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Curious how the summarization works - are you using something open-source or customized?

I'm having writers read and shorten the articles. They're taking it down to the bare facts with no personal editorial.

Any ideas on how you would run this operation at scale?

Thinking a team of editors around different time zones so they cover news throughout the day. Each editor can do about 40 articles a day.

Or perhaps human? I hear virtual assistants will do that kind of thing.

I was thinking something like http://tldr.it/ at first but human seems like a better solution.