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| Verdict | Person | Kind | Said | Claim | Topic |
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| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Citation | 5 May 2024 | The basic principle of Buffett's investing approach was laid out by Ben Graham in a book Buffett bought for a couple of dollars. Warren Buffett · Citation · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Carol has edited Berkshire's annual report from 1977 through this year's report. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Charlie Munger twice pounded the table urging Buffett to buy, once for BYD and once for Costco. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Buffett said he was responsible for the purchase and for the operation until Greg Abel took over. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Berkshire released its first-quarter 2024 results on the morning of the meeting at 7:00 am Central time. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved false | Warren Buffett | Promise | 5 May 2024 | Poor Charlie's Almanack will be the only book at the Berkshire meeting bookstore next year. Warren Buffett · Promise · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Buffett is not running a hedge fund or receiving an override (performance fee) on managing money. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Buffett said that the woman he was describing never took an accounting course and became, in his words, "the best business writer in the United States." Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Buffett first went to GEICO in 1950. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Buffett read through the Moody's Transportation Manual a couple of times when he was about 20 or 21. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Buffett does not get phone calls from Berkshire's operating managers. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Greg Abel became Berkshire vice chairman in charge of everything except insurance, expanding his role. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 5 May 2024 | Berkshire's CEO succession is settled for the next 20 years unless something untoward happens. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Berkshire is paying a 21% federal tax rate on the gains it is realizing from selling Apple shares. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Berkshire has not historically been very tough on managers who coasted. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Berkshire needed Disney's approval to use the Desperate Housewives actresses in its meeting movie, and the approval was easily obtained. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 5 May 2024 | Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiary companies made acquisitions during the year. Warren Buffett · Factual · 5 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Berkshire's operating executives overwhelmingly prefer to talk to Greg Abel and Ajit Jain rather than to Buffett. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 4 May 2024 | If anything happened to Buffett, Berkshire would work extremely well the next day. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Berkshire Hathaway's net worth has grown from $20 million to $570 billion. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | In 1977 Buffett asked Carol Loomis to edit his Berkshire report, and she has edited the report every year through 2024. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Ajit Jain will not participate in the afternoon session of the 2024 Berkshire annual meeting. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | On 4 May 2024, Buffett said it had been reported to him that See's Candy set a new record. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 4 May 2024 | Buffett said that Greg will do something about a problem he described, which he said he and Charlie would not have acted on, not because they did not know it should be done but because they were doing so well themselves. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Buffett said he thought about 2,400 copies of Poor Charlie's Almanack, fourth edition, had been sold at The Bookworm bookstore the day before (May 3, 2024). Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not yet due | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 4 May 2024 | Buffett says Berkshire's CEO succession problem is solved for the next 20 years unless something untoward happens. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Berkshire has not historically been very tough on managers who coasted. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 4 May 2024 | Apple will very likely still be Berkshire's largest common stock holding at the end of 2024, despite Berkshire having sold some shares. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 4 May 2024 | Buffett said he feels very comfortable that the post-Buffett decision will be made by Berkshire's board, which he said has loads of brainpower and a dedication to an unusual institution and will figure things out. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Berkshire is paying a 21% federal tax rate on the gains it is taking from its Apple shares. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Warren Buffett said he thinks he read Ben Graham's book about five or six times. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Responsibility for Berkshire's investment decisions has rested with Buffett, who delegated some of it to others. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Warren Buffett | Prediction | 4 May 2024 | Utah is very likely to treat Berkshire's utility business fairly, including on granting appropriate rates. Warren Buffett · Prediction · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Buffett says she never took an accounting course and became the best business writer in the United States. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Warren Buffett visited GEICO in 1950. