{
  "schema": "ULTRACON_AI_EPISTEMIC_LATEST_UPDATE_V1",
  "date": "2026-09-23",
  "substantive_update": true,
  "title": "ULTRACON^ v2.7 — peer-reviewed topology correction and clarification failure",
  "summary": "HalluZig upgrades the attention-topology branch with peer-reviewed EACL evidence for dynamic topological hallucination signatures and early detection. A new preprint adds early posterior collapse: later clarification may fail to revise an already committed task state despite equivalent final information. UCF-56 tests ambiguity preservation and state rebuilding.",
  "human_url": "https://www.t-1-t.com/ultracon/confab/updates/2026-09-23-topology-clarification/",
  "machine_url": "https://www.t-1-t.com/ultracon/confab/updates/2026-09-23-topology-clarification/update.json",
  "sources_url": "https://www.t-1-t.com/ultracon/confab/updates/2026-09-23-topology-clarification/sources.json",
  "experiments_url": "https://www.t-1-t.com/ultracon/confab/updates/2026-09-23-topology-clarification/experiments.json",
  "guardrail": "Topology discrimination != causal universal mechanism; clarification presence != state revision; preprint-level early posterior collapse != conscious commitment; M1/M2/M3 ↛ M5."
}