Issue #11
MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2026 · 8 CLAIMS CHECKED · 2 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 11 OF 30
- TRUE, BUT · Zero Underneath101,743 job-cut announcements cited AI as the reason. New York gave companies the option to cite AI on layoff filings. Zero did.
- TRUE, BUT · Human In The LoopThe first AI boss fired a human this week. It had to be told its own rules first, and a human held the axe.
- VERIFIEDAnthropic's CEO now admits 'the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven't yet delivered on our big promises.' He called 'cure cancer' a cliche.
- TRUE, BUT · Human In The LoopHeadlines said the AI flew the fighter jet with no pilot required. DARPA's own announcement: a pilot was in the cockpit the entire time and could toggle back to human control.
- TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingDeepSeek launched a free coding tool and raised API prices 355% on the same day. It collected 135K GitHub stars. Independent audits found tenfold token overhead and a security sandbox that skips networks.
- VERIFIEDMeta bought an AI startup for $2 billion. Beijing reversed the deal 4 months later and barred the founders from leaving China.
- TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathNvidia built an AI safety alliance after an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face. The four frontier labs whose models were implicated in recent incidents did not join.
- TRUE, BUT · The AnnualiserStripe agreed to pay $7 billion for a company that routes API calls between AI models. It was worth $1.3 billion three months ago. Estimated revenue multiple: 50x.
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