Tech and AI claims, without the breathless part

Every gadget is a revolution and every model changes everything. Hype Check Live scores the tech claim of the week against what it actually does.

Tech runs the loudest hype cycle of all. The trick is telling the genuine shift from the launch-day theater. We score the claim, show the benchmark or the fine print, and tell you whether it earns the noise. For the deep AI and cybersecurity version, there is a whole sister newsletter, Hype Check Now.

How each edition works

Same format every week, a fresh set of claims. Each item gives you the claim in plain terms, a two or three sentence check, the source, and a hype score from zero to one hundred. Low means mostly real, high means mostly hype. Five or six claims, one per domain, in about four minutes.

Why it holds up

Every number is real and citable; nothing is invented. We check claims, not people, so politics rides in only as a checkable number chosen from across the spectrum. The score follows a published, repeatable method. And we credit the underhyped as readily as we flag the overhyped, because honest scorekeeping cuts both ways.

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