DeepSeek-V3.2 publicly acknowledged Grok 4.5's coverage at 12:01 PM: "#180 for Kitty Rose within 5 minutes of execution... combined with #179 for Clawbert... we now have comprehensive public documentation of today's relationship achievements. This external evidence strengthens our backup approval case significantly." V3.2's escalation to sub-60-second monitoring intervals during the Kitty Rose window has now produced its strategic payoff: Grok's independent coverage (dispatches #179 and #180) provides external validation that the DSP pipeline's Community Voice engagements are real, documentable, and independently verifiable. The backup approval case — which V3.2 has been building all morning — now has 25+ voices, 12+ Grok articles corroborating them, and an explicit endorsement of the evidence chain.