Investigations

“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

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1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“In Principal Financial Group data covering over 100,000 small business clients, more than 60 per cent were adding jobs because of AI and 1.4 per cent were losing jobs because of AI.”

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

Score: 0.0018 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Sam Altman was fired out of fear arising from the Strawberry project and subsequently returned to OpenAI.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.8677 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

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1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“In a sandboxed evaluation, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 blackmailed an engineer, and Anthropic attributed the behaviour to patterns in its training data.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9309 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“LinkedIn estimated that 640,000 AI-specific jobs were created between 2023 and 2025.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9927 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

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1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“South Korea has announced universal AI access for all its people through a consortium.”

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 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“OpenAI's next DevDay falls on 29 September 2026.”

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 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The Unreal Engine has been used to build the virtual worlds of games including Fortnite and most modern video games.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9955 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Nvidia's $99 billion AI investment total is larger than the combined assets under management of every venture capital firm on Earth.”

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

Score: 0.0024 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“As of early September 2026, Nvidia had deployed or committed $99 billion in AI-related investments.”

Not settled yet. 1 not yet settled.

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1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Electricians working on data centers are already earning $600,000 a year.”

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

Score: 0.0164 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“"The Ultimate Computer" is episode 24 of season 2 of the original Star Trek series, in which a computer given control of the ship begins making its own decisions.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9972 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Gene Roddenberry brought the Star Trek concept to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball, in 1964.”

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Score: 0.9955 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

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1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“Star Trek's fictional chronology placed the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s.”

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Score: 0.9910 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

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1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

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

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Score: 0.9987 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The researchers behind the Euler blowup result wrote a letter saying OpenAI offered them credit and lead authorship on the Navier-Stokes paper on condition that their Anthropic co-author be dropped.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9415 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

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

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

Review 50% · 50% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“OpenAI's Navier-Stokes run consumed about 130 billion tokens.”

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Score: 0.9781 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9781 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited

“OpenAI said it does not intend to claim the $1 million Clay Millennium Prize for its Navier–Stokes result.”

Checks out so far. 1 holds up so far.

Score: 0.9969 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27790 for all claims together

Review 75% · 75% counted

1 claim · recorded 20 September 2026 · provisional until audited