Issue #7
THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2026 · 12 CLAIMS CHECKED · 0 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 7 OF 30
- TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedGrok 4.6 posts a 1753 and a number one. One is a real benchmark. The other is a tweet.
- TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathAt Black Hat, Google warned of AI-powered attackers. Google's own tracker counts the breakthroughs: zero.
- TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloClaude moved a bound that had not moved in years: 41.6 to 67.2. Journal reviews of the paper so far: zero.
- TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingCoreWeave says it has $104 billion in revenue backlog, up 246 percent. The same release shows a $626 million quarterly loss, and the credit market is pricing a coin flip on whether the company survives five years to collect.
- TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingAI servers are now more than half of Foxconn's revenue, a first. Foxconn's own release shows what half the revenue buys: a 6.12 percent gross margin, thinner than last year.
- TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloOpenAI's hacking model found two real bugs in Chrome. The word zero-day got added in post.
- TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedThe company that counts deepfake victims launched its deepfake detector the same day the count came out.
- TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldNVIDIA built a model that talks four times faster. The work arrives 30 percent sooner.
- TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapGoogle put a screen-tapping agent on a billion phones. The same kind just went wrong on a gym.
- TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedAlibaba kept its open-weights promise, then swapped the fine print.
- TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathThe 'autonomous AI strike on a nuclear agency' was 85 cracked passwords at a personnel office.
- TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingTencent says the AI compute it is buying will convert into revenue going forward. This quarter it converted into a 176 percent capex jump, negative free cash flow, and 10.5 billion yuan of losses on the new AI products.
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