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The permanent record for Google. Every claim we have put on the ledger, checked against independent sources, with the verdict and the date. On the record so far, Google mixes real progress with spin. This page compounds: each new verdict updates the rate.
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THE FULL RECORD · 22 CLAIMS, NEWEST FIRST
TRUE, BUTThree senators say AI data center companies revealed they are not paying their full costs. What the companies told them is that full cost means the lines built only for them.TRUE, BUTGoogle calls EmbeddingGemma 2 best-in-class for its size. The 9.92-point code gain, from 68.76 to 78.68, is the lab's own measurement.TRUE, BUTGoogle says Gemini 4 Argon beat OpenAI and Anthropic across benchmarks. The independent index has it tied with GPT-6 Astra and five points behind Claude Opus 5.5.TRUE, BUTGoogle says your AI's memory will live in its cloud, locked so tightly that even Google cannot read it. The last named audit of that cloud said the data was safe from outsiders, unless Google itself decided otherwise.TRUE, BUTGemini helped three hikers plan a Mount Shasta climb. Rescuers reported inadequate food-and-water advice. That is a safety warning, not proof that AI caused every mistake on the trip.TRUE, BUTGoogle is moving its 90-person AI risk team out of DeepMind and into the division that handles lobbying. Leadership says nothing changes. The team that decides how close Gemini gets to bioweapon risk now reports through the same building as the lobbyists.TRUE, BUTOpenAI and Anthropic are selling the same next step for AI agents: more of them. Claude Code now forks subagents by default, and Sol Ultra fans a problem across up to 64. Google Research ran the controlled test, and the answer is a split: more agents help work that breaks into independent pieces and hurt work that runs as one dependent chain, by up to 70%. Which one your task is decides whether the swarm is an upgrade or a tax.TRUE, BUTNvidia built an AI safety alliance after an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face. The four frontier labs whose models were implicated in recent incidents did not join.TRUE, BUTGPT-5.6 Terra scored 69.6 and 64.8 on the same benchmark this week. Nothing changed except whose chart it was.TRUE, BUTBloomberg says Alibaba's AI eclipses Meta and Google with 3 billion downloads. Alibaba released 460 models. Meta released 3. Do the division.TRUE, BUTAlibaba just passed Meta in downloads. Meta passed a billion before this scoreboard started counting.TRUE, BUTThe company that grades AI for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI just raised $40M at a $400M valuation. It disclosed a customer relationship with the labs it evaluates.TRUE, BUTGoogle says its new chip runs AI 3.5 times faster while using 3.5 times less energy. The footnote says that was measured on pre-production phones, streaming YouTube.TRUE, BUTGoogle cut Gemini Flash's price in half. The half grows back on January 1.TRUE, BUTGoogle's sign language model beat every previously reported score on the benchmark. Google wrote the benchmark.TRUE, BUTAt Black Hat, Google warned of AI-powered attackers. Google's own tracker counts the breakthroughs: zero.TRUE, BUTGoogle put a screen-tapping agent on a billion phones. The same kind just went wrong on a gym.TRUE, BUTA billion people use Gemini. ChatGPT hit the same billion two months earlier.TRUE, BUTYes, researchers pulled the hidden reasoning out of Claude, GPT, and Gemini. No, it was not the token counts, and it is already fixed.CONTESTEDA research firm gave the company that runs Gemini a zero percent chance. Of anything. Ever again.TRUE, BUTGoogle says its new robot brain is the most capable ever. Google is also the only one keeping score.TRUE, BUT1,200 AI insiders signed a letter to slow down AI. Their bosses signed it too, by lunch.
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