| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Intrator: NVIDIA invested $350M across two rounds while CoreWeave raised $25B | Michael Intrator | Jan 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Intrator: NVIDIA invested $350M across two rounds while CoreWeave raised $25B | Michael Intrator | Jan 7, 2026 | Supported |
| $250M | “two hundred fifty million dollars” | Intrator: NVIDIA invested $350M across two rounds while CoreWeave raised $25B | Michael Intrator | Jan 7, 2026 | Supported |
| $25B | “twenty-five billion dollars” | Intrator: NVIDIA invested $350M across two rounds while CoreWeave raised $25B | Michael Intrator | Jan 7, 2026 | Supported |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Intrator: CoreWeave is worth $40 billion | Michael Intrator | Jan 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT will reach one billion users by April 2026 | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 29, 2025 | Didn’t hold up |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT will reach one billion users by April 2026 | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 29, 2025 | Didn’t hold up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Roy: OpenAI will hit 1B users in 2026 but lose clear leadership | Ranjan Roy | Dec 29, 2025 | Held up |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Kantrowitz: Amazon is considering a $10B investment into OpenAI | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Cramer: Meta and YouTube will capture 50% to 70% of ad market | Jim Cramer | Dec 23, 2025 | Open |
| 70% | “70%” | Cramer: Meta and YouTube will capture 50% to 70% of ad market | Jim Cramer | Dec 23, 2025 | Open |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Cramer says a $10 trillion market valuation is possible for Nvidia | Jim Cramer | Dec 23, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Altman: OpenAI has over 1 million enterprise users | Sam Altman | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Altman: A single company's AI will output more tokens than all humanity | Sam Altman | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Altman: A single company's AI will output more tokens than all humanity | Sam Altman | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Altman: Businesses tell OpenAI they would pay 10x for GPT-5.2 | Sam Altman | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| $37.5B | “37.5 billion dollars” | Gartner expects enterprise AI revenue to reach $37.5B in 2026 | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI Must Separate Enterprise and Consumer AI Models | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 17, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “one billion dollars” | Disney Announces $1 Billion OpenAI Investment and Sora Licensing Deal | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 17, 2025 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Hodak: Million-dollar blindness gene therapy only marginally slows vision loss for 3% | Max Hodak | Dec 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Hodak: Million-dollar blindness gene therapy only marginally slows vision loss for 3% | Max Hodak | Dec 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1.5M | “1.5 million” | Hodak: Visual cortex stimulation produces light flashes, not structured vision | Max Hodak | Dec 12, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 1.3B | “a quarter billion” | Hodak: Visual cortex stimulation produces light flashes, not structured vision | Max Hodak | Dec 12, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Hodak: Visual cortex stimulation produces light flashes, not structured vision | Max Hodak | Dec 12, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10% | “10%” | Roughly 10% of US Prenups Are Now Generated via Tech Platforms | Melia Russell | Dec 10, 2025 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Over $3 Billion Will Flow Into Legal Tech Startups in 2025 | Melia Russell | Dec 10, 2025 | Held up |
| $8B | “eight billion dollars” | Legal AI Startup Harvey Is Valued at $8 Billion | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Alam: SAP expects headcount growth despite AI scaling 40,000 developers 5x | Muhammad Alam | Dec 9, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Alam: AI-enabled 200-person startup matches output of 2,000 enterprise developers | Muhammad Alam | Dec 9, 2025 | — |
| 200% | “200%” | Alam: AI-enabled 200-person startup matches output of 2,000 enterprise developers | Muhammad Alam | Dec 9, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Alam: AI enables product managers to build up to 80% of apps | Muhammad Alam | Dec 9, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | SAP's deployed AI tools have boosted internal developer throughput up to 20% | Muhammad Alam | Dec 9, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Alam: Enterprise AI will advance from efficiency assistants to autonomous financial closes | Muhammad Alam | Dec 9, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Alam: Enterprise AI will advance from efficiency assistants to autonomous financial closes | Muhammad Alam | Dec 9, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Alam: Enterprise AI will advance from efficiency assistants to autonomous financial closes | Muhammad Alam | Dec 9, 2025 | — |
