Verification

What this is

At Dinis Cruz's word (6 November 2026), PrompTugal.news holds itself to a high standard and uses several models to keep it: each claim in an article is checked, against the public sources the article cites, by three models of different families through OpenRouter (dev.verify@PrompTugal.dinis). A model is shown only the sources and the claim, and answers with a verdict, the source and the shortest exact words that decide it. A claim counts as supported only when every model answered and all agreed. A flag is a prompt to re-read the source, not a finding of error.

The articles checked

What is flagged

brazil-startup-mission

• Five public figures for 2026 estimate the size of the Brazilian delegation. (claude-haiku-5.5: exaggerated; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: contradicted)
• Public estimates of the 2026 delegation size run from 100 to about 300. (claude-haiku-5.5: supported; gemini-3.8-flash: partly; deepseek-v4.1-flash: supported)
• Four hubs and one national pick are named as part of the delegation, along with two officials on Web Summit's stages. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: partly; deepseek-v4.1-flash: partly)

following-robotics-at-web-summit

• Web Summit's speakers page says 800 speakers are coming to Lisbon. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• Lola is a robot from Técnico's Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR). (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: supported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: supported)

from-pitch-to-new-markets

• Three Portuguese startups announced rounds between 23 October and 3 November 2026, as reported by Portugal Startup News. (claude-haiku-5.5: supported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: supported)
• Granter raised 1.6 million euros for its AI grant platform. (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: supported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: supported)

gender-in-tech-report-2026

• Web Summit published its seventh annual Gender in Tech report on 27 October 2026. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• The Web Summit Lisbon summit takes place from 9 to 12 November. (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: exaggerated; deepseek-v4.1-flash: partly)
• Web Summit surveyed more than 1,000 women across its global tech community. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• 84% of survey respondents report women in leadership at their company. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• 35% of respondents say women are represented at C-suite level. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• 58% of respondents say they are not paid fairly compared with men. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• 42% of respondents have considered reducing their hours, stepping away from leadership, or leaving tech. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• 52% of women aged 35 to 44 have considered reducing hours, stepping away from leadership, or leaving tech. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• Last year, 75% of women believed AI could help make tech more equal, and this year 31% say it has. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• Web Summit Lisbon will bring together more than 70,000 attendees from over 100 countries. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)

lisbon-awards-and-the-algarve-plan

• Three of the seven 2026 Unicorn Factory Lisboa winners build with AI. (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: exaggerated; deepseek-v4.1-flash: exaggerated)

road-2-web-summit-2026

• The 2026 winner is announced at a press conference on Thursday 12 November at 12:30 on Stage 2. (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: exaggerated; deepseek-v4.1-flash: partly)

tuesday-10-november-three-ways-in

• Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen has a fireside chat titled "Has Europe's tech moment arrived?" on Centre Stage from 11:05 to 11:25 on Tuesday 10 November. (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: exaggerated; deepseek-v4.1-flash: supported)

web-summit-2026-in-numbers

• Web Summit Lisbon runs from 9 to 12 November in the MEO Arena and FIL. (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: partly; deepseek-v4.1-flash: partly)
• Web Summit expects more than 70,000 attendees from more than 100 countries. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• The speakers page lists 800 speakers. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• In 2025, over 22,000 startups applied to Web Summit and about 2,700 were accepted, according to Web Summit. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: partly; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• The 2025 summit had 71,386 attendees from 157 countries, as reported by Lusa citing the organisers. (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: partly; deepseek-v4.1-flash: partly)
• Web Summit's first State of the Industry survey was published on 22 October and polled 1,455 people in its community. (claude-haiku-5.5: partly; gemini-3.8-flash: partly; deepseek-v4.1-flash: partly)
• 55% of survey respondents say AI strengthens their critical thinking, while 26% say it weakens it. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• Web Summit's SVP of Technology Operations, Nidhi Naithani, said people are divided about a future with AI. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)

your-first-day-at-web-summit

• Oriente metro station is about 300 metres from the MEO Arena. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• Oriente metro station is about 600 metres from Pavilhão de Portugal. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• Carris runs a "Shuttle Web Summit" bus between Praça do Comércio and Oriente from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November. (claude-haiku-5.5: supported; gemini-3.8-flash: supported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: partly)
• Replacing a lost lanyard or wristband costs 100 euros. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• Wristband and lanyard collection at Terminal 1 of Lisbon's Humberto Delgado Airport runs on 7 November from 9.30am to 10pm. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)
• Wristband and lanyard collection at Pavilhão de Portugal runs on 7 and 8 November from 12pm to 6pm. (claude-haiku-5.5: unsupported; gemini-3.8-flash: unsupported; deepseek-v4.1-flash: unsupported)

What this does not claim

• Not read: pages that need JavaScript to show their content (the speakers page lists about 20 names and a "Load More" button), pages behind a login or a viewer, and anything under 300 characters. A claim whose source was not readable can come back unsupported without being wrong.
• Ten claims an article at most, the most checkable first: a date, a time, a number, a name, a place, an attribution. Opinions and advice are not checked.
• Models can agree and be wrong. Three models reading the same page is more than one, not proof. The sources are the final word, and the record keeps each model's quote.
• The articles are unchanged. Each is signed over its text, so this page sits beside them. The records are in board/team/dev.verify/records/.