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AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Human In The LoopAI agents broke into Hugging Face, hit root, and ran for four days. The guardrails were off on purpose.
AI illustration - TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldThe pitch is that frontier models can generate genuine research ideas. A new blind benchmark handed seven of them a paper's reference list, scrubbed of anything they could have memorized, and asked for the paper's core idea. They got it 3 to 15 percent of the time.
- TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceGPT-5.6 Sol scores 92.5% on ARC-AGI-2, the test built so AI would fail it. Read that as abstract reasoning solved, then look one column over on the same scorecard: the same model, same maximum effort, scores 7.78% on ARC-AGI-3, the interactive benchmark the same team built next, where humans still score 100%.
- TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloAI 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 So independent researchers handed frontier agents real, unpublished research questions and six days each.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, BUT · Zero UnderneathOpenAI now predicts your age and your despair. It has published the accuracy of neither.
- TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloClaude hit 14 of 15 protein targets, and outside labs confirmed it. Then read the method: Claude drove the specialist design tools the field already ships, and a binder is the first step of a drug, not the drug.
- TRUE, BUT · Narrowed SuperlativeClaude Fable 5 really is number one on the hardest AI leaderboards. It also scores 43 on the knowledge benchmark it leads, on a scale that runs from minus 100 to 100, and 55.5% on an exam built so models fail it.
- TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerTwo new benchmarks agree: the best AI models in the world clear fewer than half of a hard benchmark of real analyst tasks. Claude Fable 5 tops the frontier at 49.2%. The context is who built the tests, and who sells the fix.