| 6.5B | “6.5 billion” | Sam Altman and Jony Ive reach $6.5 billion AI hardware deal | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Roy: AI recorder startup Plaud reached $250 million in revenue | Ranjan Roy | Dec 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Meta executives consider up to 30 percent budget cuts to metaverse group | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.4T | “1.4 trillion” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI plans $1.4 trillion spend on future AI infrastructure | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 72B | “seventy-two billion” | Kantrowitz: Netflix's $72 billion Warner Bros. acquisition prevents competitor buyout | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 8, 2025 | — |
| 54% | “54%” | McDermott: 54% of Zendesk support-contacting users drove 95% of 2024 revenue | Adrian McDermott | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | McDermott: 54% of Zendesk support-contacting users drove 95% of 2024 revenue | Adrian McDermott | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | McDermott: Generative Search Handles 30% to 40% of Support Inquiries | Adrian McDermott | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 15M | “Fifteen million” | Zendesk: 47% of Customer Service Inquiries Stem From Business Failures | Adrian McDermott | Dec 5, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 47% | “47%” | Zendesk: 47% of Customer Service Inquiries Stem From Business Failures | Adrian McDermott | Dec 5, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | McDermott: AI can automate 80-100% of text support, but voice is unready | Adrian McDermott | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 27% | “27%” | Siegler: Microsoft owns 27% of OpenAI but is no longer lead partner | M.G. Siegler | Dec 1, 2025 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Kantrowitz: Anthropic targets 2028 profitability while OpenAI forecasts massive losses | Alex Kantrowitz | Dec 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Siegler: Anthropic's valuation approaches $350B, nearing OpenAI's $500B | M.G. Siegler | Dec 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Siegler: Anthropic's valuation approaches $350B, nearing OpenAI's $500B | M.G. Siegler | Dec 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 74% | “74%” | Edwards: Wharton's 74% AI ROI finding is closer to truth than MIT's | Simon Edwards | Nov 28, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Anthropic CEO told Kantrowitz company will hit $10B run rate this year | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 28, 2025 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Anthropic CEO told Kantrowitz company will hit $10B run rate this year | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 28, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Huet: OneTaste weaponized "radical responsibility" to shame members out of victimhood | Ellen Huet | Nov 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Mark Moffat Says 70% of the Global Workforce Is Deskless | Mark Moffat | Nov 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | IFS Explores Nvidia Jetson and Metropolis for AR Field Guidance | Mark Moffat | Nov 25, 2025 | — |
| 92M | “ninety-two million” | Fully Automated 'Lights-Out' Factories Will Categorically Emerge in Many Industries | Mark Moffat | Nov 25, 2025 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | The US Loses $150 Billion in Economic Output Annually From Power Outages | Mark Moffat | Nov 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 3.6T | “3.59 trillion” | Kantrowitz: Alphabet has surpassed Microsoft in market cap at $3.59 trillion | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 3.5T | “3.5 trillion” | Kantrowitz: Alphabet has surpassed Microsoft in market cap at $3.59 trillion | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Kantrowitz: Oracle's $100B debt makes it the most indebted big tech company | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 6.2B | “6.2 billion” | Kantrowitz: Jeff Bezos launches Project Prometheus with $6.2 billion in funding | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 3.5B | “a 2.45 billion” | Kantrowitz: AI music generator Suno raised at $2.45B valuation on $200M revenue | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 24, 2025 | Supported |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Kantrowitz: AI music generator Suno raised at $2.45B valuation on $200M revenue | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 1,200% | “1200%” | Birwadker: Agentic bot traffic to merchants quadrupled after initial 1,200% surge | Rubail Birwadker | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 38B | “thirty eight billion” | Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25B | “twenty five billion” | Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $1.4T | “1.4 trillion dollars” | Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Luria: OpenAI will generate at most $15B revenue, lose over $20B | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Held up |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Luria: OpenAI will generate at most $15B revenue, lose over $20B | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Held up |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Luria: OpenAI's $100 Billion 2027 Revenue Projection Is Completely Disingenuous | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Luria: Claiming Five-Year-Old AI Chips Still Function Is Accounting Sleight of Hand | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Luria: Three-year GPU depreciation could slash AI company valuations by 40% | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Luria: ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Luria: Meta used a Blue Owl SPV to finance data centers off-balance-sheet | Gil Luria | Nov 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 4T | “a three trillion” | Suleyman: 80% of the S&P 500 runs on Microsoft Azure and M365 | Mustafa Suleyman | Nov 12, 2025 | Supported |
