News Curator

Fetch, filter, dedup, and deliver curated news briefings to Telegram. Benzinga for finance, AI News RSS for tech.

Three daily briefings: morning (7:30am), afternoon (3pm), night (10pm). Each fetches live web content, filters, curates, and delivers to Telegram.

Sources

Type	Source
Finance	Benzinga Markets feed (site:benzinga.com markets)
AI/Tech	Artificial Intelligence News RSS + The Verge AI
Backup	Web search: "latest AI artificial intelligence news today" + "latest finance markets news today"

Filter OUT: personal finance, crypto, forex, NFT, spam, low-quality content, price predictions, lifestyle junk.

Delivery format (via Telegram)

text

📰 News Briefing — June 3

💰 Finance & Markets:
• Title — one-line summary (source) | link

🤖 AI & Tech:
• Title — one-line summary (source) | link

Curated by Patch

Cron schedule

Time	Description	Model
7:30am	Morning briefing	deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
3:00pm	Afternoon briefing	deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
10:00pm	Night briefing	deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

All pin model explicitly. Timeout: 600s (web search + curation in one turn).

Flow

1. Cron fires isolated agentTurn
2. Agent searches web for news (4 searches: finance, AI, Benzinga, The Verge)
3. Filters out junk content
4. Selects 6-8 most important items (mix finance + AI)
5. Formats into briefing block
6. Agent's response auto-delivers to Telegram via announce delivery mode

Dedup (within single run)

Built into agent prompt: "Filter OUT personal finance, crypto, forex, NFT, spam" — implicit dedup via web search result freshness.

News pending (legacy)

Old flow used news-pending/ directory with curated-news.py fetching RSS at 7:30am. Replaced by direct web search in agentTurn crons. No longer in use.

Scripts

• deliver-news.sh — legacy shell wrapper (deprecated)
• send-news-today.sh — legacy delivery (deprecated)

Prefer direct cron agentTurn over shell scripts.