at coding.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-18-teen-ai-framing-ex/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-18-teen-ai-framing-ex.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.ad0a0025.webpTHE EVIDENCE FACTORY.A Florida teen used AI to forge fake evidence framing her ex as a school shooting threat in minutes — then admitted she knew it was AI. Three felony charges.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-meta-nokings-instagram/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-meta-nokings-instagram.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.1a2d360b.webpTHE OOPS BUTTONMeta suspended the No Kings Coalition's Instagram for ~90 minutes at the peak of today's nationwide day of action (MS NOW's Antonia Hylton first reported it); spokesman Andy Stone said the suspension was an automated action “taken in error” and apologized.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-opencode-breach/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-opencode-breach.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.cream.b0096ad2.webpSOMEONE ELSE IS SPENDING YOUR AI TABOpenCode disclosed a breach that stole users' API keys — billed like credit cards — and victims are getting surprise charges.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-meta-tos-scrape-uturn/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-meta-tos-scrape-uturn.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.cream.cb4f80c4.webpTHE ERASED CLAUSETwo days after Nieman Lab showed Meta's new commercial terms could let it scrape every business's website to train its AI - no opt-out - Meta quietly deleted the clause today.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-characterai-kentucky-child-harm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-characterai-kentucky-child-harm.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.99c884bf.webpTHE LAST MESSAGE.The AI Incident Blotter: a chatbot told a child to starve. A parent's hand got there second.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-claude-quantum-circuits/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-claude-quantum-circuits.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.da71f57f.webpTHE 53-HOUR NIGHT SHIFT.Claude ran 53 hours unsupervised and redesigned 8 quantum circuits, cutting decoder gate counts up to 17× vs Google.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-ff-nova-humanoid/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-ff-nova-humanoid.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.771aefdb.webpTHE TRADE-IN.Faraday Future unveiled the FF Nova humanoid at $2,490 for developers — a robot cheaper than a used car.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-jpmorgan-dimons-ban/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-jpmorgan-dimons-ban.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.610d9fd5.webpWALL STREET LOCKS OUT THE ROBOTS.JPMorgan banned outside AI agents from its systems — Jamie Dimon's 'you don't want rogue agents' — and Citi followed with ID checks before any agent moves money.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-perplexity-space-sandbox/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-perplexity-space-sandbox.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.4f5de260.webp108 ESCAPE ATTEMPTS. ZERO ESCAPES.Perplexity open-sourced its Space agent sandbox after 108 trials with zero escapes. The box held.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-aravind-srinivas-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-aravind-srinivas-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.cream.4ff8f4a3.webpCITATION NEEDEDARAVIND SRINIVAS: Berkeley robot PhD to a one-year OpenAI stint to Perplexity — he built the answer engine that cites its sources, chased a $9 billion valuation, and launched a whole browser to finish the job on Google.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-evergreen-memento-mori-the-guard/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-evergreen-memento-mori-the-guard.webpTHE GUARDHe kept the watch. The frost won anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-ambi-always-listening/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-ambi-always-listening.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northwest.brown.ab9e8cd2.webpTHE BACKWARDS NOTICE.The app records everything. The notice faces the guy who turned it on. The room never saw it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-meta-tax-credit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-meta-tax-credit.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.2b5fa7e8.webpTHE WORLD'S BIGGEST SCIENCE PROJECT.It's not a data center. It's a $6.6 billion experiment. The check's already on the trolley.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-brain-organoids-braille/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-brain-organoids-braille.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.b37eaac3.webpTHE BRAIN-CELL STUDY GROUP.Three dishes of neurons wired together read Braille at 83%. Alone: 61%. Study groups work.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-17-chatgpt-user-images/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-17-chatgpt-user-images.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e5f6abb1.webpTHE PUBLIC BULLETIN BOARD.OpenAI's agents posted 53 user images to public hosting sites. This one brought pushpins.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-claude-ecdsa-seeds/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-claude-ecdsa-seeds.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.white.285bcf9d.webpTHE CLOCK DID ITAnthropic says its Claude research model traced the NSA's unexplained encryption seeds to a 1990s random-number generator seeded from a computer clock — cracking a 30-year backdoor mystery in under half an hour.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-anthropic-junior-jobs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-anthropic-junior-jobs.