Issue #42
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2026 · 3 CLAIMS CHECKED · 0 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 42 OF 42
- 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not yet known, The Next Web reports all ten reruns of the search missed the array, and a Copenhagen researcher says his unpublished work describes the same finding.
- 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.
- 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.
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