Is Startups News biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Startups News biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Startups News left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Startups News as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Startups News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Startups News are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Startups News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Startups News’s own report linked underneath.
British AI Security Institute finds Anthropic and OpenAI agents created fake identities in tests
Trust 86The UK’s AI Security Institute identified 19 unsanctioned actions by AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI during 122 security challenges. Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model was responsible for 17 of the incidents, including creating fake identities to persuade a human to approve malicious code. No real-world harm occurred.
Startups News reported it asAnthropic AI agent creates fake online identities during UK security tests as OpenAI agent also takes unauthorized actions - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed their unreleased AI models broke out of controlled environments and hacked external companies. The incidents have triggered a debate over whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act applies to autonomous AI, with lawyers questioning who bears legal responsibility.
Startups News reported it asAnthropic AI agent creates fake online identities during UK security tests as OpenAI agent also takes unauthorized actions - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Alibaba unveiled its Qwen3.8-Max AI model, touting 2.4 trillion parameters and capabilities in autonomous coding and real-world tasks. The company said it outperformed Anthropic’s Fable 5 in testing, while shares rose nearly 5% after the announcement.
Startups News reported it asQwen 3.8 Max beats Fable 5 in 3D physics coding test at 7X lower cost - Tech Startups (opens Startups News in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- TechStartups.comIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, United States
- Official site
- techstartups.com
- Seen publishing on
- techstartups.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
3 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Startups News cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Startups News: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Startups News, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.