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Proof: Bill Gates offers dire AI warning that kill switch is ‘not enough’ and says China isn’t his greatest fear

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T18:31:25Z","headline":"Bill Gates offers dire AI warning that kill switch is ‘not enough’ and says China isn’t his greatest fear","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bill-gates-ai-warning-china-b3057134.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

fe00d225ff8cc2a5e78f8b611d56a4124095b41e8fb61601bbb2a902884166b4

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:39 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:39 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-fe00d225ff8c.json prints fe00d225ff8cc2a5e78f8b611d56a4124095b41e8fb61601bbb2a902884166b4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-fe00d225ff8c.json and headline-fe00d225ff8c.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-fe00d225ff8c.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 2 h 45 min after it was first seen.