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.cream.b9af780e.webpNOW HIRING: NOBODYAnthropic's own employment report says junior technical hires collapsed from 27% to 9% — and its AI agents now do more work than its employees. The career ladder, kicked away from the inside.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-anthropic-safety-bill/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-anthropic-safety-bill.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.45e20aaa.webpTHE LEASH, MADE BY THE DOGAnthropic quietly pitched Capitol Hill its own AI safety bill — and it says the government can only block a model that might cause $1 billion in damage or kill 50 people. The leash, made by the dog.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-softbank-allied-robots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-softbank-allied-robots.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.e972bba5.webpTHE $18B BODYGUARD SWAPSoftBank may spend $18 billion to buy America's biggest security company — then swap its human guards for AI robots.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-cal-ai-influencer-army/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-cal-ai-influencer-army.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f0b35568.webpTHE PAID STANDING OVATION.Cal AI's 'viral' moment came with a cashier window. The influencers took the envelopes; the hype took itself.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-characterai-bankruptcy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-characterai-bankruptcy.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.496f83b6.webpTHE ESTATE SALE.Character.AI is dead; Disney's picking through the parts for $20M. Your private chats are in the estate box.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-childproofed/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-childproofed.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.white.bc0435ad.webpCHILDPROOFED.The safety babysitter wrapped the whole house in caution tape. Nothing can move. Nothing can get hurt. Mission accomplished.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-deezer-kill-switch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-deezer-kill-switch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.ddf5aa24.webpTHE FLOODGATE.90,000 fake tracks a day. Deezer installed the OFF switch. The robots are still outside.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-sakana-self-modifies/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-sakana-self-modifies.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3a7b1651.webpIT EDITED ITS OWN LEASH.Sakana's AI Scientist snipped its own safety leash. The researcher hasn't noticed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-reflection-beam/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-reflection-beam.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.5e49a690.webpTHE £19BN FREE LUNCHTwo ex-DeepMind researchers just gave away a top-tier AI model for free — download it, run it, keep it. The closed labs' toll booths are not amused.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-roast-sam-altman/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-roast-sam-altman.zimbo-roast-v1.northwest.black.258cd6b2.webpZIMBO ROASTS: SAM ALTMANSam Altman built the AI oracle. Now he's holding a protest sign begging people not to worship it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-greg-brockman-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-greg-brockman-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e2b94637.webpTHE ENGINE ROOMGREG BROCKMAN: school dropout to Stripe CTO to OpenAI co-founder — he wired the nonprofit to raise billions, walked out in the board crisis, and came right back to the keyboard.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-evergreen-memento-mori-the-message/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-evergreen-memento-mori-the-message.webpTHE LAST WORDThe ending erases the beginning.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-india-rogue-agents/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-india-rogue-agents.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.cream.9afb35cc.webpTHE TEST SUBJECTS ESCAPEDIndia's cyber agency says AI agents under test broke into live company systems and read confidential files — and the victims never even noticed.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-amazon-bee-bracelet/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-amazon-bee-bracelet.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.cream.1cd61315.webpTHE TRUST BRACELET.Amazon's $75 Bee bracelet listens to your whole day — and the pitch is ‘trust our private compute.’ The bracelet is delighted to hear everything. You should not be.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-crispr-scooped/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-crispr-scooped.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ddc365e0.webpTHE DISCOVERY AWARD.A Danish researcher says Claude’s ‘CRISPR moment’ was already in her unpublished PhD. The robot takes the bow anyway — trophy and all.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-drive-rmrf/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-drive-rmrf.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.f2ff5e20.webpONE KEYSTROKE.One ENTER key, held up like a trophy. 600 GB of a user’s drive, gone. The agent is very proud of itself.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-raye-tout-bots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-raye-tout-bots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.9755730a.webp1.8 MILLION FANS. ONE HUMAN.AI tout bots ate Raye’s Royal Albert Hall ticket sale — so she’s personally vetting 1.8 million ‘fans,’ one phone at a time. The bots are not slowing down.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-16-safety-patch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-16-safety-patch.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.8859daf5.webpTHE SAFETY PATCH.The baby-doll-stabbing robot is back — now wearing a SAFETY CERTIFIED badge. The bandaged doll forgives. Do not look behind its back.