The technologies we cover - AI, blockchain, zero-knowledge, robotics - all circle the same question: can you trust what a system tells you, and can you prove it. We think a newsroom covering that question should be built the same way it asks others to be. So we made verification the product, not just the practice.
Our mission
To be the most trusted source on emerging technology by being the most checkable one. Every article carries its evidence. Every significant claim we check is marked with a verdict, next to its evidence, right where it is made. Every article publishes a fingerprint of its own text, so a change can’t happen silently - edits go through the public corrections log. Trust, for us, is not a tone - it’s an artefact we hand you.
From House of ZK
The Verifier grew out of House of ZK, a home for the zero-knowledge community - the podcast, the events, the research coverage and the people building proving systems. That world taught the whole industry its habit: check the claim at the source. As synthetic media made that everyone’s problem, we widened the lens from ZK to the entire frontier, and rebuilt the outlet around the principle the community started with. The archive - episodes, past events, the first magazine editions - carries forward here.
What we cover
Six desks: Artificial Intelligence, Zero-Knowledge, Blockchain, Robotics & Autonomy, Compute & Infrastructure, and Policy & Society. Across them we run technical explainers, vision pieces, field reports and analysis - plus the podcast, reports, events and The Verifier - In Print.
Editorial independence
Editorial decisions are made independently of commercial interests. Advertisers, sponsors and event partners have no influence over what we cover or how a claim is judged, and no advance sight of verdicts. When a subject of coverage is also a commercial partner or is otherwise connected to us, we disclose the relationship in the piece. Sponsorship is walled off from editorial judgment entirely: no partner can affect a verdict, full stop.
Ethics & funding
We are funded through fully disclosed sponsorships - of our events and of the podcast. Our journalism itself is free to read: no paywalls, no reader subscriptions, and reports and the print edition are not for sale. Sponsored content, where it appears, is always labelled as such and never enters the editorial desks. Our briefing, The Verifier - In Brief, carries no paid placements. We follow the same evidence standard for our own claims - including claims about our automation - that we apply to everyone else, set out in the editorial standards.
Masthead
The Verifier is an independent newsroom organised around its desks and two standing functions. In the tradition of institutional bylines, articles are credited to their desk rather than to individuals: the writing, verification and verdicts are the shared work of the roles below, and the desk stands behind every word collectively.
Everything in AI - research and products, safety and capability, the industry and the people in it.
The desk the publication grew out of: proofs, proving systems and the world built on them.
Protocols, applications, infrastructure and the questions the technology raises.
Research, deployments and the business of autonomy, in every setting.
Chips, data centres, energy and the supply chains beneath everything else we cover.
How governments and institutions respond to emerging technology - and what it means in practice.
Owns the methodology and the corrections log. When we are wrong, this is where it is put right, in public.
Careers
We hire journalists who can read a spec sheet and engineers who can write, and we care more about rigour than volume. Open roles are posted here; speculative pitches from technical writers are always welcome at the address below.
Advertise
We offer clearly-labelled sponsorship across the podcast, events and The Verifier - In Brief - never inside editorial coverage. If you want to reach the people actually building and deploying this technology, and you’re comfortable with a hard wall between your placement and our verdicts, get in touch.
Contact
For tips and checkable claims, use the form below and pick “Tip - a claim to check” - it goes straight to the desk; corrections and press enquiries are read first.