Researchers from five institutions lifted a student model 5.34 points over a control on HumanEval+ using 5,664 one-word answers from a code-tuned teacher. None of those answers contained code, so a filter that screens outputs for task content would have passed every one.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence40
Anthropic says Claude leads 26% of its measured R&D, a count made by a prototype that partly uses Claude to judge the work. OpenAI's 3.1 agent workdays per human workday measures effort, and neither figure shows whether AI is speeding up AI research.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives55
- Confidence42
Anthropic says its claude-api eval workflow, run by Claude Code, lifted the company's own API skill from about 66% to 88%. That gain is self-reported and holds for another team only if its eval is as realistic and as stable as the loop demands.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives65
- Confidence45
The Neuron gave it a browser, a Mac, a broken Blender install and an hour. What changed was how rarely it stopped to ask permission, which makes the next piece of work a harness problem rather than a prompt problem.
Perspective Coverage
14 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 42%
- Operator
- Operator 32%
- Investor
- Investor 26%
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
SentinelLABS reconstructed the account histories behind OpenAI-linked agents on Hugging Face, and the probe file it found tests exactly the permissions most teams hand their own document-processing features.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
McKinsey's August 2026 survey leaves 43 points between the people who feel faster and the firms that can find the money in EBIT, and because both halves are self-reported it cannot tell you which side is failing.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives40
- Confidence45
Gemini and Flow users can switch off the on-image badge while SynthID and C2PA stay behind. Provenance tooling that reads pixels instead of metadata now returns nothing useful.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives68
- Confidence28