The way we get our news has never stopped changing. Back in the day, morning clips got photocopied and faxed. Then came Google News alerts. Then RSS feeds. Then newsletters — so many newsletters. Now I can spend two hours just working through my inbox before I’ve touched anything I actually need to do.
A lot of people are trying to figure out how AI fits into this to make it easier to consume this much information. Here are two I've been testing.
🗞️ For the public affairs intel stack: Readout
In 2003, I was the person who moved the Wisconsin State Republican Party’s morning clips from cut-and-photocopy to a Word doc and email. That felt like a revolution at the time.
Now I wake up and the work is already done.
Readout — a new product from Jeff Berkowitz and his team at Delve AI for Public Affairs (Disclosure: I’m an investor and advisor) — is built for anyone whose work requires staying on top of a wide range of information: public affairs, regulatory, state government, and news. It’s not just the D.C. newsletter stack, though it handles that well. You can customize it to your specific coverage area, whether that’s a single state, a policy sector, or a mix of national and local. It gives me the one-glance scan I need in the morning, surfaces what’s worth reading more closely, and gets out of the way. I’ve been testing it for two weeks, and it’s helping to surface stories I wouldn’t have seen otherwise. Take a look.
The rest of this piece is for paid subscribers — it's where I get into the daily brief I built inside Perplexity Computer, including the exact prompt I used to get started, the files I attached, and a link to all the briefs it’s done so far. If you want to read it (and the rest of the paid archive), you can subscribe for $50/year.
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