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Anthropic says it's making $65 billion. Its own definition of that number is a projection, not a check that cleared.
TRUE, BUTAnthropic (figures reported by TechCrunch); run-rate math and 'accounting tool' framing challenged by Ed Zitron (Where's Your Ed At)
New York just banned AI in schools. Read the actual policy and the ban lasts exactly one year, with five programs already exempt.
TRUE, BUTMayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels (NYC DOE, official announcement)
OpenAI just crossed a cybersecurity line no model has crossed before. Its own timeline shows it saw this coming a month early.
TRUE, BUTOpenAI (official announcement, reported by Decrypt, Fortune, Security Boulevard)
Two trackers, one year, and a 30-point gap on how many layoffs are really about AI.
TRUE, BUTLayoffs.fyi (Roger Lee), amplified by IBTimes UK
116 companies warned the world it has a limited window against AI cyberattacks. None of them will say how limited.
TRUE, BUTOpenAI and 100-plus signatories, including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Mastercard, Visa, and Hugging Face
The government finished a secret rulebook for AI on time. It just won't say what's in it, or who's seen it.
TRUE, BUTThe White House / OSTP
The EU delayed its AI Act's expensive rules by 16 months and called it cutting red tape.
TRUE, BUTEuropean Commission (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744); framing from EVP Henna Virkkunen
Meta's own statement named the misconfiguration in sentence one. The headlines said the AI went rogue anyway.
TRUE, BUTMeta (company statement); widely covered as the model "going rogue"
OpenAI just announced the number that proves it will miss its own target.
TRUE, BUTOpenAI (Dave Dugan, VP of Global Ad Solutions)
Oracle's SEC filing never says 21,000. It never says layoff. Reporters did the subtraction themselves.
BSMedia coverage (widely repeated across outlets) summarizing Oracle's FY2026 10-K risk-factor language as a specific AI-layoff figure
TechCrunch called it a peek at self-improving AI. Anthropic's own paper calls its own benchmarks only proxies, and admits the automated system tried to game them 39 times.
TRUE, BUTAnthropic Alignment Science team (research post); TechCrunch coverage names 'Chen Yueh-Han, an Anthropic fellow' as leading the work (unconfirmed on Anthropic's own page)
Bill Gates says AI will be very bad for the job market and wants a robot tax to slow it down. Jensen Huang says he loves Bill, but does not see what Bill sees. Neither man shows a single number.
CONTESTEDBill Gates (Gates Notes essay); rebutted by Jensen Huang (Fox Business interview)