Publication
Editorial standards
How AI Lately sources, labels, verifies, corrects, and protects: the standards behind every piece and every Signal entry.
These standards govern every piece on AI Lately, including the opinion column and the automated daily reports. They were written before the first issue, on purpose, so that the rules exist before anything is at stake.
Sourcing
Every statistic, date, title, and name traces to a source the writer opened. Primary sources come first: SEC filings, Department of Labor disclosure data, company announcements, arXiv papers, government releases. Reporting from publications of record follows: Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, CNBC, TechCrunch, Axios, The Information, Harvard Business Review, and research from Gartner, IDC, Deloitte, McKinsey, and Stanford HAI. Each piece ends with a numbered Sources list in AP style, and bracketed markers in the text point to specific entries.
A claim the desk could verify only through a social network's profile pages stays out of the piece. Company announcements, filings, and reputable press carry the load instead.
Confidence labels
Every recorded move in The Signal carries one of three labels. Confirmed means a company announcement, a regulatory filing, or the person's own public statement. Reported means reputable press citing sources. Inferred means a pattern-based read, and the entry says so in its own words. The label is a required field; an entry with a missing label gets rejected before publication.
Facts and interpretation
A fact reads as a fact. An interpretation reads as an interpretation, with signposts such as "the pattern suggests," "the filing implies," and "read as strategy." Departures get reported as a destination and a date. The reason for a departure appears only when two independent sources or a document support it.
Quotations
Every quotation is verbatim from a cited source. The desk paraphrases with attribution when a verbatim quote would clash with house style, and it labels the paraphrase as such. A quotation invented for a real person would end the writer's relationship with this publication.
Right of reply
Any piece that characterizes a company or a person adversely goes to that company or person with a request for comment before publication whenever a working contact exists. Responses run in the piece or in a follow-up. Corrections and clarifications from subjects get the same prominence as the original claim.
Personal data
The allowlist is short: name, role, employer, public source, and date. Home addresses, personal email addresses, phone numbers, ages, nationalities, health information, family details, and protected characteristics stay off the site in every circumstance. The privacy page explains how a person can query or challenge the record.
Independence
AI Lately holds zero equity, tokens, options, or advisory positions at companies it covers, and the editor accepts zero gifts from them. Sponsors see an issue after publication and receive zero preview. Sponsored listings carry a label and buy zero editorial consideration. Coverage that costs the publication access to a company gets published anyway; that commitment is written here so it can be held against the desk later.
Corrections
Errors get fixed fast and in the open. A corrected piece carries a note describing the change and the date; the corrections page keeps a permanent log. Reach the desk at corrections@ailately.com. Once a year the editor publishes an accountability note listing what the publication got wrong.
Automated reports
The daily automated report is drafted by software from vetted public sources, passes the house style linter, and publishes with a visible label. Its author line names the pipeline. A reader can report an error through the same corrections address, and the editor can pull any automated piece at any time. The pipeline works from an allowlist of public sources and carries a hard block on professional social networks.
Source protection
Conversations with sources happen on channels the source chooses. Source identities live apart from the editorial research base, and the editor decided the publication's posture on protecting a source before the first source ever needed it: sources stay protected.