The Divergence
Where the sources disagree
When two outlets tell the same story, they do not always tell it the same way. This page keeps a standing record of stories more than one source carried, and of papers the press picked up — who said what, and how far apart.
This page is nearly empty, and that is the measurement. Both registers below started on 21 September 2026 and they only learn from time passing: a story has to be told twice, by two sources, before there is anything to compare, and a paper has to be picked up before there is a response to see. Across the 23 runs folded so far, 7 multi-source stories and 170 papers are on record, 5 of which have been picked up. Nothing is hidden here and nothing is projected — what the registers have not seen, this page does not say.
01Told more than once
Every story on record that more than one source carried, and what each of them made of it. A source is one voice however many times it writes: a publisher running three follow-ups does not out-vote a publisher that ran one.
- Opposed0one source read it positively and another negatively
- Split0one source leaned where another did not
- Agreed7every source that carried a verdict read it the same way
- Not measurable0fewer than two of its sources carry a verdict, so there is nothing to compare -- which is not the same as agreement
- No story has diverged yet. Every multi-source story on record so far was read the same way by every source that carried a verdict. That is a true statement about a young register, not a claim that the press agrees.
02What the papers got
A pickup is a story that names the paper — its identifier in the text, or a link to it. Resemblance is never used: matching on subject would relate a paper to most of this corpus. We hold 165 of these papers ourselves; the rest we know only because something referred to them.
- openreview:glGeXu1zG41 pickup from 1 source
(the paper has not reached this desk; only stories about it)
we did not hold the paper itself, so the clock has no start
- Berkeley BAIRpositivebair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/03/13/spex/
- openreview:KI8qan2EA71 pickup from 1 source
(the paper has not reached this desk; only stories about it)
we did not hold the paper itself, so the clock has no start
- Berkeley BAIRpositivebair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/03/13/spex/
- openreview:pRlKbAwczl1 pickup from 1 source
(the paper has not reached this desk; only stories about it)
we did not hold the paper itself, so the clock has no start
- Berkeley BAIRpositivebair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/03/13/spex/
- arxiv:2512.201111 pickup from 1 source
(the paper has not reached this desk; only stories about it)
we did not hold the paper itself, so the clock has no start
- Berkeley BAIRpositivebair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/07/26/abbel/
- arxiv:2602.191281 pickup from 1 source
(the paper has not reached this desk; only stories about it)
we did not hold the paper itself, so the clock has no start
- Berkeley BAIRpositivebair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/07/29/cuda-to-mlx-k-search/
03How the number is made
Among the distinct sources that carried one story and have a tone verdict, positive counts +1, neutral 0, negative −1. The spread between the highest and lowest is the divergence: 0 is agreement, 1 is a lean, 2 means one source was positive and another negative about the same story.
Fewer than two verdicts is not agreement. It is counted separately as not measurable and never folded into the calm column, because a story nobody judged and a story everyone judged the same way are different facts.
The tone verdicts come from the same coverage mix the Mood page uses, and carry its limits: a per-story label is the weakest thing this deck computes, which is why it is used here to compare sources rather than to label any one story. The ledger holds the accuracy tables.