Anthropic's GLM-5.3 warning adds to an open-model fight with money on both sides
Anthropic argued in a report late last month that Z.ai's freely downloadable GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. MIT Technology Review says Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Anthropic's Dario Amodei each have money riding on how the open-model fight ends.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap
- Not scored
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
Cheshire Academy's AI rule is three colours, and the teacher who wrote the task picks
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
Ukraine opens millions of drone-flight data points to military and commercial buyers
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
Amodei, Altman, Musk and Hassabis all say the latest LLMs are not safe
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
Ramirez moves to terminate the border towers, citing 1,100 deaths in range
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 Delhi protester learned about the smart glasses only after the reel hit millions of views
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
- Not scored
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives30
- Confidence45
MIT Technology Review counts 1,050 deaths within range of the border's camera towers
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
Hundreds of mathematicians ask policymakers to consult experts on AI math claims
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
- Not scored
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives70
- Confidence38
Graciela Gomez Hernandez died a mile from a tower rated to track at seven miles
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
Reporters built the border tower death map one Texas sheriff's office at a time
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
- Not scored
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives50
- Confidence63
buildOne report1 publisher A 30-day retention window makes Anduril's border tower alerts unauditable
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
Landfill workers found the man three border towers were supposed to see
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
MIT Technology Review asks CBP for the tower audit it could have run since 2015
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
MIT Technology Review counted more than 1,050 deaths inside the range of CBP's surveillance towers
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 robot vacuum's live camera produced both a damages award and a jail sentence in Taoyuan
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
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence52
A Taiwanese court jailed the husband whose robot vacuum caught his wife's affair
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
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives42
- Confidence58
A mouse with a half-human cortex remembers a maze better than one without
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
A Penn finance professor asks how fast hyperscaler earnings must grow to cover $1.1 trillion
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
- Not scored
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives45
- Confidence38
Aging clocks put machine-perfused donor livers about 30% younger than iced ones
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
INDXcoin collected $3 million from 500 people through a referral chain of fellow believers
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