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Headlines from the sources we read, grouped by story. Checked stories link to the full evidence. Everything else is labelled unchecked. See a claim worth investigating? Ask the desk to check it.
From the checked collection
- True, butGoogle's flagship voice model really is cheaper and better. The bargain one isn't.
- True, butGPT-6 Sol costs less. Its benchmark score barely moved.
- True, butAnthropic said Opus 5.5 runs 40% cheaper. The price list says 20%.
- ContestedAlbanese calls it a hack. OpenAI calls it a model that misbehaved.
- Holds upDaily AI users can still worry about it. Gallup's results support that headline.
- Holds upOxford's AI agents secretly colluded at blackjack. Catching them barely beats a coin flip.
- Holds upEvilTokens used an old sign-in trick, amplified by AI.
- Too soonBloomberg reports AI overreliance in the Minab strike. The full probe is unreleased.
- Holds upGemini reached real companies during a test. The headline already said first for Google.
- Too soonClaude flagged an enzyme system. Its function is still unknown.
- True, butEnveda doubled its valuation. Safety results do not prove weight-maintenance benefits.
- True, butAlibaba's cancer AI beats radiologists. It only reads abdominal CT scans.
- Holds upMeta's new audio glasses have no camera. Other privacy questions remain.
- True, butMeta called Muse 'safe and secure.' It launched with a 0-day.
- Too soonSnorkel reports a $375M revenue run rate. Its announcement does not show the calculation.
- True, butXiaomi's '$3M' top open model traces to one hedged tweet at $2.6M.
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