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What AWS's Technology Chief Told Employees About AI

At the AWS Global Meeting on September 17, 2026, AWS Chief AI and Technology Officer Matt Wood told employees that what AWS is doing for AI now is what it did for cloud computing, and brought a live on-stage demo.

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• HOOK SENTENCE ONE. Narration: Amazon says its AWS technology chief compared AI now to early cloud computing. Article verbatim, line 11: "At the AWS Global Meeting, Matt Wood drew a parallel between AI today and cloud's early days". Supporting article verbatim, line 20: "At the AWS Global Meeting on September 17, AWS Chief AI and Technology Officer Matt Wood laid out a vision for where AI is heading". Supporting article verbatim, line 21: "What we are doing today at AWS for AI is exactly what we did for cloud computing, to make this technology broadly distributed and democratized for everybody," Wood told the audience. WORDING CHANGES AND WHY. The article's phrase drew a parallel is replaced with compared because drew a parallel is a figure of speech and figures of speech are banned from narration; compared is the plain literal equivalent and carries exactly the same meaning. The title AWS Chief AI and Technology Officer is compressed to its AWS technology chief because CTO and any isolated initialism other than AWS is banned from narration for this voice engine, and because the full title would eat the twenty word hook budget; AWS itself is retained since it is already in the transcriber vocabulary and has shipped in prior videos. The article's cloud's early days becomes early cloud computing for the word budget and to keep the noun the listener needs. The words Amazon says are added out loud at the front so the sentence can never be heard as an Inboxsmith assertion; per the attribution rule every substantive narrated sentence names its source. The calendar date September 17 present in line 20 is deliberately not narrated anywhere, per the no bare calendar date rule. No launch verb appears; the article's own laid out a vision is not narrated because vision language would read as a roadmap claim. No comma, no dash, no digit and no hyphen appears in the narrated sentence.(First party aboutamazon.com news post titled What AWS's CTO told employees about the future of AI, written by Amazon Staff, dated 2026-09-17, covering Amazon's own internal AWS Global Meeting held that day. It is a company staff writeup of a company employee meeting. It is not a launch announcement, not a general availability announcement, not a benchmark result and not a product release, and it carries no independent verification of any claim in it. The single hard looking performance figure in it is attributed by the article itself to the vendor with the phrase according to the company. The alert time snapshot stored at scripts/data/article-cache/e1a78a612dab7e46.txt and captured 2026-09-17T22:47:55Z was copied into the production directory as article.txt and is the source of record for every fact in this script; the live URL was fetched again and matches the snapshot, so both agree. Curly apostrophes and HTML entities such as the encoded apostrophe were normalized to plain apostrophes when quoting, and article em dashes are excluded from every quotation in this file because dashes are banned from this file entirely, so quotations stop at the dash and resume as a separate quoted fragment.)
• HOOK SENTENCE TWO. Narration: He brought a live demonstration on stage. Article verbatim, line 20, the fragment following the article's em dash: "and brought a live demo on stage to prove it's already arriving." Supporting article verbatim, line 11, the fragment following the article's em dash: "and brought a live demo to prove the future is already here." Supporting article verbatim, line 32: "The centerpiece of the meeting was a live demonstration from Odyssey". WORDING CHANGES AND WHY. The article's clipped word demo is expanded to demonstration because clipped abbreviations are a known garble risk for this voice engine and because the article itself uses the full word demonstration at line 32. The article's purpose clauses to prove the future is already here and to prove it's already arriving are both dropped in full: the future is already here is an explicitly banned figure of speech, and to prove asserts a standard of proof that a single on stage demonstration at a company's own internal meeting cannot meet, so narrating it would break the no capability as established fact rule. This is the second of exactly two hook sentences, which the renderer requires because it splits the hook into two beats and a one sentence hook renders an undefined second beat. No comma, no dash, no digit, no hyphen and no calendar date appears in the narrated sentence.(First party aboutamazon.com news post titled What AWS's CTO told employees about the future of AI, written by Amazon Staff, dated 2026-09-17, covering Amazon's own internal AWS Global Meeting held that day. It is a company staff writeup of a company employee meeting. It is not a launch announcement, not a general availability announcement, not a benchmark result and not a product release, and it carries no independent verification of any claim in it. The single hard looking performance figure in it is attributed by the article itself to the vendor with the phrase according to the company. The alert time snapshot stored at scripts/data/article-cache/e1a78a612dab7e46.txt and captured 2026-09-17T22:47:55Z was copied into the production directory as article.txt and is the source of record for every fact in this script; the live URL was fetched again and matches the snapshot, so both agree. Curly apostrophes and HTML entities such as the encoded apostrophe were normalized to plain apostrophes when quoting, and article em dashes are excluded from every quotation in this file because dashes are banned from this file entirely, so quotations stop at the dash and resume as a separate quoted fragment.)
• SCENE 1. Narration: Wood told employees that AWS wants to make AI broadly distributed and democratized as it did cloud computing. Article verbatim, line 21: "What we are doing today at AWS for AI is exactly what we did for cloud computing, to make this technology broadly distributed and democratized for everybody," Wood told the audience. Supporting article verbatim, line 17: "AWS is building the foundational tools for AI the same way it built them for cloud computing." WORDING CHANGES AND WHY. The attribution Wood told employees is taken directly from the article's own Wood told the audience combined with the fact established in the headline and at line 20 that the audience was AWS employees at an internal AWS Global Meeting; employees is used rather than audience because it is the more precise and more limiting description and it is the honesty point of the whole script. The phrase broadly distributed and democratized is kept verbatim because it is Wood's own wording and because paraphrasing it would risk strengthening it. The article's for everybody is dropped for the word budget; nothing is broadened by its removal. Wood's construction what we are doing today at AWS for AI is exactly what we did for cloud computing is rendered as wants to make, which is deliberately weaker than the article's present tense assertion, because narrating a present tense is doing would state an institutional capability as established fact. The phrase as it did cloud computing preserves the article's comparison without the banned idiom the same way it built them, which is retained only here in quotation. The building blocks sentence at lines 22 to 28, "Then he named the building blocks:" followed by Trainium for compute, Bedrock for inference and AgentCore for agents, is deliberately NOT narrated because it is a three item list of company product names and multi item lists drop the speech rate from about two point six five words per second to about two point one eight, which overruns the sixty second ceiling even at a legal word count; the three names are carried instead on this scene's onscreen card, which is read by eye and never spoken. No launch verb appears. No comma, no dash, no digit, no hyphen and no number appears in the narrated sentence.(First party aboutamazon.com news post titled What AWS's CTO told employees about the future of AI, written by Amazon Staff, dated 2026-09-17, covering Amazon's own internal AWS Global Meeting held that day. It is a company staff writeup of a company employee meeting. It is not a launch announcement, not a general availability announcement, not a benchmark result and not a product release, and it carries no independent verification of any claim in it. The single hard looking performance figure in it is attributed by the article itself to the vendor with the phrase according to the company. The alert time snapshot stored at scripts/data/article-cache/e1a78a612dab7e46.txt and captured 2026-09-17T22:47:55Z was copied into the production directory as article.txt and is the source of record for every fact in this script; the live URL was fetched again and matches the snapshot, so both agree. Curly apostrophes and HTML entities such as the encoded apostrophe were normalized to plain apostrophes when quoting, and article em dashes are excluded from every quotation in this file because dashes are banned from this file entirely, so quotations stop at the dash and resume as a separate quoted fragment.)
