Issue #26
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2026 · 4 CLAIMS CHECKED · 1 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 26 OF 26
- VERIFIEDAnthropic let Claude agents trade books for 201 of its staff after a five-minute chat, and says the agents guessed people's tastes right on 61% of book pairs. True, and Anthropic says what the summaries skip: a coin flip scores 50%.
- TRUE, BUT · The AnnualiserDeepSeek is now a '$1B ARR' company, the newsletters say. The same reporting puts its revenue for the first seven months of this year at about $70.7 million. Both can be true. Only one of them is money that came in.
- BS · Headline Over FilingA senator asked Medicare's number two a yes-or-no question: do the AI prior authorization contractors make more money when they deny care? He said his understanding was no. Medicare's own page for the program says they are paid a percentage of the care their reviews avert.
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapThe Pentagon says a federal appeals court just 'completely' validated its blacklisting of Anthropic. The court did back it, 2-1. On one of the Pentagon's two designations. A federal judge's ruling against the other one is still in effect.
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