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AskNews at TechEx 2026: the question that won €400

AskNews · October 24, 2026

For two days at TechEx 2026, the AskNews booth ran a single challenge: the deepest search wins €400. The winning entry came from Moussa Gerges, and his question is worth a close read for anyone buildi...

From Retrieval to Citation: How AskNews Makes Publisher Usage Traceable

AskNews · October 24, 2026

When your reporting enters an AI research workflow, you need to know what happened to it. Our enterprise clients run AI agents that use AskNews directly, through our API, MCP server or CLI, to build n...

Automate Daily CVE Monitoring with OpenClaw and the AskNews CLI

AskNews · October 14, 2026

A useful daily CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) report answers one narrow question: does anything reported in the last 24 hours affect software we actually run?Answering it by hand means rea...

Cloudflare blocked your news scraper? There's a better solution.

AskNews · September 29, 2026

Your agent's access to news websites broke overnight thanks to Cloudflare's new policy to automatically block bots. And they have every right to block you because you violated their terms of s...

What AI Agents Need from News Retrieval

Robert Caulk · September 23, 2026

I want the LLMs working with news to spend their context on reporting that matters, rather than on cleaning up the delivery. Better signal-to-noise ratios can reduce downstream processing costs, wheth...

Why Your Team Shouldn't Build Its Own News Ingestion Pipeline

AskNews · September 22, 2026

Every team that builds an AI system needing current-events context eventually asks the same question: how hard can it be to scrape some news sites?The honest answer: not hard to start, and very hard t...

AskNews Partners with Top Publishers to Serve Booming News Analytics Market

AskNews · September 3, 2025

Thousands of trusted global publishers are on-board, AskNews unlocks new pathways for AI-ready news data that protects publisher rights, improves LLM performance, and empowers intelligence workflo...

BiasExpert: Teaching AI to Spot Bias More Efficiently

AskNews · July 14, 2025

In our previous exploration of bias in LLMs, we discovered something notable: when we asked leading LLMs to evaluate bias in controversial topics, they showed remarkable consistency in identifying...

LLM Bias Check — Finding DeepSeek R1's hidden agenda

AskNews · May 20, 2025

Since the early days of large language models (LLMs), concerns about bias have been ever-present — but they flared up again with the release of DeepSeek R1. Users reported receiving censored or pol...

Detecting Misinformation with AskNews and Qdrant — CrediRAG

AskNews · November 27, 2024

If you suspect a Reddit post might be misinformation, how would you check? You could search for relevant information in the news across all languages, countries, and through time. You might build o...

Exploring the World’s Largest News Knowledge Graph — Newsplunker

AskNews · November 25, 2024

Build, Explore & Analyze the World’s Largest News Knowledge Graph The AskNews team is excited to announce the release of the Newsplunker dashboard, your custom window into the largest news kn...

Outperforming Claude 3.5 Sonnet with Phi-3-mini-4k for graph entity relationship extraction tasks

AskNews · August 15, 2024

High-efficiency production-scale entity relationship extraction At AskNews, we are re-imagining the way people and LLMs consume and understand news. One of the features we offer is a rich visual r...

AskNews’ Transparency Protocols

AskNews · June 30, 2024

We created AskNews to help readers navigate the unprecedented amounts of news generated every day across the world. Getting a broad and diverse overview of what is going on often requires going to...

Transparency in News Reporting

AskNews · June 28, 2024

Why it matters, and how best to obtain it In this digital age, anyone on the Internet becomes an easy target for fraud. Nowhere is that problem more evident than in the news stream that helps fashi...

The many faces of Fake News

AskNews · June 26, 2024

If you believe the critics on the Internet, the world is plagued by a new problem called Fake News that makes trusting news difficult. But this issue of “fake news” essentially dates back to the fi...

Context is King — Evaluating real-time LLM context quality with Ragas

AskNews · June 10, 2024

Garbage in, garbage out We evaluate the context quality of the four major context providers in the LLM market, JinaAI, Tavily, AskNews, and Exa, using Ragas 📐 metrics. We also compare the dat...

Infusing any LLM with news — one line of code

AskNews · May 2, 2024

50k news sources, indexed and ready for your natural language query If your LLM needs access to up-to-the minute news context, AskNews is your low-latency, high-coverage, natural language link for ...

Identifying media bias with AI

AskNews · February 23, 2024

Russian news coverage of the death of Alexei Navalny Using our AI-powered narrative tracking at AskNews, we took a closer look at the volume and timing of news reports surrounding the death of Al...

Blog Articles

AskNews at TechEx 2026: the question that won €400

From Retrieval to Citation: How AskNews Makes Publisher Usage Traceable

Automate Daily CVE Monitoring with OpenClaw and the AskNews CLI