A Connecticut school of about 400 students sets AI permission assignment by assignment. The bill for that lands on whoever designed the assignment.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence55
The data comes from tens of thousands of sorties, in conditions no AI company can stage on demand. The researcher who surfaced the trade wants rules before battlefield material gets licensed like any other dataset.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
MIT Technology Review says the four have converged on caution while their labs chase trillion-dollar IPOs. Nobody in the account named a new release date, so nothing in it moves a delivery plan.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives60
- Confidence40
The Department of Homeland Security does not track deaths near its surveillance towers or any other measure of whether they work, so the count MIT Technology Review published is the number a Homeland Security Committee member is now quoting.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives68
- Confidence62
A content creator's Meta glasses recorded a protester in Delhi who found out from the reel. Camera wearables put the settings screen in the hands of the one person who gains from leaving notice switched off.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives30
- Confidence45
Deaths were found inside the advertised range of nearly two-thirds of the roughly 600 towers mapped, and more than 110 of them sit within range of Anduril's autonomous systems installed since 2021.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption78
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives58
- Confidence62
A run of vulnerability, hacking and mathematics announcements from Anthropic and OpenAI drew fast coverage. The expert re-readings that followed described plagiarism accusations and basic security failures.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives70
- Confidence38
Times of San Diego found at least 138 sets of migrant remains inside the range of California's border cameras over four years, and an MIT Technology Review terrain analysis estimates more than half lay in open view.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption78
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives65
- Confidence56
MIT Technology Review's 15-month investigation had to assemble its own dataset from other groups' records and sheriff reports in 17 Texas counties. Some of those counties charged between $300 and $1,300 to fill a request.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives50
- Confidence63
MIT Technology Review found more than 110 deaths inside the advertised range of Anduril's border towers since 2021. Tower footage is generally overwritten after 30 days, so no one can now say which stage of the alert chain failed.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
MIT Technology Review's 15-month investigation into US border surveillance puts the failure downstream of the cameras, at the step where a detection was supposed to turn into an agent arriving.
Reality
- Evidence57
- Adoption74
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives55
- Confidence52
Reporters covered nearly 600 of the 800 towers the government says are operating, and they had to assemble the map themselves from outside sources. Death records follow no shared protocol, so their count of more than 1,050 deaths nearby is a floor.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption78
- Hype gap−18
- Incentives58
- Confidence62
The investigation found deaths inside the advertised range of nearly two-thirds of the towers it analysed, and most of them were not in blind spots. In the New Mexico case it follows closely, landfill workers made the call to Border Patrol.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption82
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence62
A husband in Taiwan won damages from his wife and her lover using video from the couple's robot vacuum, and the same recording earned him five months in jail, with the app working normally throughout.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence52
The same live camera feed brought him about US$16,000 in damages and a five-month sentence for making the recording. The chain of custody for that exhibit begins with a party to the dispute.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives42
- Confidence58
Sergiu Pasca's Stanford group deleted most of the mouse cortex and hippocampus, then filled the space with human cells. The evidence in Nature that the graft contributes to cognition is a maze test.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Jessica Wachter left AI deployment forecasts alone and measured hyperscaler spending against the productivity growth needed to break even by 2030, an answer MIT Technology Review calls eye-opening.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives45
- Confidence38
A Mass General Brigham team read two sets of aging clocks across 122 donated livers and found the pumped ones biologically younger, though a Berlin surgeon says what that does for recipients is still unclear.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
The Regalados had no crypto background and did not need one, because what moved the money was a warm recommendation from a minister who had already bought in himself, and that is a channel any product team would recognise.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption72
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives58
- Confidence61
The San Francisco nonprofit says the same work runs to nearly $1.4 billion and twenty years when nobody sequences it, which makes the coordinator rather than the science the thing funders are now being asked to buy.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives78
- Confidence55
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