Issue #10

SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2026 · 13 CLAIMS CHECKED · 1 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 10 OF 30

• TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapOpenAI emailed every free ChatGPT user in Europe: ads are coming, and they will use only three data points. Their own privacy policy lists seven.OpenAI Ireland (email to EEA users, Aug 15)
• TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedAnthropic built a model stronger than its flagship. You cannot use it, test it, or check the number.Anthropic (August 2026 Risk Report, published August 14 under RSP v3.4)
• TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapFree ChatGPT went unlimited last week. Opt out of ads and it stops being unlimited.OpenAI / OpenAI Ireland (ads announcement + EEA user notification)
• TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathThe great Claude cancellation wave is four people Business Insider talked to. The company says the line is flat.Business Insider plus weekend aggregators and viral X posts
• TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedAnthropic's CEO wants mandatory AI testing before release. Anthropic spent $3.53 million in six months lobbying to shape what that testing looks like.Dario Amodei (public statement, Aug 16)
• VERIFIEDDeepSeek wiped $600 billion off Nvidia in January with the cheap-AI story. Today it raised its own prices up to 1,100%.DeepSeek (pricing page update, Aug 13-14)
• TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerGPT-5.6 Terra scored 69.6 and 64.8 on the same benchmark this week. Nothing changed except whose chart it was.Google, Meta, and xAI launch charts, plus aggregator coverage stacking them into a single ranking
• BSZ.ai says GLM-5.3 leads CyberGym with 84.5% and found 2,436 vulnerabilities. Independent verifications: zero. Vulnerabilities with public CVEs: 53 out of 2,436.Z.ai (launch post, Aug 14)
• BSMusk says nothing will beat Grok 4.7 at engineering. So far it has beaten only its own ship date.Elon Musk (X post, August 12, 2026)
• TRUE, BUT · Moved RulerBloomberg says Alibaba's AI eclipses Meta and Google with 3 billion downloads. Alibaba released 460 models. Meta released 3. Do the division.Alibaba / Bloomberg (Aug 15) citing Hugging Face report (Aug 14)
• TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapAlibaba just passed Meta in downloads. Meta passed a billion before this scoreboard started counting.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.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.Vals AI (Series A blog) / a16z

THAT IS THE RECORD FOR ISSUE #10. NEXT VERDICT DROPS 9PM AEST.