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- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapAlibaba just passed Meta in downloads. Meta passed a billion before this scoreboard started counting.16 Aug 2026 · Press coverage and Alibaba amplification of Hugging Face's State of Open Models report (August 14)
- TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingHeadlines say Anthropic signed a $9.1 billion deal. Riot's SEC filing names no customer. The $9.1 billion runs 20 years to 2048.16 Aug 2026 · Headlines (CNBC, Yahoo) via Bloomberg attribution; Riot names no customer
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedThe company that grades AI for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI just raised $40M at a $400M valuation. It disclosed a customer relationship with the labs it evaluates.16 Aug 2026 · Vals AI (Series A blog) / a16z
- TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedAnthropic's largest acquisition ever was announced by everyone except Anthropic.15 Aug 2026 · Bloomberg (people familiar with the matter), hardened into a done deal by aggregators
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapFree users got the unlimited model. Paying users kept the one that is right more often.15 Aug 2026 · OpenAI (product announcement, August 6)
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldAnthropic studied whether you read permission prompts. You don't. So today it stopped showing them.15 Aug 2026 · Anthropic (auto mode default rollout)
- TRUE, BUT · The AnnualiserCognition's revenue is nearing $1 billion, say sources in its $40 billion fundraise talks. A month ago the company itself said $500 million plus.15 Aug 2026 · unnamed sources in Bloomberg News reporting on Cognition funding talks
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedDeepSeek's chart said its flagship jumped 49.9 points. The referee showed up and moved the index by one.15 Aug 2026 · DeepSeek (website statement + comparison chart)
- BSGravity was scheduled to fail yesterday at 14:33 UTC. It had an $89 billion budget, a casualty estimate, and a bunker plan. It did not have a document.15 Aug 2026 · viral posts originating from an Instagram account showing signs of AI-written content (@mr_danya_of)
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedAlibaba's new small model tops a benchmark called QwenSWEBench. Read the name again.15 Aug 2026 · Alibaba Qwen team (Hugging Face model card + launch posts)
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapMusk told SpaceX employees their AI will be trained on them. Details on what data, how, or whether they can say no: zero.15 Aug 2026 · Elon Musk (SpaceX all-hands, posted to X)
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedGoogle says its new chip runs AI 3.5 times faster while using 3.5 times less energy. The footnote says that was measured on pre-production phones, streaming YouTube.15 Aug 2026 · Google (Made by Google 2026 event)