#provenance

A recycler in Bellevue, Washington, opened one of his donation bins in July expecting the usual: dead...

Why an SBOM without digest-bound signature is a description rather than evidence, and the four verification checks a consumer has to run.

Every x402 settlement you have ever seen was, until recently, opaque. The merchant told you what they...

An agent that can only modify a fixed set of rows has a hard time producing an open-ended...

In August, OpenAI published a post with a title I did not expect to read from a frontier lab this...

The sensor knew how much to trust itself. Our database column did not have room for that, so we threw...

Imagine you spend a year on the hardest open problem in your field. You feed every draft, every dead...

Attribution, allocation, and why "unknown" belongs in the schema. This piece grew out of a comment...

When an AI agent should cite its sources, what provenance costs to build, and how to write it into a vendor spec so outputs are checkable, not just plausible.

Anthropic launched a free browser-based tool that reads content credentials embedded in files, and the page states plainly that it cannot determine whether Claude was involved in creating the content it checks.

I asked models to extract facts with provenance two different ways. Naive: return {answer, quote},...

ARIA updated its Charts Code of Practice so that wholly AI-generated recordings are ineligible from the chart dated August 31, while tracks that use generative AI in a supporting role still count.