The Ledger

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Assertion Contradicted
Brown: Leading AI labs lack independent verification of model safety
“The other piece is the accountability, is there's no independent verification of how the models perform. What we get when it comes to, you know, how, how does OpenAI, or how does Anthropic do on questions around bias, what we get from them is a blog post that …”
Campbell Brown Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 19:19 How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
Assertion Contradicted
Michael: Anthropic contract banned AI use for weapons engineering and kinetics
“The provisions that were in the contracts that ultimately serve the Department of War said you can't use it for planning kinetic actions, you can't use it to develop weapon systems, so all the science, engineering, aerodynamics, all...”
Emil Michael Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 32:39 The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
Assertion Contradicted
Cherny: Claude Code was first AI tool able to edit local computer files
“Even something as simple as like editing a file on your computer. You know, like a year and a half ago, there was no AI product that could actually do that. But this is the first thing that quad code was able to do. It could edit a file on your desktop.”
Boris Cherny May 20, 2026 ▶ 8:01 Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
Assertion Contradicted
Stamos: Anthropic Restricted Fable From Long-Horizon Cyber Tasks Allowed in Mythos
“Explicitly Anthropic said. We will allow Fable to do short horizon stuff, but we will not allow it to do the long horizon stuff that, that Mythos does.”
Alex Stamos Jul 22, 2026 ▶ 38:21 OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Assertion Contradicted
Siegler: Google and Amazon combined own just north of 36% of Anthropic
“Google and Amazon combined, I believe if my math is correct from all these court documents that I sort of went through, but I believe it's roughly correct that I think them combined, those two combined own something just north of 36%.”
M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 37:23 Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Roy: Trump will comment on NVIDIA-Anthropic chip smuggling feud within days
“I think I'm convinced Trump is going to address this one. I'm making the call right here in the next three to four days because it's just too perfect.”
Ranjan Roy May 5, 2025 ▶ 54:08 The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
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