So this doesn't mean the thesis has been accepted and he graduated. And btw at first sight this seems substantially less ambitious then what it set out to be.
I thought that a thesis must have been accepted before it appears on SearchWorks. Is that not the case? Anyways, I'm guessing that the final version doesn't have the kind of results that were promised earlier.
I agree with you, however it is strange that the attachment (purl) is missing. Other students who graduated in August 2020 have the attachment in their SearchWorks record (sometimes with restricted access, but an attachment is visible). Perhaps, however, it is a purely technical reason and it will be added in the next few days. But at this point I feel that although with some delay, he managed to graduate. Good for him, it would have been an hard fall to get kicked out
Those are good points. I wouldn't be surprised that Stanford eventually award AMM a PhD based on a watered-down version of his work. No big claims but also no errors big enough to embarrass Stanford. That would allow everyone involved to move on.