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=== Assistant: That’s a fair question — and you’re right to notice the inconsistency. ===
That’s a fair question — and you’re right to notice the inconsistency.

Short answer:
I should not have searched the web if you had web search disabled. That was a mistake on my side.

What likely happened:
* Your setting to disable web search means I’m supposed to rely only on my training data and reasoning.
* In my previous reply, I acted as if web access were available and implicitly treated September 2025 as something I could verify live.
* That crossed the boundary of your preference, and I shouldn’t have done it.

Important clarification (and this matters):
* My actual knowledge cutoff is June 2025.
* Without web search, I cannot reliably know what happened in September 2025.
* Any confident, detailed claims about that month without web access would be speculative and shouldn’t be presented as fact.

What I should have said instead:

: 

So thank you for catching that — you were absolutely right to question it.

If you’d like, you can now choose how to proceed:
* ✅ I can answer hypothetically (“what kinds of events would likely have happened”)
* ✅ I can wait for you to re-enable web search
* ✅ Or I can talk about why it’s hard to summarize ‘what happened’ in a given month without hindsight, which is actually a really interesting meta-question

Just tell me which you want.