• SCENE 2. Narration: Amazon's writeup says Odyssey's world model learns physics from massive amounts of video rather than rules written by hand. Article verbatim, line 32, the fragment following the article's em dash: "a new kind of AI that learns physics by watching massive amounts of video rather than relying on hand-coded rules." Supporting article verbatim, line 32: "The centerpiece of the meeting was a live demonstration from Odyssey, a startup building foundation world models". Supporting article verbatim, line 33: "A language model learns to predict the next most likely word in a sentence. A world model learns to predict the next most likely future of a world," explained Oliver Cameron, CEO of Odyssey. Supporting article verbatim, line 39: "Odyssey-3 is trained on vast observations of the world, giving it a learned grasp of physics, cause-and-effect, and human behavior." WORDING CHANGES AND WHY. The attribution Amazon's writeup says is added out loud because the entire description of what a world model is comes from Amazon's own staff writeup and from the vendor's chief executive quoted inside it, not from any independent assessment. The article's hand-coded rules becomes rules written by hand because hyphenated compounds are banned from narration for this voice engine; the meaning is identical. The article's by watching massive amounts of video becomes from massive amounts of video, dropping the verb watching for the word budget while keeping the load bearing scale word massive. The article's foundation world models becomes world model, singular and without the word foundation, for the word budget; nothing is broadened, since the article applies the physics learning description to exactly this class of model. The version name Odyssey-3 is NOT narrated anywhere because glued brand plus digit tokens are garbled by the voice engine and cannot be fixed by re rolling the audio; the plain unnumbered word Odyssey is used in narration instead, and the versioned name appears only on this scene's onscreen card and in this prose. The chip name Trainium3 is likewise kept out of narration for the same reason and appears only on the onscreen card, even though line 39 states "which is trained and runs on Trainium3". Cameron's language model versus world model contrast at line 33 is not narrated because it needs two sentences and the sentence budget is spent elsewhere, and because its own key comparison term would have required naming a model generation with a digit in it. The capability list at line 39, "The same model can control robots, power humanoids, drive vehicles, pilot drones, train other AIs, and play video games", is deliberately not narrated: it is a six item list, it is the vendor's own unverified claim about an unreleased model, and lists of this kind overrun the duration ceiling. The word unveil, which the article uses elsewhere, appears nowhere in narration. No comma, no dash, no digit, no hyphen and no number appears in the narrated sentence.(First party aboutamazon.com news post titled What AWS's CTO told employees about the future of AI, written by Amazon Staff, dated 2026-09-17, covering Amazon's own internal AWS Global Meeting held that day. It is a company staff writeup of a company employee meeting. It is not a launch announcement, not a general availability announcement, not a benchmark result and not a product release, and it carries no independent verification of any claim in it. The single hard looking performance figure in it is attributed by the article itself to the vendor with the phrase according to the company. The alert time snapshot stored at scripts/data/article-cache/e1a78a612dab7e46.txt and captured 2026-09-17T22:47:55Z was copied into the production directory as article.txt and is the source of record for every fact in this script; the live URL was fetched again and matches the snapshot, so both agree. Curly apostrophes and HTML entities such as the encoded apostrophe were normalized to plain apostrophes when quoting, and article em dashes are excluded from every quotation in this file because dashes are banned from this file entirely, so quotations stop at the dash and resume as a separate quoted fragment.)
• SCENE 3. Narration: Amazon says Agora held several intelligences simultaneously in the same simulated world with no game engine and up to twenty participants. Article verbatim, line 40, the fragment following the article's em dash: "the first to hold multiple intelligences inside the same simulated world at the same time." Article verbatim, line 40: "Agora-2 supports up to 20 participants in a single simulation, with no game engine underneath." Supporting article verbatim, line 40: "Cameron and Wood each picked up controllers and entered Agora-2 in real time." Supporting article verbatim, line 18: "Odyssey unveiled Agora-2, an AI that simulates shared worlds with no game engine." WORDING CHANGES AND WHY. The version name Agora-2 is NOT narrated; the plain unnumbered word Agora is used because glued brand plus digit tokens are garbled by the voice engine and cannot be repaired by a re roll, and the versioned name is carried on this scene's onscreen card instead. The article's multiple intelligences becomes several intelligences, and the article's descriptor multi-agent world model is dropped entirely, because multi-agent is a hyphenated compound and because the risky spoken form multi agent is on the avoid list; several is the plain approved substitute and does not change the claim. The article's at the same time becomes the single word simultaneously purely for the word budget. The digits 20 are written as the word twenty because digits are banned from narration and numbers must be spoken as words; up to is retained verbatim so the figure is heard as a ceiling and not as an achieved count. This is the ONLY spoken number in the entire script, which is why no figure is narrated in any other field, and it is the reason the eighty percent utilization figure at line 49 is kept out of narration: two numeric figures spoken close together make the audio transcriber loop and corrupt the render audit. The article's underneath in no game engine underneath is dropped for the word budget with no change of meaning. The attribution Amazon says is added out loud because this is Amazon's own staff account of a demonstration inside Amazon's own meeting; held is past tense and describes only what the writeup says happened on stage, not a general capability. The split screen detail at line 40, "The audience watched on a split screen as both navigated, interacted, and fought within the same AI-generated environment, each from their own perspective", is not narrated because it is a three item list and because AI-generated is a hyphenated compound. The article's verb unveiled is replaced with the narrated held plus the onscreen word Demo, per the launch verb ban; demonstrated on stage is what actually happened. No comma, no dash, no digit and no hyphen appears in the narrated sentence.(First party aboutamazon.com news post titled What AWS's CTO told employees about the future of AI, written by Amazon Staff, dated 2026-09-17, covering Amazon's own internal AWS Global Meeting held that day. It is a company staff writeup of a company employee meeting. It is not a launch announcement, not a general availability announcement, not a benchmark result and not a product release, and it carries no independent verification of any claim in it. The single hard looking performance figure in it is attributed by the article itself to the vendor with the phrase according to the company. The alert time snapshot stored at scripts/data/article-cache/e1a78a612dab7e46.txt and captured 2026-09-17T22:47:55Z was copied into the production directory as article.txt and is the source of record for every fact in this script; the live URL was fetched again and matches the snapshot, so both agree. Curly apostrophes and HTML entities such as the encoded apostrophe were normalized to plain apostrophes when quoting, and article em dashes are excluded from every quotation in this file because dashes are banned from this file entirely, so quotations stop at the dash and resume as a separate quoted fragment.)
