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Keep the desk honest
Every brief you read here was fetched from an official lab feed, dated, sourced, and checked against a duplicate ledger. No invented launches, no breathless rewrites, no unnamed sources. That discipline is the only thing the desk sells — and it is free.
What it actually costs
A news desk that anyone can audit should publish its own costs. Here they are, in full:
| Line | Note | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages bandwidth | served free, till the free tier | 0 |
| GitHub Actions minutes | free tier covers the daily runs | 0 |
| Worker + KV heartbeat | free tier, one cron per 5 min | 0 |
| News intake (17 labs) | official feeds, no wire service | 0 |
| Human review of every brief | sourcing, dating, dedupe — the real cost | time |
The infrastructure is zero. The review is not — and it is done by one person who started this because AI news had become a game of telephone. If the desk has saved you an hour this month, that is the number that matters.
How to help
Three ways, ranked by how much they actually keep the desk alive:
Send a note
Tell us which lab we should add, or which brief got a date wrong. A correction is worth more than a coffee, and it costs you nothing.
Open the channel →Share a brief
Forward one dated brief to someone who still reads AI news from screenshots. That is how a desk like this grows.
Pick a brief →Star the method
The whole pipeline is open source. A star tells the next reader that a human looked at this and did not laugh.
See the source →If you'd rather fund the review hours
There is no paywall and there never will be one. But if the desk earned an hour of your time and you want to fund an hour of ours, these rails work from anywhere — no card, no gateway, no minimum:
TON / Gram
Telegram's own chain. If you are in the channel already, this is the shortest path.
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The stable one. A few cents of gas, no card, no gateway.
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The ledger so far
As of 2026-09-21, the desk has filed and sourced:
| Briefs logged | 82 |
| Open-source releases tracked | 8 |
| Labs on the board | 18 |
| Servers we rent | 0 |
| Paywalls | 0 |
If you want to fund the time — the review hours, not the servers — the addresses above work from anywhere. But the three things above cost you nothing, and two of them improve the desk more than money would.