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The Apprised AI Disagreement Index
When two independent AI models read the same day's news, how often do they disagree on how settled the facts are? Apprised's published editor (Claude) and an independent cross-check (Kimi) each rate the day's contested events; this is the share where they made a different call, over the last 30 days. Updated 2026-10-26.
17/100
On the 114 events both models rated independently over the last 28 days, they assigned a different certainty call 17% of the time. Lower = the two models converge on what's settled; higher = they genuinely diverge.
90%
High-confidence matches
Matched events per day
2026-09-272026-10-26
Daily samples are small (a few matched events each) — the headline is the 30-day window rate, not any single day.
Where the two models disagreed
The specific recent events where the published Claude editor and the independent Kimi read landed on a different certainty call. Pairing is heuristic (matched on shared distinctive terms), so each row is a flagged candidate, not a hand-verified contradiction — open that day's World brief to read both models' full reasoning and the source coverage, and judge it yourself.
Iran threatens to target U.S.-linked oil facilities, data centers, and AI infrastructure if the U.S. launches further military strikes, as Brent crude exceeds $113/barrel
Claude: Contested · Kimi: Consensus (4 shared terms)
Framed by: Press TV (presstv.co.uk), IRNA (irna.ir), Iran International (iranintl.com), TRT World (trtworld.com), Bloomberg (via CoinDesk), CNBC
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-23 World brief →
Russia's Kosmos 2612 satellite conducted a multi-day proximity operation against a U.S.-registered commercial radar satellite (ICEYE) supporting Ukrainian military intelligence
Claude: Developing · Kimi: Consensus (7 shared terms)
Framed by: SOFREP (sofrep.com), Air and Space Forces Magazine (airandspaceforces.com), TASS (tass.ru), RIA Novosti (ria.ru)
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-22 World brief →
Lavrov visits Tehran; Araghchi declares Iran-Russia cooperation 'closer than at any point in history'; Pakistani Army Chief Munir arrives next day
Claude: Contested · Kimi: Consensus (4 shared terms)
Framed by: IRNA, Mehr News, RIA Novosti, BBC Persian, BBC Hindi, Axios
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-20 World brief →
Iran conditions Hormuz Strait reopening on U.S. military withdrawal from the region, while CENTCOM claims blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in oil revenue since July
Claude: Contested · Kimi: Consensus (5 shared terms)
Framed by: Press TV (presstv.co.uk), IRNA (irna.ir), The Hill (thehill.com), BBC Swahili, BBC Hausa, BBC Somali
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-17 World brief →
North Korea tests 'Zam-2.0' AI-equipped high-speed torpedo; no images released
Claude: Contested · Kimi: Consensus (7 shared terms)
Framed by: KCNA Watch (via NK News / nknews.org), Yonhap (en.yna.co.kr), Straits Times (straitstimes.com), Korea Times (koreatimes.co.kr), G1 Globo (g1.globo.com), Asharq Al-Awsat (aawsat.com)
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-17 World brief →
Russia strikes Kyiv's CHP-4 power plant with ballistic missiles; Zelensky says no allied warning received for second consecutive night despite Trump's claimed 'energy ceasefire'
Claude: Contested · Kimi: Consensus (3 shared terms)
Framed by: Ukrainska Pravda (pravda.com.ua), Kyiv Post (kyivpost.com), Euronews (euronews.com), BBC Ukrainian (bbc.com), TASS (tass.com), RIA Novosti (ria.ru)
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-14 World brief →
Pakistan's federal government imposed emergency rule and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; PTI leaders including Chief Minister Sohail Afridi reportedly arrested
Claude: Contested · Kimi: Consensus (6 shared terms)
Framed by: Dawn (dawn.com), ARY News (arynews.tv), BBC (Pashto and Urdu services)
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-13 World brief →
Saudi-led coalition destroys 136 Houthi military targets in large-scale Yemen operation; Houthi drone kills 3 at Riyadh airport
Claude: Contested · Kimi: Consensus (7 shared terms)
Framed by: Khaleej Times, BBC Persian, BBC Somali (Somali-language reporting), Mehr News
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-10 World brief →
U.S. formally accuses Zhao Fugang, director of a Chinese state agency's office in Fiji's capital Suva, of paying bribes to advance Beijing's interests in the Pacific nation
Claude: Developing · Kimi: Consensus (9 shared terms)
Framed by: Hong Kong Free Press, Global Times, China Daily, Reuters, AFP (implicit via cross-source count)
See the full collision & sources on the 2026-10-08 World brief →
What it measures
Most AI news tools hide which model wrote the answer. Apprised runs two: a published editor (Claude) and a genuinely independent cross-check (Kimi). This index is the share of the day's contested events on which the two models assigned a different factual-certainty call — a live, daily read on how much two leading models diverge on what's actually settled. It complements the Consensus Index (which measures corroboration across outlets, one model); this measures agreement across models.
How events are matched — and why the number is honest
We pair each of the editor's contested events with the independent model's closest read by shared distinctive terms — proper nouns and specifics, not generic words like "strike," "talks," or "missile." A pair counts only when the two share at least two such terms; matched pairs in this window share a median of 5, and 90% share three or more. Events without a confident match are discarded, never guessed. Certainty is collapsed to settled (Consensus) versus unsettled (Contested or Developing) so adjacent grades don't inflate the number. The headline is a 30-day rate; daily samples are too small to publish alone. See the full methodology.
Cite this index
The Apprised AI Disagreement Index, Apprised.news. 2026-10-26: 17/100 over 114 matched cross-model events.
https://apprised.news/index/disagreement
Live JSON: /api/disagreement-index. Underlying daily reads appear on each World desk brief.