www.lesswrong.com/posts/FuGfR3jL3sw6r8kB4?commentId=6QXQ5nK4vmTHtYnTj
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Almost one year ago now, a company named XBOW announced that their AI had achieved “rank one” on the HackerOne leaderboard.
XBOW’s “top spot on the US leaderboard” announcement is dated June 24, 2025—about 8 months before this post (Feb 19, 2026), not “almost one year.”
Full reasoning
The LessWrong post is dated February 19, 2026 (04:19 UTC).
XBOW’s blog post that contains the quoted headline (“For the first time in bug bounty history…”) and describes reaching the top spot on the US leaderboard is dated June 24, 2025.
From June 24, 2025 to February 19, 2026 is roughly 8 months (about 240 days), which is materially less than “almost one year.” This makes the timing claim factually inaccurate (even if the rest of the discussion may still apply).
2 sources
- XBOW - The road to Top 1: How XBOW did it
The XBOW announcement post is dated “June 24, 2025” and includes the headline about reaching “the top spot on the US leaderboard.”
- Be skeptical of milestone announcements by young AI startups - LessWrong 2.0 viewer
The post is dated “19 Feb 2026 4:19 UTC” and contains the sentence beginning “Almost one year ago now…”.