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COMMUNITY PICK · 1 NOVEMBER 2026

Watch out: recycled 'free course' videos

1 November 2026, 00:15 · 2 sources · Curated by Sara Simeone

Several viral posts offered '2-hour' loop, graph and harness engineering 'courses' from Google, Andrew Ng or Anthropic. The ones we checked were re-uploads of videos covered before, and a widely shared '95% of Anthropic engineers run self-improving harnesses' quote doesn't appear in the original interview.

Why it mattersBefore sharing a 'free course' post, find the original source; the reposts are mostly there to farm followers.

Curated by Sara Simeone as part of our human editorial coverage. The original sources are linked below; curation is distinct from a Hype or Fact? assessment.

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How we knowCompany figures are labelled as their own claims; anything we couldn't verify is labelled as a report or a claim.

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