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Science & health
Research claims, medicine and discoveries credited to AI. 14 claims checked, newest first; each links to its receipts.
Science & health: every check
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapThe prize is a million dollars for the whole Yang-Mills problem. OpenAI claims one of its two parts, and the proof is not public.28 Oct 2026 · Scientific American headline, shared on r/artificial (27 October 2026), reporting an OpenAI announcement
- VERIFIEDMeta's terms do say the customer carries 'any and all risks' of its AI. They are business terms, and the sweeping indemnity was already there.24 Oct 2026 · CIO (Evan Schuman), 19 October 2026; trending on Hacker News and r/artificial, 23 October 2026
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldTexas AI emits 8.5 times more CO2 than Sweden. That is a model of one example request, and the grid gap behind it is closer to 42 times.24 Oct 2026 · Berget AI press release, 21 October 2026; Hacker News front page, 23 October 2026 (140 points)
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldMicrosoft's AI really did more than double doctors' accuracy in Science. The doctors were generalists working alone, the patients were simulated, and every author works for Microsoft.23 Oct 2026 · Microsoft AI (MAI Health Team), 22 October 2026, announcing its Science paper; shared on r/artificial as AI doubling doctors' accuracy
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldThe AI cancer 'treatment' is one plant compound that worked alongside an existing drug on cancer cell clumps in a dish. No mice, no patients yet.23 Oct 2026 · Headline trending on r/artificial, October 2026, on UCLA's MAESTRO study in Advanced Science
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedThe 42.9% is 36 people. All 84 in the study were screened at Biograph, and every author works for Biograph.23 Oct 2026 · Biograph press release, 22 October 2026, on its medRxiv preprint using Caristo Diagnostics' CaRi-Heart
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapOpenAI said a Lean formalization backed its Navier-Stokes proof. An arXiv paper finds the Lean code uses five extra derivatives where the written proof claims four.14 Oct 2026 · OpenAI, research post (8 Sep 2026); its Lean check tested in an arXiv paper (6 Oct 2026)
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldTen minutes of AI erodes your ability to persist, Berkeley's headline says. The study measured skipped problems on a paid online task, three test problems each, and its largest trial found the skip gap was not significant.13 Oct 2026 · Berkeley News (UC Berkeley), headline on a 9 Oct 2026 story about an arXiv preprint; reached the Hacker News front page
- 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.12 Oct 2026 · Anthropic, life sciences group announcement (23 Sep 2026), and Dario Amodei on X
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedQ2D-Web is a public leaderboard of 69,721 queries from Perplexity's own traffic. The paper says the benchmark stays private.9 Oct 2026 · Perplexity, Q2D-Web announcement (September 2026)
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedOpenAI dropped hundreds of AI math papers at once. Its own README says about 42% of the headline results are machine checked.8 Oct 2026 · OpenAI, "Sharing AI progress in mathematics" post and openai/math repository, top of Hacker News (Oct 6, 2026)
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldKhan Academy sells Khanmigo as an always-available tutor. A two-year trial found students rarely asked it anything.6 Oct 2026 · Khan Academy's Khanmigo learner page, tested by an EdWorkingPaper trial posted to Hacker News (Oct 6, 2026)
- VERIFIEDAn AI beat Stratego's most decorated player 15 to 1 with 4 draws, and the paper backs it. The "few thousand dollars" is the final training run, not the whole project.3 Oct 2026 · Ars Technica (Oct 1, 2026), reporting the Ataraxos team's paper
- VERIFIEDAnthropic let Claude agents trade books for 201 of its staff after a five-minute chat, and says the agents guessed people's tastes right on 61% of book pairs. True, and Anthropic says what the summaries skip: a coin flip scores 50%.26 Sept 2026 · Anthropic ('Project Swap' research post), amplified by TLDR AI