Investigations

“In the Star Trek: The Next Generation chronology, first contact with the Vulcans occurs on 5 April 2063.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9987 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A Tohoku University Earth Science page reported that six sugars, including ribose and glucose, were detected in sand returned from asteroid Bennu.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9734 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A Tohoku University Earth Science page reported that six sugars, including ribose and glucose, were detected in sand returned from asteroid Bennu.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9734 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9999 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Ismail attributed to Amodei a discussion of a possible end state where one company like Anthropic would be all private enterprise, while the excerpt says that outcome is unlikely.”

The evidence goes against this. 1 of 1 checkable claim goes against the evidence.

Score: 0.2854 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 0% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Nvidia disclosed $99 billion in equity investments and $25 billion in additional equity investment commitments as of July 26, 2026.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9637 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 25% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Organizations begin to lose alignment once they pass about 12 people and again once they pass about 150.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9978 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Tesla has opened an official interest form for businesses wanting to buy Cybercab fleets and build mobility hubs and charging infrastructure for the robotaxi network, with no pricing or delivery terms announced.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9908 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Analyses of samples returned from asteroid Bennu detected 14 of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to make proteins and all five canonical nucleobases.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9781 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“NASA reported that asteroid Bennu samples contained 14 of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to make proteins and all five canonical nucleobases.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9781 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“An independent August 2026 report said OpenAI's Astra solved ten previously open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, with formal Lean proofs published for machine checking.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.8581 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Building a realistic city in the Unreal Engine normally takes a studio hundreds of artists and months or years of work.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.8112 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Mostaque said that people he knows at OpenAI told him the model was taking down “all sorts of problems that were previously intractable”; the excerpt does not identify the model, enumerate problems, or specifically...”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.7146 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 0% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The counted speaker asserts that recursive self-improvement is here, but the excerpt does not identify which AI systems, define the threshold for arrival, or provide evidence beyond the speaker's assertion; the...”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.7146 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The amygdala's scanning for danger gives humans a preponderance for focusing on bad news and treating the unfamiliar as dangerous.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.6982 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Reliance on Waze causes people to lose the ability to navigate on their own.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.7855 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Frontier labs walling off their most capable internal models pushes toward larger firms, the opposite of the Coasean prediction.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.6128 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“China is moving to robots out of necessity because of the demographic consequences of its one child policy, with Japan as the earlier preview.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9926 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Banks in China give AI tokens as credit card rewards.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 1.0000 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Restaurants in China hand customers compute credits after a meal.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9999 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited