Comment by nl

> OAI that they really performed thorough investigation in just one day

This is pretty reasonable - they had to look at exactly what the cutoff for the models used was, and what data sources at what date. It's not hard if you own the systems.

> they couldn't rule out in preparation of initial release.

The press release was pretty obviously written prior the other claims being released, and the "We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly ..." line was clearly inserted at the last moment.

I agree they should have been more rigorous about checking this before releasing.