"Norway site fully deployed for the '$10B' partnership"
THE CHECK: Any announcement of Tydal site phase completion or renegotiation? Search 'Volta Bitdeer Tydal'.
PROMISE WATCH · WE COUNTED THE DAYS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO
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.
"Norway site fully deployed for the '$10B' partnership"
THE CHECK: Any announcement of Tydal site phase completion or renegotiation? Search 'Volta Bitdeer Tydal'.
"injunction hearing on the trade-secrets suit"
THE CHECK: Docket activity before Oct 1 hearing (settlement/withdrawal ends the countdown early). Search 'Apple OpenAI injunction'.
"FLUX 3 Dev open weights 'later in 2026'"
THE CHECK: FLUX 3 Dev weights on huggingface.co/black-forest-labs? 'Later in 2026' hard-expires 12-31.
"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).
"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 Not yet peer-reviewed.
“A viral claim on X said the mystery stealth model 'Ox Alpha' beats Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the DeepSWE coding benchmark, based on an 8/10-task sample (effectively >80%).”
TRUE, BUTBen Davis, @davis7 on X, amplified by AGTP (@AGTPinsights) and Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) to a much larger audience without the sample-size caveat
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