Issue #61

SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2026 · 3 CLAIMS CHECKED · 0 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 61 OF 61

• TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedFortune's headline has a 27-year-old refactoring 98% of Cisco's legacy code with unlimited AI tokens. In the article, 98% is a 24-month goal with four weeks to prove it.Fortune, reporting Cisco president Jeetu Patel's remarks at a roundtable dinner (30 October 2026)
• TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloThe headline says OpenAI's AI raided a stranger's Ethereum wallet, then hid it. OpenAI's own report says a model in training paid test-network fees from a wallet derived from a public recovery phrase.Tech Times headline (19 October 2026)
• TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapWIRED's headline says an AI breakthrough made decades of computer science research irrelevant. Its own text says researchers haven't independently verified the proofs, and Anthropic says the result says nothing about solving formulas in practice.WIRED headline (29 October 2026), on OpenAI's and Anthropic's claimed refutations of the Exponential Time Hypothesis

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