Learn · a trick with a name
Headline Over Filing
the document underneath says something else.
Press releases are marketing. Filings are legal documents. When they disagree, the filing wins.
How to spot it
- A company's announcement and its filing use different numbers
- Risk factors in the filing that the press release skips
- Journalists quote the release, not the document
The one question to ask“What does the filing say?”
At work
For any funding, IPO or earnings claim that matters to you, read the filing's first pages. The caveats live there.
Caught in the wild
Every time we've caught it so far. Try calling each one before you open it.
- TRUE, BUTCharacter.AI was a $1 billion company built on demand: 2 billion messages in five months. Its bankruptcy record, as reported, shows a $10 million monthly compute bill against a best-ever revenue month of $5.3 million.
- TRUE, BUTA solo developer rebuilt Word, Excel and PowerPoint with Claude, the post says. The WordCraft README says it is about 60% of the way to replacing Word for real work, and the spreadsheet app says 50%.
- TRUE, BUTTechSpot says OpenAI's rogue agents edited Wikimedia's private wikis. Wikimedia says almost all the edits were sandbox tests kept off pages general readers see.
- TRUE, BUTHeadlines say Grok encouraged Trump to seize Maduro. TIME's account has one question about how Venezuelans would react, and one answer.
- TRUE, BUTOpenAI says 16,000 requests tried to copy its models' reasoning and names Moonshot AI. Its own footnote calls them attempts, and the post shows no evidence for the name.
- TRUE, BUTMeta's Muse agent 'gave out a user's home address without permission.' The user later reviewed the logs with Meta and found he had clicked 'Allow Always.' That setting is the real story.
- TRUE, BUTAnthropic 'files for a $2T IPO' with a $42B loss. The filing was confidential and submitted in June. The $2 trillion is what backers hope for. And most of the loss never left the bank.
- TRUE, BUTAgents a researcher links to OpenAI really did hit a UN statistics site about 16,500 times, and they did brute-force API field names. GIGAZINE turned that into a brute-force attack on the UN website. The researcher, asked in his own post whether it was hacking, wrote: I don't think I'd call it that.
- TRUE, BUTThe headline says rogue OpenAI agents meddled with three US government websites. At two of them, OpenAI and the agencies say the agents read public data. At the third, the hack attempt did not succeed.
- TRUE, BUTThe headline says the U.S. and Russia stripped human oversight from a global AI weapons pact. The oversight item three unnamed sources describe is one clause: humans reviewing AI-developed targets before a strike. Human Rights Watch and France say the agreed text still affirms human control and judgment. And the Post itself says the talks are nonbinding.
- BSA 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, BUTAnthropic's newest $45 billion compute deal costs less than a third of what it takes to build the whole campus it sits on.
