Ask the wire a question, get a sourced answer
Type a beat and a time window in plain language. The brief is written only from the releases it retrieved, and it lists them under the answer so you can check every line.
The brief is a chat window wired straight into the live release store. You ask a question — what moved in Canadian mining this week, biotech approvals in the last 24 hours — and the terminal retrieves the releases that match before the model writes a word. The answer is built from that set and nothing else, and the set is printed underneath it.
It exists because the two alternatives both fail. Reading the wire yourself costs a morning and you still miss the item that ran at 04:00; a general chatbot writes a confident paragraph about news it never read. Here the retrieval runs first, the model is instructed never to add a release, a number or an event that is not in the retrieved set, and when nothing matches the reply says so rather than padding.
It is for the person who has to be current by a deadline: an editor opening a shift, a comms or investor-relations team asked what a sector did overnight, an analyst writing the Monday note. If the alternative is skimming two hundred headlines to keep six, this is the shortcut that still shows its work.
Any beat, any window
Ask in plain language. With no time phrase the brief looks back seven days; say "in the last 24 hours" or use after: and that window wins.
Every line traces back
Each answer lists up to twelve of the releases it used — title, source, country, date, link — with a chip showing how many matched and how many were actually analyzed.
Concise or deep
Concise reads 40 releases and is the default; deep reads 150. The setting sticks between sessions, and when concise cut the set short the reply says so and offers the wider pass.
It widens instead of failing
When nothing matches exactly, retrieval relaxes the free text, then the sector, and drops the country last — and the reply carries a "scope widened" mark instead of coming back blank.
Follow-ups keep the thread
Conversations sit in a sidebar and the last eight turns replay, so "and in Germany?" works. Starter chips are built from your own watchlist and saved searches, and answers come back in the language you asked in.
The daily brief
Ranked from what actually spiked and assembled without a model: each item carries its real lead release, source and date, plus a feed query that reproduces the topic. It rebuilds every four hours.
Type BRIEF in the command bar, or open the Brief tab of the feed.
Name the sector, the country and the window — "German energy deals this week" is already a complete question.
Open the releases listed under the answer and read them yourself before you publish anything.
The brief reads the live store — roughly the last eight days of the wire — not the whole archive, so a question about last quarter is outside it. It sees what the feed carries: headline, dateline, source and the opening of the summary, which for the major commercial distributors is all we are licensed to show. It is capped at twenty questions every five minutes, and it needs an active plan: there is no free tier inside the terminal.
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