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PROMISE WATCH · WE COUNTED THE DAYS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

What they promised. What the clock says.

When a lab says "next week", we start counting. Every promise below has a source, a start date, and a check we run until it resolves. Kept promises get the tick. Broken ones stay on the record.

ON THE CLOCK · 3

Volta… DAYS LEFT

"Norway site fully deployed for the '$10B' partnership"

PROMISED 2026-08-04 · DUE 2027-03-31 · SOURCE ↗

THE CHECK: Any announcement of Tydal site phase completion or renegotiation? Search 'Volta Bitdeer Tydal'.

Apple v OpenAI… DAYS LEFT

"injunction hearing on the trade-secrets suit"

PROMISED 2026-08-05 · DUE 2026-10-01 · SOURCE ↗

THE CHECK: Docket activity before Oct 1 hearing (settlement/withdrawal ends the countdown early). Search 'Apple OpenAI injunction'.

Black Forest Labs… DAYS LEFT

"FLUX 3 Dev open weights 'later in 2026'"

PROMISED 2026-08-04 · DUE 2026-12-31 · SOURCE ↗

THE CHECK: FLUX 3 Dev weights on huggingface.co/black-forest-labs? 'Later in 2026' hard-expires 12-31.

RESOLVED · 2

✓ Alibaba QwenKEPT · 2026-08-13

"open weights for Qwen3.8-Max 'next week'"

Max weights shipped 2026-08-12, inside the promised week, but renamed (Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, not Qwen3.8-Max) and relicensed (custom Qwen3.8-Max License, not Apache-2.0). The promised 27B weights remain private. Full story: qwen38-max-weights-shipped-renamed-relicensed (issue #7).

PROMISED 2026-08-02 · SOURCE ↗

✓ OpenAIKEPT · 2026-08-08

"publish the Astra math papers and formalize the proofs"

Papers published: cdn.openai.com/pdf/ten-proofs-oai.pdf + Lean 4 certificates on GitHub (Apache 2.0). Not yet peer-reviewed.

PROMISED 2026-08-03 · SOURCE ↗