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- TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloClaude hit 14 of 15 protein targets, and outside labs confirmed it. Then read the method: Claude drove the specialist design tools the field already ships, and a binder is the first step of a drug, not the drug.
- TRUE, BUT · Narrowed SuperlativeClaude Fable 5 really is number one on the hardest AI leaderboards. It also scores 43 on the knowledge benchmark it leads, on a scale that runs from minus 100 to 100, and 55.5% on an exam built so models fail it.
- TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerTwo new benchmarks agree: the best AI models in the world clear fewer than half of a hard benchmark of real analyst tasks. Claude Fable 5 tops the frontier at 49.2%. The context is who built the tests, and who sells the fix.
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldOpenAI and Anthropic are selling the same next step for AI agents: more of them. Claude Code now forks subagents by default, and Sol Ultra fans a problem across up to 64. Google Research ran the controlled test, and the answer is a split: more agents help work that breaks into independent pieces and hurt work that runs as one dependent chain, by up to 70%. Which one your task is decides whether the swarm is an upgrade or a tax.
- TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerThe coding number everyone quotes says AI has nearly solved software engineering: Claude Opus 5 scores 96% on SWE-bench Verified. Move to the benchmark built to resist contamination and the top model sits at 80.3%, and GPT-5.6 Sol lands at 64.6%.
AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · The AnnualiserAnthropic is pitching investors a $2 trillion IPO built on a revenue forecast that requires 4.3x growth in under two years, from a company that posted its first quarterly profit three months ago on a discounted compute bill.
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AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathA rocket company paid $60 billion in its own stock for a code editor. Cursor's revenue has never been publicly disclosed. The deal closed on August 14, making it the year's largest startup acquisition, and Cursor now claims access to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world, a fleet nobody outside SpaceX can count.
