How we report

Beat

News on open and uncensored AI models: open-weight releases, model licenses, local and self-hosted AI tools, the policy and regulation that affects open models, and research on refusals and censorship. Every item links its primary source.

Sources

A fact goes in only if it was read on the original page that day: the model card, the official release post or release notes, the license text, the paper, or the government page. Search snippets and roundups are never sources. Every item links the page it came from.

Dates

Each item carries the date on its source page, not the day we read it.

Our view

Facts and opinion are kept apart. Our view is labelled "Our view", is one sentence, and adds no new facts.

How AI is used

AI agents research, read the source pages and draft each issue under these rules. Every claim is checked against its linked page before publishing, and a claim that can't be checked is cut. A day with fewer than three checked items gets no issue.

Independence

No one pays to be covered. Westward Consulting publishes this site and also makes Toolbay, free desktop apps that include local AI tools; when an item touches one of its products, it says so.

What we don't publish

We report what was released, licensed, ruled or found. We never publish instructions for misusing a model, ways to get around a model's safeguards, or anything that helps someone cause harm.

Corrections

Report a mistake to hello@westwardconsulting.ai. We fix it on the issue, say what changed and when, and list it on the corrections page.

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