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Why Agents Make Terrible Editors (opens the original)
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Everyone is sensibly trying to use AI agents to personalise news. The promise is very alluring. Instead of reading ten newsletters, checking several websites and keeping up with a stream of links in group chats, an agent could read everything and send you the few things that matter. A company could do the same for every team, producing a daily briefing tailored to each person’s role and interests.In practice, most of these briefings are disappointing. They include stories you saw yesterday, old
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