US and China agreed at a three-day Washington summit to create an AI incident channel without publishing what counts as an incident or how one is reported. The one follow-up on the calendar, a separate dialogue due by November, sets no deadline for making the channel work.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence35
Ed Sheeran told a Philadelphia stadium he was 'so so sorry' after Robert Kraft forced Macklemore off a tour whose predecessor grossed over $875 million. A crisis adviser credits the speech with winning back ticket-holding fans after an Instagram defense she called callous.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence40
Astronomer waited from a Wednesday night concert until Friday to say its board was investigating. A crisis consultant writing in Entrepreneur calls that statement correct and dates the failure to pre-approvals never made.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives66
- Confidence41
The author ran communications for a CEO on one of the president's business advisory councils in 2017, and now tells leadership teams to work through the hard scenarios at an offsite, before a reporter sets the deadline.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives50
- Confidence60
Climate Action Against Disinformation says the falsehoods that spread during this summer's fires and heatwaves were the ones it flagged in June. Predictable content is a planning problem.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives66
- Confidence44