Provenance Record

Clean, well-structured News piece (612 words, within the 400-1200 News range). Consistent reported/in-talks framing throughout — 'in talks', 'reported', 'if completed', 'could still fall through', 'Neither side has confirmed'. Sectioned into Overview / What We Know / Valuation Backdrop / Diversification Push / What We Don't Know, which appropriately separates confirmed facts from open questions for an unconfirmed M&A story.

Read all four gzipped snapshots from disk. source-0 (Yahoo Finance) resolved to a consent.yahoo.com cookie wall and contains no article text — a known bot-block risk. However, EVERY claim the article attributes to Yahoo is independently corroborated by the other three snapshots: the $8-10B range, founded-2016, Keller's Apple/Tesla background (Digital Today: 'developed processors for iPhones and iPads and led Tesla Autopilot hardware 2016-2018'), talks-ongoing/could-fall-through, 'Reuters was unable to independently verify' (verbatim in igor'sLAB), and the earn-out/milestone uncertainty (igor'sLAB: 'unclear whether the stated price includes earn-outs'). So Yahoo carries no sole load-bearing claim. source-1 (Data Center Dynamics, status 200): confirms $8-10bn, The Information sourcing, Tenstorrent founded 2016 / scalable AI accelerators for cloud and edge, both companies declined to comment ('comment on rumors'), $800m at $3.2bn 2025 raise, Dec 2024 round investors (Bezos Expeditions, Samsung Securities, AFW Partner), and the Amon quote 'a new growth opportunity for Qualcomm and is a logical extension of our diversification strategy' during Q3 2025 earnings — all verbatim. source-2 (igor'sLAB, status 200): confirms 'picked up by Reuters on 15 June 2026', $693M at $2B pre-money valuation, the Keller career-list quote 'DEC Alpha, AMD K7 and K8, the Zen family, Apple's A4 and A5, and Tesla's first in-house chip for automated driving', 'Senior Vice President of the Silicon Engineering Group at Intel', and the Tensix/RISC-V/compiler systems description — all verbatim, and explicitly frames it as 'an acquisition report, not an announced deal'. source-3 (Digital Today, status 200): confirms the Alphawave Semi $2.4B acquisition, the smartphone/PC revenue + AI-market expansion framing (verbatim), 'handle certain AI workloads more efficiently than Nvidia GPUs', RISC-V open-source CPU framing, and the $1B+ raised from Fidelity/AFW Partners/Eclipse Ventures plus Hyundai/Kia investors (verbatim).

No fabrications, no hallucinated quotes, no misattributions. The $2B (igor'sLAB) vs $2.6B (DCD) Series-D valuation differs BETWEEN the two sources; the article correctly attributes the $2B figure to igor'sLAB, so there is no misattribution. The '$14 billion combined figure' (per the assignment, present only in a 403'd TechTimes source) appears in NONE of the four cited snapshots and was correctly dropped. The June 15, 2026 Reuters-report date traces verbatim to igor'sLAB.

High-quality, accurately-framed report on unconfirmed M&A talks. Every quote, number, name and date verified against the cited snapshots; the lone bot-blocked source carries no unique load-bearing claim. The script's APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS was driven solely by the non-blocking allowlist warning, which requires no corrections record. Overriding to APPROVE.