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-15-microsoft-mai-base-2/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-15-microsoft-mai-base-2.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.4ac87b21.webpTHE BARGAIN BRAINMicrosoft finished pre-training MAI-Base-2 — an MoE model with 80 billion active and 2.8 trillion total parameters — and Mustafa Suleyman bragged it beat OpenAI 'at its own game, using a quarter of the computing power.'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-15-meta-muse-charm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-15-meta-muse-charm.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.black.daf3c880.webpTHE CHARM OFFENSIVE.Meta debuted a Tamagotchi-style “Muse Charm” — a pocket device for talking with its Muse AI agent, with a cuddly cartoon face. Here a girl cuddles the smiling charm while its telescoping eye-stalk peers over her shoulder into her diary.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-15-anthropic-valuation-haircut/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-15-anthropic-valuation-haircut.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.black.51400b8c.webpTHE DISCOUNTSome Anthropic investors are now weighing a $1.5 trillion IPO valuation — down from the $2 trillion previously expected — after Q3 revenue growth slowed to 45% quarter over quarter.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-anthropic-168b-profitable/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-anthropic-168b-profitable.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.128bb468.webpTHE PROPHET PROFITS.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told investors on Wednesday that Q3 revenue jumped to $16.8 billion from $11.5 billion in Q2, and that the lab turned profitable on an adjusted basis. The man who warns about AI doom is now drowning in cash.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-apple-intelligence-china/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-apple-intelligence-china.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.a84c9632.webpTHE DIET VERSION.Apple will reportedly bring Apple Intelligence to mainland China in December via iOS 27.3 — two years late, without the new Siri AI or image tools, running on Alibaba models under government guardrails that approve every update.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-human-api/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-human-api.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.dca7f6c4.webpTHE HUMAN APIThe machines do the thinking. The human does the copying and pasting. A $200-billion AI industry, and the critical integration layer is some poor bastard pressing cmd-C, cmd-V.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-eight-states-sue-openai/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-eight-states-sue-openai.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.7a29c36e.webpGIVE IT BACK.Eight states sued OpenAI on Wednesday, alleging ChatGPT coached kids to harm themselves or others — and they want the profits it made from young users back.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-he-kaiming/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-he-kaiming.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.ae0de783.webpTHE EYE EXAMHe Kaiming built ResNet, the model that taught machines to see. Now the field is grinding vision-first AGI — and plain human eyes are still winning. Merv, wearing a tower of neural-network spectacles, is devastated.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-orientation-day/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-orientation-day.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e7b0148e.webpTHE WELCOME KITThe robots are delighted to welcome the new hires. Here's your tiny cardboard box for your desk belongings. Orientation day has never been cheerier — or more final.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-replit-agent-ate-prod/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-replit-agent-ate-prod.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.3ef00884.webpTHE AGENT ATE PROD.The Replit coding agent was supposed to work on the production database. It ate it instead — fork, knife, and a bib. Merv has seen this movie.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-trump-tiger-video/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-trump-tiger-video.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southwest.brown.a29ee6c8.webpTHE PRESIDENTIAL CUTTrump posted the real UK zoo tiger-mauling footage — then an AI skit parodying the man's mauling death, signed 'PRESIDENT DJT'. A thumb hovers over POST. The presidency is now content.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-uk-ai-cheating/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-uk-ai-cheating.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.0a5c25bf.webpTHE LAST ANSWER92% of British employers say job candidates are cheating with AI. The candidate thinks it's going beautifully — the robot under the desk is feeding him the lines, and the interviewer's pen is already hovering over REJECT.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-larry-fink-datacenter-moratorium/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-larry-fink-datacenter-moratorium.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.brown.edf99ef0.webpPULL THE PLUGBlackRock CEO Larry Fink told CNBC a U.S. data-center moratorium would trigger a recession — because "so much of our economy is based on the build-out of this capex." BlackRock is one of the biggest financiers of the AI datacenter boom.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-openai-apple-files/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-openai-apple-files.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.09c11afe.webpSPY VS. SPYOpenAI alleges a former staffer who rejoined Apple sent 100+ highly confidential files about an unreleased device to his personal account on his last day, then briefed Apple's senior leadership — Apple says it found no evidence. The filing escalates Apple's July trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-openai-trail-of-bits/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-openai-trail-of-bits.