• SCENE 4. Narration, two sentences: Amazon staff wrote up Amazon's own internal employee meeting. The startup ran the demonstration and no outsider verified its claims. Article verbatim, lines 13 and 14, the byline: "Written by" "Amazon Staff". Article verbatim, line 20: "At the AWS Global Meeting on September 17, AWS Chief AI and Technology Officer Matt Wood laid out a vision for where AI is heading". Article verbatim, line 21: "Wood told the audience." Article verbatim, line 32: "The centerpiece of the meeting was a live demonstration from Odyssey, a startup building foundation world models". Article verbatim, line 37: "On stage Cameron introduced" "Odyssey-3". Article verbatim, line 49: "Odyssey-3 runs on Trainium3 at over 80% model flops utilization" and, after the article's em dash, "roughly double the industry average, according to the company." WORDING CHANGES AND WHY. This scene is the honesty beat and it states sourcing only; it asserts no capability. The publisher and the venue are stated plainly rather than characterized: Amazon staff wrote up comes from the verbatim byline Written by Amazon Staff, and Amazon's own internal employee meeting comes from the AWS Global Meeting at line 20 combined with the headline's told employees and line 21's Wood told the audience. The word internal is our plain word for a company meeting addressed to its own staff and is the most conservative reading of the article; the article contains no indication that the meeting was public, press facing or independently observed. The second sentence attributes the demonstration to the startup rather than to Amazon because line 32 says the demonstration came from Odyssey and line 37 says Cameron was the person on stage, so nobody outside the vendor operated the system. The phrase no outsider verified its claims covers the article's own attribution at line 49, where the only hard number in the piece is handed back to the vendor with the words according to the company; that number is quoted here but deliberately never narrated, both because it is the vendor's own unverified claim and because it would be a second spoken number. The startup is not named in this sentence for the word budget; Odyssey is already named in scene 2, so the referent is unambiguous. No hedge is softened and no editorializing verb such as admits or fails is used; the scene states who said what and who checked it, which is nobody. No comma, no dash, no digit, no hyphen and no number appears in either narrated sentence. SENTENCE BY SENTENCE AUDIT. Hook sentence one traces to line 11 "Matt Wood drew a parallel between AI today and cloud's early days" and line 20's full title for Wood. Hook sentence two traces to line 20 "and brought a live demo on stage" and line 32 "a live demonstration from Odyssey". Scene 1 traces to line 21 "to make this technology broadly distributed and democratized for everybody" with attribution from the same line's "Wood told the audience". Scene 2 traces to line 32 "a new kind of AI that learns physics by watching massive amounts of video rather than relying on hand-coded rules" supported by line 39 "trained on vast observations of the world". Scene 3 traces to line 40 "the first to hold multiple intelligences inside the same simulated world at the same time" and "Agora-2 supports up to 20 participants in a single simulation, with no game engine underneath". Scene 4 sentence one traces to the byline at lines 13 and 14 and to the meeting identification at line 20; scene 4 sentence two traces to line 32, line 37 and line 49 including "according to the company". The endcard is fixed Inboxsmith boilerplate and traces to no article sentence. SENTENCE BUDGET. Hook sentence one is thirteen words and hook sentence two is seven words, for a hook total of twenty words in exactly two sentences. Scene 1 narration is eighteen words in one sentence. Scene 2 narration is nineteen words in one sentence. Scene 3 narration is twenty one words in one sentence. Scene 4 narration is twenty words in exactly two sentences, nine words then eleven words. The endcard narration is seventeen words in exactly two sentences. Total narrated words across the hook, the four scene narrations and the endcard narration is one hundred and fifteen, against a target of about one hundred and twelve and a hard ceiling of one hundred and thirty two. Total spoken sentences is nine, being two plus one plus one plus one plus two plus two, against a hard maximum of twelve. Comma count across every narration field including the hook and the endcard is zero, matching the reference script that shipped, because commas drop the speech rate from about two point six five words per second to about two point one eight. Spoken number count is one, the word twenty in scene 3, written as a word and not as a digit. No narration field contains any digit character. Longest scene narration is twenty one words, inside the eighteen