| $300B | “three hundred billion dollars” | Suleyman: 80% of the S&P 500 runs on Microsoft Azure and M365 | Mustafa Suleyman | Nov 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Suleyman: 80% of the S&P 500 runs on Microsoft Azure and M365 | Mustafa Suleyman | Nov 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Suleyman: AI token costs dropped 1,000x in two years | Mustafa Suleyman | Nov 12, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Suleyman: Copilot Surpasses 100 Million Users Across All Surfaces | Mustafa Suleyman | Nov 12, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI will be a trillion-dollar IPO company | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 10, 2025 | Open |
| 120B | “a hundred twenty billion” | Kantrowitz: Reports project OpenAI to lose $120 billion by 2029 | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI could raise $200 billion at a $1 trillion valuation today | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI could raise $200 billion at a $1 trillion valuation today | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 27% | “27%” | Siegler: Microsoft officially holds a 27% equity stake in OpenAI | M.G. Siegler | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT will reach one billion users by OpenAI's IPO | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 6, 2025 | Open |
| 1B | “a billion” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT will reach one billion users by OpenAI's IPO | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 6, 2025 | Open |
| 38B | “thirty-eight billion” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI signed a $38 billion compute deal with Amazon | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 96% | “96%” | Cloudera CEO: 96% of companies try AI, but IT approves only 30%. | Charles Sansbury | Nov 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Cloudera CEO: 96% of companies try AI, but IT approves only 30%. | Charles Sansbury | Nov 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 9% | “nine percent” | Cloudera Study: Only 9% of Enterprises Have All Data Accessible for AI | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 38% | “38%” | Cloudera Study: Only 9% of Enterprises Have All Data Accessible for AI | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sansbury says an AI agent replaced a 1,000-person banking fraud team. | Charles Sansbury | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Sansbury suggests base AI models are hitting an asymptotic performance plateau. | Charles Sansbury | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| 27% | “27%” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI Converted to PBC With Microsoft Owning 27% | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| $250B | “two hundred fifty billion dollars” | Roy: OpenAI Committed to $250B in Additional Azure Cloud Purchases | Ranjan Roy | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Roy: OpenAI will generate $13B revenue and lose $20B in 2025 | Ranjan Roy | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.4T | “1.4 trillion” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI has $1.4T in financial obligations and 30GW compute commitments | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI has $1.4T in financial obligations and 30GW compute commitments | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Kantrowitz: 20% of OpenAI Employees Previously Worked at Meta | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Kantrowitz: Kevin Weil Memo Targeted 1 Billion ChatGPT WAU | Alex Kantrowitz | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Roy: 150 Google Cloud AI customers generate only $150M in token revenue | Ranjan Roy | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Roy: 150 Google Cloud AI customers generate only $150M in token revenue | Ranjan Roy | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 150M | “one hundred fifty million” | Roy: 150 Google Cloud AI customers generate only $150M in token revenue | Ranjan Roy | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 3% | “3%” | Roy: 150 Google Cloud AI customers generate only $150M in token revenue | Ranjan Roy | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Medium Saw a 10x Surge in Submissions Following the AI Boom | Tony Stubblebine | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Eighty Percent of Articles on Medium Are Written by Non-Professionals | Tony Stubblebine | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | ChatGPT Drives Only 1% of the Referral Traffic Medium Gets From Google | Tony Stubblebine | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | ChatGPT Traffic Converts to Paid Subscriptions 4x Higher Than Google Search | Tony Stubblebine | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Medium Is Profitable With Active Writer Numbers Up 50% Since January | Tony Stubblebine | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Kelleher: 90% of Surveyed Okta Clients Deploy Agents, 10% Secure Them | Eric Kelleher | Oct 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Kelleher: 90% of Surveyed Okta Clients Deploy Agents, 10% Secure Them | Eric Kelleher | Oct 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Kelleher: Major Restaurant Chain's AI Concierge Was Breached, Leaking 60M Records | Eric Kelleher | Oct 29, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Kelleher: MIT study found 95% of AI initiatives lack tangible ROI | Eric Kelleher | Oct 29, 2025 | Supported |
