Overview
- President Trump described an overnight operation to detain the Venezuelan leader and said the United States would run Venezuela in Maduro’s absence.
- Metro reported explosions around Caracas, a citywide power cut, a predawn raid, and video of Maduro arriving at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
- The unsealed U.S. indictment charges Maduro with narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, and weapons offenses.
- ChatGPT told users the capture “has never occurred,” attributing reports to misinformation and reflecting a model with an August 31, 2025 data cutoff unless web search is used.
- Testing found divergent AI outputs, with Gemini and Grok citing multiple sources to confirm the capture, Perplexity producing inconsistent answers and later citing a routing error, and analysts warning not to treat chatbot replies as confirmations during fast-moving crises.