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The 96% accurate deepfake detector is 96% accurate on the deepfakes it was shown. On new ones it is closer to a coin flip.
TRUE, BUTDeepfake-detection vendors, Intel FakeCatcher the canonical 96% example
A former Bitcoin miner nearly doubled its valuation to 10.5 billion dollars in four months. One of the investors is Nvidia, which two months before writing the check signed the company to an agreement covering Nvidia hardware purchases.
TRUE, BUTFirmus, via its 2026-08-06 strategic equity round announcement, amplified across funding coverage August 7-9 with the vendor relationship mostly reduced to 'Nvidia-backed'
Google cut Gemini Flash's price in half. The half grows back on January 1.
TRUE, BUTGoogle (Gemini models blog)
Google's sign language model beat every previously reported score on the benchmark. Google wrote the benchmark.
TRUE, BUTGoogle DeepMind (launch blog)
Sol Ultrafast finished Humanity's Last Exam in 11 hours. Whether it is still the same Sol remains unexamined.
TRUE, BUTCerebras + OpenAI (joint launch post)
xAI proved its voice agent sells more product. The product it tested on was its sister company.
TRUE, BUTxAI (SpaceXAI), launch post plus enterprise pitch
Harvey's 15.5 billion dollar valuation is being reported as a milestone. It is a negotiating position: an unclosed round, sourced to people in the talks, at 44 times an annualized run rate, and the headline number includes the money being raised.
TRUE, BUTThe Information's sourced report of 2026-08-07, amplified across trade coverage and legal-AI arms-race pieces through 2026-08-13, with headlines rendering an unclosed round as an achieved mark
The '97% of frontier models get jailbroken' stat comes from a study where the most frontier model resisted 97% of the time.
TRUE, BUTSecurity-statistics aggregators amplifying the Hagendorff et al. Nature Communications study (SQ Magazine and others)
Microsoft's new model goes toe-to-toe with the Claude that was champion in June. It is August.
TRUE, BUTMicrosoft AI
Nebius grew revenue 454 percent and signed four deals averaging a billion dollars each. It also lost 190 million dollars in the same quarter, and its own management did not raise guidance.
TRUE, BUTNebius Group Q2 2026 results and shareholder letter (CEO Arkady Volozh), August 12, 2026
OpenAI just ran a 7 billion dollar transaction at its 852 billion valuation, and headlines called the price reaffirmed. The only disclosed buyer at that price since March was OpenAI itself.
TRUE, BUTOpenAI tender offer completion as reported by Bloomberg and confirmed by CNBC, August 10-11, 2026
OpenAI's new memory feature takes no screenshots. It records everything you click and type instead.
TRUE, BUTOpenAI (Computer History launch)
