Each edition is researched and drafted by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, working under a standing set of rules written by Attorney Jeffrey M. Beck. Attorney Beck reviews and approves every edition before it is published. Anthropic has no role in the Wire and does not review or endorse it.

AI output is only as good as its verification. A model can draft fluently, quickly and at scale; it can also state something false with the same fluency. The Wire is designed around that fact rather than in spite of it. Its rules are the kind any careful reader would apply to a source they could not fully trust, written down and enforced every day.

The field moves fast enough that being informed is a practical necessity, and much of what circulates about it is recycled, misdated or overstated. The Wire's job is to separate what happened from what was claimed about it.

• Primary sources first.

  Labs' own posts and model cards, benchmark and evaluation operators, government releases, and researchers writing under their own names come first. Third-party reporting comes second, and is labelled as reporting when that is all there is.

• Every claim links to its source.

  If an item cannot be traced to a source that can be linked, it does not run.

• Events and inferences are kept apart.

  The Wire reports what happened and the reason the actors themselves give. Anything beyond that is marked as the brief's own reading, with the premise it depends on stated. If no source supports that premise, the inference is cut.

• A lab's numbers are claims until someone else runs them.

  Where a company reports a benchmark result and an independent party has also measured it, both appear, with the method behind each. Where only the company's figure exists, the Wire says so. Benchmark versions are checked before anything is compared to anything.

• No business characterisations without a source.

  Statements about margins, profitability, costs or strategic motive appear only when a source states them.

• Dates are checked.

  Aggregators routinely recirculate old items as news. The Wire confirms when something actually happened before reporting it.

• What fails verification is reported as such.

  Each edition's “Checked and spiked” section lists items that circulated but did not hold up, and why.

When the Wire gets something wrong, the error is fixed where it appears, marked in place with the date of the correction, and logged in the next edition's Corrections section with an explanation of what was wrong, why, and what else it affects. Nothing is changed silently.

The Wire covers the AI field itself. It is not legal analysis, it does not address any reader's legal situation, and it is not legal advice.