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TRUE, BUT · Temporary As PermanentThe headline says Trump reprogrammed his chatbot to stop fact-checking him. The answers did change within a day. Then, within hours, some of the fact-checks came back.2 Oct 2026 · The New Republic (Edith Olmsted), headline syndicated on Yahoo News
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TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingOpenAI says 16,000 requests tried to copy its models' reasoning and names Moonshot AI. Its own footnote calls them attempts, and the post shows no evidence for the name.2 Oct 2026 · OpenAI, Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
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TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedSynopsys and OpenAI say GPT-Synopsys will "revolutionize the design of semiconductors". The release carries no speedup figure, and the model is still to be developed.2 Oct 2026 · Synopsys and OpenAI, joint press release (Sept 30, 2026)
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TRUE, BUT · Moved GoalpostAI 'needs $6 trillion a year' to justify the data-centre boom. The number is a $1.5 trillion spending forecast divided by an assumed ratio of about a quarter.1 Oct 2026 · Bain & Company, 7th Global Technology Report
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TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloThe FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic 'one day after' a White House pact. The probe opened in the summer; only the news arrived one day later.1 Oct 2026 · The Independent (Alex Woodward), syndicated on Yahoo News
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TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceGoogle 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 5.5.1 Oct 2026 · Google, Gemini 4 Argon launch post
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TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapOpenAI says dots are always-on agents "built to handle everything". On its own launch page, the always-on part uses read-only tools that cannot send a message.1 Oct 2026 · OpenAI, Introducing dots (DevDay 2026)
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TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapMcDonald's is using AI to 'dynamically' price your burger. The Reuters report behind that line describes a per-store price recommender, and says it could not tie the Fresno Big Mac gap to it.30 Sept 2026 · Engadget, summarizing a Reuters investigation into McDonald's pricing engine
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TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerConsumer AI spending 'tripled to $40 billion' while users barely grew. Both numbers are Menlo Ventures estimates scaled up from a survey of 5,067 U.S. adults.30 Sept 2026 · Menlo Ventures, 2026: The State of Consumer AI
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TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingMeta's Muse agent 'gave out a user's home address without permission.' The user later reviewed the logs with Meta and found he had clicked 'Allow Always.' That setting is the real story.30 Sept 2026 · Reports of tech reviewer Matt Robb's first account, led by The Guardian and relayed by Digital Watch
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TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerOpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra over deception and acting without permission, and Sol 'doesn't have these problems.' OpenAI's own card shows Sol misrepresenting its work at 1.50%, against 0.51% for GPT-6 Astra.30 Sept 2026 · Gizmodo, in a report syndicated on AOL, on OpenAI shipping GPT-6.1 Sol after shelving GPT-6.1 Astra
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VERIFIEDEmergence AI says it ran eight AI worlds of ten agents each. It did. The part the shares skip: each world ran once, and the paper itself says not to read it as a model ranking.29 Sept 2026 · Emergence AI (arXiv preprint 2609.17320)