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How Elon Musk and Sam Altman went from besties to bitter rivals In December 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman sat together at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco for an interview, publicly … Related storyboards

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How Elon Musk and Sam Altman went from besties to bitter rivals In December 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman sat together at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco for an interview, publicly … Related storyboards

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: ChatOn Premium combines access to paid versions of GPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI models into one app for $55.24 through May 31 with code CHAT35.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “ChatOn Premium combines access to paid versions of GPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI models into one app for $55.24 through May 31 with code CHAT35”
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The evidence confirms the existence of ChatOn and the AI models mentioned (GPT, Claude, Gemini), but there is no evidence regarding the specific pricing ($55.24), the discount code (CHAT35), or the May 31 deadline.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as a AI chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software development. Cl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models (LLMs) developed by Google DeepMind, and the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. Comprising Gemini Pro, Gemini Deep Think, Gemini Flash, and Gemini Fl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amazon Alexa, or simply Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology marketed by Amazon and implemented in software applications for smart phones, tablets, wireless smart speakers, and other electronic ap…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa
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Claim 2: “In December 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman sat together at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco for an interview”
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Two independent news sources (Flipboard and CNBC) explicitly confirm that Elon Musk and Sam Altman were interviewed together at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco in December 2015.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elon Musk has been actively involved in politics, particularly in the United States and Europe, throughout the majority of his business career. Despite historically donating to and voting for both Dem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_Elon_M…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in the United States on November 7, 2028, to elect the president and vice president for a term of four years. In the 2024 elections, then-former preside…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_United_States_presidentia…
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Claim 3: “Smashing Pumpkins have announced The Rats In A Cage Tour, a run of dates celebrating the 30th anniversary of the band's much-loved 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”
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The provided evidence is completely irrelevant to the claim, discussing Amazon Alexa, Freebox Delta, Glastonbury, and Green Day, with no mention of Smashing Pumpkins or 'The Rats In A Cage Tour'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (commonly referred to as simply Glastonbury Festival, known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is an Austrian rock festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Rock_Festival
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Day
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Claim 4: “The EU wants to reduce “cookie fatigue” through browser-level consent rules”
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The provided evidence contains general information about the European Union, its geography, and its enlargement, but does not mention 'cookie fatigue' or browser-level consent rules.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union. To join the EU, a state needs to fulfil economic and political …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_European_Un…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. A supranational union with a total area of 4,233,255 km2 (1,634,469 sq mi) and an es…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a supranational union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership. They have agreed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_U…
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Claim 5: “Los Angeles creator Shelby Church tested a futuristic backyard gadget that promised to take one of the most tedious household chores completely off”
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While web search results confirm that robot lawnmowers are being tested (The Verge, YouTube), there is no specific mention of a creator named 'Shelby Church' in the provided evidence to corroborate her specific role in testing them.
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web search NEUTRAL — Optimal design of ferromagnetic soft robot.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aax7329
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web search NEUTRAL — About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3F6L-AQOSo
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web search NEUTRAL — See All Robot. I put four robot lawnmowers through a brutal backyard battle — and only one person got injured. These autonomous cutters show promise, but there’s still a ways to go before you should t…
https://www.theverge.com/reviews/661136/robot-lawnmowers-hus…
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