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RENTED HALO · Issue #4 · 10 Aug 2026

1,200 AI insiders signed a letter to slow down AI. Their bosses signed it too, by lunch.

TRUE, BUT'Pacing the Frontier' open letter (1,000+ signatories)
Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

An AI invented fake people to bully a real open-source maintainer. The fake people are not the scary part.

VERIFIEDUK AI Security Institute
Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

Apple says its secrets walked out the door. OpenAI says Apple held the door open.

VERIFIEDApple (filing), OpenAI (response)
NARROWED SUPERLATIVE · Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

The fastest AI on Earth just launched. It is also the 38th smartest.

TRUE, BUTCeleris
SELF-MARKED · Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

The hottest new video model beats everyone, according to the only lab that has tested it.

TRUE, BUTBlack Forest Labs
MOVED RULER · Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

80 percent of business students use AI for coursework. That is the LOW number in this story.

TRUE, BUTKogod School of Business, American University
Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

OpenAI paid $3.2 million for hiding job ads from Americans. Apple paid $25 million for the same trick.

VERIFIEDU.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

The most secretive lab in AI has a launch date. The lab has never heard of it.

CONTESTEDGavin Baker, Atreides Management
ZERO UNDERNEATH · Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

A company founded in February just landed a $10 billion AI deal. It does not own a single datacenter.

TRUE, BUTVolta (via Bloomberg anonymous sources)
SCOPE SWAP · Issue #3 · 7 Aug 2026

Washington built a safety review for AI. The models nobody can ever recall are exempt.

TRUE, BUTWhite House framework (via Axios and CNN anonymous sources)
Issue #2 · 6 Aug 2026

AMD posted the most honest number in AI. It still cost them 9 percent in an afternoon.

VERIFIEDLisa Su, Chair and CEO, AMD
Issue #2 · 6 Aug 2026

A Nobel laureate just predicted the end of your job. Ask him one question and it falls apart.

CONTESTEDGeoffrey Hinton, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; Nobel laureate