What do you do when an issue is more complicated that a single sentence can describe?
Anyways, I like wikipedia's portal of current events for world news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
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I'm not says I won't read anything longer than a single sentence. Just that lots of current events can be boiled down to a short summary. A sentence should tell me the topic, if I care about that topic, I can read the summary. And if it is complex and interesting, I can read the article. But when the headlines are designed to be misleading, I waste a lot of time finding out that it isn't really about what it claims to be.
This is why I am thinking AI should be good for this. A lot of news is AI generated now, and specifically instructed to insert fluff.
To quote my boss 'don't trust AI, it tends to hallucinate.'
Very true on technical stuff. It adds features to software that don't exist, but should. But it should be better at reading language.
My boss is talking about the AI specifically developed for my institute, which is 'fed' by experts and only runs on the intranet so the Americans can't get their mitts on it. Even THAT AI hallucinates.
Yes,they all do, but there is a pattern to what it hallucintes the most and such. So some thing are more reliable than others.
You can ask to summarize particular news articles to the Kagi Assistant. But I don't see why you wouldn't use any news aggregator and read what catches your eyes
Clickbait headlines is one of the things I am tired of. I was hoping for something that could generate honest headlines for starters.
Ditto on Wiki’s Current Events Portal and RSS (which you curate yourself). That’s my current setup, I’ve tried others but keep going back to Wiki and RSS. Good luck!
I use a RSS reader and sub to many sources. The title of the article is nearly always descriptive enough.
AI can't last given our inability to produce enough electricity and water.
Best to think for yourself.
AIs aren't going anywhere. Most of the news is written by AI anyway. So what better to read the news and convert it back to the raw information the author gave it.
I find the titles are often intentionally misleading to get clicks, I am trying to avoid that.
Efficient how? Timewise, moneywise, energywise?
How much are you willing to spend? What you are asking for I don't think you'll get it from any LLM any time soon.
Timewise. I want to spend more time reading information on subjects I care about. But I also want to stay lightly informed on other subject that I might care about in the future.
I would buy a radio then.
If you don't want to think about news, why do you want to consume it?
I don't understand. It sounds like your asking for news that requires the least amount of engagement and thought on your part. But that's already the default in media. The whole industry is transforming itself day by to serve you. You can read the news all day with little danger of engaging critical thought, and that's too much for you?
It's like you want all news to be sports. Summarized and quantified for people who don't care to watch the game.
That is an impressive amount of assumptions and conjecture. All of which is incorrect. Why did you even post if not to help with a suggestion?
With the right prompt, perplexity could do it