Built an AI News Agent That Stops Information Overload
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Developer built an AI news agent that deduplicates and summarizes news articles, reducing information overload.
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Built an AI agent that deduplicates news semantically and synthesizes multiple articles into single summaries.
Uses LangGraph reactive pattern + BGE embeddings to understand when articles are actually the same story, then merges them intelligently. Configured via YAML instead of algorithmic guessing.
Live at news.reckoning.dev
Built with LangGraph/Ollama if anyone wants to adapt the pattern
Full post at: https://reckoning.dev/posts/news-agent-reactive-intelligence