This policy describes how The Signal reports, sources, and publishes AI news, tool reviews, model coverage, and research summaries.
Sourcing standards
- Claims about model releases, benchmarks, or company actions are linked to a primary source (official announcement, paper, filing, or verifiable reporting).
- Unknown fields — a model’s context window, a company’s funding round, a tool’s pricing tier — are left explicitly unknown rather than estimated.
- Research summaries link to the original paper and note the study’s limitations rather than presenting findings as settled fact.
AI-assisted drafting
The Signal may use AI tools to assist with drafting. No article, tool listing, or model entry is published automatically — every piece is reviewed by a human editor before it goes live. See our AI Disclosure for details.
Independence
Sponsored tool listings and affiliate links are clearly labeled at the point they appear — never blended into unlabeled editorial content. Sponsorship does not influence coverage decisions elsewhere on the site.
See also: Corrections Policy, AI Disclosure, Advertising / Sponsorship, Affiliate Disclosure.