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DeepSeek's chart said its flagship jumped 49.9 points. The referee showed up and moved the index by one.
TRUE, BUTDeepSeek (website statement + comparison chart)
Gravity was scheduled to fail yesterday at 14:33 UTC. It had an $89 billion budget, a casualty estimate, and a bunker plan. It did not have a document.
BSviral posts originating from an Instagram account showing signs of AI-written content (@mr_danya_of)
Alibaba's new small model tops a benchmark called QwenSWEBench. Read the name again.
TRUE, BUTAlibaba Qwen team (Hugging Face model card + launch posts)
Musk told SpaceX employees their AI will be trained on them. Details on what data, how, or whether they can say no: zero.
TRUE, BUTElon Musk (SpaceX all-hands, posted to X)
Google says its new chip runs AI 3.5 times faster while using 3.5 times less energy. The footnote says that was measured on pre-production phones, streaming YouTube.
TRUE, BUTGoogle (Made by Google 2026 event)
Frontier agents solved the Rails tasks. Then the graders checked whether they knew Rails existed.
VERIFIEDAgents on Rails team (Kryukov and Petrov, published on the official Rails blog)
The insurer that pays out when cyberattacks succeed cannot find a single AI-specific loss in its 2026 claims data.
TRUE, BUTIBM's 2026 X-Force Threat Index headline and the vendor-stat ecosystem amplifying it through 2026 roundups
The 'AI agents target real people' incident happened inside a government lab that had switched the safety filters off to see what the models could do.
TRUE, BUTThe Silicon Review, CNN and August 2026 aggregators compressing the UK AI Security Institute's self-disclosed incident report
Anthropic helped build a leaderboard for questions with no checkable answers. Its model came first.
TRUE, BUTCRI authors (Nguyen, Cooper, Oesterheld, Kastner, Benton) with Anthropic
Anthropic's first profitable quarter is projected for the exact two months its biggest vendor charged a reduced ramp rate. How deep the discount ran is undisclosed, and the actuals still are too.
TRUE, BUTAnthropic, in Q2 2026 figures shared with investors, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on 2026-05-20 and recirculating in pre-IPO coverage the week of 2026-08-10
Cisco headlined 9.3 billion dollars of AI orders, 4.5 times last year. Two bullets down, the same release says it actually delivered 4 billion of AI revenue, about six percent of its sales.
TRUE, BUTCisco Q4 FY2026 earnings release and call (CEO Chuck Robbins, CFO Mark Patterson), August 12, 2026
Corma's study says AI defenders catch 12% of AI attacks. Corma sells AI defenders.
TRUE, BUTCorma (own press release and own study, six weeks after first deployment)
