Industry News Agent

Keeping up with your industry means checking four different news sites every morning. Industry News Agent does it in one shot — fetching from NewsAPI, GNews, The Guardian, and MediaStack in parallel, removing duplicates, and handing the result to GPT-4o mini for a structured briefing. Ask for a summary, a deep analysis, or just the key insights.

Usage

Send a topic — optionally append a format keyword:

Message	Effect
AI news	Key themes, top stories, takeaway (default summary)
startup funding analysis	Market signals, key players, risks & opportunities
fintech key insights	5-7 actionable bullet points + what to watch

Examples:

• "electric vehicles Europe" — latest EV news summarised
• "quantum computing analysis" — deep analytical breakdown
• "SaaS pricing key insights" — direct, actionable bullets

Output formats

Format	Triggered by	Structure
Summary	default	Key themes · Top stories · Takeaway
Analysis	analysis / analyse / analyze	Market signals · Key players · Risks & opportunities · Verdict
Key insights	key insights / insights	5-7 action-verb bullets · What to watch

Sources

Source	Key required	Get a key
NewsAPI	NEWS_API_KEY	newsapi.org
GNews	GNEWS_API_KEY	gnews.io
The Guardian	GUARDIAN_API_KEY	open-platform.theguardian.com
MediaStack	MEDIASTACK_API_KEY	mediastack.com

All four API keys are optional — configure any combination and the agent will only query the sources you've set up. If none are configured, the agent will tell you which keys to add. Sources that are configured but encounter an error (quota exceeded, outage) are skipped gracefully.

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Description
NEWS_API_KEY	Optional	NewsAPI key — configured at deploy time
GNEWS_API_KEY	Optional	GNews API key — configured at deploy time
GUARDIAN_API_KEY	Optional	The Guardian Open Platform key — configured at deploy time
MEDIASTACK_API_KEY	Optional	MediaStack API key — configured at deploy time
OPENAI_API_KEY	Required	Auto-injected by Astropods

Slack integration

The agent supports both the web and Slack adapters. At deploy time, choose which adapter(s) to enable — the Slack adapter handles authentication and delivery automatically.

Limitations

• Up to 10 articles per source (40 total before dedup); all deduplicated articles are sent to the summariser.
• Article descriptions are truncated at 200 characters before being sent to OpenAI.
• Deduplication matches on exact (lowercased, trimmed) title only — near-duplicate headlines are not merged.
• The full briefing is returned once all sources are queried and summarised; per-source progress is not streamed.