Methodology — How We Research & Verify

How we research, source, and verify everything we publish.

This page describes what actually happens before an article goes live, and what you should expect to be able to check for yourself on any article you read here.

Every claim is traceable

Articles carry a Sources section listing the primary material behind them: company announcements, model cards, filings, papers, benchmark results, and the original reporting where a story broke elsewhere. It is collapsed by default so it does not interrupt reading, and it is there on purpose — if a number or a quote in an article matters to you, you should be able to get to where it came from without asking us.

Where a fact comes from a single source and has not been confirmed elsewhere, we say so in the text rather than presenting it as settled.

We prefer primary sources

In order of preference:

1. The primary document — the announcement, the paper, the filing, the repository, the pricing page.
2. Reporting by an outlet that did the original work, credited and linked.
3. Aggregated or secondary coverage, used only to establish that something is widely reported, never as the sole basis for a factual claim.

We do not treat a summary of a summary as a source. When a claim traces back only to an unnamed source in someone else's article, we attribute it that way.

Numbers are dated

AI moves quickly, and a correct number goes stale. Prices, context windows, benchmark scores, funding totals and model version names are stated with the date they were checked. Articles carry a last verified date for exactly this reason: an article that was accurate in March may be wrong in August, and you deserve to know which one you are reading.

If you find a figure that has moved, that is a correction we want — see corrections.

What we will not do

• Invent a quote, a statistic, or a source. Not a paraphrase presented as a quote, not a plausible-looking number.
• Report a rumour as a fact. Where we cover an unconfirmed report, the article says it is unconfirmed and who is reporting it.
• Publish a benchmark claim without saying who ran it. A vendor's own benchmark is labelled as the vendor's own.
• Recycle a press release as analysis. If an article is about an announcement, the point of publishing it is what the announcement means, not that it happened.

AI assistance, human responsibility

Articles are researched and drafted with AI assistance, under human editorial review, and each one says so. That is a working method, not a shortcut around accuracy: the draft is a starting point, the sourcing and verification are the editorial work, and the responsibility for what publishes is human.

The full detail of where AI is used and where it is not is on our AI disclosure page.

Volume is capped deliberately

There is a hard limit on how many articles can be published per day, enforced in the platform rather than left to good intentions. Publishing more than can be verified properly is the fastest way to become unreliable, so the cap exists to make that impossible rather than merely discouraged.

When we get it wrong

We publish corrections on the article itself, in an Updates & Corrections section, rather than quietly editing the text and hoping nobody noticed. How to report an error and what happens next is described on our corrections page.

Contact

Questions about how a particular article was researched are welcome: shamuddin1011@gmail.com.