| $32B | “thirty two billion dollars” | Kantrowitz: Google acquired Wiz for $32 billion, its largest deal ever | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Google's AI flood forecasting model covers two billion people globally | Yossi Matias | Oct 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Kantrowitz: Amazon will achieve 75% automation across fulfillment centers | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 27, 2025 | Open |
| 10M | “ten million” | Panay: Over 10 million people currently have early access to Alexa Plus | Panos Panay | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Panay: Alexa Plus will work on 97% of existing home devices | Panos Panay | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 6% | “six percent” | Migoya: Only 5% to 6% of companies can implement AI independently | Martin Migoya | Oct 21, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Migoya: Only 5% to 6% of companies can implement AI independently | Martin Migoya | Oct 21, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Migoya: Only 5% to 6% of companies can implement AI independently | Martin Migoya | Oct 21, 2025 | — |
| 800M | “Eight hundred million” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Kantrowitz: 70% of OpenAI revenue comes from subscriptions | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Roy: OpenAI Operates at $20B Annual Loss, Spending $3 Per $1 Revenue | Ranjan Roy | Oct 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Roy: OpenAI Operates at $20B Annual Loss, Spending $3 Per $1 Revenue | Ranjan Roy | Oct 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Roy: Generative AI cannot scale to traditional 90% software margins | Ranjan Roy | Oct 20, 2025 | — |
| 28B | “a twenty seven billion” | Kantrowitz: DeepMind and Yale Cancer AI Model Validated in Living Cells | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Roy: AI Models Are 50% More Sycophantic Than Humans, Study Finds | Ranjan Roy | Oct 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Heitzman: AI will replace 80% of routine legal associate work | Rick Heitzman | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| $200M | “Two hundred million dollars” | Heitzman: FirstMark's largest single check was $200 million | Rick Heitzman | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Heitzman: US lawyer headcount quadrupled since advent of word processors | Rick Heitzman | Oct 17, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 40% | “40%” | Summers: Internal Analysis Shows 40% of Employee AI Usage Is Rewriting | Grady Summers | Oct 15, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Summers: AI tools enable 10x developer speedups | Grady Summers | Oct 15, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Summers: AI tools enable 10x developer speedups | Grady Summers | Oct 15, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Summers: AI tools enable 10x developer speedups | Grady Summers | Oct 15, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Summers: AI Makes Mediocre Developers Build Off-Course 10x Faster | Grady Summers | Oct 15, 2025 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Summers: Top Individual Netwrix Developers Consume $4,000 in Monthly Anthropic Credits | Grady Summers | Oct 15, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Harris: 90% AI reliability is insufficient for enterprise business | Parker Harris | Oct 14, 2025 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Harris: 90% AI reliability is insufficient for enterprise business | Parker Harris | Oct 14, 2025 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Harris: 90% AI reliability is insufficient for enterprise business | Parker Harris | Oct 14, 2025 | — |
| $12B | “twelve billion dollars” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Run-Rate Revenue Tops $12 Billion | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Kantrowitz: Lightspeed wrote a $1 billion check into Anthropic | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Kantrowitz: Each gigawatt of AI compute capacity costs $50B to deploy | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| $1T | “one trillion dollars” | Kantrowitz: Each gigawatt of AI compute capacity costs $50B to deploy | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 120B | “a hundred twenty billion” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI is projected to lose $120B through 2029 | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 82B | “eighty two billion” | Kantrowitz: Oracle carries $82B in debt with 450% debt-to-equity ratio | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 450% | “450%” | Kantrowitz: Oracle carries $82B in debt with 450% debt-to-equity ratio | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 11.5% | “11.5%” | Kantrowitz: Oracle carries $82B in debt with 450% debt-to-equity ratio | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 33% | “33%” | Kantrowitz: Oracle carries $82B in debt with 450% debt-to-equity ratio | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Roy: SoftBank has taken out $18.5B in margin loans against Arm | Ranjan Roy | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| $18.5B | “18.5 billion dollars” | Roy: SoftBank has taken out $18.5B in margin loans against Arm | Ranjan Roy | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Kantrowitz: AI investments drive 40% of 2025 US GDP growth | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Kantrowitz: AI investments drive 40% of 2025 US GDP growth | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Oracle Lost Nearly $100 Million Renting Nvidia Blackwell Chips in Three Months | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Roy: AI Infrastructure Will Top Out at 20-30% Margins, Not 70% | Ranjan Roy | Oct 13, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Roy: AI Infrastructure Will Top Out at 20-30% Margins, Not 70% | Ranjan Roy | Oct 13, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Roy: AI Infrastructure Will Top Out at 20-30% Margins, Not 70% | Ranjan Roy | Oct 13, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Unified data models are 100x more effective for AI than API stitching | Zeb Evans | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | ClickUp ambient AI has automatically answered over one million user questions | Zeb Evans | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Krieger: AI needs 75% to 80% human quality to actually accelerate work | Mike Krieger | Oct 8, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Krieger: AI needs 75% to 80% human quality to actually accelerate work | Mike Krieger | Oct 8, 2025 | — |
