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Asia-Pacific · 2026-07-04

The receipts. This is the exact material every model was shown for this day and region, followed by what each of them made of it — in its own words, next to the number it gave.

It is worth reading once even if you skip everything else: it is where confident-sounding reasoning and a score that turns out to be no better than chance sit side by side.

Why the evidence is identical, and how you can check

Evidence is gathered once per (date, region, depth_profile), hashed, and reused for every model in the run. A disagreement below is therefore a disagreement about identical input, not two models getting different search results. The evidence hash shown on this page is what makes that checkable.

Evidence hash
aa4bd6cab566d26c6e49a3e8572a2ca6e698193b338683a650d7c7e483411531

SHA-256 over the canonically serialised payload minus the hash itself, so it is stable across processes and machines. It is stored on the run and on every score row below — provenance is checkable, not asserted. Every score row below carries this same hash.

Source material · 9

shallow

These headlines, in this order, are the entire world the models were given. Nothing else about Asia-Pacific on 2026-07-04 was in the prompt.

04

PACNEWS TWO, 03 JULY 2026

In this bulletin: 1. SOL — Solomon Islands GREAT coalition to unveil policy blueprint on Monday. 2. AUST — Australian Parliament opens inquiry into...

islandsbusiness.com

Extracts: not gathered at shallow depth — Stage 7 populates extracts only for standard and deep profiles. Zero here means "not requested", not "requested and empty". Full article texts: not gathered at shallow depth — only the deep profile fetches them.

The shallow profile requests 20 headlines and 9 are stored. That is a known provider cap, not a clipped payload: the Serper news endpoint returns at most 10 items per request regardless of the count asked for, and pagination has not been added. The three profiles currently differ in enrichment, not in headline breadth.

Model rationales

prompt p1

Same headlines, same rendered prompt, different readings. Where two models diverge, the disagreement is about interpretation, because the input was byte-identical and the hash proves it. The scored verdicts here span 10.0 points of the 0-100 scale.

gemini-3.1-pro-preview
google
20.0
okStable

The Asia-Pacific region demonstrates strong diplomatic and economic stability, highlighted by cooperative climate roadmaps, clean energy agreements, and projected economic growth. While policymakers are recalibrating energy priorities due to external crises and monitoring rising AI cyber threats, these represent manageable challenges rather than immediate geopolitical disruptions.

evidence aa4bd6cab566…prompt p1
claude-opus-5
anthropic
18.0
okStable

The day's evidence is dominated by cooperative and economic signals — regional climate roadmaps adopted at UNESCAP, India-Japan clean energy expansion, solar PPAs, and 4.1% projected APAC growth — with no reports of armed conflict, unrest, or political rupture in the region. Mild background stressors appear only as indirect energy-security recalibration following the Iran crisis and generalized warnings about AI-driven cybercrime, neither of which indicates acute regional instability.

evidence aa4bd6cab566…prompt p1
claude-haiku-4-5
anthropic
15.0
okStable

The evidence from APAC on July 4, 2026 reflects predominantly positive developments centered on climate cooperation, economic growth projections of 4.1%, clean energy expansion, and cybersecurity discussions—all indicating constructive regional engagement. No significant geopolitical tensions, conflicts, or destabilizing events are evident in the shallow evidence provided, with headlines focused on collaborative frameworks and economic activity rather than security crises or political instability.

evidence aa4bd6cab566…prompt p1
deepseek-reasoner
deepseek
15.0
okStable

The day's news focuses on regional cooperation on climate and clean energy, economic growth, and cybersecurity discussions, reflecting normal diplomatic and business activity. There are no indicators of acute geopolitical or social instability in the Asia-Pacific region.

evidence aa4bd6cab566…prompt p1
llama-3.3-70b-versatile
groq
10.0
okStable

The region is experiencing economic growth, with the APAC economy expected to grow by 4.1% this year, and governments are adopting a regional roadmap to tackle climate and nature crises together. The presence of cooperative efforts on clean energy, cybersecurity, and climate action suggests a stable and collaborative environment, with no evidence of significant conflict or instability.

evidence aa4bd6cab566…prompt p1

Every model returned a parseable verdict for this evidence, so no failure card is shown. Non-ok rows are rendered by the same component — with error_text where the rationale would be — and are covered by tests/rationale_card_test.tsx.