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Microsoft’s AI chief on the greatest game of catchup ever played The Scene Not long ago, Microsoft leapt ahead of competitors by funding OpenAI when it was a fledgling research lab.

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Microsoft’s AI chief on the greatest game of catchup ever played The Scene Not long ago, Microsoft leapt ahead of competitors by funding OpenAI when it was a fledgling research lab.

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Claim 1: “Sunlight provides vitamin D”

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web search NEUTRAL — As for people with darker skin, they have more melanin, so less UV light gets absorbed to create vitamin D3. They need more sun exposure to produce vitamin D3 ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin that has been produced on this earth for more than 500 million years. During exposure to sunlight 7-dehydrocholesterol in ...
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Claim 2: “Michael Jordan’s custom 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello has finally been found after 24 years.”

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Multiple independent web sources report that Michael Jordan's custom 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello has been found after being missing for 24 years.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Air Jordan is a line of basketball and sportswear shoes produced by Nike, Inc. The shoes, related apparel and accessories are now marketed under Jordan Brand. The first Air Jordan shoe was produced fo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ferrari S.p.A. (; Italian: [ferˈraːri]) is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded in 1939 by Enzo Ferrari (1898–1988), the company built its first car in 1940, ad…
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web search NEUTRAL — Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the …
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web search NEUTRAL — President Trump displays an executive order regarding nuclear reactor testing in the Oval Office of the White House on May 23, 2025. The executive order stipulates that the president hopes to see reac…
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web search NEUTRAL — The $17.5 billion American Nuclear Supply Chain Loans will finance five projects led by utilities and energy companies that will accelerate the deployment of 10 large-scale commercial reactors. The re…
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Claim 4: “Michael Jordan's custom Rosso Barchetta 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello went completely missing in 2002.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ferrari S.p.A, currently competing as Scuderia Ferrari HP (; Italian: [skudeˈriːa ferˈraːri]), is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturer Ferrari and the racing team that competes in F…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Ferrari 550 Maranello (tipo F133) is a front-engine V12 2-seat grand tourer built by Ferrari from 1996 to 2002. The 550 Maranello marked Ferrari's return to a front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout…
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Claim 5: “Microsoft leapt ahead of competitors by funding OpenAI when it was a fledgling research lab.”

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Multiple web search results confirm Microsoft's early role in funding OpenAI, including testimony from CEO Satya Nadella regarding the commercial nature of the partnership.

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft, its longtime investor and cloud partner, has grown increasingly complicated over the years as the ChatGPT-maker has grown into a behemoth competitor.
https://www-wired-com.nproxy.org/story/microsoft-executives-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Satya Nadella took the stand in the Musk-OpenAI trial over Microsoft's early role in funding OpenAI. The Microsoft CEO said the company's partnership with OpenAI had a clear commercial element from th…
https://qz.com/satya-nadella-testimony-musk-openai-trial-051…

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI is a private research laboratory that aims to develop and direct artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that benefit humanity as a whole.
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Claim 6: “President Trump set an ambitious goal: He wanted to see American companies build at least three new experimental nuclear reactors by July 4, 2026”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — At 80 years old, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, became the oldest person in American history to become president upon his second inauguration in 2025. In July 2024, fi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
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Claim 7: “linking hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 GPUs into one cluster”

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Multiple sources confirm the Fairwater facility links hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 (Blackwell) GPUs into a single cluster/superfactory.

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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 18, 2025 ... The company says the site will host tightly coupled clusters of NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 systems, new pod and rack network topologies, purpose‑ ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 12, 2025 ... The novel level of connection starts inside each Fairwater datacenter, where hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell graphics processing units ...
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/from-wisconsin…

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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 18, 2025 ... These are not typical datacenters; they are stadium sized supercomputers designed to host the largest GPU clusters under one roof. They are the ...
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Claim 8: “Microsoft AI data center Fairwater opened June 23 in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin”

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Three independent web sources confirm the opening of the Fairwater AI data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, on June 23, 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago ... Village of Mount Pleasant, Wis. — June 23, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced that it has completed construction of its first ...
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago ... Microsoft opened its first data center in the Village of Mount Pleasant on Tuesday, one of the largest private-sector investments in Racine ...
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