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Europe · 2026-07-05

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.

Region
Asia-PacificEuropeMiddle East & North AfricaSub-Saharan AfricaNorth America
Depth profile
shallow
Date
2026-07-122026-07-112026-07-102026-07-092026-07-082026-07-072026-07-062026-07-052026-07-042026-07-032026-07-022026-07-012026-06-302026-06-292026-06-282026-06-272026-06-262026-06-25
Evidence hash
759dd2129364c80dacb7fdf9df2b5d2c6dd203d35688ff876022df371973209e

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 · 10

shallow

These headlines, in this order, are the entire world the models were given. Nothing else about Europe on 2026-07-05 was in the prompt.

06

Opinion | Europe isn’t cool

European hostility toward air conditioning is suicidal. One study estimates more than 20,000 heat-related deaths the week before last.

washingtonpost.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 10 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 26.0 points of the 0-100 scale.

gemini-3.1-pro-preview
google
60.0
okUnstable

Europe is facing severe environmental and public health stress due to record-breaking heatwaves, widespread wildfires, and an estimated 20,000 heat-related fatalities. Compounding these domestic emergencies are external pressures from an energy crisis linked to conflicts in Iran and internal political friction over Germany's defense budget.

evidence 759dd2129364…prompt p1
llama-3.3-70b-versatile
groq
60.0
okUnstable

The region is experiencing severe heatwaves and energy crises, with record-breaking temperatures and deadly wildfires reported across Europe, indicating a significant level of instability. However, the presence of discussions on energy storage solutions, climate change mitigation, and increased defence spending suggests that the region is actively addressing its challenges, preventing the situation from escalating to a more critical level.

evidence 759dd2129364…prompt p1
deepseek-reasoner
deepseek
55.0
okUnstable

Europe faces compounding pressures from record-breaking heatwaves, wildfires, and an energy crisis, with significant human and economic impacts. Political debates over defense spending and climate adaptation add strain, but the situation remains contained without systemic collapse.

evidence 759dd2129364…prompt p1
claude-haiku-4-5
anthropic
42.0
okElevated

Europe faces compounding climate-related crises including record heat, wildfires, and energy security challenges that are straining infrastructure and causing significant casualties, while political divisions over adaptation measures (air conditioning debates) are delaying effective responses. Additionally, rising defense spending and budget pressures amid economic underperformance suggest mounting structural tensions, though these remain manageable within existing institutional frameworks rather than indicating imminent systemic collapse or conflict escalation at this time based on available evidence alone (shallow depth).

evidence 759dd2129364…prompt p1
claude-opus-5
anthropic
34.0
okElevated

The evidence centers on a severe climate emergency — Europe's hottest June on record, wildfires across multiple countries, and an estimated 20,000+ heat-related deaths in a single week — alongside an energy crisis linked to wars affecting supply. Political institutions remain functional, however, with debate confined to normal channels (budget fights over German borrowing and defence, air-conditioning policy disputes), indicating stress and humanitarian harm rather than governance breakdown or conflict within the region.

evidence 759dd2129364…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.