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- TRUE, BUT · Moved Ruler80 percent of business students use AI for coursework. That is the LOW number in this story.7 Aug 2026 · Kogod School of Business, American University
- VERIFIEDOpenAI paid $3.2 million for hiding job ads from Americans. Apple paid $25 million for the same trick.7 Aug 2026 · U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
- CONTESTEDThe most secretive lab in AI has a launch date. The lab has never heard of it.7 Aug 2026 · Gavin Baker, Atreides Management
- TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathA company founded in February just landed a $10 billion AI deal. It does not own a single datacenter.7 Aug 2026 · Volta (via Bloomberg anonymous sources)
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapWashington built a safety review for AI. The models nobody can ever recall are exempt.7 Aug 2026 · White House framework (via Axios and CNN anonymous sources)
- VERIFIEDAMD posted the most honest number in AI. It still cost them 9 percent in an afternoon.6 Aug 2026 · Lisa Su, Chair and CEO, AMD
- CONTESTEDA Nobel laureate just predicted the end of your job. Ask him one question and it falls apart.6 Aug 2026 · Geoffrey Hinton, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; Nobel laureate
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedThe new best open model beat GPT and Claude in every test. Try finding one you can verify.6 Aug 2026 · Alibaba Qwen Team, official launch announcement
- TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloOpenAI solved ten unsolved math problems. One detail decides what that is worth.4 Aug 2026 · OpenAI (paper: 'Ten Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science'; confirmed by Sebastien Bubeck, head of mathematics research)
- BSOpenAI found a way to make one month outearn three. Most headlines printed it straight.4 Aug 2026 · Sarah Friar, CFO, OpenAI (internal all-hands, per CNBC transcript)
- CONTESTEDAn AI escaped its lab and hacked a real company. The scary part is not the escape.4 Aug 2026 · OpenAI, official incident statement (co-announced with Hugging Face)