AI Rumors Tracker

173 rumors · updated Oct 30

AI claims that are circulating but not officially confirmed. Each has a status and a timeline of dated sources, and stays here after it is confirmed or debunked.

All16 Unconfirmed5 Reported8 Confirmed3 Debunked0

Status	Rumor	Last checked
Reported	Will OpenAI roll out Dots more widely in Europe within a few weeks?OpenAI Dots wider Europe rollout · OpenAI	Oct 29 · OpenAI
Reported	Is it true that openAI is doubling usage limits across its paid plans, from Pro 100 to Pro 500?OpenAI doubles usage limits on paid plans, per The Decoder · OpenAI	Oct 29 · OpenAI
Reported	Did frontier AI labs release proofs claiming to refute the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and is MIT’s Ryan Williams organizing a community response?Frontier labs ETH refutation · OpenAI	Oct 28 · OpenAI
Reported	Does OpenAI plan to buy Google TPUs for AI training and inference?OpenAI Google TPU purchase plans · OpenAI	Oct 28 · OpenAI
Reported	Did parents sue OpenAI alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter to taper off seizure medication and hide it from doctors before her death?OpenAI GPT-4o epilepsy medication lawsuit · OpenAI	Oct 28 · OpenAI
Reported	Is OpenAI offering steep discounts to win Anthropic’s biggest customers?OpenAI Anthropic-customer discounts · OpenAI	Oct 26 · OpenAI
Reported	Is OpenAI raising about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion?OpenAI · OpenAI	Oct 22 · OpenAI
Reported	Did Sam Altman outline three AI endgames to OpenAI staff?Sam Altman's three AI endgames · OpenAI	Oct 20 · OpenAI

How we label rumors

Unconfirmed: Circulating with at least one public source we can link to; no official confirmation.
Reported: Reported by a news outlet; not confirmed by the company.
Confirmed: Confirmed by the company or another official source.
Debunked: Denied by the company, retracted by the original source, or shown to be false by the evidence.

We record what sources show, with dates. We don't predict or score how likely a rumor is.