[
  {
    "date": "2026-10-31",
    "title": "Paraphrase Pass opens",
    "body": "First edition of the directory: 7 provenance entries, 11 detectors, 14 rewriting tools, 10 papers and benchmarks, 8 policy texts, 12 news sources. Every link was checked on this date.",
    "url": "https://paraphrasepass.com/"
  },
  {
    "date": "2026-10-05",
    "title": "OpenAI announces textGrain",
    "body": "OpenAI's text watermark goes opt-in for API customers worldwide, off by default, and begins rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex output in the EU. Detector access is by application only. OpenAI's own figures: about 95 percent detection on 400-token passages at a 1 percent false positive rate, falling to 17 percent after a quarter of the words are swapped for synonyms.",
    "url": "https://openai.com/index/eu-text-provenance/"
  },
  {
    "date": "2026-08-14",
    "title": "Anthropic announces a global Claude text watermark",
    "body": "A SynthID-Text variant applied to future Claude models worldwide, with earlier models to follow. A detection API enters private preview for regulators, media, researchers, educators and enterprises with EU compliance needs. Anthropic says light editing probably leaves the mark; a full rewrite removes it.",
    "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark"
  },
  {
    "date": "2026-08-02",
    "title": "EU Article 50 and California provider duties apply",
    "body": "The AI Act's transparency obligations take effect for providers and deployers, with a transition period for systems already on the market. On the same date, covered providers under California's AI Transparency Act owe disclosures and detection tools.",
    "url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/"
  },
  {
    "date": "2026-07-08",
    "title": "Commission finds the transparency Code adequate",
    "body": "The European Commission's opinion confirms that the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content covers the Article 50 obligations, giving signatories a presumption of conformity.",
    "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-practice-ai-generated-content"
  },
  {
    "date": "2026-06-10",
    "title": "Final Code of Practice published",
    "body": "Two layers of marking, secured metadata plus watermarks, and a commitment from signatories to keep marks as non-removable as they can.",
    "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-practice-ai-generated-content"
  },
  {
    "date": "2025-10-13",
    "title": "California signs AB 853",
    "body": "The AI Transparency Act is amended: provider duties move to August 2, 2026; large online platforms and generative AI hosting platforms are covered from January 1, 2027, including a ban on knowingly stripping provenance data.",
    "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB853"
  },
  {
    "date": "2025-08-27",
    "title": "Turnitin adds AI bypasser detection",
    "body": "Text that humanizer tools may have rewritten is flagged and counted toward the AI-generated total. English only.",
    "url": "https://www.turnitin.com/press/turnitin-expands-capabilities-amid-rising-threats-posed-by-ai-bypassers"
  },
  {
    "date": "2024-10-23",
    "title": "SynthID-Text published in Nature and open-sourced",
    "body": "Google DeepMind publishes the method behind the Gemini text watermark and releases a reference library with Hugging Face.",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4"
  },
  {
    "date": "2024-05-14",
    "title": "SynthID text watermarking ships in Gemini",
    "body": "Google extends SynthID from images and audio to text in the Gemini app and web experience.",
    "url": "https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/"
  },
  {
    "date": "2023-04-06",
    "title": "Detectors shown to flag non-native English writers",
    "body": "Liang et al. report an average 61.3 percent false positive rate across seven detectors on essays by non-native speakers, the finding that still anchors the false-accusation debate.",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819"
  }
]