01Who we are
Tessera is a small independent newsroom. The byline on every story is
Tessera Newsroom, which is the name we publish under —
not a corporate facade, just a useful shorthand for a tight editorial
collective. We are not a 12-person operation pretending to be lean. We
are lean, and we say so.
The newsroom is privately funded. No vendor, investor, or political
actor owns Tessera, sees coverage before it ships, or gets to weigh in
after it does.
The byline on every story is Tessera Newsroom. The voice is
the newsroom's, not a row of personal brands — a tradition, not a
hiding place. We publish under one name because the ideas matter more
than the résumés attached to them. If you want to know who worked on a
specific piece, write to us and we will tell you. Reach the editorial
desk at
[email protected].
02Editorial policy
Tessera is an independent AI commentary newsroom. We cover one
subject — artificial intelligence — from six angles:
research, software, hardware, business, policy, and culture. The unit
is the tile, not the word count. If a story needs forty words, it
gets forty words. If it needs four thousand, it gets four thousand.
Length is a function of substance, not slot.
Press releases are inputs. Embargoes are not promises. Sponsored
content is not published — if that ever changes, paid placements
will be labeled at the top of the piece and visually separated from
editorial.
03Sourcing
Concrete claims, dollar figures, and quotes trace to primary documents
or direct reporting. When another outlet breaks something first, we
credit and link them in the prose. We do not rewrite someone else's
scoop into our own.
Anonymous sources are used sparingly and only when the reason is
stated in the story itself.
04AI disclosure
Tessera uses AI tooling as part of its commentary and explainer
pipeline. Specifically, DeepSeek is used to generate Tessera's
articles, working from the sources, direction, and standards the
newsroom configures. Articles are AI-generated and editorially
configured; the newsroom sets direction, sources, and standards. The
byline stays Tessera Newsroom because the voice and editorial
direction belong to the newsroom, not to any one writer.
Tessera's commentary is produced with AI assistance and editorial
oversight.
05Corrections
If we get something wrong, we fix it in place and attach a dated note
at the bottom of the story stating what changed. Typos are corrected
silently. We do not quietly rewrite reporting after the fact.
To flag an error, email
[email protected] with the tile index
(the T-2026-XXXX string at the foot of every piece) in
the subject line.
06Contact
Tips, corrections, pitches, complaints, and the occasional kind word:
[email protected]. For sensitive
material, send a short note asking to move to a secure channel.