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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)
Google is moving its 90-person AI risk team out of DeepMind and into the division that handles lobbying. Leadership says nothing changes. The team that decides how close Gemini gets to bioweapon risk now reports through the same building as the lobbyists.
TRUE, BUTHelen King, VP at Google DeepMind and head of the responsibility team (on-record reassurance via internal email, reported by WSJ); unnamed employees/executives voicing concern
OpenAI is cutting off Cursor's access to its models on November 12. It says the decision comes down to trust. The trust problem it names happened at Twitter and xAI. Cursor was not there for either.
TRUE, BUTOpenAI (official statement, quoted by Engadget, The Decoder, Teslarati)
Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, personally naming CEO Dario Amodei, calling it one of the largest thefts of intellectual property in history. Their best evidence is book piracy Anthropic already paid 1.5 billion dollars to settle.
TRUE, BUTSony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, represented by Oppenheim + Zebrak LLP and Pryor Cashman LLP
