I've tried accessing news in a few different ways. Ground News had some features that were genuinely good (showing how the news source leans politically and more importantly, where their money comes from), but I found it was always out of date and rarely showed me news I was interested in.
I like Kagi's daily news summary and I find for the categories I choose, I usually see some interesting topics, but I still find I need to search more to get exactly what I want to know about.
What I find I end up doing, is seeing news on random social media, 80% of which is fake, but then looking up the interesting ones to find if they have a real source or are just made up. But the reality is, X and Facebook both clearly know what I want to read about, even if most of what they show me is fake.
I also use Kagi Assistant for this, for example:
"Tell me the latest news about ***** in Australia."
Or
"Search in French for the latest news on *** in France and then translate the results to English."
That way I get the relevant updates pretty well on the subjects I know about at least, and it also gets the info from the native language of the relevant country, not just English sources.
So, what I would be interested in, is a way to setup an LLM instruction for news, or a series of them, that shows me each day the specific things I want to see. I understand this may require LLM usage fees, that's fine, as I'd just be using them for news instead of in the assistant.
How I could see it working, is for example instead of choosing categories, you simply have a bunch of lines you can enter instructions into.
"The latest news about European metal bands."
"Australian tax legislation updates."
"Search Swedish language sources for news on ***** and return results in English."
And so on. That way you could get perfectly curated news, instead of just random news that falls under broader categories.
Perhaps instead of a daily update, it would simply be a page you can visit to auto-run those instructions and get all the results at once. So if you want it every day, you get it every day (and pay the usage fee), if you only check once every few days, you don't pay on days you don't use it.
