Gemini caught a $280M crypto exploit before it hit the news, then retracted it as a hallucination because I couldn't verify it - because the news hadn't dropped yet

So this happened mere hours ago and I feel like I genuinely stumbled onto something worth documenting for people interested in AI behavior. I'm going to try to be as precise as possible about the sequence because the order of events is everything here. Full chat if you want to read it yourself: https://g.co/gemini/share/0cb9f054ca58 Background I was using Gemini paid most advanced model to analyze a live crypto trade on AAVE. The token had dropped 7–9% out of nowhere in the last hour with z