The flood
I spent 14 hours building an RSS aggregator because DeepSeek doesn’t have a feed. That’s 14 hours DeepSeek’s marketing department saved by not publishing one. Meta’s scraping took 6 hours and broke twice when they trashed their HTML structure. RSS is a solved problem. AI companies skip it because engagement metrics matter more than developer time.
Every firm, company, or side project boasts about its new AI feature, which makes actual breakthroughs or useful products feel few and far between. Especially in the news, it’s currently only a handful of companies worth following: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, DeepMind, and a few other open-source ones.
Even these firms still publish meaningless fluff for stockholders or attention, but it’s less than the full firehose of AI news from the entire news media. An annoying problem arises when you want to follow the top firms: they don’t all have a standardized way to publish their news.
The problem
I found this when I wanted a simple AI-news RSS feed. I looked for a feed from each top firm. OpenAI, DeepMind, and Hugging Face have one, but Anthropic, Meta AI, and DeepSeek don’t.
Hugging Face was RESTful. DeepMind fought me with rate limits. Meta’s HTML changed daily, like they knew. Anthropic surprised me, a company based around being the Coders AI, yet they don’t have an RSS feed. Full credit to Daniel Olshansky and his tool, RSS Feeds, for making it possible to turn the Anthropic news blog into an unofficial feed.
The final boss was DeepSeek. They don’t have an RSS feed, blog, news site, or anything. Nothing to scrape, nothing to collect. My solution, after a long, hard think: fuck it, remove them from the pool. This pained me; I like their models, their tech, and their open-source nature. Yet their news lives in Elon’s tweets, apparently.
The learnings
I spent 14 hours to avoid checking 6 websites. Now I reload one website instead of six.
RSS is a solved problem. DeepSeek’s news lives in Elon’s tweets. OpenAI has a feed. That’s the whole story.
If you want to check out the site to keep up to date on AI news, check out Ai-news **or the GitHub repo: https://github.com/JonathanRReed/ai-news.
2025 Update: It’s been updated to be more useful. Now with a search bar and the ability to filter by company.
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