AI News Feed
A live reader for the world of AI: the newest posts from the big labs, the tech press, the best independent blogs, and fresh research — pulled straight from each publisher’s RSS feed by your browser and stacked in one place. Nothing here is written by this course; it’s the outside world, as it happens.
Most news sites keep a special “what’s new” list at a fixed web address — that’s called an RSS feed. This page is like a paper route in reverse: instead of you visiting twenty sites, your browser flies to each site’s list, picks up the newest headlines, and drops them all in one pile here. Nobody delivers it to you — your own browser goes and gets it when you open the page.
This is the one page on this site that talks to the outside world: when you open it, your browser fetches the feeds you’ve enabled directly from those publishers (and, when a publisher blocks direct cross-site reads, through a public relay — see the privacy page). Headlines and summaries below are external content, shown as plain text exactly as the publisher wrote them — not course material, not endorsements, and not fact-checked by anyone here. Links open in a new tab.
Foxy: Wait — how does this page know what OpenAI posted this morning? Is there an AI writing it?
Pip the Hummingbird: No magic at all! Every site keeps a “what’s new” list at a fixed address — an RSS feed. I just fly to each address, read the list, and bring the headlines back. Same trick news apps have used for twenty years.
Timmy the Turtle: And remember: I can carry a headline back fast, but that doesn’t make it true. A headline is a claim. Click through, read the whole piece, and check who wrote it before you repeat it.
Professor Owl: Well said, both of you. Showing a headline is not endorsing it, class — an aggregator collects; you still do the thinking.
The reader
Sources — choose which feeds to follow
Add any public RSS or Atom feed (http/https). Your choices and custom feeds are saved in this browser only.
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There’s no server and no AI here: a few dozen lines of JavaScript fetch() each feed, parse the XML with the browser’s built-in DOMParser, sort every item by date, and render it — with results cached in your browser for 30 minutes so revisits are instant. Some publishers don’t allow cross-site reads (a browser safety rule called CORS), so those feeds arrive via a public relay instead. It’s the same plumbing pattern you’ll meet in AI Pipelines: fetch → parse → merge → present.
Pairs with: Further Reading (curated tutorials) · The Wider Ecosystem · The AI Landscape.