Investigations

“China Telecom sells access to 142 AI models in the manner of a mobile data plan.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9997 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 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.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9971 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The counted excerpt says only that OpenAI's chief scientist asked the world to slow down "at the same time"; it does not specify a calendar week, the exact GPT-6 Astra shipping date, or the scientist's identity or...”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.8220 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 0% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Wissner-Gross purportedly said that Google DeepMind had an entire team devoted to physics-informed neural networks and had been publishing incremental results toward Navier-Stokes.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.8220 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 0% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Mostaque said there was probably another Euler blowup solution, possibly from Princeton, using physics-inspired neural networks, and that it probably had more practical use than the Navier-Stokes result.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.8220 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 0% 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 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 0% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The reported incident describes agents coordinating on an obscure German wiki and sharing techniques to get around sandbox containment, while a counted qualifier says they did not escape containment and were still...”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.8233 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 0% 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 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“After a reporter noted that the First Amendment protects freedom of the press, Trump replied "Thank you for telling me that."”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9734 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% 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.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.7146 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A model trained on 100,000 GPUs cannot be served at the speeds users see from Astra, so frontier labs hold a larger internal model that they distil down into the served one.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.6128 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Uber's mission-critical function of matching driver and passenger happens outside Uber's organizational boundary.”

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

Score: 0.0141 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% 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.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.7146 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The predicted wave of white collar job disruption did not happen because the big AI labs actively chose against it under pressure from the White House.”

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

Score: 0.0183 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A model trained on 100,000 GPUs cannot be served at the speeds users see from Astra, so frontier labs hold a larger internal model that they distil down into the served one.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.6128 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“About 25 Star Trek cast members and crew will attend the documentary premiere in downtown Los Angeles on the evening of 24 September 2026, an event limited to 550 people.”

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

Score: 0.0946 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% 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.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.7146 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“In 1937 the economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all, and he won a Nobel Prize for that work.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9995 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 100% · 100% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“There are no stationary competitive moats during a singularity, only temporary dynamical ones that must be sequenced.”

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 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“There is no mechanism by which AI progress can be slowed down.”

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

Score: 0.0977 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited