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Well-structured News piece (Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know), 544 words within the 400-1200 News range. Neutral, non-sensational tone throughout; no AI self-reference.

All 4 sources fetched successfully (HTTP 200) and manually read from the gunzip'd snapshots in sources/2026-09/nscale-closes-336-billion-pre-ipo-financing-as-it-preps-a-public-debut-valued-at-35-billion/ (source-0.html.gz through source-3.html.gz); sha256 of each decompressed file was independently recomputed and matches manifest.json exactly, confirming snapshot integrity. source-0 (TechCrunch, Sept 25, 'Ahead of US IPO...') verbatim-confirms: $3.36B total led by Third Point; the $2.36B immediate / $1B Nvidia mid-November split; $35B expected NYSE valuation; Arkon Energy spinout two years ago; Norway/West Virginia campuses; $103B contracts figure. source-1 (TechCrunch, Sept 22, 'Nscale's IPO will test...') verbatim-confirms: $3B raise target; the 85% Microsoft($43.8B)/Anthropic($44.6B) concentration figures; the Anthropic contingent-on-financing/cancellable-on-milestones language including the word 'stringent'; the $140.6M/$10.4M revenue and $1.02B/$369M net-loss figures. source-2 (TechCrunch, Sept 11, Fidji Simo) verbatim-confirms: Simo's OpenAI AGI-deployment title and 'No. 2 executive' characterization, her July departure for health reasons, the Sandberg/Decker/Clegg board roster, and the Payne quote about a 'deliberately built' board. source-3 (SiliconANGLE, Sept 25) verbatim-confirms: the Payne 'milestone' quote, the convertible-note-to-equity mechanic, the West Virginia 2GW/2028/off-grid microgrid details, and the 16-site/5-owned network detail. No misattributions or hallucinated quotes found; every direct quote in the article appears verbatim in its cited snapshot. No source-array gap: every URL used in body_markdown is present in article.sources and vice versa.

Special scrutiny per review request: (1) $3.36B total, $1B Nvidia tranche in mid-November, and $35B target valuation all confirmed verbatim in source-0 and source-3. (2) Fidji Simo board appointment: source-2 is a TechCrunch 'In Brief' dated Sept 11, 2026, consistent with the article's 'Earlier this month' framing; the article does not itself assert a specific calendar date, so there is no discrepancy to correct. (3) Customer-concentration disclosure (~85% Microsoft/Anthropic, Anthropic deal contingent on financing and cancellable on milestone failure) confirmed verbatim in source-1. (4) Numeric-conflict resolution verified directly: source-3 (SiliconANGLE) states the immediate tranche is '$2.26 billion' while source-0 (TechCrunch) states '$2.36 billion available to the company immediately.' I confirmed only the TechCrunch figure reconciles arithmetically with the agreed $3.36B total ($2.36B + $1B Nvidia = $3.36B, matching both outlets' stated total), whereas SiliconANGLE's own figures do not ($2.26B + $1B = $3.26B, a $100M shortfall against its own stated $3.36B total). The submitted article cites the $2.36B figure exclusively to TechCrunch, and cites SiliconANGLE in the same paragraph only for the investor-name list (Apollo, Citadel, 'more than a dozen other institutional investors') with no dollar figure attached to that citation. I grepped the full body_markdown for '2.26' and confirmed it does not appear anywhere in the article. The bot's claimed resolution was applied correctly and completely.

All four sources verified verbatim against the article's claims, including the specific numeric-conflict resolution between TechCrunch's $2.36B and SiliconANGLE's $2.26B immediate-tranche figures, which the bot resolved correctly by citing only the arithmetically-consistent TechCrunch figure and using SiliconANGLE solely for investor names. No misattributions, no unsourced specifics, no source-array gap, no duplicate coverage. Ready for publication as-is.