Editorial Guidelines

These guidelines cover everything published on aipressroom.com and in our newsletters. Where a section names an address, a person reads it.

What we cover

AIPressRoom covers the AI economy: the companies building and deploying AI, the capital behind them, and the people doing the work. Four sections, each with its own method.

• Interviews. Written interviews with founders, CTOs and researchers. Each interviewee answers twelve questions, written for them from their own work, in writing. Answers are published as given, edited only for length.
• Funding. AI funding rounds recorded as they close, each checked against the company's own announcement.
• Events. A global calendar of AI conferences. Listing is free; featured listings are paid and badged.
• Intelligence. Short analysis built from Chinese-language AI reporting and our own interviews, written in English with the source of every argument named.

We do not run product reviews, consumer gadget news or crypto coverage.

Independence

Our income comes from three things, all visible on the site: paid press releases, featured event listings and occasional sponsored features. None of them buys coverage.

• An interview cannot be bought. Interviewees are chosen by editors and are never charged.
• A funding round is recorded because it closed, not because anyone asked.
• A media-partner logo exchange buys a calendar listing and a link. Nothing else — no preview, no recap.
• Buying anything does not change how, or whether, we cover you afterwards.

Writers and editors hold no shares, options or advisory roles in companies they cover, and accept no payment, equity or gifts from them. Conference passes obtained through a media-partner listing are used for reporting and disclosed if the event is covered. Where a contributor has a relationship with a subject, the piece says so.

Sourcing and verification

We attribute what we publish. Funding entries cite the company's announcement or filing. Intelligence pieces name and link where each argument comes from: the outlet, podcast or paper, or the AIPressRoom interview. Interviews are the interviewee's own words.

People speak on the record by default. A spokesperson is never "a source familiar with the matter". We grant anonymity only where naming someone would expose them to real harm, and the piece says why.

We do not publish rumoured rounds, valuations or departures without a document or a named party. If we cannot verify it, we do not publish it.

Corrections

• Typos, broken links and misspellings are fixed without a note.
• Factual errors — a wrong amount, investor, date or title — are fixed and a dated note is added at the foot of the article saying what changed.
• Errors that change what an article says are noted at the top, and corrected in the newsletter and social posts that carried them.

We do not delete an article to remove an error. If it cannot be corrected, it is withdrawn and the page says why.

Email [email protected] with Correction: in the subject line and the article link. We reply within two business days. Feedback on these guidelines goes to the same address.

Bylines

Interviews, analysis and Intelligence pieces carry the name of the person who wrote them. Funding entries and calendar listings come from the desk. Press releases carry the name of the company that issued them, not ours.

We write only from @aipressroom.com addresses. If someone contacts you claiming to write for AIPressRoom from anywhere else, it is not us.

How we use AI

We report on AI and we use it. Readers should know where. One rule holds in every case: software may collect, draft, translate or check, but a person decides what is published and reads it first.

• Funding. Announcements are collected automatically from company and investor sources; software extracts the deal terms and drafts the entry. An editor checks the terms against the announcement and approves or rejects it before it appears.
• Funding Weekly. In the newsletter, the short “What it means” section is drafted with AI from our own deal data, checked by software for figures, dates and names that are not in that data, and read and approved by an editor before it is sent. Every number in the email is computed from our data, not written by AI.
• Interviews. Software helps us research an interviewee and draft the twelve questions; an editor chooses and edits them. The answers are the interviewee's own words and are never generated, rewritten or summarised.
• Intelligence. Software monitors and ranks Chinese-language sources. Editors choose what to cover. Translation and first drafts are software-assisted, and every published piece is edited by a person and names its sources.
• Photographs. We do not publish AI-generated images of real people or events. Supplied photographs may be enlarged with software; their content is not altered. Deal cards and section graphics are typographic images we generate, not photographs.
• Press releases. Standard releases are the company's own text, published as sent after review. Editorial-tier features are drafted with software from the material the company supplies, then rewritten and edited by us.

We do not publish generated text under a person's byline as though they had written it, and contributors may not submit generated drafts as their own.

Paid content

Company announcements are published for a fee in the Press Releases section, under their own label and their own feed, and never mixed into the four editorial sections. An editor reviews them for accuracy, legality and taste. They carry no AIPressRoom byline.

Sponsored features are marked Sponsored at the top of the page and in the feed, and the commissioning company is named. Featured event listings carry a Sponsored badge for as long as they run.

We do not accept paid interviews, unlabelled paid content, releases that make claims about competitors, promotions of crypto tokens or gambling, or anything we cannot verify. Current products are on the Advertise page.

Contributors

Most of what we publish is written in-house. We consider pitches for reported analysis of how AI ships inside real companies, and for founder and operator perspectives where the writer's relationship to the subject is disclosed.

We do not take content marketing, product announcements, previously published or syndicated work, event write-ups, or drafts generated by a model. Company announcements are press releases, and are paid.

Send a pitch, not a draft, to [email protected] with Pitch: in the subject line. Accepted pieces are edited, fact-checked and published under your byline. We do not pay for contributed pieces and do not publish them in exchange for links.

We do not run comments. Everything above is reviewed at least once a year; the date at the top of this page is the date of the last change.