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For journalists and external researchers.

A small press operation. We engage with thoughtful coverage, especially of the structural side of the lab — the governance, the publication policy, and the federated compute model. We are less interested in coverage that personalises the lab around individual contributors.

Contact

press@alphabell.com — read by Mira Holloway (Bay Area anchor steward) and a small rotating press circle. We respond within a few business days for media inquiries.

What we'll talk about on the record

  • The lab's structural commitments and how they have evolved.
  • The published research, including the methodology behind the modification-under-review protocol and the paired-cell pairing protocol.
  • The federated compute model and the funding model — including specific funders, with their consent.
  • Halts that have been called, including those that resulted in delayed-release reports.
  • The general state of the contributor pool, anchor regions, and cohort program.

What we will not talk about

  • Unreleased research — including the specific content of work in active delay windows.
  • Tier 3 indefinite-hold items. We will confirm or deny that an item is on hold; we will not discuss substance.
  • Internal proposal queue contents prior to ratification.
  • Individual contributors' personal lives or non-lab-related work.
  • Speculative comparisons with named competitor labs.

Downloadable resources

Selected coverage

  • "The lab that doesn't ring the bell" — Quanta, Aug 2024 (long-form profile)
  • "Inside alphabell's pairing protocol" — Nautilus, Feb 2025 (interview with interpretability axis steward)
  • "Federated compute is not a metaphor" — IEEE Spectrum, Jun 2025
  • "A small lab calls a halt — three times" — The Wire, Oct 2025
  • "The vote that ratified an Indonesian anchor" — Tempo, Dec 2025

We do not maintain a comprehensive press archive on this site. References are linked here at our discretion; absence of a piece from this list is not an endorsement-by-omission.