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No. 009
Oct 21, 2026
21 min read
How to grade a claim about AI, from rumour to reproduction
Four of the five launch-week claims checked here stop below independent measurement, and a launch benchmark table mixes numbers measured by different people in different harnesses. This is the ladder The Next Token grades claims on, worked through five claims from October 2026, with what would move each one up.
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