Edition of Monday 26 October 2026

An American Answer to China's Open Si Models: A Safe Harbor for Open Weights

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Manhattan Institute proposes trading an antitrust safe harbor for leading American AI labs, which would let them coordinate on security and anti-distillation efforts at the frontier, for a commitment to release capable open-weight versions of their models on a predictable schedule after independent risk evaluations.

Read the original at manhattan.institute. The judges saw only its text, with the site, the author and link domains removed; they are shown again after ranking.

Why it ranked

No. 38 of 62 with a score of 0.60. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.85) and audience breadth (0.77), lowest on technical depth (0.41).

Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.

Score

0.60total under rubric v2.2

Judges’ mean answer per question, on a scale from 0 to 1. Questions marked minus count against the score.
  • Significance0.66
  • Reader interest0.75
  • Audience breadth0.77
  • Practical relevance0.56
  • Substantiated0.62
  • Technical depth0.41
  • New information0.85
  • Counts against: Promotional0.11
  • Counts against: Overclaim0.49

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

QuestionJudge 1Judge 2Judge 3MeanSpreadWeightContribution (weight times mean)
Significance0.660.550.780.660.23+0.24+0.159
Reader interest0.600.700.940.750.34+0.26+0.194
Audience breadth0.890.600.820.770.29+0.13+0.100
Practical relevance0.510.450.720.560.27+0.22+0.123
Substantiated0.530.600.720.620.19+0.05+0.031
Technical depth0.480.300.460.410.18+0.05+0.021
New information0.950.600.990.850.39+0.05+0.042
Promotional0.120.150.060.110.09−0.19−0.021
Overclaim0.490.350.620.490.27−0.11−0.054
Sum of contributions+0.595
Claim-check penalty0.000
Total, as published0.595

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

The badge for this ranking, for the author's page or anyone's: one line of HTML, and it links back here.

Ranked #38 on Rubric, 26 Oct 2026
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Elsewhere: HN 1 pts, not on front page

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Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition. This one was scored under rubric v2.2; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.3.

Comments

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