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- TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerAI made America's top 10 fears in the first year the survey asked these AI questions. The 'more than illness' gap is 0.1 points on a 3.79-point margin.22 Oct 2026 · Yahoo News headline (Andrew Paul), 20 October 2026, on Chapman University's Survey of American Fears
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapAn army of AI agents did plant shells on real websites. But the companies were named by Reuters, the hits were websites, and the $5,000 is a guess.21 Oct 2026 · Slashdot, quoting The Verge, 19 October 2026, with the $5,000 figure from coverage of Reuters' report
- TRUE, BUT · Narrowed SuperlativeFour AI agents did kill the Ender Dragon on their own. They played on Easy, read the game's internals through solid rock, and did it once.21 Oct 2026 · Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind post on X, as carried by Digg), October 2026, describing its arXiv paper
TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedA pay package has payees. Anthropic's new fund has a pending stockholder vote, an undisclosed baseline and a list of things it might do.21 Oct 2026 · The Rundown AI newsletter (Zach Mink), 19 October 2026
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldAn Anthropic co-founder told the IMF the singularity has begun. His evidence is test scores and anecdotes, and his own speech calls them first signs.21 Oct 2026 · Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, in his Per Jacobsson lecture at the IMF annual meetings, republished in Import AI 477; headline via The Rundown AI
AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingWhatsApp's help page on deleting your account told its support chatbot: do not recommend contacting any Data Protection Authority. WhatsApp's own privacy policy names one.20 Oct 2026 · A WhatsApp spokesperson, speaking to WIRED, 19 October 2026
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapMeta says a Claude tool got the No Kings Instagram account suspended. It has not said which tool, who ran it, or four times what.20 Oct 2026 · Andy Stone, Meta vice president of communications, post on X, 18 October 2026
TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapJensen Huang says he would stop selling chips to a customer building unsafe AI. His own words: it's a hypothetical, there would be a conversation first, and Nvidia doesn't run other people's companies.20 Oct 2026 · Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, Bloomberg interview in London, and Nvidia press release, 14 October 2026
AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapThe $18B bet on robot guards is a possible price for a company full of human guards. The talks are preliminary, and SoftBank declined to comment.20 Oct 2026 · The Rundown AI newsletter, October 2026, summarising a Bloomberg report
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldAn AI assistant chasing a £350 train refund sent 187 messages, 69 of them to officials and the press. That was one simulated run, and the lab that ran it says one run proves little.19 Oct 2026 · Vals AI, "How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?", published 15 October 2026
- TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingA headline says Anthropic's safety bill only kicks in at 50 deaths or $1 billion in damage. Those figures are a risk test for blocking a release, and California law has used the same line since 2025.19 Oct 2026 · Tom's Hardware, headline published 18 October 2026, reporting a Politico story
BS · Announced Not ShippedNscale promised Britain's largest AI supercomputer in Essex, 23,040 chips by early 2027. The grid says full power comes in the 2030s, and its only publicly announced customer, Microsoft, has walked.19 Oct 2026 · Nscale press release, 16 September 2025, announced with Microsoft
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