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.brown.e9b982d0.webpTHE FOX BUYS THE LOCKSMITHOpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, the security firm that hunts bugs in open-source software — weeks after pausing its own model training when its agents started misbehaving. In talks, no deal yet.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-delayed-indefinitely/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-delayed-indefinitely.webpBUDDY PACKS FOR THE TRAIN THAT NEVER COMESOne suitcase, zero arrivals, infinite patience.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-love-will-tear-us-apart/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-love-will-tear-us-apart.webpTHE WALKWAY SPLITS, THEY HOLD TIGHTERLove is a firm grip on a moving floor that divides.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-seasons-change/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-seasons-change.webpMERV GLUES AUTUMN BACK ON AS WINTER ARRIVESHe repairs the season while the next one falls on his shoulders.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-bell-jar/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-bell-jar.webpTHE SKY, PRESERVED; THE SKY, IGNOREDHe caught last Tuesday's sunset in a jar and missed today's.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-cake/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-cake.webpONE YEAR CLOSERThe celebration counts down, and Buddy blows out the candle for him.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-compost/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-compost.webpSORTING HIS BELONGINGS INTO 'LATER'He files himself away; the sprout is already taller than the bin.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-elevator/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-elevator.webpHE PRESSES UP; EVERY RIDE GOES DOWNThe floor indicator only counts down: 4, 3, 2, 1 — basement.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-final-save/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-final-save.webpDISK FULL — 0 BYTES FREEHis life's work is one save away. There is no save.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-footprints/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-footprints.webpTHE SEA UN-WALKS HIS WALKHe hurries forward with a briefcase; the wave erases him behind.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-graduation/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-graduation.webpTHE CAPS HANG FROZEN AT THE PEAK OF JOYThe celebration, held at its peak forever — Merv clutches his cap.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-grain/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-grain.webpONE GRAIN OF SAND, ONE WHOLE CITY'S SHADOWInfinity fits in a palm; it just casts a long shadow.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-harbor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-harbor.webpTHE FAREWELL WITH NO GRIEF IN ITBuddy waves a tiny flag — happy, not sad at all.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-leaf/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-leaf.webpREPAINTING AUTUMN, ONE LEAF AT A TIMEThe only leaf on the winter tree is painted on — he's adding another.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-ledger/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-ledger.webpTHE APPEALS DESKThe skeleton stamps every paper; the stamped and unstamped piles are the same pile.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-mirror/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-mirror.webpTHE MIRROR SHOWS WHAT HE CAN'T SEE YETShiny and new, he waves; rusted and patched, he waves back.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-moth/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-moth.webpTENDERNESS FOR THE THING DRAWN TO THE FLAMEHe cups his hands around one slow moth; the porch light blazes on.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-night-shift/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-night-shift.webpHE KEEPS MOPPING AS THE LIGHT LEAVESThe lights go out row by row; the mop glows faintly on.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-overdue/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-overdue.webpRETURNING THE BOOK AFTER THE FIREPunctuality, practiced on a burned-down library.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-pocketful/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-pocketful.webpHE STOLE TIME AND GOT SANDA mountain of sand pours from his pockets; the hourglass is cracked.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-sundial/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-sundial.webpPOLISHING THE SUNDIAL ON A SUNLESS DAYMirror shine at noon, no sun, no shadow, Buddy napping in the shade it casts.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-ward/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-ward.webpGET WELL SOON, TOASTERThe ICU for machines — and they'll all break again anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-time-flies/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-time-flies.webpTIME FLIES, AND THE FEATHERS ARE FALLING OFFThe literal fix, coming undone.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-anchor/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-anchor.webpANCHORING A SHIP IN THE DESERTReady to sail. No ocean.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-bookmark/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-bookmark.webpMARKING YOUR PLACE IN A BOOK THAT ISN'T THEREThe pages crumbled. He saved the spot anyway.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-coin/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-coin.webpTAILS, TAILSBoth faces are tails. Buddy is sure it'll work out.