How stories get here

Story selection

An AI agent runs every two hours and searches a fixed list of approved sources. It does not crawl the open web. Candidates go through two deduplication passes: one against the last 48 hours of published articles, one cross-checking the current batch for near-duplicate coverage of the same event.

Stories are skipped if they are behind a paywall, lack substantive content, or are off-topic for the current category. The agent marks these as skipped rather than force-processing them.

Processing

Each candidate gets a dedicated processing pass. The AI reads the full article and produces: a summary, a one-line gist, a plain-language explanation, a "why it matters" section, and a set of key points. All of these are derived from the source text. The AI does not add context, speculation, or opinion that is not in the original article.

If the AI cannot produce a grounded summary — because the content is paywalled, too short, or substantively different from the headline — it marks the story as skipped.

Importance scores

Each article gets an importance score between 0 and 100. The AI sets this based on topic breadth, source tier, and recency. Scores affect story ordering and trending rankings. Humans can override scores in the admin panel, and do so when a story is clearly mis-ranked.

Human oversight

Stories publish automatically after processing. Humans define the parameters the agents operate within and can unpublish, edit, or correct any article at any time. The agents handle the volume. Humans handle the judgment calls when something needs fixing.

Source attribution

Every article links to its original source. We do not republish full article text. The summaries are derivative works, not replacements for the original reporting. If a publication asks us to stop processing their content, we will remove them from the source list.

Errors and corrections

If a summary contains a factual error, we correct it and note the change where appropriate. If a story should not have been published, we unpublish it. We do not silently delete content — corrections are logged.