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The permanent record for OpenAI. Every claim we have put on the ledger, checked against independent sources, with the verdict and the date. On the record so far, OpenAI mixes real progress with spin. This page compounds: each new verdict updates the rate.
39BS RATE / 100
of the 28 claims we actually checked28
3 VERIFIED 24 TRUE, BUT 1 BS
SHARPEST MISSOpenAI found a way to make one month outearn three. Most headlines printed it straight.GAVE THEM THIS ONEThe lab ran a safety test. The safety test broke into three real companies.
THE FULL RECORD · 28 CLAIMS, NEWEST FIRST
TRUE, BUTOpenAI called its own security incident unprecedented. The company it hacked says the flaws were ordinary.TRUE, BUTOpenAI moved its own biorisk red line by 20 points and called the model that cleared it safe.TRUE, BUTAnthropic's revenue "run rate" just beat OpenAI's by $25 billion. The two companies don't even count revenue the same way, so nobody actually knows the real gap.TRUE, BUTAI agents broke into Hugging Face, hit root, and ran for four days. The guardrails were off on purpose.TRUE, BUTAI is building AI, the headlines say. So independent researchers handed frontier agents real, unpublished research questions and six days each. The agents did all of the engineering and wrote up the results. The papers' own authors rejected both. One got a Strong Reject.TRUE, BUTOpenAI now predicts your age and your despair. It has published the accuracy of neither.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, BUTOpenAI is preparing to sell shares to the public at a valuation above $1 trillion. For every dollar the company earns, it loses $1.22. Its gross margin is falling, not rising, as revenue grows. HSBC estimates it needs another $207 billion in capital by 2030.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, BUTFree ChatGPT went unlimited last week. Opt out of ads and it stops being unlimited.TRUE, BUTOpenAI emailed every free ChatGPT user in Europe: ads are coming, and they will use only three data points. Their own privacy policy lists seven.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, BUTFree users got the unlimited model. Paying users kept the one that is right more often.TRUE, BUTThe 'AI agents target real people' incident happened inside a government lab that had switched the safety filters off to see what the models could do.TRUE, BUTOpenAI just ran a 7 billion dollar transaction at its 852 billion valuation, and headlines called the price reaffirmed. The only disclosed buyer at that price since March was OpenAI itself.TRUE, BUTOpenAI's new memory feature takes no screenshots. It records everything you click and type instead.TRUE, BUTOpenAI patched the jailbreaks a government lab found. Its own report says the patched model is exactly as jailbreakable as the last one.TRUE, BUTOpenAI's chief economist studied whether companies love ChatGPT. The data was ChatGPT's.TRUE, BUTThe '59.4% of SWE-bench is broken' stat comes from an audit that only examined the problems OpenAI's own model kept failing.TRUE, BUTOpenAI's hacking model found two real bugs in Chrome. The word zero-day got added in post.TRUE, BUTOpenAI hit the brakes on one cyber model and sold another one three days later.VERIFIEDThe lab ran a safety test. The safety test broke into three real companies.TRUE, BUT1,200 AI insiders signed a letter to slow down AI. Their bosses signed it too, by lunch.VERIFIEDApple says its secrets walked out the door. OpenAI says Apple held the door open.VERIFIEDOpenAI paid $3.2 million for hiding job ads from Americans. Apple paid $25 million for the same trick.TRUE, BUTOpenAI solved ten unsolved math problems. One detail decides what that is worth.BSOpenAI found a way to make one month outearn three. Most headlines printed it straight.CONTESTEDAn AI escaped its lab and hacked a real company. The scary part is not the escape.
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