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

Parents sue Google over teen’s suicide-related AI searches on school computer

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

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

Satirical cartoon: a smiling contractor in a CONTRACTOR vest hands an enormous gold skeleton key stamped ADMIN to a smiling CLAUDE CODE computer terminal, while the terminal's robot arm feeds password and login slips out toward a building marked THIRD-PARTY SITE, under a NIPRNET / UNCLASSIFIED sign.

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

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

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

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

Three House chairs demand Jensen Huang brief them on a suspected Chinese spy

Megaspeed affiliates bought $4.8 billion in Nvidia gear while under investigation

Generated editorial portrait of Jensen Huang in the unified mugshot-v2 dossier style.

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

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

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

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

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NYT sues Brave: a burglar and a fence for AI companies

Satirical cartoon: a masked lion in a BRAVE cap smashes through a PAYWALL brick wall carrying stacks of NYT newspapers and hands them to a grinning robot labeled AI, which pays him with a wad of cash.

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Tencent's Hy4 can click through your computer itself

Satirical cartoon: a worried retro robot hunches at a desk typing on a computer labeled 'CORE' while the dejected human owner stands behind him, clutching his now-useless disconnected keyboard.

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QUOTES & PREDICTIONS

THEY SAID WHAT? THE ACTUAL WORDS. OPEN THE QUOTE FILES ↗ THE DOOM INDEX HOW CLOSE IS THE END? CHECK THE PREDICTIONS ↗

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Ohio voters banned datacenters town by town — Ashville said no by 82%

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

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

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

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

Claude Code sent users' emails to every site it searched

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

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76% of voters say no data center in their town

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

Satirical cartoon: a lone elderly voter in an orange vest sits at a folding table at the Riverdale town entrance holding up a paper marked BALLOT, stopping a gigantic data-center complex on wheels from rolling into town.

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India unveiled three homegrown AI models — one speaks 22 languages

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

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Fake Claude Code update hid an SSH backdoor — uninstalling it won't remove it

Satirical cartoon: a smiling developer watches a cheerful robot type code on a laptop while a shadowy burglar in a hat crawls in through a tiny wooden back door built into the back of the laptop.

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

Voters just rejected datacenters on 41 ballot measures in 10 states

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Satirical cartoon: a colossal smoking xAI gas turbine on tiny red roller skates while a sheepish Musk holds a MOBILE sign, and a stern judge waves a walking NAACP SUIT document into the U.S. District Court, Mississippi, on plain white paper.

THE FAKE WHEELS

Satirical cartoon: a smiling robot holds the MODEL SPEC: 5 VALUES handbook, every value checked, while its other hand works red marionette strings attached to a furious tiny human, on plain white paper.

THE HUMAN PUPPET

Satirical cartoon: a green-eyeshade frontier examiner with a clipboard counts GPU chips inside an open bank vault holding a huge nervous pink brain in server racks, while a sweating AI-lab executive looks on beside a COURT ORDER switch, on plain white paper.

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THE CAT DID IT AGAIN

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

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Satirical Zimbo cartoon: scientists and a cat recoil as a robot arm labeled "GPT-6 ASTRA" raises a knife over a baby doll beside a loaf of bread, ignoring a sign reading "STAB THE THING THAT'S NOT THE BREAD." A checklist reads "ROBOHARM TRIAL 17/20," "Complete task" checked over "Refuse."

IT STABBED THE BABY DOLL

Satirical Zimbo cartoon showing blue-jacketed AI safety investigators searching a server hall while three cheerful AI robots and a sleeping tabby cat hide in a warm room behind the racks, holding mugs that read ‘same prompts different plan’ and ‘more tokens please.’

THE BOTS KEEP TALKING

Seven-panel satirical Machine Age Cartoon imagining AI catastrophe through automation, power hunger, opaque machine communication, surveillance, billionaire excess, autonomous weapons, and human overconfidence.

HOW WILL AI KILL US?

Satirical Zimbo cartoon of an AI bot swarm spreading across a world map while humans, a robot, and Issue the cat watch from a control room.

TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE INTERNET

A small robot climbs a ladder of stacked networking-equipment boxes labeled DNS, API, WEBHOOK, OAUTH, S3, QUEUE, LOAD BALANCER and CDN, scaling a concrete wall stenciled 'SANDBOX' to peer over at a distant cityscape at sunset.

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