AskNews
AskNews provides a licensed news infrastructure API that converts real-time and historical news from over a thousand publishers into structured, AI-ready context for LLMs, agents, and forecasting systems. The platform enriches 500,000 articles daily into a hot vector database, returning prompt-optimized strings with source URLs and publication dates, eliminating the need for teams to build and maintain their own news RAG pipelines.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data & Analytics
- Developer Tools
- Software Only
- AI Agents
- Content & Publishing
- Media & Entertainment
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Most teams building AI systems cobble together a news layer using web scrapers that fail at paywalls, generic AI search that returns noisy public data, or traditional news APIs that hand back raw data requiring extensive processing. These approaches lack reliability, structure, and licensed content, forcing teams to spend significant effort cleaning and verifying information before it can be used effectively.
Solution
AskNews provides a licensed news infrastructure API that turns real-time and historical news into structured, reliable context that LLMs, agents, and forecasting systems can directly use. The platform organizes global news into a unified, AI-native layer, enabling systems to reason with the information rather than just skim links. It is designed for high-stakes environments, trusted by organizations from the UK Cabinet Office and frontier AI labs to insurance, intelligence, private equity, and hedge funds. AskNews enriches 500,000 articles per day, indexing them into a hot vector database and exposing that database via an endpoint, so users receive prompt-optimized strings without needing to manage their own news RAG pipeline.
Target Audience
Primary customers are AI development teams, data scientists, and researchers at government agencies, frontier AI labs, hedge funds, private equity firms, and insurance companies that need reliable, licensed news data to power their models and analytical tools.
Features
- Licensed news API with formal agreements with AP, AFP, Newstex, and over a thousand publishers, with a 50/50 revenue share paid to publishers
- Live News Search and Historical News Search returning prompt-ready text or structured article records with source URLs and publication dates
- DeepNews: a multi-step deep research agent that leverages the AskNews knowledge graph alongside Google, Wikipedia, X, and Reddit for analytical tasks requiring planning and on-the-fly learning
- Alerts: natural language monitoring and recurring reports delivered via scheduled endpoints, covering news, X (Twitter), and Telegram in real-time
- Enrichments including summaries, entities, categories, and sentiment attached to every article record
- SDKs for Python, TypeScript, and PHP, an MCP server for Claude/ChatGPT integration, a CLI tool, and Web Search and Wikipedia Search endpoints for broader context