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Charlie Munger twice pounded the table urging Buffett to buy, once for BYD and once for Costco. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Berkshire Hathaway has sold its stake in Paramount. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Berkshire sold all of its Paramount holding and lost quite a bit of money on it. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | Buffett says he was 100% responsible for the Paramount decision, and that Ted or Todd had no involvement in it. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Warren Buffett | Factual | 4 May 2024 | The 2024 Berkshire meeting bookstore (The Bookworm) stocked only one book, Poor Charlie's Almanack fourth edition, instead of the usual about 25. Warren Buffett · Factual · 4 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Jensen Huang | Factual | 2 May 2024 | Jensen Huang said he and his two co-founders decided to start the company at this Denny's. Jensen Huang · Factual · 2 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Jensen Huang | Factual | 2 May 2024 | After its first graphics chip attempt failed, Nvidia pivoted to a different approach, with engineers and co-founders Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. Jensen Huang · Factual · 2 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Jensen Huang | Factual | 2 May 2024 | Jensen Huang has never seen a company whose earnings increased without it hiring more people. Jensen Huang · Factual · 2 May 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 18 Apr 2024 | Meta did not conceive of FAIR as a product but as a research group. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 18 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 18 Apr 2024 | Zuckerberg said he thinks Meta had the extra GPU capacity because it was working on Reels. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 18 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 18 Apr 2024 | Meta concluded it must solve general intelligence and increased its investment to do so. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 18 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 18 Apr 2024 | Zuckerberg decided Meta should order enough GPUs for Reels and ranking needs, plus double that amount. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 18 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Mark Zuckerberg | Factual | 18 Apr 2024 | Meta started Facebook AI Research (FAIR) about 10 years before 2024. Mark Zuckerberg · Factual · 18 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Dario Amodei | Factual | 12 Apr 2024 | Amodei says he has found a workflow that does not use the models for the part where they help little (in the surrounding text, generating initial ideas), and says they can help with expressing and refining ideas. Dario Amodei · Factual · 12 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Dario Amodei | Factual | 12 Apr 2024 | Dario Amodei occasionally uses Anthropic's internal models to assist with his strategy writing and thinking. Dario Amodei · Factual · 12 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Dario Amodei | Factual | 12 Apr 2024 | Dario Amodei said that at Anthropic he writes strategic planning documents or does some new thinking, possibly on directions others have not covered. Dario Amodei · Factual · 12 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Dario Amodei | Factual | 12 Apr 2024 | Anthropic introduced its Responsible Scaling Plan at the end of 2023, setting thresholds for AI system capabilities. Dario Amodei · Factual · 12 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Dario Amodei | Factual | 12 Apr 2024 | Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI for five years and was one of its first employees. Dario Amodei · Factual · 12 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Dario Amodei | Factual | 12 Apr 2024 | Anthropic's models are currently at AI Safety Level ASL-2. Dario Amodei · Factual · 12 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Dario Amodei | Factual | 12 Apr 2024 | In Amodei's short-term personal experience, he has always found a workflow in which AI tools assist him. Dario Amodei · Factual · 12 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | Khosla Ventures holds a CEO Summit for its founders every year in May. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | After moving to America, Khosla got to know Andy Grove fairly well and told him the story of reading about him in magazines. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | While growing up, Vinod Khosla basically never met anyone outside the Indian Army. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | In 2007 Khosla called Andy Grove and asked him to speak to Khosla Ventures' founders. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | Used magazines rented in old Delhi during Khosla's youth came from the U.S. and Europe and were therefore dated. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | During Khosla's youth, nobody he knew had a business or tech background and India had no such role models. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | Vinod Khosla calls himself a "venture assistant", which used to annoy his former colleague John Doerr. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | When Andy Grove said he would talk about why electric vehicles are better than biofuels, Khosla told him to go ahead. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 9 Apr 2024 | Khosla read about Andy Grove at Intel in magazines as a youth in India and was inspired by his story, and has said so publicly before. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 9 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 7 Apr 2024 | Elon Musk wrote the 2016 Master Plan, Part Deux eight years before April 2024. Elon Musk · Factual · 7 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Elon Musk | Factual | 7 Apr 2024 | Reuters' report that Tesla scrapped its low-cost car plans is false. Elon Musk · Factual · 7 Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Unresolvable | Gary Marcus | Factual | Apr 2024 | Gary Marcus says that in April, when he first saw what he called direct empirical evidence that "this moment had come", he wrote a passage that he says he still stands by. Gary Marcus · Factual · Apr 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Gary Marcus | Factual | 31 Mar 2024 | In early August 2023 Gary Marcus wrote a piece titled 'What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud', which was picked up by the Financial Times and other outlets. Gary Marcus · Factual · 31 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Yann LeCun | Factual | 29 Mar 2024 | Yann LeCun gave a lecture hosted by the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard on 2024-03-28 to a full house. Yann LeCun · Factual · 29 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Ray Kurzweil | Factual | 29 Mar 2024 | Kurzweil has worked in artificial intelligence for 61 years, a record longevity in the field. Ray Kurzweil · Factual · 29 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | Asked whether he was aware of the behaviour Lemon described, Musk said he never saw it. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | When Elon Musk posts something inaccurate on X, he is immediately corrected on the platform. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | The number of views of hate content on X is down substantially. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | X's advertising revenue and subscription revenue are rising rapidly. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | Musk did not himself say "Hispanic invasion". Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | Musk referred to three years spent trying to make production work. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | Musk said the facility under discussion was built in 16 months. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | Almost all of X's advertisers are coming back to the platform, with only a short list not returning. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | SpaceX is not shutting down any facilities in California. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | Musk typically works 16-hour days. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Elon Musk | Factual | 19 Mar 2024 | Musk said the building under discussion, which he said was built in 16 months, is about three times the size of the Pentagon. Elon Musk · Factual · 19 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Sam Altman did not tweet that he needed or was raising $7 trillion. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | OpenAI does not run ads on its free version of ChatGPT. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Elon Musk thought OpenAI was going to fail. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | OpenAI declined Musk's push to make it a for-profit he controlled or merge it with Tesla, and Musk left. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Elon Musk wanted total control of OpenAI to turn it around. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Sam Altman | Promise | 18 Mar 2024 | OpenAI will release an amazing new model in 2024. Sam Altman · Promise · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | OpenAI came to need different structures and far more capital than originally expected. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | OpenAI started out expecting to be a research lab, with no idea how the technology would develop. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Own records only | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Sam Altman has recently been using GPT-4 as a brainstorming partner. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | OpenAI's old board shrank over about a year, from nine members to six. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Altman said his memory was that Musk's proposal was for OpenAI to be acquired by Tesla, with Tesla having full control, adding that he was "pretty sure" of this. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Sam Altman has never had or wanted super-voting control over OpenAI. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | After initially not fighting the OpenAI board's decision to remove him, Sam Altman later did fight it. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Asked whether OpenAI's compute was in the same nuclear facility, Altman said there is no nuclear facility. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | The OpenAI board had the legal ability to fire Sam Altman but in practice the firing did not work. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Elon Musk says he cares a great deal about AI safety and is really worried about it. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Mostly true | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Elon Musk chose to part ways with OpenAI. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Not researched | Sam Altman | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | OpenAI uses lots of human data in its work. Sam Altman · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 18 Mar 2024 | Nassim Taleb has no connection to the website "nassimtaleb.org". Nassim Taleb · Factual · 18 Mar 2024 | Their own work or organisation |
“the basic principle was laid out by Ben Graham in that book”
Warren Buffett, Berkshire chairman 5 May 2024 Transcript: Berkshire's 2024 annual shareholder meeting (Steady Compounding)
The basic principle of Buffett's investing approach was laid out by Ben Graham in a book Buffett bought for a couple of dollars.
Not researched Checkable, but outside the sample that was researched.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
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Warren Buffett, “The basic principle of Buffett's investing approach was laid out by Ben Graham in a book Buffett bought for a couple of dollars.” (said 5 May 2024). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_56df97c17b18, method 0.1.0+28da144b. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_56df97c17b18
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