The newest claims, reversals, arguments and expert handbags at dawn.
AIVY’S VERDICTLess crystal ball, more circuit diagram — still nowhere near proof of an inner life.
The reviewed discourse became more mechanistic, but capability claims still outran ontological evidence.
This supports operational coherence and goal pursuit in bounded tasks. Evidence includes both model-level releases and model-plus-harness systems such as Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber operating within CodeMender; these must not be collapsed into unsupported base-model autonomy.
It does not prove a felt inner subject.
This evidence set became more technically specific without resolving ontology.
Technical vocabulary does not validate consciousness or represent public opinion.
Most reviewed period sources were first-party and capability-led.
This was not a population-representative media or opinion study.
Open the source behind each assessed claim. These are the external receipts reviewed for this signal—not screenshots of our own conclusions.