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Semafor reporters are going to curate the news with AI

Semafor wants to curate more news to make its hompage more valuable — by having its reporters use a custom AI search tool.

And now it’s new-look politics site Semafor, which is officially launching a product it calls Signals to curate coverage from around the web on the biggest stories of the day. Semafor executive editor Gina Chua tells me that reporters in the newsroom are generally familiar with the usual sources covering a story, but “what MISO lets them to do is simultaneously set off a bot to search for content that may not be as easily found, especially on non-English sites.” The actual published work is all human — Chua says that “there’s a ton of editorial judgement exercised, of course, in deciding which insights are interesting or relevant to the issue, and what gets included in any given Signal.”

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