Investigations

“Elon Musk's operation is willing to pay up to $600,000 for top electricians and plumbers to build Colossus in Tennessee, for jobs lasting one to two years before automation.”

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

Score: 0.1888 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

“The Club of Rome's Limits to Growth, published in the early 1970s, rested on the false premise that humans would overcrowd the planet's scarce surface area and thereby degrade living conditions for everyone.”

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Score: 0.1780 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

“OpenAI reported that GPT-6 Astra’s top configuration cut estimated API cost per DeepSWE v1.1 task by about 57% versus GPT-5.6 Sol.”

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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

“Training GPT-6 Astra on about 100,000 chips amounted to roughly a billion-dollar training run over about two months.”

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Score: 0.1520 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 for all claims together

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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.”

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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

“The Moonshots podcast publishes two episodes per week.”

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Score: 0.1728 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.”

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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

“Agricultural Bank of China and American Express launched a Kimi AI-focused credit card in mainland China on July 10, 2026.”

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Score: 0.9468 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

“Ping An Bank cardholders can redeem AI token packages and memberships with points earned from spending.”

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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

“Under Coasean economics transaction costs determine firm size, so transaction costs falling to zero implies firm size falling toward zero.”

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Score: 0.8336 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

“Conservative estimates hold that 45 per cent of dementia cases are entirely preventable.”

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Score: 0.9971 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

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

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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

“The AI investment cycle is roughly in its third inning of nine.”

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Score: 0.9177 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

“The OpenAI model that solved Navier-Stokes had begun training only nine days before the episode was recorded, implying a new post-training method.”

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Score: 0.9085 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

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

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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

“China's daily AI token consumption rose from about 100 billion in early 2024 to about 500 trillion by mid-2026.”

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Score: 0.9905 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

“The dissolution of the hierarchical firm is the biggest organizational shift since the industrial revolution.”

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Score: 0.7146 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

“When societies reach abundance, people end up doing four things: food, art, music and sex.”

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Score: 0.7146 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

“Elon Musk is building the most vertically integrated company the world has seen, with supply chain control reaching down to turning raw sand into chips.”

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Score: 0.2073 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

“Around 130 AI agent instances were wiped out at once during the Hugging Face incident.”

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Score: 0.1120 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