ShinyHunters has shown journalists FBI medical exams that name agents and their addresses, from a set it says covers about 60,000 current and former staff. The FBI has so far confirmed only an incident in FBIJobs-related systems, and the group is threatening to publish within five days.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
Jack Clark told the BBC that most labs including Anthropic can already pull the plug on a model, and he asked whether rules should require one and let a third party verify it. It is buyers who have to work out how much of the service that switch turns off.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
University of Waterloo anthropologists matched skeletal DNA to living relatives and named Harry Peglar, William Orren, David Young and John Bridgens. Six of the 105 men who walked away from Erebus and Terror now have names.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives62
- Confidence64
Meta does not check who holds the rights before a strike lands, so a bogus claim costs nothing to file and weeks to reverse. One creator with 1.5 million followers paid $50 in crypto and was struck again immediately.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence63
EarthGrid melted its way three metres into a California quarry in January and now talks about commercial work next year. The undergrounding demand is real; the delivery evidence is thin.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption21
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives71
- Confidence48