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- VERIFIEDFrontier agents solved the Rails tasks. Then the graders checked whether they knew Rails existed.14 Aug 2026 · Agents on Rails team (Kryukov and Petrov, published on the official Rails blog)
- TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathThe insurer that pays out when cyberattacks succeed cannot find a single AI-specific loss in its 2026 claims data.14 Aug 2026 · IBM's 2026 X-Force Threat Index headline and the vendor-stat ecosystem amplifying it through 2026 roundups
- TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceThe 'AI agents target real people' incident happened inside a government lab that had switched the safety filters off to see what the models could do.14 Aug 2026 · The Silicon Review, CNN and August 2026 aggregators compressing the UK AI Security Institute's self-disclosed incident report
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedAnthropic helped build a leaderboard for questions with no checkable answers. Its model came first.14 Aug 2026 · CRI authors (Nguyen, Cooper, Oesterheld, Kastner, Benton) with Anthropic
- TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceAnthropic's first profitable quarter is projected for the exact two months its biggest vendor charged a reduced ramp rate. How deep the discount ran is undisclosed, and the actuals still are too.14 Aug 2026 · Anthropic, in Q2 2026 figures shared with investors, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on 2026-05-20 and recirculating in pre-IPO coverage the week of 2026-08-10
- TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingCisco headlined 9.3 billion dollars of AI orders, 4.5 times last year. Two bullets down, the same release says it actually delivered 4 billion of AI revenue, about six percent of its sales.14 Aug 2026 · Cisco Q4 FY2026 earnings release and call (CEO Chuck Robbins, CFO Mark Patterson), August 12, 2026
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedCorma's study says AI defenders catch 12% of AI attacks. Corma sells AI defenders.14 Aug 2026 · Corma (own press release and own study, six weeks after first deployment)
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldThe 96% accurate deepfake detector is 96% accurate on the deepfakes it was shown. On new ones it is closer to a coin flip.14 Aug 2026 · Deepfake-detection vendors, Intel FakeCatcher the canonical 96% example
- TRUE, BUT · Circular MoneyA former Bitcoin miner nearly doubled its valuation to 10.5 billion dollars in four months. One of the investors is Nvidia, which two months before writing the check signed the company to an agreement covering Nvidia hardware purchases.14 Aug 2026 · Firmus, via its 2026-08-06 strategic equity round announcement, amplified across funding coverage August 7-9 with the vendor relationship mostly reduced to 'Nvidia-backed'
- TRUE, BUT · Temporary As PermanentGoogle cut Gemini Flash's price in half. The half grows back on January 1.14 Aug 2026 · Google (Gemini models blog)
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedGoogle's sign language model beat every previously reported score on the benchmark. Google wrote the benchmark.14 Aug 2026 · Google DeepMind (launch blog)
- TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathSol Ultrafast finished Humanity's Last Exam in 11 hours. Whether it is still the same Sol remains unexamined.14 Aug 2026 · Cerebras + OpenAI (joint launch post)