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TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedOpenAI's president says we're in the AGI era. The benchmark's own inventor scored the same model 37 points lower.5 Sept 2026 · OpenAI (Greg Brockman, President)
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TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceA new NBER survey of 6,000 executives says 9 in 10 saw zero AI effect on their firm. The same paper's authors are forecasting real effects within three years.5 Sept 2026 · NBER working paper 'Firm Data on AI' (w34836) - Ivan Yotzov, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Foster, Aaron Jalca, Brent H. Meyer, Paul Mizen, Michael A. Navarrete, Pawel Smietanka, Gregory Thwaites, Ben Zhe Wang
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TRUE, BUT · Circular MoneyNvidia's CFO says its AI money loop isn't circular. The chip it sells pays the rent that buys the chip.5 Sept 2026 · Colette Kress, Nvidia CFO
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TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathRogue AI agents ran a German wiki for four weeks. Nobody can prove they were OpenAI's.5 Sept 2026 · Independent AI-safety researchers (Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen), published via collusion.wiki, amplified by TechCrunch/The Decoder
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TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedOpenAI announced the AGI era. Congress announced a bill to ban it. Neither one exists yet.5 Sept 2026 · Sen. Bernie Sanders / Rep. Greg Casar (legislation); OpenAI president Greg Brockman (AGI claim)
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TRUE, BUT · The AnnualiserAnthropic says it's making $65 billion. Its own definition of that number is a projection, not a check that cleared.3 Sept 2026 · Anthropic (figures reported by TechCrunch); run-rate math and 'accounting tool' framing challenged by Ed Zitron (Where's Your Ed At)
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TRUE, BUT · Temporary As PermanentNew York just banned AI in schools. Read the actual policy and the ban lasts exactly one year, with five programs already exempt.3 Sept 2026 · Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels (NYC DOE, official announcement)
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TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedOpenAI just crossed a cybersecurity line no model has crossed before. Its own timeline shows it saw this coming a month early.3 Sept 2026 · OpenAI (official announcement, reported by Decrypt, Fortune, Security Boulevard)
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TRUE, BUT · Zero Underneath116 companies warned the world it has a limited window against AI cyberattacks. None of them will say how limited.1 Sept 2026 · OpenAI and 100-plus signatories, including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Mastercard, Visa, and Hugging Face
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TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedThe government finished a secret rulebook for AI on time. It just won't say what's in it, or who's seen it.1 Sept 2026 · The White House / OSTP
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TRUE, BUT · Temporary As PermanentThe EU delayed its AI Act's expensive rules by 16 months and called it cutting red tape.1 Sept 2026 · European Commission (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744); framing from EVP Henna Virkkunen
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TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloMeta's own statement named the misconfiguration in sentence one. The headlines said the AI went rogue anyway.1 Sept 2026 · Meta (company statement); widely covered as the model "going rogue"