06 — Signal

The AI news worth a business owner's minute.

A live system, not a feed. Once an hour it reads the AI coverage of TechCrunch and The Conversation, throws out the funding rounds, event plugs and politics, and keeps what could change how a business runs. Explainers from The Conversation you can read here in full. Every step is on show — nothing here is picked or written by hand.

●Last run 00:39 PKT · just now173 read → 10 keptSee the run ↓

ToolsBrief7 h ago
Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
TechCrunch · Ivan MehtaKept for: apps · startup

Every story opens here. The Conversation's explainers are republished in full under their republishing guidelines (CC BY-ND); TechCrunch's RSS terms allow the headline and summary only, so their stories are briefs with the full piece one click away. Signal carries no ads. I don't write, edit or endorse these stories — the filter only decides what's worth your minute, and leaves politics, courts and sensitive stories out on purpose.

The run · 00:39 PKTtotal 2,009 ms

read8 feeds → 180 stories1,693 ms
1. TechCrunch · AI20 stories1,037 ms
2. TechCrunch · AI, page 220 stories946 ms
3. TechCrunch · AI agents20 stories1,025 ms
4. TechCrunch · Enterprise20 stories959 ms
5. The Conversation · AI25 stories1,616 ms
6. The Conversation · AI, page 225 stories1,565 ms
7. The Conversation · AI, page 325 stories1,579 ms
8. The Conversation · AI, page 425 stories1,535 ms
dedupe180 → 173 unique0.4 ms
filter173 → 10 kept316 ms
Dropped 163: Past their window 27 · Politics, courts, regulation 50 · Sensitive stories 3 · Event plugs 13 · Funding, deals, markets 10 · Not about AI 1 · No business angle 59
sortnewest first · 10 shown0.4 ms

How the filter decides

Plain keyword rules, no AI model: the same story gets the same verdict every time, and the reason is always printable. Checked in this order —

Published in the last 14 days (30 for explainers, which age slower).
Politics, courts, regulation, sensitive stories: out, before anything else. An article republished here in full is checked word by word as well, not just its headline.
Event plugs and funding, deals, markets: out — unless the headline is a launch for businesses.
It has to be about AI.
It has to touch how a business runs — scored by words in the headline (2 points) and summary (1), and by the publisher's own categories (2):

Customer service: customer service, customer support, support agents, call center, call centre, contact center, receptionist, receptionists, voice agent, Customer Service…
Sales: sales, crm, leads, lead generation, outreach, e-commerce, ecommerce, commerce, shopping, Commerce, E-commerce…
Marketing: marketing, marketer, marketers, ads, advertising, advertisers, seo, search, creative, Marketing, Advertising Tech…
Operations: automation, automate, automates, workflow, workflows, operations, back office, invoices, accounting, Enterprise, Productivity, SaaS…
Tools: launch, launches, launched, release, releases, released, rolls out, introduces, unveils, Apps…

Two points or more puts a story in its best area; Tools also needs a business or a business tool in the story. Nothing else decides — and nobody picks by hand.

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