Investigations

“Advanced testing found that one quarter of Fountain Life's members had advanced brain age.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9985 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

“By at least one estimate, the inference compute for OpenAI's Navier-Stokes result cost approximately $6.5 million.”

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 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“At the September 18, 2026 Oval Office event Trump took credit for foreign leaders being elected to office.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.7291 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

“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 27790 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 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Given a prompt by Matt Shumer, GPT-6 Astra built a high-fidelity Unreal Engine model of Manhattan street by street over the course of a week.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9813 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

“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 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 28 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Europeans will ride a train going 200 mph through the Alps while drinking wine and Americans will sit in traffic on I-95 for three hours eating a gas station sandwich.”

Checks out so far. 3 hold up so far.

Score: 0.6615 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

3 claims · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“About 80% of people in China are pro-AI while about 80% of people in the United States are against AI.”

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

Score: 0.0257 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 100% · 100% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“France and Ukraine fed Trump false intelligence to test whether he would leak it to Putin—and he did.”

Parts of this go against the evidence. 2 of 3 checkable claims go against the evidence; 1 not yet settled.

Review 50% · 50% counted

3 claims · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“A Sept. 18, 2026 newsletter post, "Donald Trump is scared of the truth" by Heather Delaney Reese, reports that Trump used an Oval Office event that afternoon to announce a ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, called it a...”

Parts of this go against the evidence. 3 of 27 checkable claims go against the evidence; 23 hold up so far; 1 not yet settled; 1 not a checkable fact.

Score: 0.0000 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 66% · 66% counted

28 claims · recorded 22 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 27790 for all claims together

Review 25% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Emad Mostaque's Champion proposal allocates 10% of a local AI and robotics company's equity to residents under 21 and issues additional equity to children born later.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9970 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 25% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Emad Mostaque's Champion proposal allocates 10% of a local AI and robotics company's equity to residents under 21 and issues additional equity to children born later.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9970 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 25% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Salim Ismail and his co-authors argued in their 2023 book Exponential Organizations 2.0 that Coase's law was already breaking.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.8581 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Salim Ismail and Ted Shelton coined the term fiduciary wedge for the reasons a legal entity is still needed once coordination is automated: liability, fiduciary duty, proprietary data ownership, learning loops, brand...”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9381 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“OpenAI was targeting the Riemann hypothesis and P versus NP before switching its effort to Navier-Stokes.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9477 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The Navier–Stokes equations describe fluid motion and are used in aircraft design, weather forecasting, and the study of blood flow.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9839 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 25% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“John Smart's transcension hypothesis proposes that advanced civilizations move toward computationally dense “inner space,” which could help explain the Fermi paradox.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9747 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 25% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“John Smart's transcension hypothesis holds that sufficiently advanced civilizations turn inward into simulation rather than expanding into space, which would explain the Fermi paradox.”

Not settled yet. 1 not yet settled.

Review 25% · 25% counted

1 claim · recorded 22 September 2026 · provisional until audited