| 160M | “a hundred sixty million” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI deal includes warrants for 10% of AMD at one cent per share | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI deal includes warrants for 10% of AMD at one cent per share | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Siegler: Equity concessions have become table stakes in AI chip deals | M.G. Siegler | Oct 6, 2025 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI tracks $13B revenue in 2025, $120B losses by 2029 | Alex Kantrowitz | Oct 6, 2025 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Siegler: A $1,000 Apple Vision headset still would not be a hit | M.G. Siegler | Oct 6, 2025 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI projected to lose over $100B between 2025 and 2029 | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Roy: AI stocks drove 75% of S&P returns since ChatGPT launch | Ranjan Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Roy: AI stocks drove 75% of S&P returns since ChatGPT launch | Ranjan Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Roy: AI stocks drove 75% of S&P returns since ChatGPT launch | Ranjan Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 800B | “eight hundred billion” | Kantrowitz: Sequoia Estimates 2023-2024 AI Spend Requires $800B Revenue | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Kantrowitz: Bain Estimates AI Infrastructure Requires $2T Annual Revenue by 2030 | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Kantrowitz: Bain Estimates AI Infrastructure Requires $2T Annual Revenue by 2030 | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Roy: Proposed $14B TikTok US buyout will not go through | Ranjan Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Didn’t hold up |
| 95% | “95%” | Kantrowitz: MIT Study Finds 95% of AI Deployments Lack Profitability | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Ramji: Room Poll Shows ~80% Prototyping AI but Few in Production | Shiv Ramji | Sep 25, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Ramji: Big Tech Claims 10% to 30% of Code Is Agent-Written | Shiv Ramji | Sep 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Costica: Almost 10% of organizations adopted DeepSeek within one week | Yinon Costica | Sep 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 49% | “49%” | Roy: OpenAI categorizes ChatGPT messages as 49% asking, 40% doing, 11% expressing | Ranjan Roy | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Roy: OpenAI categorizes ChatGPT messages as 49% asking, 40% doing, 11% expressing | Ranjan Roy | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | Roy: OpenAI categorizes ChatGPT messages as 49% asking, 40% doing, 11% expressing | Ranjan Roy | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.9% | “1.9%” | Kantrowitz: OpenAI reports only 1.9% of ChatGPT messages involve relationships | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 35M | “thirty-five million” | Roy: ChatGPT processes 18 billion messages per week | Ranjan Roy | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 4.2% | “4.2%” | Kantrowitz: Coding is 4.2% of ChatGPT messages versus 33% for Claude | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 33% | “33%” | Kantrowitz: Coding is 4.2% of ChatGPT messages versus 33% for Claude | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT consumer usage is 70% non-work and 30% work-related | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT consumer usage is 70% non-work and 30% work-related | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Pacing to Hit 800M to 900M Weekly Users in 2025 | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Held up |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Pacing to Hit 800M to 900M Weekly Users in 2025 | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Held up |
| 40% | “40%” | Anthropic Report: 40% of US Employers Now Use AI at Work | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Anthropic Report: 40% of US Employers Now Use AI at Work | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 36% | “36%” | Kantrowitz: Coding Is Claude's Top Use Case at 36% | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 9.3% | “9.3%” | Kantrowitz: Coding Is Claude's Top Use Case at 36% | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 12.4% | “12.4%” | Kantrowitz: Coding Is Claude's Top Use Case at 36% | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 6.3% | “6.3%” | Kantrowitz: Coding Is Claude's Top Use Case at 36% | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 7.2% | “7.2%” | Kantrowitz: Coding Is Claude's Top Use Case at 36% | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 27% | “27%” | Anthropic Report: Autonomous Tasks Delegated to Claude Jumped to 39% | Alex Kantrowitz | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
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