The AI race as 1985 newsstand magazines: OpenAI cover, Anthropic back, DeepMind center spread
azmackay · x · 2026-11-06
A retro-computing parody imagines the frontier AI race arriving at 1985 newsstands: OpenAI buys the front cover ("the world's most intelligent computer, according to our test"), Anthropic takes the back ("actually, ours is"), and DeepMind buys the center spread ("we bought two pages"). The benchmark scores shown — Vals Index, DeepSWE, FrontierSWE, Terminal-Bench across GPT-6 Astra, Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon — are real; only the magazine is fake. Bonus gag: Collins' 2026 word of the year "mogging" was called advertising back in 1985.
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