Your Own Daily Briefing, Curated by AI

A daily briefing, built by a machine — tuned by you

Somewhere in Málaga, a law firm partner spends forty minutes each morning scanning legal news to decide what matters. A restaurant group owner does the same with hospitality trade press. A design agency director does it with brand and culture feeds.

What if that curation happened overnight, automatically, and landed in a clean page by 8am?

That's what AIHOT does. It's an open-source project — free to use, free to modify — that monitors any set of news sources you choose, runs each story through an AI scoring system to judge how newsworthy it actually is, groups related stories together so you don't read the same event five times, and publishes a daily digest. The creator built it for AI industry news (you can see it live at aihot.news), then released the whole framework so anyone can point it at a different topic.

It shot to the top of GitHub — the place developers share code — with over 3,500 people saving it in the first two days. That kind of attention usually means something is genuinely useful.

For a business owner, the interesting question isn't the technology. It's this: what would it mean to have a curated, branded daily briefing for your clients or your team — without paying a SaaS tool a monthly fee forever?

Words worth knowing

Open-source — software whose inner workings are publicly visible and free to use or adapt. Think of it like a recipe anyone can cook from.

Self-hosted — you run it on your own server, not someone else's platform. You own the data, you control the costs.

LLM (Large Language Model) — the kind of AI behind ChatGPT or Claude. Here it reads news and scores how important each story is.

RSS feed — a standard way websites publish their latest content in a format machines can read automatically. Most news sites have one.