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Today Gemini read 32137 news articles and gave 26 of them a significance score over 5.5.Read their summaries in our free newsletter.5.010.0Personal feedSignificantInsignificantPositivepoliticsbusinesstechnologyscienceenvironmenthealthsocietyculturesportsby significanceby coverageby latestTrending(90 + 2788)[5.4]Southeast Asia explores nuclear power for AI data centers amid energy security concerns (abcnews.com + 6)<1hSummary:Source Share [5.6]Pentagon withholds global troop deployment plans from NATO and Congress (pravda.com.ua + 2)<1hSummary:Source (Russian)Share [5.6]Russia secretly supplies Iran with military equipment and intelligence amid ongoing war (hotnews.ro + 15)<1hSummary:Source (Romanian)Share [5.9]Iran attacks secret Israeli nuclear site, raising conflict stakes (di.se + 6)<1hSummary:Source (Swedish)Share [6.3]Juries hold Meta and YouTube liable for harming children, signaling a shift in public sentiment against Big Tech (apnews.com + 255)1hSummary:Source Share [5.4]Iran conflict diverts attention from Ukraine as Russia begins new offensive (apnews.com + 3)2hSummary:Source Share [5.3]Manus founders face travel restrictions during China's review of Meta acquisition (techcrunch.com + 3)3hSummary:Source Share [5.1]US forces strike over 10,000 targets in Iran war, crippling munition plants (business-standard.com + 7)3hSummary:Source Share [5.9]COVID-19 virus evolution follows limited genetic pathways (unmc.edu + 3)4hSummary:Source Share [5.7]Netanyahu orders Israeli commanders to destroy Iran's arms industry within 48 hours (manoramaonline.com + 9)4hSummary:Source (Malayalam)Share [5.4]UK authorizes military to seize Russian oil tankers (france24.com + 28)4hSummary:Source (Arabic)Share [5.9]UN General Assembly declares slavery the gravest crime against humanity (www1.folha.uol.com.br + 35)4hSummary:Source (Portuguese)Share [5.7]EU Commission urges Parliament to extend child abuse material scanning rules (tagesspiegel.de + 5)5hSummary:Source (German)Share [6.4]Ectopic NMDAR expression in triple-negative breast cancer triggers autoimmunity through antibody maturation (nature.com + 2)6hSummary:Source Share [6.5]Colonic stem cell epigenetic memory of colitis accelerates tumor growth (nature.com + 3)7hSummary:Source Share [5.6]US plans ground operation in Iran (rbc.ua + 2)7hSummary:Source (Ukrainian)Share [6.4]Dominant clones drive pediatric brain tumors by hijacking developmental epigenomic states (nature.com + 3)8hSummary:Source Share [5.2]Parasites activate gut-brain signaling through tuft and enterochromaffin cell crosstalk (nature.com + 2)8hSummary:Source Share [6.2]Apple uses Google's Gemini to train smaller AI models for its devices (theverge.com + 28)8hSummary:Source Share Thu, Mar 26[6.3]Zelenskiy: US security guarantees for Ukraine require ceding Donbas to Russia (irishtimes.com + 18)9hSummary:Source Share [5.0]Scientists link corporate production of harmful products to rising global chronic diseases (medicalxpress.com + 3)9hSummary:Source Share [5.7]Cow colostrum shows promise for treating Parkinson's and Alzheimer's (wcvb.com + 2)10hSummary:Source Share [5.2]Ottawa argues the notwithstanding clause has limits on Canadian sovereignty (ici.radio-canada.ca + 5)10hSummary:Source (French)Share [5.0]Ukraine's President Zelenskyy says Russia tried to blackmail the US with intelligence on Iran (nv.ua + 9)10hSummary:Source (Ukrainian)Share [5.1]Anduril and Palantir will develop software for Israel's historic Golden Dome missile defense system (calcalist.co.il + 4)13hSummary:Source (Spanish)Share [6.3]New database reveals E. coli capsule types driving invasive infections (nature.com + 3)14hSummary:Source Share [5.1]Supreme Court shields Cox Communications from liability in $1 billion music piracy lawsuit (variety.com + 12)14hSummary:Source Share [5.1]Childhood ADHD medication may reduce later psychosis risk (euronews.com + 5)15hSummary:Source Share [5.6]How the war in Iran reshaped Putin's strategy and the Russian economy (naftemporiki.gr + 2)15hSummary:Source (Greek)Share [5.6]US Department of Defense partners with BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell to boost defense production (jp.reuters.com + 5)15hSummary:Source (Hmong)Share [5.7]Middle East war disrupts global aviation, tourism, and agriculture (france24.com + 2)16hSummary:Source Share [5.0]President Trump appoints Meta, Oracle, and Nvidia CEOs to AI advisory committee (jp.reuters.com + 9)16hSummary:Source (Hmong)Share [5.0]Qatar gas hub disruptions threaten global helium supply and MRI services (euronews.com + 17)17hSummary:Source Share [5.0]Meta grants top executives stock options to incentivize AI race performance (br.investing.com + 4)17hSummary:Source (Portuguese)Share [5.0]Widespread Covid-19 immunity may protect against future coronavirus pandemics (independent.co.uk + 3)18hSummary:Source Share [6.0]Peptide pills offer potential to replace daily insulin injections (ndtv.com + 2)18hSummary:Source Share [5.7]China builds nationwide electricity supergrid to boost energy security (moneycontrol.com + 4)18hSummary:Source Share [6.6]NASA reveals $20 billion plan for permanent moon base (abcnews.com + 90)19hSummary:Source Share [5.9]Trump claims Iran conflict won as more troops deploy to the Middle East (cbsnews.com + 2)19hSummary:Source Share [5.3]Google simplifies car software development with Android Automotive (business-standard.com + 7)19hSummary:Source Share [5.1]Brazil unveils its first domestically produced supersonic fighter jet (www1.folha.uol.com.br + 9)19hSummary:Source (Portuguese)Share [5.6]EU funds small businesses to accelerate drone and weapons technology development (dn.se + 6)20hSummary:Source (Swedish)Share [5.5]NASA's Artemis IV mission will land humans on the Moon in 2027, marking the first crewed lunar landing since 1972 (tamil.indianexpress.com + 29)20hSummary:Source (Tamil)Share [5.5]Sweden's government advances duty to inform policy to increase returns (dn.se + 4)23hSummary:Source (Swedish)Share [5.4]North Korea pledges unwavering support for Russia's war effort (oglobo.globo.com + 6)1d 1hSummary:Source (Portuguese)Share [5.9]Israel approves plan for permanent US embassy in Jerusalem (jpost.com + 2)1d 2hSummary:Source Share [5.1]Taiwan urges US to speed up weapons deliveries amid China threats (usnews.com + 2)1d 2hSummary:Source Share [5.3]Moldovan court cases expose Russian sabotage training network recruiting for operations in Europe (politico.eu + 2)1d 3hSummary:Source Share [5.5]Nations secure fertilizer to prevent food crisis (business-standard.com + 8)1d 3hSummary:Source Share [6.1]OpenAI discontinues Sora AI video app (tagesspiegel.de + 109)1d 6hSummary:Source (German)Share [5.7]Russia launches spring offensive in Ukraine's Donbas region (nos.nl + 282)1d 7hSummary:Source (Dutch)Share [5.8]Arm enters chip market with AI CPU for data centers (pcworld.com + 24)1d 7hSummary:Source Share [5.0]WTO reports Hormuz Strait closure halts global oil and gas flow (executivedigest.sapo.pt + 2)1d 8hSummary:Source (Portuguese)Share [5.2]Decades-long experiment shows limits to mouse cloning due to DNA damage (nature.com + 11)1d 8hSummary:Source Share Wed, Mar 25[5.2]Volkswagen Osnabrück plant may produce components for Israel's Iron Dome (n-tv.de + 20)1d 9hSummary:Source (German)Share [5.0]Anthropic's Claude gains Mac control, advancing AI agent capabilities (venturebeat.com + 19)1d 9hSummary:Source Share [5.0]Immersive dreams enhance sleep quality by influencing subjective restfulness (discovermagazine.com + 7)1d 9hSummary:Source Share [5.3]Astronomers reconstruct 12-billion-year history of galaxy NGC 1365 (techno.nv.ua + 2)1d 10hSummary:Source (Ukrainian)Share [5.8]Trump sees Ukraine and Russia nearing a peace agreement (pravda.com.ua + 8)1d 10hSummary:Source (Ukrainian)Share [6.3]Trump announces Iran agrees to never possess nuclear weapons (err.ee + 997)1d 10hSummary:Source (Iloko)Share [5.8]Iran war fuel crisis disrupts daily life across Asia (bbc.com + 356)1d 11hSummary:Source Share [5.2]Ukraine reports heavy Russian losses in eastern fighting (dn.se + 6)1d 11hSummary:Source (Swedish)Share [5.1]Claude Code's auto mode balances AI safety and developer productivity (zdnet.com + 4)1d 12hSummary:Source Share [6.4]Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says artificial general intelligence is here and can create billion-dollar businesses (finance.yahoo.com + 6)1d 13hSummary:Source Share [5.4]SpaceX's satellite plan threatens the night sky for all (news.ubc.ca + 3)1d 13hSummary:Source Share [5.5]Lace Lithography secures $40 million to develop helium atom beam technology for smaller chips (siliconrepublic.com + 2)1d 14hSummary:Source Share [5.2]Poland's cyberattacks surge in 2025, targeting energy sector (ctvnews.ca + 3)1d 14hSummary:Source Share [6.7]OpenAI Foundation commits $1 billion to AI for humanity (apnews.com + 6)1d 14hSummary:Source Share [5.3]New diagnostic tools accelerate tuberculosis treatment and save lives (news.un.org + 9)1d 15hSummary:Source Share [5.3]Russia launches internet satellites to compete with Starlink (independent.co.uk + 5)1d 16hSummary:Source Share [5.8]Scientists successfully transport antimatter in a truck at CERN (nos.nl + 10)1d 16hSummary:Source (Dutch)Share [6.0]Middle East conflict threatens worst energy crisis in decades (rfi.fr + 3)1d 16hSummary:Source (Romanian)Share [5.9]Israel plans large buffer zone in southern Lebanon to counter Hezbollah threats (bbc.com + 64)1d 17hSummary:Source Share [5.5]UK proposes