How DayStart picks the morning’s stories

Every morning the news is gathered, cleaned up, ranked and written into a short show. Here is each step, including what AI does and what code checks.

The short version

Many publishers, through news services. Not one outlet setting the tone.
Junk out first. Press releases, ads posing as news and spam never make the list.
Each story once. The same news from five outlets counts as one story.
Quotes stay in the speaker’s words. Code checks them against the source story and cuts any it can’t find.
An AI voice reads it. The script is written by AI under strict rules, then read by an AI voice.

Where the news comes from

The free show uses GNews, a news service that collects top headlines from many publishers. Premium also draws on TheNewsAPI and NewsData.io. Market numbers come from Yahoo Finance, and sports from ESPN and TheSportsDB. The news is refreshed through the day.

Cleaning the pile

Before anything is ranked, code throws out press releases, crypto promotions, ad-like headlines, stock spam, piracy sites and stories not in English.

Ranking and picking

Code scores each story by its source, how much it affects people, how urgent it is and how recent it is. Stories about the same event are merged, and the strongest version is kept. Stories already covered on earlier days are skipped.

Then an AI model (OpenAI’s GPT-4o) picks and orders ten stories from the top of that list. It is told to favor what’s new today, keep a mix of topics, never cover the same event twice, and end on a lighter story.

The Top Story

One story leads the show. Code picks it from how important the story is and how fresh it is, and newer stories count for more. When two stories are close, it prefers the one where the person at the center of the news is quoted, so you hear them in their own words.

The order you hear

A typical free show runs in chapters: Today’s Brief (the Top Story), The Day Ahead (including the markets), the news, sports, and a quote to start the day. It is the same show for everyone, ready by 7:00 AM ET, and runs about 4 minutes. Premium adds your calendar, weather, topics and stocks.

Writing the script

An AI model (GPT-4o) writes the script. Its rules include: never invent a quote, quote only from the story itself, say who is speaking before the quote, and never invent dates or events. It names its sources on the biggest stories.

After it is written, code checks two things. Quotes credited to a person are checked against the source story, and ones we can’t find are cut. Index moves read aloud, like the S&P 500’s change, are checked against market data and fixed if they’re wrong.

What we don’t check yet

Code doesn’t yet fact-check every spoken sentence. The rules above lower the risk, but AI can still make mistakes. If you hear something wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it. We can remake and republish the day’s free show, and we can pull a chart. The numbers in charts have their own checks, explained in how we check the numbers in our charts.

Sensitive stories

The show covers the news as it is, including hard stories. On the website, cards for sensitive stories show the headline only, with no chart.

Questions or a correction? Email support@bananaintelligence.ai. Last updated November 3, 2026.

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