Issue #20

TUESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2026 · 6 CLAIMS CHECKED · 0 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 20 OF 30

• TRUE, BUT · The AnnualiserOpenAI just announced the number that proves it will miss its own target.OpenAI (Dave Dugan, VP of Global Ad Solutions)
• TRUE, BUT · Zero Underneath116 companies warned the world it has a limited window against AI cyberattacks. None of them will say how limited.OpenAI and 100-plus signatories, including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Mastercard, Visa, and Hugging Face
• TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedThe government finished a secret rulebook for AI on time. It just won't say what's in it, or who's seen it.The White House / OSTP
• TRUE, BUT · Temporary As PermanentThe EU delayed its AI Act's expensive rules by 16 months and called it cutting red tape.European Commission (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744); framing from EVP Henna Virkkunen
• TRUE, BUT · Rented HaloMeta's own statement named the misconfiguration in sentence one. The headlines said the AI went rogue anyway.Meta (company statement); widely covered as the model "going rogue"
• BSOracle's SEC filing never says 21,000. It never says layoff. Reporters did the subtraction themselves.Media coverage (widely repeated across outlets) summarizing Oracle's FY2026 10-K risk-factor language as a specific AI-layoff figure

THAT IS THE RECORD FOR ISSUE #20. NEXT VERDICT DROPS 9PM AEST.