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AI News Briefing

Automated daily AI news research agent that searches the web, compiles a structured briefing, publishes it to Notion and/or Obsidian, and delivers a styled summary to Microsoft Teams and Slack -- powered by Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, or Copilot CLIs with automatic fallback. Supports both macOS (launchd) and Windows (Task Scheduler). Includes an on-demand Custom Brief mode for deep multi-agent research on any topic. Obsidian integration enables graph visualization of topic relationships across briefings. Fully automated pipeline with zero manual intervention required after setup.

[!NOTE] Live AI News Notion page: https://hoangsonw.notion.site/9c34d052d9354beda82a3423e2d2f404?v=d43c53fe405c4896bfd95ad0cc22246f

Overview

AI News Briefing is a fully automated pipeline that runs every morning on your machine. It supports four AI CLI engines -- Claude Code, Codex (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), and Copilot (GitHub) -- with automatic fallback if your preferred engine is unavailable. The selected engine runs in headless mode as a news research agent: searching the web across 9 AI-related topics, compiling the results into a two-tier briefing (TL;DR + full report), writing the finished page directly to a Notion database, optionally publishing to an Obsidian vault with graph-ready wikilinks, and optionally posting a styled Adaptive Card summary to Microsoft Teams and Slack.

The entire process -- from triggering to publishing -- requires zero human intervention. You wake up, open Notion or Obsidian (or Teams or Slack), and your daily AI briefing is already there.

Custom Brief extends this with on-demand deep research: pick any topic, and 5 parallel research agents investigate it from different angles (breaking news, technical analysis, industry impact, trends, and policy). Results publish to Notion, Obsidian, Teams, and/or Slack -- or just print to your terminal.

Why it exists