Building a daily AI news brief in 325 lines of Python

Building a daily AI news brief in 325 lines of Python I read too many AI newsletters. Most of them are 4,000 words of sponsor copy and "thought leadership" wrapped around two actually-useful items. So I wrote a script that does the compression itself, and now I read it instead. It's 325 lines of Python. It runs once a day on a $5 VPS. It costs about half a cent per brief. The output goes to a public Telegram channel. Here's how it's put together. The shape of it Three stages, no framework, no orchestrator: Collect - pull stories from a few sources. No API keys for this part.