The archive
Every edition, every check.
Each day's edition as it ran, with its cartoons. Members read every story in full; sources and corrections stay open to everyone.
Every story, page 7
TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingOracle reports $638 billion of AI backlog. The banks that lent to build it spent six months or more placing a $38 billion slice, some at a discount.15 Oct 2026 · Oracle Corporation, Q4 and FY 2026 results release (10 June 2026); tested against reporting on banks selling down data-centre debt (FT via Silicon UK, 5 May 2026; Bloomberg via AI Weekly, 12 Oct 2026)
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingCharacter.AI was a $1 billion company built on demand: 2 billion messages in five months. Its CEO's bankruptcy declaration, as quoted by PPC Land, puts 2025 compute at $10 million a month against $5.3 million of revenue in August 2026.14 Oct 2026 · Character.AI, funding-era claims as recounted by TechCrunch (13 Oct 2026); tested against its Chapter 11 filing in Delaware (12 Oct 2026)
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapOpenAI said a Lean formalization backed its Navier-Stokes proof. An arXiv paper finds the Lean code uses five extra derivatives where the written proof claims four.14 Oct 2026 · OpenAI, research post (8 Sep 2026); its Lean check tested in an arXiv paper (6 Oct 2026)
AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Narrowed SuperlativeMeta calls Muse Wonder state-of-the-art. On the outside Artificial Analysis index its best model scores 56, behind Opus 5.5 at 58, and that best model is not on Meta's API.14 Oct 2026 · Meta Superintelligence Labs, launch post for Muse Wonder, 12 Oct 2026
TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldGitHub's famous number says Copilot users finished a task 55% faster. A Harvard paper tracking 718 firms finds AI agents raised lines of code 30%, while finished work showed no statistically significant change.13 Oct 2026 · GitHub, research blog post (7 Sep 2022); tested at firm level in a Harvard working paper (current version 4 Aug 2026)
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingA solo developer rebuilt Word, Excel and PowerPoint with Claude, the post says. The WordCraft README says it is about 60% of the way to replacing Word for real work, and the spreadsheet app says 50%.13 Oct 2026 · Viral post trending on tech forums; apps published by ArtCraft (Brandon Thomas) on GitHub, 7 Oct 2026
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldTen minutes of AI erodes your ability to persist, Berkeley's headline says. The study measured skipped problems on a paid online task, three test problems each, and its largest trial found the skip gap was not significant.13 Oct 2026 · Berkeley News (UC Berkeley), headline on a 9 Oct 2026 story about an arXiv preprint; reached the Hacker News front page
AI illustration TRUE, BUT · Narrowed SuperlativeAnthropic says Claude discovered a CRISPR-like enzyme system. Its own post says the function is not yet known, The Next Web reports all ten reruns of the search missed the array, and a Copenhagen researcher says his unpublished work describes the same finding.12 Oct 2026 · Anthropic, life sciences group announcement (23 Sep 2026), and Dario Amodei on X
AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapBezos says AI will bring three-day work weeks and make it hard to hire. The coverage in our record gives no timeline, and Amazon has cut about 30,000 corporate roles since late last year.12 Oct 2026 · Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, Fox News interview aired 7 Oct 2026, as reported by Fortune
- TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerAI task length is doubling every seven months, METR's chart says. A new preprint finds the same tenfold jump is much easier from 3 to 30 minutes than from 30 minutes to 5 hours, and a METR author warns the error bars run about a factor of two.12 Oct 2026 · METR, time-horizon paper and blog post (19 Mar 2025); re-analysed in an arXiv preprint (8 Oct 2026)
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapAnthropic's AI applied for U.S. visas, the headlines say. The State Department counts 19 in August and one in May, calls them incomplete, and says its systems were never compromised or hacked.11 Oct 2026 · White House Super Intelligence Force statement (as reported by Axios), and Philadelphia Inquirer headline, 10 Oct 2026
TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerThree senators say AI data center companies revealed they are not paying their full costs. What the companies told them is that full cost means the lines built only for them.11 Oct 2026 · Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen and Richard Blumenthal, press release on their data center investigation (9 Oct 2026)
AI illustration
