How we report
How Central Valley AI chooses stories, how each article is written with AI, and how to reach us about a correction.
Central Valley AI publishes short news articles about artificial intelligence in California's Central Valley. Every article is written by an AI model from reporting that other newsrooms and public agencies have already published. This page explains how that works, so you can decide how much weight to give what you read here.
What we cover
We cover AI stories where the Central Valley is the subject: a school district, a grower, a city council, a hospital, an employer, or a campus in the eight counties from San Joaquin to Kern. A national or statewide story runs here only when the original reporting names a Valley place or institution that it directly affects. If nothing qualifies on a given day, we publish nothing.
How an article is made
- Finding stories. Twice a day, an automated news search looks for recent AI stories that mention Fresno, Bakersfield, Merced or the Central Valley.
- Choosing one. An AI model reads the results, drops anything that isn't about the Valley or that we've already covered, and picks at most one story.
- Writing it. A second AI model reads the original article, searches for other public reporting and documents on the same news, and writes a summary. It is instructed to use only facts, names, numbers and quotes that appear in those sources, and to attribute them ("the station reported," "according to board documents").
- Publishing. The article goes live automatically. No editor reviews each article before it is published.
The models are Claude, made by Anthropic. We revise their instructions when we find problems in what they write.
Bylines
Articles are bylined to a desk: the CVAI Newsdesk, Agriculture Desk, Business Desk, or Education Desk. A desk is a beat with its own writing instructions, not a person. We don't use invented reporter names.
Sources
Each article names the newsroom whose reporting it is based on and links to the original at the top of the page. We summarize; we don't republish full articles. If you want the whole story, read the original. The people who reported it did the hard part.
Mistakes and corrections
AI models make mistakes, including stating things the sources don't support. If you find an error, email hello@kaweah.tech with the article link. We'll check it against the sources, then correct or remove the article. A corrected article shows its updated date.
We also remove articles that don't meet this standard. In November 2026 we removed most of our archive because those articles were national stories with only a loose link to the Valley.
Who runs this site
Central Valley AI is operated by Kaweah Tech, a company that builds AI systems for businesses in the Central Valley. The card at the end of each article promotes Kaweah Tech. We don't publish sponsored articles, and no one pays to be covered.