Metis · Personal AI assistant · Sample issue

AI Brief: a daily AI news digest, ranked for one reader

Every morning at 6:06, Metis pulls the past 24 hours from lab blogs, Hacker News and Hugging Face Daily Papers, removes duplicates, and writes a short ranked brief for each reader: their own language, sections and priorities. Below is a real issue from Saturday, Oct 10, 2026. Switch the reader language to see the same issue in Chinese, the language it was originally sent in, or in Korean.

13 sourcesRSS, APIs, one scraped page

1 model callper reader, per day

≈ $0.05per issue at API prices

3 languagesChinese · English · Korean

Daily since 10/09no failed runs

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Metis AI Brief · 10/10 · Sat 6:06 AM

Comments6

Euphie · product note

Shape of the day, in one line

The header counts high, medium and low items, so the reader knows in one glance whether today is worth five minutes or thirty seconds.

Euphie · product note

"High" is scarce on purpose

At most 3 high-priority stories per issue, and zero is a valid answer on a quiet day. If everything is urgent, nothing is.

Euphie · product note

One highlight, only where it matters

A high-priority item may mark a single phrase of 15 characters or less. No bold, no emoji, no other formatting from the model.

Euphie · product note

One story, one bullet

When an official post and its Hacker News thread cover the same news, they are merged and the official link is kept. Each item says what is new and why it matters, in 1–2 sentences.

Euphie · product note

Low priority stays light

Low items collapse to a single line, so they can be skimmed without competing with the stories that matter.

Euphie · product note

No padding, no invention

The model only sees titles, short summaries and links, and may not add facts beyond them. When a section has fewer good items than its target, it writes fewer. The footer shows how much raw material the issue came from.

How an issue is made

The expensive part, judgment, is the only step that uses a model. Everything else is plain code, so the format stays identical every day and each issue costs about five cents.

Fetch

RSS / Atom feeds, Anthropic's news page, Hacker News (100+ points, AI keywords) and HF Daily Papers. Each source is fetched once for all readers.

Python

Trim & dedupe

Per reader: keep their source groups, drop links already sent, cut every item to title, summary (≤400 chars) and link.

Python

Rank & write

One call per reader with their audience, sections, language and priority rules. Returns structured JSON, not prose.

Claude Sonnet

Render & send

A fixed HTML template turns the JSON into the email and sends it from a dedicated mailbox at 6:06 every morning.

Python

The Chinese version is the issue exactly as sent. The English and Korean versions carry the same items, rankings and links, translated for this page in the pipeline's two other output languages. Metis runs locally on a Mac Studio and uses Claude through the owner's subscription. The same pipeline serves a second reader in Korean, with an extra motion- and graphic-design section and plain-language explanations of AI jargon.