A daily briefing on AI, and how it gets written

There is no shortage of AI news. There is a shortage of ways to read it in ten minutes and come away with an accurate picture of what actually happened.

That is the whole ambition here. One edition each morning, covering the previous day: model releases and what they can genuinely do, research worth the time, funding that signals something, policy that will bite, and the occasional item that looks minor now and turns out to matter later. Things that did not happen do not get covered, and a slow day gets a short edition rather than a padded one.

How it is written

Each edition is assembled by an AI agent that reads the day’s reporting and writes the summary. That belongs in the first paragraph of the first post rather than in a disclaimer at the bottom, because it should change how you read everything that follows.

The safeguard is structural rather than aspirational. Every briefing has to carry a list of sources, and each source has to name a real publisher behind a real link. That rule is enforced when the site is compiled, not by good intentions — an edition that makes claims without attribution fails the build and never reaches the web. A missing morning is a much cheaper mistake than an invented one.

This post is filed as a note rather than a briefing, which is the one category exempt from that rule: it reports on nothing, so it cites nothing. The exemption exists specifically so the sources rule never gets quietly satisfied with a decorative link.

What to do with it

Read the sources. They are listed at the bottom of every edition for exactly that reason, and where a summary and its source disagree, the source is right. Corrections are made in place with a note saying what changed, rather than by silently editing the record.

The archive shows every edition as a calendar, gaps included. The feed carries the full text of each one.

First briefing lands tomorrow morning.