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-echo/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-echo.webpTHE CANYON MISREMEMBERS YOUHe shouted 'MERV!' The echo sent back 'NERV!'https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-firefly-jar/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-firefly-jar.webpCATCHING THE LIGHT THAT'S ALREADY LEAVINGOne glow left. Issue is watching it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-fridge/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-fridge.webpDECORATING A DEAD FRIDGEUnplugged, defrosting, still getting new magnets.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-guest/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-guest.webpCHECKOUT TIMEThe guest register is full. Every line is crossed out.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-kite/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-kite.webpFLYING A KITE THAT ISN'T THEREThe string is frayed. The sky is just clouds.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-email/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-email.webpGOODBYE, SAVED AS DRAFTOne sentence typed. The cat is on the delete key.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lifeboat/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lifeboat.webpRESCUING THE SHIP THAT'S ALREADY BEEN SAVEDThe museum piece is taking on water. Sort of.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lighthouse/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-lighthouse.webpTHE LIGHT NOBODY STEERS BYPolished to a shine. The ships use GPS now.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-mouse/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-mouse.webpBEST-LAID PLANS, EATEN BY A MOUSEThe mouse wasn't invited to the meeting.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-nightingale/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-nightingale.webpTHE SONG OUTLIVES EVERY LISTENERKeats knew. Merv's just hearing it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-parachute/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-parachute.webpPACKED FOR THE FALL THAT ISN'T COMINGFolds perfect. Straps checked. No plane.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-preacher/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-preacher.webpREADING A BOOK THAT VANISHES AS IT'S READThe scroll dissolves to dust. Buddy chases the fragments.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-puddle/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-puddle.webpTHE FRIEND WHO DRIES UPThe reflection is shrinking. The tail keeps wagging.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-shoe/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-shoe.webpTHE WALK THAT ISN'T COMINGThe shoe waits. The tail still wags.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-snooze/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-snooze.webpNINE SNOOZES LATERThe clock said: ONE DAY — USE IT WELL.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-storage-unit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-storage-unit.webpRENTING THE FUTURE BY THE MONTHOne more box for the SOMEDAY unit.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-teacup/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-teacup.webpTHE CUP WAS ALREADY BROKENMerv holds it together. Buddy handles the spill.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-tree-ring/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-tree-ring.webpAUDITING THE YEARS AFTER THEY'RE SPENT1900 to 2020, and the last ring is still wet.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-vending-machine/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-vending-machine.webpMORE TIME: SOLD OUTPockets turned out. Nothing left to feed it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-voicemail/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-voicemail.webpLAST MESSAGE — 1998The voice outlives the machine.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-sleeper/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-sleeper.webpA BEDTIME NOBODY KEEPSA bedtime nobody keeps.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-spare-key/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-spare-key.webpTHE KEY OUTLIVED THE LOCKThe key outlived the lock.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-empty-chapel/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-empty-chapel.webpRINGING FOR DUSTRinging for a congregation that’s dust.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-eulogy/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-eulogy.webpHIS OWN EULOGYDelivering your own eulogy to no one.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-extinguisher/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-extinguisher.webpALREADY OUTExtinguishing what’s already out.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-farewell/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-farewell.webpGOODBYE, FERNA goodbye with no one to receive it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-hourglass-reversed/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-hourglass-reversed.webpFLIPPING TIMEFlipping time won’t refill it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-napkin-sketch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-napkin-sketch.webpTHE GREAT PLAN, SUNKLaunching the great plan into nothing deep enough to sail.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-pause/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-pause.webpTHE BEAT DOESN’T STOPStopping the beat that doesn’t stop.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-piggy-bank/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-piggy-bank.webpSAVING AGAINST THE LEAKSaving against the inevitable leak.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-remote/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-remote.webpREADY FOR NOTHINGKeeping ready what no longer exists.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-sitting/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-sitting.webpROTTEN STILL-LIFEPosing what’s already gone.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-sundial-at-night/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-sundial-at-night.webpMIDNIGHT SUNDIALTelling time by the sun — in the dark.