Umbral: AI News Briefing

There is no shortage of AI news. That is the problem. Umbral reads nine sources every day — Hacker News, arXiv, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, The Verge, Simon Willison and Hipertextual — scores every story against the topics you follow, and hands you one short briefing. Not a feed to scroll. A briefing to finish. SHOWS ITS WORK Every story carries a bar: amber at one end, green at the other. That bar is how closely the story matched what you care about, and the notch on it is your threshold. Then the part no other news app has. Tap "All stories" and you see everything Umbral held back — every headline it decided you did not need, with its score and the reason. Nothing is hidden from you. Move one slider and the whole briefing changes. You can also see the picture it has built of your interests, as numbers you can check. It starts from the topics you picked…