About AI Newsnow

What AI Newsnow is

AI Newsnow is a live, story-centric AI news aggregator. Every 10 minutes it reads 311 curated sources — official lab blogs, major media, research feeds, developer communities, newsletters, podcasts and video channels — clusters related coverage into single stories, and ranks them by importance. One story, every angle, with a timeline of who reported what and when.

Who runs it

AI Newsnow is built and run by an independent developer as a fast, neutral way to follow the AI news cycle without wading through duplicate takes. It is not affiliated with NewsNow Publishing Ltd (newsnow.com), with ainewsnow.com, or with any AI lab or publisher it links to.

How sources are curated

Sources qualify when they publish original AI reporting or primary announcements, maintain a working feed, and have a track record of accuracy. Each source carries a tier: tier 1 is official/primary (lab blogs, research organisations), tier 2 is major media, tier 3 is blogs, newsletters and community feeds. Tier feeds into story ranking.

How clustering and ranking work

Headlines are tokenised and compared: stories merge when their titles genuinely overlap or when they share phrasing plus a common company or model.

Every story carries an importance number from 0 to 10, shown on each card. It combines the best source tier in the cluster, how many distinct outlets are covering it, whether an official announcement is present, and launch language. Reddit and forum posts count as discussion, not as extra outlets. Company how-tos, guides and customer stories are marked down unless a news outlet picks them up, and a video or podcast on its own doesn't lead the front page.

The front page orders stories by importance weighted for age: a story's weight halves every 12 hours, so a major launch leads its news cycle and then gives way to what came next. Latest lists stories a lab or news outlet published in the last six hours, newest first. No engagement metrics, no personalisation — the same feed for everyone.

The red Breaking banner is stricter. Priority sources (the frontier labs, the wires and the big tech desks) are checked every minute, and a story is flagged as breaking only when a lab announces something itself, when three or more outlets report it within 90 minutes, or when a major outlet publishes a scoop about a leading AI company. The banner comes down once the story goes quiet.

The Daily Brief

Each morning at 6:30 UTC an AI-written brief summarises the last 24 hours' top stories, with links to the underlying story pages. You can read it on the site or get it by email.

Public API and feeds

The live snapshot is available as JSON at /api/news (free for non-commercial use with attribution — a link back to ainewsnow.io). RSS feeds exist for every section at /feeds/<section>.xml, e.g. /feeds/top.xml. An embeddable top-stories widget is at /embed.

Contact, corrections and removals

Questions, corrections, licensing concerns, or a publisher removal request: use the contact form. Removal requests from publishers are honoured — we link out and attribute rather than republish, and any source can opt out entirely.