The flood
I spent 14 hours building an RSS aggregator because DeepSeek doesn’t have a feed. That’s 14 hours DeepSeek’s marketing department saved by not publishing one. Meta’s scraping took 6 hours and broke twice when they trashed their HTML structure. RSS is a solved problem. AI companies skip it because engagement metrics matter more than developer time.
Every company, lab, and side project now claims it has the AI feature that matters. That makes real updates harder to find. For me, the feed came down to a handful of sources worth checking: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, DeepMind, Hugging Face, and a few open-source projects.
Even those groups publish filler for investors, launch cycles, or attention. It still beats drinking from the whole firehose. The annoying part is basic: no two of them publish updates the same way.
The problem
I found this when I wanted a simple AI-news RSS feed. I looked for a feed from each top firm. OpenAI, DeepMind, and Hugging Face have one, but Anthropic, Meta AI, and DeepSeek don’t.
Hugging Face was RESTful. DeepMind fought me with rate limits. Meta’s HTML changed daily, like they knew. Anthropic surprised me. They sell heavily to coders and still do not ship an RSS feed. Full credit to Daniel Olshansky and his tool, RSS Feeds, for making it possible to turn the Anthropic news blog into an unofficial feed.
The final boss was DeepSeek. They don’t have an RSS feed, blog, news site, or anything. Nothing to scrape, nothing to collect. My solution, after a long, hard think: fuck it, remove them from the pool. This pained me; I like their models, their tech, and their open-source nature. Yet their news lives in Elon’s tweets, apparently.
The learnings
I spent 14 hours to avoid checking 6 websites. Now I reload one.
The scoreboard: OpenAI, DeepMind, and Hugging Face ship feeds. Anthropic gets one through Olshansky’s tool. Meta gets a scraper that broke twice. DeepSeek got cut from the pool.
The site lives at Ai-news and the code at GitHub: ai-news.
2025 Update: Search and company filters added. Still less tab checking than the alternative.