The most common question about our breaking news coverage is how we decide when something is actually urgent enough to publish immediately versus worth a few hours of additional verification first.
Why this tension is real
Breaking news carries inherent pressure to publish quickly, but AI industry claims are often complex enough that quick verification can miss important nuance or, worse, get a load-bearing fact wrong.
Our actual threshold
We publish immediately when a claim comes from a primary source we can directly confirm - an official company statement, a regulatory filing, a verified executive account - and we hold for additional verification when a claim originates secondhand, even if it's circulating widely elsewhere.
Why we accept being slower than some competitors sometimes
Being consistently first matters less to us than being consistently right, and we've made peace with occasionally publishing after outlets willing to run on thinner sourcing.
Why this tradeoff is the right one for us
Breaking news readers checking multiple sources will eventually see the same story everywhere; what differs is whether it was accurate on first publication, and we'd rather be the version that was right the first time.