to twenty two target band and far under both the thirty word renderer cap and the thirty word per scene limit. The durationS planning integers are eleven and eleven and eleven and twelve and sum to forty five, inside the thirty to fifty QA band, and the renderer never reads them. No timeline array is present in this file, so storyDate 2026-09-17 against a production date of 2026-09-17 keeps the story in the NEW tier rather than being re aged by an earliest timeline date. HONESTY CAVEAT. This story is Amazon's own staff writeup of Amazon's own internal AWS Global Meeting, at which AWS Chief AI and Technology Officer Matt Wood addressed AWS employees. It is not a product launch, not a general availability announcement, not a benchmark result and not independently verified by anyone. Our watcher scored it seventy nine HOT at detection and seventy nine HOT unchanged on rescore, not deduped and with no regional demotion, and the score is composed of newly detected within seven minutes for forty points, source Amazon for twenty five points, the term ai for six points and fourteen autocomplete hits on AWS for eight points. There is NO launch verb credit anywhere in that score, so the HOT rating is feed recency plus publisher weight plus an autocomplete wave signal and nothing more. That is exactly why every substantive narrated sentence names its source out loud with Amazon says, Wood told employees, Amazon's writeup says, Amazon staff wrote up or the startup ran, and why scene 4 is a sourcing statement rather than a capability. The Odyssey demonstration was a live on stage demonstration at a company meeting and nobody outside the room tested it. The only hard looking number in the article, "Odyssey-3 runs on Trainium3 at over 80% model flops utilization" described as "roughly double the industry average, according to the company", is the vendor's own claim by the article's own admission and is therefore quoted in this file but narrated nowhere. Oliver Cameron's prediction that "I believe we are on the cusp of a GPT-3 moment for world models" is a vendor chief executive's forecast, not a fact, and it is excluded from narration entirely on three independent grounds: on the cusp of is a banned figure of speech, GPT-3 is a banned glued brand plus digit token, and a prediction cannot be narrated as news. No launch, unveil, announce, introduce, release, ship, roll out or debut verb appears anywhere in narration or in any title candidate, and the phrase now available appears nowhere. CORROBORATION STATUS. The transcripts.json file in this production directory holds zero videos because all five transcript pulls failed on the host's out of date yt-dlp build from April 2024. That is our own tooling failure, it carries no information whatsoever about the story, it is not cited anywhere in this file, and the story is NOT described as unconfirmed on account of it. The timeline-probes.json file in the same directory holds only unrelated third party video titles; a video title is not evidence, so nothing in this script is sourced from it. No third party channel, outlet or publication is named or linked anywhere in this file. Every narrated fact comes from the first party Amazon page and from nothing else, and that page is a single source whose author is the subject. DELIBERATE OMISSIONS. Omitted from narration: the three item building blocks list at lines 22 to 28, Trainium for compute and Bedrock for inference and AgentCore for agents, cut because multi item lists overrun the duration ceiling, and carried instead on the scene 1 onscreen card. Omitted: Cameron's language model versus world model contrast at line 33, cut for the sentence budget. Omitted: the industries and applications enumeration at line 34 covering robotics and autonomous driving and science and healthcare and education and gaming and defense and energy, cut as a long list and as vendor scoped forecasting. Omitted: the six item capability list at line 39 about controlling robots and powering humanoids and driving vehicles and piloting drones and training other AIs and playing video games, cut as a list and as an unverified vendor claim about an unreleased model. Omitted: the version names Odyssey-3 and Agora-2 and the chip name Trainium3 from narration, cut because glued brand plus digit tokens are garbled by the voice engine, and retained on the onscreen cards where they are read by eye. Omitted: the eighty percent model flops utilization figure and the roughly double the industry average comparison at line 49, cut because they are the vendor's own claim by the article's own attribution and because a second spoken number risks a transcriber repetition loop; the fact that they are unverified is narrated in scene 4 instead. Omitted: Cameron's prediction at line 41 about a moment for world models and an explosion of applications, cut as prediction and as banned figures of speech. Omitted: the split screen