Provenance Record

Tight, well-structured 485-word News piece. Clear Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis framing. Technical depth appropriate; no editorializing or sensationalism.

All 3 source snapshots read from disk (status 200, no archive fallback). source-0.html.gz (Mujin company press release): confirms $233M Series D first close, $133M equity led by NTT Group followed by QIA as co-lead with Mitsubishi HC Capital Realty and Salesforce Ventures, $100M debt from Japanese financial institutions, $411M total to date, Dec 2 2025 close, and both founder quotes verbatim and correctly attributed — Ross Diankov ('...the architecture that will power the next era of industrial automation') and Issei Takino ('Building on the world-class industrial automation technologies we have developed over the past 14 years...'). source-1.html.gz (DC Velocity): confirms $233M / $133M VC / $100M debt, NTT lead, QIA co-lead, $411M total, the MujinOS application list (Order Fulfillment, Palletizing, Bin Picking, Machine Tending, Truck Unloading) verbatim, and the 'significantly broaden its global presence' regional-engineering expansion. source-2.html.gz (Crypto Briefing): confirms 2030 IPO plan, University of Tokyo 2011 spinout, Dec 2 2025 first-tranche close, and MujinOS as a 'no-code platform designed for factory and warehouse automation.' Every claim maps to a cited source.

Financial breakdown internally consistent and fully sourced: $133M equity + $100M debt = $233M Series D; $411M total funding. All names spelled verbatim (Rule 7): Mujin, MujinOS, QIA, NTT, Qatar Investment Authority, Ross Diankov, Issei Takino. CRITICAL CHECK — the Bloomberg-only specifics (>$1B valuation, $3B NY-listing threshold, named customers Toyota and Fast Retailing/Uniqlo) are genuinely ABSENT from all three snapshots AND from the article body/summary/title; no claim rests on the bot-blocked Bloomberg source. The single occurrence of 'valuation' is in 'What We Don't Know', correctly noting the announcement does NOT disclose a post-money valuation. No hallucinations detected.

Accurate, neutral, well-sourced funding report with no factual issues. The lone automated finding is an allowlist-only warning (mujin-corp.com primary source, dcvelocity.com trade press, cryptobriefing.com), not a factual error — consistent with prior reviews, an allowlist-only warning does not require a corrections record. Verdict overridden from the script's default APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS to APPROVE. Ready for publication.