Issue #19
SUNDAY 30 AUGUST 2026 · 5 CLAIMS CHECKED · 0 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 19 OF 38
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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