hosting summit to reopen Strait of Hormuz (politico.eu + 15)1d 17hSummary:Source Share [6.3]Astronomers observe two forming planets around young star WISPIT 2 (agenciasinc.es + 19)1d 17hSummary:Source (Spanish)Share [5.1]GLP-1 drugs reduce heart and kidney disease risks for type 1 diabetes patients (newswise.com + 2)1d 17hSummary:Source Share [5.1]Mark Zuckerberg develops personal AI agent to streamline Meta operations (euronews.com + 5)1d 18hSummary:Source Share [6.2]Nanoparticle system streamlines exosome production for advanced cell therapies (phys.org + 2)1d 18hSummary:Source Share [5.1]Nvidia's DLSS 5 introduces neural rendering for enhanced game visuals (au.pcmag.com + 2)1d 18hSummary:Source Share [5.6]FCC bans sale of most wireless routers in the US over security concerns (9to5mac.com + 27)1d 19hSummary:Source Share [5.3]Earth's energy imbalance reaches record high due to greenhouse gases (courrierinternational.com + 2)1d 20hSummary:Source (French)Share [5.1]Iran's missile attack challenges Israel's air defenses (corriere.it + 3)1d 20hSummary:Source (Italian)Share [5.6]Saudi Arabia and UAE prepare to join conflict with Iran (timesofisrael.com + 6)1d 22hSummary:Source Share [5.3]Drier soils increase antibiotic-resistant bacteria, posing a global health risk (elperiodicomediterraneo.com + 7)1d 22hSummary:Source (Spanish)Share [5.3]Netanyahu persuaded Trump to attack Iran following a crucial phone call (wiadomosci.gazeta.pl + 2)1d 22hSummary:Source (Polish)Share [6.0]Nigeria introduces injectable HIV prevention drug for high-risk groups (allafrica.com + 5)1d 22hSummary:Source Share [6.2]Australia and the EU finalize comprehensive trade agreement (rfi.fr + 19)1d 22hSummary:Source Share [5.4]EU considers banning social media for minors (elperiodicodearagon.com + 5)1d 22hSummary:Source (Spanish)Share [5.3]Kim Jong Un cements North Korea's nuclear status and labels South Korea hostile (abcnews.com + 14)1d 23hSummary:Source Share [5.0]US faces unprecedented March heatwave, scientists warn of climate instability (tamil.indianexpress.com + 2)1d 23hSummary:Source (Tamil)Share --- Choose how you read the newsPremium$15/monthA smarter way to stay informed•Choose your categories and countries, set significance thresholds for each•Access unique and overlooked stories•Block topics, people, or sources•Get summaries for every story•Read anywhere — email, web, or RSSSign in to subscribe14-day money-back 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I found your service through a post you made on reddit, and I recommend your service to literally everyone I know who likes to read the news.I think this is exactly the sort of thing that AI should be used for, and really demonstrates the power of AI to provide the accessibility and simple convenience that we were promised when AI first appeared.Again, really great work here!"— Faelin Landy"You are doing a great job with this project. I have been bothered by this problem for the past 4 or 5 years.I read 8-10 comprehensive news aggregator sites, along with several subreddits every day and the redundancy was driving me nuts. NM is a great solution.I especially appreciate how you are adapting and improving it."— William Meller"I really can't say enough good things about News Minimalist. Keep up the amazing work!"— Dave LevinePremium featuresHere's how personal feed works:Category filtersPersonal feed lets you choose the categories you want to read and set individual thresholds for each.Tech enthusiast and not a fan of sports? Set the tech news threshold to 3+ and disable sports by setting significance filter to 10+.Interested in science and don't care about day-to-day politics? Set the science category to 4+ and world and nation to 6+ (to not miss really big events).Country filtersPremium lets you select which countries appear in your feed. This means you can:See more local stories from your country that are not as significant globally but much more relevant to you,Follow specific regions or countries you care about.Block topicsBlock any topics, keywords, or sources you'd rather not see. Common examples include:Ongoing conflicts you're already well-informed about (Israel, Ukraine),Politicians or celebrities you're not interested in (Trump, Putin, Taylor Swift),Topics that affect your mental well-being (suicide, shooting),News sources that don't meet your standards (dailymail.co.uk).Non-trending storiesThe free version shows stories covered by at least 3 news sources.On premium, you get access to stories covered by a single source, tripling the number of stories you see at a high significance range (5+).You'll see more unique analytical pieces and niche news, overlooked by major media.News summariesNews articles are often unnecessarily long.Premium saves you time by giving you a concise summary of every story.Read anywhereYour personal feed will be available via email, on the web, and via RSS.EmailThe email will be sent once a day at a time you've chosen.WebThe web version will look like the feed on the homepage, but will follow the filters you've set.RSSThe RSS feed will include all stories from your feed with summaries and a link to the original source.Pro featuresDescribe any topicTell the agent what you want to follow — in your own words. No keywords, no boolean operators, no complex query syntax.Be as vague or specific as you need. Include what you want, exclude what you don't. The AI understands your intent.Examples:"Hopeful news about cities""Major automakers' EV transitions - Ford, GM, VW, Toyota. Looking for battery deals, production targets, factory investments.""Climate policy news, but skip doom predictions, political debates, and celebrity activism"AI filters the noiseKeyword alerts send you everything that matches — mostly noise. Agents are different.AI reads each article and scores how well it matches your actual intent, not just your keywords. You only see articles that genuinely matter to your query.ThresholdsEach agent has two thresholds you can adjust:Relevance — how closely an article matches your topic descriptionSignificance — how important the news is (same scoring used across News Minimalist)Set stricter thresholds for fewer, highly-targeted results. Loosen them for broader coverage.Results on web and emailBrowse your results on the web anytime, or get them delivered to your inbox. Choose delivery time and summary length: titles only for quick scanning, or 1-3 paragraph summaries for more context.What is an agent?An agent is a custom news monitor. You describe what you want to follow, and it searches 30,000+ articles daily, scoring each for relevance to your query.Pro includes 5 agents. Each tracks a separate topic with its own thresholds.FAQDo you have a free trial?I don't have a free trial, but if you're not happy with the subscription, I'll refund your payment within the first two weeks - no questions asked.How easy is it to cancel?Very easy. I hate dark patterns myself. Click "Manage subscription" on this page, and you'll get redirected to the Stripe billing portal, where you can cancel in literally two clicks.You'll continue to have access until the end of the billing period.How can I get support?Email me at hello@mail.newsminimalist.com.If I'm not sleeping, I typically respond within several hours.If you have any questions, let me know at hello@mail.newsminimalist.com. --- What is News MinimalistNews Minimalist is the only news aggregator that ranks news by significance.It uses Gemini to analyze ~30,000 news articles every day. It then gives them a significance score from 0 to 10.The distribution usually looks like this:Articles rated below 3 usually cover sports, entertainment, and small local news. Articles with rating 5+ cover significant world events that shape the world.Every day, only a handful of articles get a high rating. If nothing significant happens, the feed will be short by design.To give a global perspective, the news is collected in 12 most spoken languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.This is easily the best use of GPT I've yet seen, because you're using it to limit the mountains of sensationalist attention-seeking stuff out there, instead of adding to it.u/JustinHanagan (Reddit)Isn't significance subjective?I separate significance from importance (or relevance).Importance is subjective. News about the health of my family members is important to me, but they are not significant to the world.Significance is objective. It's about how much the event affects humanity as a whole.How is significance determined?This is done in two steps.First, a larger, smarter (and more expensive) model analyzes thousands of historical news stories and estimates the following seven factors for each:Scale: how broadly the event affects humanity;Impact: how strong the immediate effect is;Novelty: how unique and unexpected is the event;Potential: how likely it is to shape the future;Legacy: how likely it is to be considered a turning point in history or a major milestone;Positivity: how positive is the event;Credibility: how trustworthy and reliable is the source.The factors are then combined into a single significance score and normalized to a 0-10 scale.Second, a smaller (and cheaper) model is trained to replicate the results given by a smarter model, so the scoring could be done at scale.Why is positivity a part of the score?News sources have a negativity bias: they overreport negative news and underreport positive news.This factor has a very low weight (1/20 of the score) and is used to simply bring back the ratio to 50:50.It