Editor's note

Slower is the point.

Recul is an editorial publication about artificial intelligence. We put AI news in perspective with slow, sourced reporting — four to six minutes at a time, one story at a time.

Why "Recul"

Recul is the French word for stepping back — the few feet of distance you put between yourself and a painting to actually see it. It's also what almost nobody does with AI news anymore.

The pace of AI is real. The pace of AI coverage — the threads, the takes, the model-card excerpts re-blogged through a dozen outlets before anyone reads the paper — is not. Most days, the noise outweighs the signal by an order of magnitude.

Recul exists on a single bet: that a smaller number of slower, sourced, perspective-driven stories is worth more than the firehose. One story at a time. Linked to primary sources. No comments, no infinite scroll.

We'd rather be right than first.

What we publish

The companies, the research, the infrastructure, and the policy shaping artificial intelligence right now. Frontier model releases. Government regulation. Compute and capital flows. Research that holds up beyond a press release.

What we don't:

  • Rumor, leaks-as-news, or vibes-based reporting.
  • Press releases dressed up as journalism.
  • Claims presented as established facts without a source readers can inspect.
  • Tweets turned into articles. (Tweets are evidence, not the story.)

How we report

  • We link the sources behind our reporting inline. We prioritize original documents, research and statements; when we rely on another outlet’s reporting, we credit it.
  • We say what we don't know. When something is uncertain, the story says so.
  • No sponsored content, and no press releases passed off as reporting.

Who is behind Recul

Recul is published and edited by Dan Martens, an independent AI consultant and developer based in Brussels. He built the pipeline that gathers and drafts each story, and he reads and signs off every one before it goes live. His consulting work is at d4nt.be, where Recul is listed as his own product.

Recul is self-funded by its publisher. It currently carries no advertising, sponsored content or affiliate links, and takes no money from the companies it covers. If that changes, it will be disclosed here and marked on the stories it applies to. Questions about a story or its sources go to hello@recul.ai.

Corrections

To flag an error, email hello@recul.ai with the article link, the passage in question and any supporting source. We review reported errors and correct material inaccuracies. Substantive corrections are explained on the article with an updated date; small spelling or formatting fixes do not change its publication date.

AI in the editorial pipeline

It would be strange not to address this on an AI news site: we use AI in production. The honest accounting:

  • AI-assisted research, source-finding, draft scaffolding, fact extraction, copyedit, and image generation.
  • Human what's actually worth covering, framing, voice, structure, whether a claim survives scrutiny, and final sign-off.

Every story is read end-to-end by a human before it goes live. We say it plainly because readers deserve to know.

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