Pith Number

pith:FCO2JHOV

pith:2026:FCO2JHOV4J3JPF5ZXCNYFDTPXB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Answering Without Referring: How AI Search Rewrites the Web's Economic Bargain

Kai Gu, Kai Zhu, Qiaoni Shi

arxiv:2607.07652 v1 · 2026-07-08 · cs.CY · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FCO2JHOV4J3JPF5ZXCNYFDTPXB}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-09T01:20:38.042697Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

289da49dd5e2769797b9b89b828e6fb85fbc522de8df2e6c889f812bf709ac26

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.07652 · arxiv_version: 2607.07652v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.07652 · pith_short_12: FCO2JHOV4J3J · pith_short_16: FCO2JHOV4J3JPF5Z · pith_short_8: FCO2JHOV

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FCO2JHOV4J3JPF5ZXCNYFDTPXB \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 289da49dd5e2769797b9b89b828e6fb85fbc522de8df2e6c889f812bf709ac26

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a393d65c8cc585d425801aae92e6863db6b20051b6fe1532f07668e734feb1ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "econ.GN",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T17:09:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "209c8da42ddb262a3f000b88176f4f4e04a4bb513009290638249cefacf05c56"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.07652",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}