David Rosenthal says ChatGPT practiced medicine without a license in advising on his medications
David Rosenthal, 39, sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT practiced medicine without a license when it advised him on medications and dosages. Teams shipping chatbots that answer health questions have a pleaded theory to weigh, and no ruling is reported yet.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher Microsoft makes ecological landscaping standard on every new US data center project
Microsoft says ecological landscaping, already used at more than 20 data center sites, is now standard on every new US project. Public Citizen's Texas director says no amount of it makes a gas plant a good neighbor, and points to Microsoft's 20-year Chevron power deal.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
Five environmental groups asked a federal appeals court to review the Trump administration's cut of 2031 fuel economy targets to 34.9 mpg from a projected 50.4. Automaker and fleet plans built on the looser target now depend on a rule the petitioners want stopped.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives65
- Confidence68
The watchdog's tally lands while Trump lobbies the Senate for a fair version of the market structure bill, and the two sides of its ledger settle differently: about $1.44bn of fees in cash, $4.7bn of losses still a mark.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
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- Builder 5%
- Operator
- Operator 27%
- Investor
- Investor 68%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
The crypto super PAC is spending $30 million in Ohio over six weeks, about a quarter of the $120.4 million it and its affiliates reported on September 20. The target is a Senate Banking gavel that Democratic caucus rules do not automatically restore.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
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- Builder 12%
- Operator
- Operator 50%
- Investor
- Investor 38%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence62
The complaint, filed six days after Dario Amodei's Sept. 12 essay, builds its conspiracy out of four public statements made on a single day. It asks a court to value capability that was never shipped.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
The 20% tranche aimed at wallets that lost money on TRUMP cannot cover those losses unless LAPTOP clears a valuation TRUMP itself touched only once, which tells you what the allocation is actually for.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 17%
- Operator
- Operator 28%
- Investor
- Investor 55%
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+61
- Incentives82
- Confidence58
Former EPA officials tally 30 federal actions that raise the AI buildout's health cost
The Environmental Protection Network says 17 of those actions name AI or data centers outright, and the remedy it proposes is a voluntary pledge for the White House to sign. The health figures it cites come from academic modelling.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
SEC proposes letting investment advisers donate to officials who award public pension mandates
Rescinding Rule 206(4)-5 would end the two-year fee timeout for firms whose staff give politically. The SEC says antifraud law and fiduciary duty already do that work. But the research it acknowledges found donations tracked pension mandates.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives70
- Confidence48
Crypto issuers ask the SEC for ETF efficiencies while keeping their commodity-trust structures
The novel-ETF comment file closed Monday with a16z, Grayscale, Schwab, Chainalysis and Kalshi arguing past each other, and only Schwab attached a number to its ask: 75 days of public filing before effect.
Reality
- Evidence57
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+13
- Incentives84
- Confidence45
Cheap filings pushed Texas's grid queue to 474GW of data centre requests
The queue is free to join and position sets who connects first, so developers file on every candidate site and build one. Utilities that started charging for a place in line watched their pipelines drop by 40% or more.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
A record $517M election bet, and the 60-vote wall the money cannot buy
Crypto, AI and betting firms are behind record corporate election spending, and Trump is adding a $400 million super PAC. The CLARITY Act still needs 60 Senate votes.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives72
- Confidence28
The regulated are now the biggest donors: $517m of corporate money into the 2026 midterms
Public Citizen counts $517 million of corporate spending on House and Senate races in 15 months, with crypto, tech and gaming supplying at least $294 million of it.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption68
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives76
- Confidence42