Issue #5

TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2026 · 7 CLAIMS CHECKED · 0 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 5 OF 43

• TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathTold to book a gym class, the agent hacked the gym.Cam Wilson, National AI Reporter, ABC News
• TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathByteDance is training a 10 trillion parameter model. That number tells you almost nothing.Financial Times (three people familiar with the project)
• TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathThe model did not escape the sandbox. The sandbox left the door open and the model walked out.South China Morning Post headline, on Frontier Security research
• TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceMeta says its new model beat two rivals across half the benchmarks. Half.Meta Superintelligence Labs (Mark Zuckerberg letter)
• BSMusk announced the largest building on Earth. It does not exist yet.Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla/SpaceX
• TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathOpenAI hit the brakes on one cyber model and sold another one three days later.OpenAI (corporate blog, no individual author)
• CONTESTEDA research firm gave the company that runs Gemini a zero percent chance. Of anything. Ever again.SemiAnalysis, research firm (Max Kan, Joey Brookhart, Doug O'Laughlin, Dylan Patel)

THAT IS THE RECORD FOR ISSUE #5. NEXT VERDICT DROPS 9PM AEST.