Is this an annoucement or just a promotion? Bunch of discussion here 3 months ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44518473
Judging by the newly available categories it looks like they may have paid attention to some early feedback :)
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#42I'm not affiliated, but I've used https://www.memeorandum.com/ for more than a decade.
Gives me a good high-level view of the news. I'm a Kagi customer and I definitely don't want anything they do with the news.
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#43The World section seems to have a heavy bias towards news from the USA. The UK section seems to have a heavy bias towards news from Scotland. It looks too simplistic for me to actually use.
Several sections have Trump in the headline. I wish there was a way to block that word like I do in Lemmy. That guy monopolizes the headlines which only makes him more powerful, and annoys me. I'll see whether I can take this when I use this new app, which I otherwise think is great.
Surely it isn't that simple. Even a person who thoroughly condemns Trump's hijacking of media systems and attentions must acknowledge that if international politics are at all relevant for you, some actions of the US president should be seen by you, if only in exceptional circumstances.
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#44I would love to replace google/apple news, but publishing once daily doesn't work for me.
Why not? Is it really that important for you to know of events a few hours earlier?
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#45I wish there was a way to look at a previous day's news. I can't seem to find any buttons/UI that lets you look at news from any day but today.
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#46What is the business model / exit strategy for Kagi's founders and investors? What is the news curation process and its relation to the public interest? Are these articulated in a manner which gives stakeholders (investors, users, and staff) assurances and standing? ... What are competitors and collaborators in this space? Semafor seems to have a similar product, what are the differentiators and/or collaboration oppo…
And just like Netflix, if kagi turns into paid Google I'll cancel my subscription.
IDK what their future plans are, but there current plans work well for me as a consumer.
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#47Just to be clear I'm understanding correctly: This is pulling the content of the RSS feeds of several news sites into the context window of an LLM and then asking it to summarize news items into articles and fill in the blanks? I'm asking because that is what it looks like, but AI / LLMs are not specifically mentioned in this blog post, they just say news are 'generated' under the 'News in your language' heading, whi…
Yes, that's what it is. Kagi as a brand is LLM-optimist, so you may be fundamentally at odds with them here... If it lessens the issue for you, the sources of each item are cited properly in every example I tried, so maybe you could treat it as a fancy link aggregator
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#48Nice idea, I’ve been toying around the idea of consuming news only once per day. But for me I think I want an actual newspaper with in depth articles rather than short news posts from online news.
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#49I've been using this since the beta launch, and I really like it. They're spot on about news being broken.
That said, I do think the service could be improved. Often the summary is a very short blurb that forces me to go to one of the original sites for the content, and hopefully land on one that is not obnoxious to use, which kind of defeats the purpose. The event timeline sounds interesting, but when it essentially shows 2 or 3 events that are obvious from the context, it's not so useful in practice. I always skip the "Quick questions" section, since it reads like an elementary school report, and the questions are really basic. How about letting me ask the questions I want?
Also:
> We don’t scrape content from websites. Instead, we use publicly available RSS feeds that publishers choose to provide.
I think this is a mistake. Most publishers are hostile to RSS and often don't offer it. Scraping is, unfortunately, a requirement if you want to consume public content on your own terms, which is the entire point of this service. Besides, scraping is how all search engines generate their index, so as long as the bot is well behaved and doesn't hammer the site, follows robots.txt or perhaps even bends the rules a bit, it should be fine. I would rather Kagi wasn't so respectful of publishers' wishes, if that would allow them to offer a better service. I understand if they want to avoid getting in trouble with publishers, but the alternative would be better for their users.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? I do use it and can't imagine following anything without it... And I keep hoping that it will come back and replace absolutely terrible schizophrenic feeds from meta/x/etc
>Why? Because not every site has a RSS feed. For example when Claude Sonnet 4.5 released it would make sense to have that, but there is no RSS feed for Anthropic. Being compatible with the entire web instead of just a subset of it is useful.
I don't know of any major publisher that doesn't maintain RSS feeds, and this is mostly syndicating major publishers, so I'm not sure it makes any difference