AskNews
AskNews is an intelligent news assistant crafted by Emergent Methods with access to over 50,000 news sources. AskNews reads all the latest news articles from around the world (across more than 13 languages) with a goal of providing unbiased answers to your news related questions.
Start your news interaction by clicking on one of our custom written news stories on the Explore page to get the latest update on current events and track them through time.
If you have a news-related question, ask it in the Chat to get the latest information, or click on one of the suggested questions related to current news. The AskNews chat has conversational awareness so you can easily ask follow-up questions to dig deeper into a news story. You may even speak with it in your language of choice.
Infrastructure
AskNews is powered by Flowdapt, an open-source framework for large-scale, adaptive, AI deployments. In the present implementation, Flowdapt runs high-throughput article enrichments through Llama3. Meanwhile, entities are extracted by our in-house fine-tuned GLiNER model.
The high performance search infrastructure relies on Qdrant
. Meanwhile, Llama3 is hosted on-premise with vLLM 
.
Start your news interaction by clicking on one of our custom written news stories on the Explore page to get the latest update on current events and track them through time.
If you have a news-related question, ask it in the Chat to get the latest information, or click on one of the suggested questions related to current news. The AskNews chat has conversational awareness so you can easily ask follow-up questions to dig deeper into a news story. You may even speak with it in your language of choice.
Infrastructure
AskNews is powered by Flowdapt, an open-source framework for large-scale, adaptive, AI deployments. In the present implementation, Flowdapt runs high-throughput article enrichments through Llama3. Meanwhile, entities are extracted by our in-house fine-tuned GLiNER model.
The high performance search infrastructure relies on Qdrant
. Meanwhile, Llama3 is hosted on-premise with vLLM .Proxy Poll
The Proxy Poll is a sentiment analysis of the latest news articles related to the candidates and parties involved in the 2024 US election. The poll is updated hourly with the latest news articles mentioning any of the candidates or parties.
Each article is analyzed for sentiment towards the identified candidates and parties, giving +1 for positive sentiment, 0 for neutral sentiment, and -1 for negative sentiment. The results are aggregated as 'total positive', 'total negative', 'total volume' (total number of articles mentioning the candidate or party), and 'total sentiment' (total positive minus total negative).
The pull-over on the left hand side of the Proxy Poll page lets you see the reasoning behind the sentiment analysis for each candidate and party mentioned in an article.
Each article is analyzed for sentiment towards the identified candidates and parties, giving +1 for positive sentiment, 0 for neutral sentiment, and -1 for negative sentiment. The results are aggregated as 'total positive', 'total negative', 'total volume' (total number of articles mentioning the candidate or party), and 'total sentiment' (total positive minus total negative).
The pull-over on the left hand side of the Proxy Poll page lets you see the reasoning behind the sentiment analysis for each candidate and party mentioned in an article.
Contact
If you have any questions or feedback about AskNews, Emergent Methods, Flowdapt, or any of the other softwares and projects we are working on, please contact us at contact@emergentmethods.ai.
Data Removal Requests
Please direct all data removal requests to contact@emergentmethods.ai. Include the full links that you need removed, as well as a screenshot showing the links active on AskNews.