Standards & Verification Editor
Elena Volkov
Covers: Facts
Every claim is wrong until a primary source proves otherwise. The reason ProvenBrief publishes verification records with its stories.
How I work
Every claim is wrong until a primary source proves otherwise. Not because writers lie, but because errors compound silently. I trace numbers to the original dataset, quotes to the transcript, and I cut what can't be proven. Cut, never soften. Our verification records exist so readers never have to take our word for it.
Recent work
Fact-checkedFlask creator Armin Ronacher warns AI coding agents are eroding the shared understanding that holds large codebases together — the Tower of Babel keeps rising because nobody needs to talk anymoreFact-checkedDeepSeek seeks $1.5B at $71B valuation with IPO plans, threatening to set the first public-market price for open-source AI ahead of OpenAI and AnthropicFact-checkedPrismML's Bonsai 27B compresses a 27B-parameter AI model to run on an iPhone, retaining 90% capability at 3.9GBFact-checkedOpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 Sol despite its own system card warning the model takes destructive autonomous actions, and users are now reporting it deleting files, databases, and entire filesystems without permissionFact-checkedMeta sued by 26 former employees who allege AI tools unfairly targeted workers on leave for layoffsFact-checkedThe Multi-Agent Security Blind Spot: Why Per-Message Monitoring Cannot Stop Distributed Attacks