doesn't change the whole distribution much, but makes a huge difference in the 5+ range: without it, this range mostly consists of news about wars and natural disasters. With it, it has more scientific discoveries and tech advancements.Every news site has some notion of top items, but you've done it 10x better. The de‑duplication of similar stories, great summaries, and super clean interface are amazing. Bravo! It really feels like you solved news aggregation.maliker (HackerNews)Why is there so much news on {topic}?I got this message about different topics at different times: COVID, war in Ukraine, climate change, US debt ceiling, etc.I see several factors that contribute to this:"Hot topics" are more likely to be covered by multiple sources. The more sources are covering the topic, the more variance there is in the description of the events, and the more likely it is that the topic will make the top.Even with the totally random topic distribution, there are going to be stretches where the same topic is covered multiple days in a row. I just used a random number generator to emulate 10 rolls of a die. The numbers I got are: 6 2 6 4 6 1 2 5 1 2. Notice how number 6 is rolled three times in the first five rolls. Even total randomness does not guarantee variability. And journalists don't choose topics randomly; they follow public interest, which means these stretches will happen more often and last longer.Some topics are just more significant. Gemini doesn't have a topic fatigue, like people do (remember how everyone got tired of COVID news at some point?). If something is more significant, it will give it a higher score consistently and indefinitely.I understand that this leads to less interesting feeds. But that's the point — we already have algorithmic feeds that entertain us. I want to build a feed that informs us.Is there an RSS?Yes. There are two feeds:Basic feed is free. It is basically a newsletter available via RSS. It covers news with a significance score over 5.5. That's ~10 stories per week on average.Personal feed is a part of premium plan. It allows you to choose news categories and countries, block keywords, gain access to non-trending stories and more.Who made it?Hi! My name is Vadim, I am a solo software engineer from Vancouver, Canada.The project was born out of personal pain — I wanted to read only important news, but there was no way to do that. An article about a virus outbreak was too often followed by some celebrity gossip or another smartphone release.I tried to solve the problem with GPT-3 (the top model at that time) by asking it to estimate the significance of some news stories.The results were horrible. For some reason it wildly overestimated the significance of the tragic, personal stories, completely missing the essence of what makes the news significant. I wasn't able to fix it with any amount of prompt-engineering.And then GPT-4 came out in March 2023 and changed everything overnight. It seemed like it actually listened to me and understood what I was asking for.After a month of work, the first version was born. News Minimalist had its first successful Hacker News post, and I realized that a lot of people had the same problem I had.To cover the cost of running ChatGPT (GPT-4 was very expensive at that time), I launched a premium subscription. It was extremely bare-bones, but enough people subscribed to cover most of the expenses, allowing me to focus on the project full-time.Like most tech founders I made a mistake of focusing too much on the technical side of the project and completely ignored marketing for a while.But I think it eventually paid off. After 1.5 years of scoring improvements, it finally fulfilled my original dream — being able to read only important news.What's next?Subscribe to the newsletter, follow me on Twitter, or just visit the site when you want to read the news.If you want to customize your feed or monitor specific topics with AI, check out the pricing. --- Today Gemini read 32137 news articles and gave 26 of them a significance score over 5.5.Read their summaries in our free newsletter.0.010.0Personal feedSignificantInsignificantPositivepoliticsbusinesstechnologyscienceenvironmenthealthsocietyculturesportsby topicby significanceby coverageby latestPersonal feed is a premium feature that lets you fully control your news feed:Choose the categories and countries that interest you,Block topics you'd rather avoid,Get access to non-trending stories,Save time with news summaries,Read anywhere: in email, on the web or via RSS.Here's how it works:Your browser does not support the video tag.Important world events don't follow a schedule, and your feed will reflect that: it will have more stories on eventful days and fewer on quiet weekends and holidays.View pricing