What changes the standard.

How this page is selected

This page exists for three things: safety, transparency, and innovation that changes what an assessment has to demonstrate. An item appears because it bears on one of them. Nothing appears because it is newsworthy.

Two tests decide it, and an item from any publisher other than SCL has to pass both. SCL's own releases are the one exception, because they are this organization's record of itself rather than someone else's material, and only an SCL release can hold the featured slot at the top of this page.

The source test. The publisher sells no AI product or service. That covers regulators and standards bodies, whose instruments change what conformity requires, and research institutions with nothing to sell. It excludes every commercial AI vendor, because a body that certifies AI systems should not be publishing about the products of the companies it may one day assess. The full source list is on the impartiality page, section 10, and it is the same list this page reads from, alongside SCL's own record.

The purpose test. Funding rounds, valuations, lawsuits, acquisitions, executive appointments, partnerships and prizes are dropped whoever publishes them, as is anything that does not bear on one of the three subjects above. A university feed is not on topic merely because its publisher sells nothing: measured across these sources on 11 September 2026, fourteen of the one hundred and fifteen items they carried that fortnight passed the test.

So there is no industry news here, and no coverage of any company or any person in the AI industry, favourable or otherwise. A certification body that publishes an opinion about a vendor's products has spent something it cannot get back, and the opinion is always worth less than the impartiality it costs. There was a curated vendor reading list on this page until September 2026, and what it was and why it went are described on the impartiality page.

One vendor is named elsewhere on this site. Ask SCL runs on an open weight Llama 3.1 model that SCL fine tuned and runs on its own hardware, and the Llama 3.1 Community License requires that attribution. It is a disclosure of a dependency, not an endorsement, and it is part of why SCL takes no published position on any model vendor at all.