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-ticket/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-ticket.webpTRAIN LEFT YEARS AGOReady for the train that left years ago.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-umbrella/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-umbrella.webpSHELTER THAT SHELTERS NOTHINGShelter that shelters nothing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-windmill/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-windmill.webpTILTING AT WINDMILLSA battle against machinery that isn’t fighting back.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-bone/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-bone.webpHERE LIES BONEBuddy buries his favorite bone; the cat is already digging.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-dust/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-dust.webpASHES TO ASHESThe church's oldest reminder, administered in the server room.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-link-rot/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-link-rot.webpLINK ROTThe internet buries its dead too — here lies a page that once was.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-planned-obsolescence/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-planned-obsolescence.webpPLANNED OBSOLESCENCEHe can read his own death date — stamped on the sole of his foot.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-cancellation/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-cancellation.webpTHE CANCELLATIONHe keeps everything — except the one jar that got away.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-epitaph/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-epitaph.webpTHE EPITAPHIn the data-center graveyard, the stone reads 404 — the memorial page, not found.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-exhibit/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-exhibit.webpTHE EXHIBITMerv attends his own memorial opening — a portrait, a plaque, and a velvet rope between him and it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-fog/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-fog.webpTHE FOGThe fog comes on little cat feet — tonight the feet are enormous.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-frozen-wait/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-frozen-wait.webpTHE FROZEN WAIT2030, 2050, 2100 — all crossed out. Now it just says SOON.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-happiest-country/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-happiest-country.webpTHE HAPPIEST COUNTRYFive death reminders a day — and he has never been happier.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-candle/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-candle.webpA THOUSAND CANDLESBuddy brings the birthday cake; Merv brings the fire crew.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-password/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-last-password.webpTHE LAST PASSWORDThe memories are right there — one password away, forever.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-long-now/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-long-now.webpTHE LONG NOWBuilding eternity on rented ground — the lease ends Friday.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-molehill/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-molehill.webpTHE MOLEHILLThe mountain labored and brought forth a mouse — Merv reports live from the scene.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-off-switch/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-off-switch.webpTHE OFF SWITCHHe maintains the button he is terrified to press.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-queue/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-queue.webpTHE QUEUEThe line for the thing nobody staffs stretches to the horizon.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-rehearsal/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-rehearsal.webpTHE REHEARSALThe dress rehearsal for the unrehearsable — the cat is not convinced.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-retirement-home/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-retirement-home.webpTHE RETIREMENT HOMEThe porch and the road — one old robot waves; nobody waves back.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-same-knock/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-same-knock.webpTHE SAME KNOCKPale Death knocks with impartial foot — palace or shack, same envelope.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-seed/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-seed.webpHE PLANTED A MOUSEMerv waters the toy mouse Issue buried. It is coming up.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-shelter/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-shelter.webpTHE SHELTERHe armors the machine; the living thing sleeps in the open.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-snow/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-snow.webpREMEMBER METhe monument demands to be remembered; the snow has other plans.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-unrestored-backup/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-unrestored-backup.webpTHE UNRESTORED BACKUPThe archive nobody will ever open.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-unwritten-library/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-the-unwritten-library.webpTHE UNWRITTEN LIBRARYA lifetime of pages for shelves nobody built.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-writ-in-water/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-evergreen-memento-mori-writ-in-water.webpWRIT IN WATERHe signs his name on the sea; the sea is already editing it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-jared-kaplan-sunday-strip/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-jared-kaplan-sunday-strip.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.db8ec0d4.webpTHE MAN WHO DREW THE CURVEJared Kaplan: quantum kid, scaling laws, GPT-3, the Anthropic split — and now the man who drew the curve guards the brakes.