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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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of the 16 claims we actually checked16
0 VERIFIED 16 TRUE, BUT 0 BS
MOST RECENT ON THE RECORDOpenAI 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, BUT 19 Aug 2026 · 6 SOURCES
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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.CAPABILITY · 19 Aug 2026 · 6 SOURCESTRUE, 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.SAFETY · 17 Aug 2026 · 5 SOURCESTRUE, BUTGPT-5.6 Terra scored 69.6 and 64.8 on the same benchmark this week. Nothing changed except whose chart it was.CAPABILITY · 16 Aug 2026 · 6 SOURCESTRUE, BUTBloomberg says Alibaba's AI eclipses Meta and Google with 3 billion downloads. Alibaba released 460 models. Meta released 3. Do the division.CAPABILITY · 16 Aug 2026 · 3 SOURCESTRUE, BUTAlibaba just passed Meta in downloads. Meta passed a billion before this scoreboard started counting.MONEY · 16 Aug 2026 · 7 SOURCESTRUE, 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.MONEY · 16 Aug 2026 · 4 SOURCESTRUE, 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.CAPABILITY · 15 Aug 2026 · 4 SOURCESTRUE, BUTGoogle cut Gemini Flash's price in half. The half grows back on January 1.CAPABILITY · 14 Aug 2026 · 6 SOURCESTRUE, BUTGoogle's sign language model beat every previously reported score on the benchmark. Google wrote the benchmark.CAPABILITY · 14 Aug 2026 · 5 SOURCESTRUE, BUTAt Black Hat, Google warned of AI-powered attackers. Google's own tracker counts the breakthroughs: zero.SAFETY · 13 Aug 2026 · 5 SOURCESTRUE, BUTGoogle put a screen-tapping agent on a billion phones. The same kind just went wrong on a gym.SAFETY · 13 Aug 2026 · 5 SOURCESTRUE, BUTA billion people use Gemini. ChatGPT hit the same billion two months earlier.MONEY · 12 Aug 2026 · 5 SOURCESTRUE, BUTYes, researchers pulled the hidden reasoning out of Claude, GPT, and Gemini. No, it was not the token counts, and it is already fixed.SAFETY · 12 Aug 2026 · 6 SOURCESCONTESTEDA research firm gave the company that runs Gemini a zero percent chance. Of anything. Ever again.CAPABILITY · 11 Aug 2026 · 5 SOURCESTRUE, BUTGoogle says its new robot brain is the most capable ever. Google is also the only one keeping score.CAPABILITY · 10 Aug 2026 · 3 SOURCESTRUE, BUT1,200 AI insiders signed a letter to slow down AI. Their bosses signed it too, by lunch.POLICY · 10 Aug 2026 · 3 SOURCES

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