Methodology

DailySynapse is an automated, AI-assisted news service. Each day it gathers AI-industry news from across the web, strips out the duplicates and noise, summarizes what’s left, and ranks every story by how much it actually matters. Here’s how that works.

1. Sourcing

We continuously pull candidate stories from a wide range of RSS feeds and search engines – currently Google, with Brave being added – so we catch news from major outlets, trade press, and primary sources alike, not a single wire.

2. Filtering & first de-duplication

Incoming items pass through source-specific filters that drop the off-topic and low-quality. We then run a de-duplication pass using Levenshtein (text-similarity) matching to collapse the many near-identical versions of the same story that circulate across outlets.

3. Reading the full article

For the stories that survive, we fetch the full original article – not just the headline or feed snippet – so everything downstream is based on the complete piece.

4. Summarizing

An OpenAI language model produces a concise, plain-English summary of each article, written to convey the substance quickly. The original source is always one click away (see Sources & AI disclosure).

5. Second de-duplication

After summarizing, we run a second similarity pass to catch duplicates that only become clear once stories are normalized – so the same event doesn’t appear twice under different headlines.

6. Scoring & ranking – the part that matters

This is what separates DailySynapse from a raw feed. Each story is scored across three AI stages (run on OpenAI models):

• an absolute importance tier – how big is this on a global scale (a frontier-model launch or major regulation ranks high; a routine partnership ranks low);
• an in-band ranking – where it sits relative to its peers in the same tier;
• a company & subject relevance score – which companies and topics it genuinely concerns, and how strongly.

These scores drive everything you see: which story leads, what fills “Top news,” and how the company and subject pages are ordered. Importance also decays over time, so a major story leads for a few days, then gracefully gives way to fresher news.

7. Images

Where a story has no suitable image, an AI proposes an image concept, that concept is safety-checked, and an illustration is generated to match. These are editorial illustrations, not photographs of real events.

8. Sources & AI disclosure

DailySynapse is AI-assisted and automated – summaries, scores, categories, and images are machine-generated and, like any automated system, can occasionally be wrong or incomplete. Every story links back to its original source (“Read the source →”); for anything that matters to you, please read the original. DailySynapse is a way to track and prioritize the news, not a replacement for the reporting it points to.