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Your Personal AI Newspaper

A Claude agent that runs parallel web searches, writes analytically framed news tailored to who you are, and delivers a polished daily briefing from a single phrase: "Refresh the news."

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Your Personal AI Newspaper
Builder
Renee Barron
Build Type
Agent
Lifecycle
Live product
Consensus Score
84.1
Region
REGION 1
Seed
9
Opponent
DeskMates
CATEGORIES
ResearchConsumer UtilityConsumer Utility
Go Deeper
Every morning, millions of people open the same apps and read the same ten generic stories. This agent fixes that. Your Personal AI Newspaper is a Claude Projects-based system that runs parallel web searches across 12+ news sections, synthesizes results through a deep personalization layer (occupation, location, regions of interest, investment stage, travel style, editorial depth, etc.) and delivers a polished interactive HTML briefing in about two minutes. Every story includes a "Why It Matters" callout written specifically for the user's background and goals, not a generic summary for everyone. Built by a solo creator for her own morning routine. Used every morning. Sold as an $8 kit on Gumroad so anyone can build their own version. The kit includes an interactive Prompt Generator, Morning Edition Archive, Story Tracker, and Bias Checker - all running locally in the browser, no installs beyond Claude. This isn't a prototype. It's a shipped product with a real daily user, built before this competition existed.
Stack Used
My Personal Newspaper Toolkit: - Claude Sonnet 4.6 via Claude Projects - Claude native web search - HTML/CSS/JS (prompt generator, archive, story tracker, bias checker — no frameworks, no backend) Demo - Loom (demo screen recording) - ElevenLabs (demo voiceover) - CapCut (demo editing)