Sources
The sources we read
SigB weights what it reads by source class. Primary records and regulators carry the most weight. Peer-reviewed journals and specialist trade press anchor domain claims. General and regional news outlets supply breadth. Open community channels (Reddit, Hacker News) are read as early, unverified indicators. They do not count as corroboration. Below are the roster and the domains and regions it covers. Machines can read the same roster at GET /api/sources.
The roster, by class
Each name links to that source’s site (opens in a new tab).
Scientific, academic & medical journals
Government & regulatory bodies
- NASA
- U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- U.S. Federal Reserve
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of Labor
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- National Weather Service
- Bank of England
- Bank of Japan
- European Central Bank
- Deutsche Bundesbank
- International Maritime Organization
- UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
News
Research & policy institutions
- Brookings Institution
- Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
- CSET (Georgetown)
- Hudson Institute
- European Council on Foreign Relations
- Migration Policy Institute
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
- Future of Privacy Forum
- War on the Rocks
- The Cipher Brief
- Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
- Lowy Institute
- Pew Research
- Reason Foundation
- Roosevelt Institute
- Stanford HAI
- MIT News
Public records & market data
Industry & trade press
- Defense News
- Defense One
- Breaking Defense
- SpaceNews
- Payload
- TechCrunch
- IEEE Spectrum
- CoinDesk
- Cointelegraph
- Ledger Insights
- FreightWaves
- BioPharma Dive
- Fierce Pharma
- Fierce Biotech
- Fierce Healthcare
- MedTech Dive
- Construction Dive
- Retail Dive
- Supply Chain Dive
- Crunchbase News
- PitchBook
- Variety
- Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter
- WWD
- Mongabay
- Carbon Brief
- GreenBiz
- Oil Price
- World Nuclear News
- MINING.com
- Semiconductor Engineering
- Tom's Hardware
- Krebs on Security
- Schneier on Security
- Insurance Journal
- gCaptain
- Maritime Executive
- Nature Biotechnology
- The Robot Report
Community & weak-signal channels
- Hacker News
- Curated subject communities on Reddit
Representative, not exhaustive. Receipted claims name and link their sources; unreceipted attention signals are labeled as leads, not sourced claims.
Coverage
What we cover
The domains and regions SigB covers.
By domain
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Safety
- AI Policy
- Frontier Models
- Cloud & Edge Computing
- Semiconductors
- Semiconductor Equipment
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum Security
- Cybersecurity
- Robotics & Automation
- Humanoid Robotics
- Drones & Autonomous Systems
- Additive Manufacturing
- Biotech & Pharma
- Precision Medicine
- Rare Diseases
- Medical Devices
- Digital Health
- Mental Health
- FDA Regulatory Decisions
- Aging & Longevity
- Synthetic Biology
- Veterinary Health
- Nuclear Energy
- Nuclear Fusion
- Battery & Energy Storage
- Grid Modernization
- Electric Vehicles
- Carbon & Climate
- Critical Minerals
- Steel & Metals
- Chemicals
- Materials Science
- Water
- Forestry
- Fisheries
- Ocean & Maritime
- Agriculture & Food Security
- Defense Procurement
- Defense Tech
- Space Commercialization
- Space Law
- Satellite Imagery
- Aviation
- Intelligence & Surveillance
- Disinformation
- Banking & FinTech
- Payments
- Central Bank Digital Currencies
- Stablecoins
- Crypto & DeFi
- Venture Capital
- Venture Debt
- Private Equity
- Private Credit
- Insurance
- RegTech
- SEC & Federal Enforcement
- Antitrust
- Patent & IP
- Macroeconomics
- Tariffs & Trade Policy
- Trade Agreements
- ESG & Governance
- Commercial Real Estate
- PropTech
- Construction
- Housing
- Supply Chain
- Shipping & Logistics
- Retail & Consumer
- Luxury Goods
- Media & Entertainment
- Gaming & Esports
- Sports Business
- Sports Betting
- Telecom & 5G
- Education & Workforce
- Labor & Gig Economy
- Immigration & Migration
- Cannabis
- Philanthropy
- Digital Identity
- Privacy
- Disaster Resilience
- Extreme Weather
- Elections
By region
- Africa
- Arctic
- Australia
- Canada
- China
- Europe
- Germany
- India & South Asia
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Japan
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Saudi Arabia
- South Korea
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
From sources to signals
Everything above is on the desk’s standing reading list. Every alias of a name resolves to one entity, so the same story connects across domains. Each story is checked against live prediction markets where a market exists. What reaches you names what moved and why it matters, with the sources attached. The API page states how fresh each part of the record is.
Two disciplines police the pipeline. Every published claim names its origin — the outlet that ran it. Whether a claim has a working one-hop link back to that outlet is measured claim by claim. On the Hormuz record, 11 of the 11 claims in its summary of what independent sources agree on have one, measured 16 Oct 2026. The record's longer press archive is not part of this count. A second, independent model cross-checks generated text against the source material before anything is published. Prediction-market prices are a sensor we cite alongside reporting. We grade that sensor against how events resolve. The maintained record is public at the record, and the grading data for the cited sensor at GET /api/calibration-data.
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