4/10
"Researchers built an AI that has to earn its own salary or go bankrupt"
the specs are real, the "salary" is not: the money it "earns" is simulated; only its costs are real.
14 claims · 10 confirmed, 1 misleading
6/10
"Anthropic says new Claude models will embed invisible watermarks in all generated text"
the EU deadline is real and the code signature is real; the announcement at the center has no footprint, and the quoted words match OpenAI's documentation, not Anthropic's.
6 claims · 1 confirmed, 2 misleading
3/10
China's Dirty Money Problem, Explained
the mechanism is real and mostly checks out; the flaws are one wrong date, an unmeasured superlative, and a smuggler's boast narrated as fact
31 claims · 18 confirmed, 1 misleading
2/10
The safest way to store Bitcoin was just hacked...
The hack story checks out almost line for line; deductions for a compressed timeline on the totals and for calling Coldcard open-source.
25 claims · 19 confirmed, 2 misleading
3/10
AI companies are bulk-buying rare books and shredding them
Mostly fine: the pipeline is real and court-documented; "rare books" is the part that's stretched
13 claims · 7 confirmed, 1 misleading