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1. Nov 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM

   November 2026: Corrected Open Philanthropy's 2017 grant to OpenAI to $30 million (earlier text said more than $100 million) and the FTX Future Fund figures (about $160 million granted, against a stated $1 billion plan); added that Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction was upheld on appeal in June 2026 and that he petitioned the US Supreme Court in September 2026. The verdict is now partially true: the funding and personnel network is documented, but coordinated "capture" is not.

2. Aug 2, 2026 at 12:24 AM

   On June 12, 2026, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's 2023 FTX fraud conviction and 25-year sentence, leaving the fraud finding at the center of this funding network intact.