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TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedOpenAI called its own security incident unprecedented. The company it hacked says the flaws were ordinary.28 Aug 2026 · OpenAI (self-published incident report, Aug 26, 2026)
TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceA stealth model beat Claude and GPT on a coding benchmark. The sample size was ten questions.28 Aug 2026 · Ben Davis, @davis7 on X, amplified by AGTP (@AGTPinsights) and Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) to a much larger audience without the sample-size caveat
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TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathTwenty million dollars just told the world Astromech is worth $3.8 billion. Nobody checked whether the customers exist, because there aren't any yet.25 Aug 2026 · Astromech (Ben Lamm and George Church, co-founders; round led by Bob Nelsen)
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TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingThe paper everyone cites to prove AI is destroying entry-level jobs opens by saying it found no such thing.25 Aug 2026 · Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, Ruyu Chen - Stanford Digital Economy Lab, 'Canaries in the Coal Mine?' (August 2026 revision)
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TRUE, BUT · Borrowed EngineInherent says its 27-billion-parameter model beats GPT-5.5. Its own paper says the model calls GPT-5.5 to do the work.25 Aug 2026 · Inherent Labs (Edward Hughes, co-founder and chief scientist)
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BS"Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data" is the headline. The actual code says nobody has to, and nobody checks if they do.25 Aug 2026 · The Japan Times (headline, Aug 19 2026), amplified verbatim by Slashdot the same day
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TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceNvidia's agent just went 100% on a benchmark built to resist that. The brain doing the reasoning is Anthropic's, and it scores 30% alone.25 Aug 2026 · NVIDIA (developer.nvidia.com technical blog)
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TRUE, BUT · Circular MoneyNvidia may buy into the company that turns Nvidia's chips into $750 million of "revenue."25 Aug 2026 · The Information (anonymous sourcing), syndicated via Reuters and re-reported worldwide
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TRUE, BUT · Moved GoalpostOpenAI moved its own biorisk red line by 20 points and called the model that cleared it safe.25 Aug 2026 · OpenAI - GPT-5.6 System Card, section 9.1.1.6
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TRUE, BUT · Moved Ruler205,000 layoffs blamed on AI in eight months. The firm that's counted this stuff since 1993 gets to less than half that number.24 Aug 2026 · ResumePulse August 2026 tracker, as reported by Outsource Accelerator News
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TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerAnthropic's revenue "run rate" just beat OpenAI's by $25 billion. The two companies don't even count revenue the same way, so nobody actually knows the real gap.24 Aug 2026 · Media framing (TechCrunch, CNBC, Axios, Neowin, Yahoo Finance) sourced to Bloomberg's report of what Anthropic told its own investors ahead of a planned IPO
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TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerAI now writes half of what goes into Linear. Teams tripled their pull requests. Linear itself says it has no idea if any of that helped.24 Aug 2026 · AIToolsRecap (aggregator), summarizing Linear's 'AI usage patterns in software teams' data report