WTF Is Going On / How this site works

What this is

A situation board for AI: what happened, who filed on it, what actually shipped, and where the field is discussing it — readable in two minutes, rebuilt every thirty. Everything is parsed from primary sources: model cards and file listings, release feeds, price catalogues, press RSS.

How it decides what to show

Headlines about one event cluster into one card — matching weighs shared words by rarity and treats named entities as single tokens, and it is tuned to prefer a missed merge over a wrong one, because a wrong merge hides a story. Ranking uses only countable facts: how many independent outlets filed, whether the principal went on the record, whether weights can actually be loaded, recency. Reaction volume is never a ranking input, so nothing here is optimized for outrage.

Whose words appear here

Three voices, kept strictly apart. Headlines are quoted as published and attributed. Our own sentences — the one-line briefs — are synthesized from headlines only, never from article bodies (the pipeline does not even fetch them), and a deterministic check rejects any sentence whose numbers do not literally appear in a source headline. Community reactions are verbatim, attributed, linked excerpts — quoted exactly or not at all, and never translated. We never paraphrase anyone into our own prose.

What we know about you

Nothing. No analytics, no cookies, no accounts. The "new since your last visit" marks are computed in your browser from a local list that never leaves your device.

Corrections

Wrong is worse than absent: a brief or a merge that fails its checks is dropped, not patched. When something wrong does reach the page, it gets corrected here, permanently and dated. The record is currently empty — not because nothing will ever be wrong, but because keeping this record honestly is the deal. Found an error? hello@wtfisgoingon.dev.

Who runs this

lashhill — one person, with an automated pipeline doing the collection and a human owning every editorial rule above. Contact: hello@wtfisgoingon.dev

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