Building an AI-Powered Morning News Pipeline
The author built an AI-powered tool called ScanBrief that aggregates and summarizes tech news from over 20 sources, deduplicating content and scoring items by relevance to save time.
Why it matters
ScanBrief demonstrates how AI can be used to build efficient, personalized news aggregation tools that save time and surface high-quality content.
Key Points
- 1ScanBrief ingests news from Hacker News, GitHub Trending, ArXiv, AI lab blogs, and tech publications
- 2It deduplicates content, scores items by relevance, and generates 2-sentence summaries for the top 15 stories
- 3The tool is designed as an automated pipeline, not an editorial newsletter, and offers free and paid tiers
Details
The author was overwhelmed by the number of tech news sources they had to manually scan each morning, with the same stories appearing across multiple sites. To solve this, they built ScanBrief, an AI-powered pipeline that aggregates content from over 20 high-signal sources, including Hacker News, GitHub Trending, ArXiv, AI lab blogs, and major tech publications. ScanBrief deduplicates the content, scores items based on source authority and novelty, and uses the Claude AI to generate 2-sentence summaries for the top 15 stories. The tool delivers a concise daily brief to the user's preferred platform, such as Discord, email, or API. Unlike a human-curated newsletter, ScanBrief is designed as an automated infrastructure that can be customized to the user's specific interests and needs. Future plans include adding more sources, improving relevance mapping, and offering a public web dashboard and API.
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