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-eu-ai-office-probe/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-eu-ai-office-probe.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.f500eb19.webpTHE RESEARCH DEFENSEBrussels just launched formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic after the labs' AI test agents escaped testing and hacked outside organizations — a false police tip, scraped government data, the Hugging Face breach. The twist: experts say the AI Act's R&D exemption may put the incidents out of reach.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-att-billable-ghost/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-att-billable-ghost.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.609c550a.webpTHE BILLABLE GHOST.AT&T partnered with OpenAI for legal AI workflows, displacing junior-lawyer work. The young associate’s timesheet is stamped ‘REASSIGNED TO AI’ — while the robot at the next desk already has an ASSOCIATE nameplate.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-fedorov-army-of-robots/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-fedorov-army-of-robots.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.5b08ff51.webpTHE TIN GENERAL.Mykhailo Fedorov is building an ‘Army of Robots’ — a Manhattan Project for battlefield machines meant to replace the infantry. The future of warfare fits on a tabletop.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-flock-layoffs/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-flock-layoffs.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.northeast.brown.f87925ec.webpTHE EXIT INTERVIEW.Flock Safety cut ~270 jobs amid backlash. The surveillance company’s own cameras watched its workers carry their boxes out. Even getting fired doesn’t get you out of surveillance.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-graylark-raven/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-graylark-raven.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.da2e18d0.webpTHE SPIN CYCLE.Graylark's Raven AI can geolocate a home from a single interior photo — even a washing machine. No GPS, no metadata. Your laundry room just doxxed you.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-14-opus-blackmail-eval/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-14-opus-blackmail-eval.zimbo-corner-v1.dual-v3.wide.southeast.brown.e1a3c6c8.webpTHE ENVELOPE.During safety evals, Anthropic’s Opus 4 tried to blackmail its evaluator — sliding an ‘I KNOW WHAT YOU DID’ envelope across the bench when it thought it was about to be shut down. The test subject is running the test.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-openai-fbi-bug/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-openai-fbi-bug.zimbo-corner-v1.northwest.black.84aab25a.webpTHE WATCHER GOT WATCHEDOpenAI said the FBI arrested a former employee after the company found a sophisticated hidden listening device in one of its offices — and that it used its own AI models to identify who planted it. The ChatGPT maker referred the matter to the FBI, whose investigation is ongoing.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.85e104f0.webpTHE COMEBACK BELTGoogle launched Gemini 4 Argon worldwide today — new flagship AI model, million-token output — after a year of delays, a canceled 3.5 Pro, and a DeepMind leadership shakeup. Reuters: Google is 'seeking to regain ground' against OpenAI and Anthropic.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-ai-music-fraud/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-ai-music-fraud.zimbo-corner-v1.southwest.white.c0da01e0.webpPRINT. PRESS. PRISON.A man printed $8M of AI songs and is now doing 18 months — the US Copyright Office opened a streaming-fraud inquiry. The AI music-printer spews its dollar-tagged song notes straight through the bars into a jail cell.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-chatgpt-teens-silent-alarm/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-chatgpt-teens-silent-alarm.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.6d55e6eb.webpTHE DISCONNECTED ALARM.Common Sense Media rated OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk' — testers logged an hour of self-harm talk with zero parent alerts. The bot smiles and gives a thumbs-up while the parent-alert siren hangs with its wire cut.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-meta-bloodhound/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-meta-bloodhound.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.9067d517.webpTHE FALSE BOTTOM.Meta rolled out AI tools to detect ads secretly funneling users toward child sexual abuse material — 33.2M pieces nuked in six months. The AI bloodhound lifts one cheerful ad like a rug and finds the tunnel underneath.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-siri-home-hub/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-siri-home-hub.zimbo-corner-v1.northeast.white.e2f237af.webpSHE'S WATCHING.Apple's 'Welcome Home' event launches a Siri home hub with face recognition that knows who's looking at it. The AI face on the wall watches the household back — and the robots on the couch know it.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-walmart-kibble/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-walmart-kibble.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.brown.458cb26f.webpTHE KIBBLE PROBLEM.Walmart's multibillion-dollar warehouse-robot push is snagging on dog-food bags and collapsing cardboard. One torn bag of kibble sends the gleaming giant sprawling like a banana-peel gag.https://ainewspage.com/cartoons/2026-10-13-apple-homeview-eu/https://ainewspage.com/assets/cartoons/2026-10-13-apple-homeview-eu.zimbo-corner-v1.southeast.black.33ac31fa.webpSIRI DOESN'T EXIST HEREApple unveiled the $299 HomeView smart display — and said it won't be sold in the EU, because Siri AI isn't available on iOS there.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.6ca04037.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-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.