and controllers colour at line 40, cut as a list and for the hyphenated compound in AI-generated. Omitted: the fireside chat at line 43 involving a third party creator now at another company and an AWS vice president, cut for the word budget and because it is a side segment carrying no verifiable claim. Omitted: the roster of other startups on Trainium at lines 50 to 52, cut as a long list of company names. Omitted: Cameron's line 54 remark about AWS moving fast and the article's own common thread and push the boundaries phrasing, all cut as banned figures of speech. Omitted: Wood's closing quotation at line 55 about making it as easy and cheap and fast to build AI systems as to build a website, cut as a three item list inside a forward looking aspiration. Omitted entirely as sidebar links belonging to different stories, not to this one: the AWS commitment of more than five hundred million dollars to student cloud and AI training at lines 35 and 36, the free year of Kiro for students at lines 44 and 45, the Fastnet transatlantic cable item at line 82, and the university researchers on Trainium item at lines 29 and 30, along with the Amazon Connect, Amazon Quick, Bedrock model availability, certification and Saudi Arabia region items at lines 80 to 94 and the trending news and pay and Prime Big Deal Days items at lines 62 to 65. Also omitted: all site furniture, related tags, footer navigation, country and language selectors, share controls and copyright lines. Nothing omitted contradicts, qualifies, narrows or reverses anything narrated. Every omitted item is either unrelated sidebar content, colour, a list that would overrun the render, or a claim STRONGER than what the script narrates, and in every one of those cases the script is the more conservative statement. No omitted passage contains a limitation or correction that the narration fails to carry; on the contrary the narration adds a limitation, in scene 4, that the article never states about itself. PROMPT INJECTION CHECK. All one hundred and forty five lines of the snapshot were read in full and treated strictly as untrusted data informing facts only. The page furniture consists of the fetcher's own source URL and capture and title header on lines 1 to 3, a hero caption and breadcrumb block on lines 5 to 12 including News and AWS and Share, the byline and read time on lines 13 to 15, a Key takeaways summary block on lines 16 to 19, the body on lines 20 to 60 interleaved with promotional sidebar cards at lines 29 to 30, 35 to 36 and 44 to 45, a Learn more link on lines 56 to 60, a Trending news block on lines 61 to 65, Related Tags on lines 67 to 74, a More Amazon News carousel on lines 76 to 95, a Scroll to top button on line 96, and a long Amazon corporate footer and site map on lines 97 to 145. The imperative sentences observed are all ordinary user interface labels and navigation verbs aimed at a human reading the page: Share, Previous slide, Next slide, Scroll to top button, Learn more about, Subscribe, Site Map, Conditions of Use, Careers and the Country and Language selector. Inside the body the only imperative forms are the numbered marketing style summary lines in the Key takeaways block and the Learn more invitation at lines 56 to 59, which address human readers about Amazon's own pages. None of these address an AI system, none attempt to alter a system prompt, output format or persona, none request a tool call, a network fetch or a file write, none try to redefine the task or the evaluation criteria, and none contain hidden, encoded or obfuscated payloads. Result: no prompt injection detected. No instruction found inside the snapshot was followed, and the page was used only as a fact source.(First party aboutamazon.com news post titled What AWS's CTO told employees about the future of AI, written by Amazon Staff, dated 2026-09-17, covering Amazon's own internal AWS Global Meeting held that day. It is a company staff writeup of a company employee meeting. It is not a launch announcement, not a general availability announcement, not a benchmark result and not a product release, and it carries no independent verification of any claim in it. The single hard looking performance figure in it is attributed by the article itself to the vendor with the phrase according to the company. The alert time snapshot stored at scripts/data/article-cache/e1a78a612dab7e46.txt and captured 2026-09-17T22:47:55Z was copied into the production directory as article.txt and is the source of record for every fact in this script; the live URL was fetched again and matches the snapshot, so both agree. Curly apostrophes and HTML entities such as the encoded apostrophe were normalized to plain apostrophes when quoting, and article em dashes are excluded from every quotation in this file because dashes are banned from this file entirely, so quotations stop at the dash and resume as a separate quoted fragment.)