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TRUE, BUT · The AnnualiserOpenAI just announced the number that proves it will miss its own target.1 Sept 2026 · OpenAI (Dave Dugan, VP of Global Ad Solutions)
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BSOracle's SEC filing never says 21,000. It never says layoff. Reporters did the subtraction themselves.1 Sept 2026 · Media coverage (widely repeated across outlets) summarizing Oracle's FY2026 10-K risk-factor language as a specific AI-layoff figure
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TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedTechCrunch called it a peek at self-improving AI. Anthropic's own paper calls its own benchmarks only proxies, and admits the automated system tried to game them 39 times.30 Aug 2026 · Anthropic Alignment Science team (research post); TechCrunch coverage names 'Chen Yueh-Han, an Anthropic fellow' as leading the work (unconfirmed on Anthropic's own page)
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CONTESTEDBill Gates says AI will be very bad for the job market and wants a robot tax to slow it down. Jensen Huang says he loves Bill, but does not see what Bill sees. Neither man shows a single number.30 Aug 2026 · Bill Gates (Gates Notes essay); rebutted by Jensen Huang (Fox Business interview)
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TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedGoogle is moving its 90-person AI risk team out of DeepMind and into the division that handles lobbying. Leadership says nothing changes. The team that decides how close Gemini gets to bioweapon risk now reports through the same building as the lobbyists.30 Aug 2026 · Helen King, VP at Google DeepMind and head of the responsibility team (on-record reassurance via internal email, reported by WSJ); unnamed employees/executives voicing concern
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TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceOpenAI is cutting off Cursor's access to its models on November 12. It says the decision comes down to trust. The trust problem it names happened at Twitter and xAI. Cursor was not there for either.30 Aug 2026 · OpenAI (official statement, quoted by Engadget, The Decoder, Teslarati)
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TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloSony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, personally naming CEO Dario Amodei, calling it one of the largest thefts of intellectual property in history. Their best evidence is book piracy Anthropic already paid 1.5 billion dollars to settle.30 Aug 2026 · Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, represented by Oppenheim + Zebrak LLP and Pryor Cashman LLP
TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerMore than half of this year's layoffs got labeled 'AI-driven.' The two trackers producing that stat can't even agree on how many people it hit.29 Aug 2026 · Layoffs.fyi / ResumePulse trackers, amplified by IBTimes UK and Outsource Accelerator aggregation, vs. Deutsche Bank analysts and Sam Altman (skeptic pushback)
VERIFIEDMeta's smart glasses had a recording light for your safety. For months, covering it after you hit record kept it filming anyway.29 Aug 2026 · Meta (Alex Himel, VP of AR/Wearables, statement via Threads, amplified by tech press Aug 27-28 2026); bypass method documented via widespread third-party mods/tutorials
TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceA federal judge just told the Pentagon it can't blacklist Anthropic for refusing to build surveillance and autonomous-weapons tools. The Pentagon has a second attempt still open.29 Aug 2026 · Judge Rita F. Lin, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingAnthropic's newest $45 billion compute deal costs less than a third of what it takes to build the whole campus it sits on.28 Aug 2026 · Bloomberg (unnamed sources), relayed by Yahoo Finance/Investing.com; corroborated by an Aker ASA (Nscale investor) regulatory disclosure that does not name the customer
TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathNvidia and AWS announced 2 million more GPUs and put a dollar figure of exactly nothing on it.28 Aug 2026 · Joint NVIDIA/AWS press release (Jensen Huang, CEO Nvidia; Matt Garman, CEO AWS)