When a title is misleading, the first sentence is often an excellent choice. But in this case it (i.e. the shortened version of it you used) was more misleading: it states a rumor as if it were a fact, where the original title includes "said".

Thanks, I appreciate the response.

From the guidelines [0] > please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Because that is not the title of the article.