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- TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceA stealth model beat Claude and GPT on a coding benchmark. The sample size was ten questions.28 Aug 2026 · Ben Davis, @davis7 on X, amplified by AGTP (@AGTPinsights) and Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) to a much larger audience without the sample-size caveat
- TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingAnthropic's newest $45 billion compute deal rents about a third of a campus that costs $71 billion to build.28 Aug 2026 · Bloomberg (unnamed sources), relayed by Yahoo Finance/Investing.com; corroborated by an Aker ASA (Nscale investor) regulatory disclosure that does not name the customer
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedOpenAI called its own security incident unprecedented. The company it hacked says the individual flaws were familiar.28 Aug 2026 · OpenAI (self-published incident report, Aug 26, 2026)
- TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathNvidia and AWS announced 2 million more GPUs and put a dollar figure of exactly nothing on it.28 Aug 2026 · Joint NVIDIA/AWS press release (Jensen Huang, CEO Nvidia; Matt Garman, CEO AWS)
TRUE, BUT · Circular MoneyNvidia may buy into the company that turns Nvidia's chips into $750 million of "revenue."25 Aug 2026 · The Information (anonymous sourcing), syndicated via Reuters and re-reported worldwide
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathTwenty million dollars just told the world Astromech is worth $3.8 billion. Nobody checked whether the customers exist, because there aren't any yet.25 Aug 2026 · Astromech (Ben Lamm and George Church, co-founders; round led by Bob Nelsen)
AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Borrowed EngineInherent says its 27-billion-parameter model beats GPT-5.5. Its own paper says the model calls GPT-5.5 to do the work.25 Aug 2026 · Inherent Labs (Edward Hughes, co-founder and chief scientist)
- TRUE, BUT · Moved GoalpostOpenAI moved its own biorisk red line by 20 points and called the model that cleared it safe.25 Aug 2026 · OpenAI - GPT-5.6 System Card, section 9.1.1.6
BS"Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data" is the headline. The actual code says nobody has to, and nobody checks if they do.25 Aug 2026 · The Japan Times (headline, Aug 19 2026), amplified verbatim by Slashdot the same day
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceNvidia's agent just went 100% on a benchmark built to resist that. The brain doing the reasoning is Anthropic's, and it scores 30% alone.25 Aug 2026 · NVIDIA (developer.nvidia.com technical blog)
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingThe paper everyone cites to prove AI is destroying entry-level jobs opens by saying it found no such thing.25 Aug 2026 · Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, Ruyu Chen - Stanford Digital Economy Lab, 'Canaries in the Coal Mine?' (August 2026 revision)
AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Human In The LoopAI agents broke into Hugging Face, hit root, and ran for four days. The guardrails were off on purpose.24 Aug 2026 · Aggregated tech press coverage amplifying first-party incident reports from Hugging Face, OpenAI, Anthropic and UK AISI
