A calm morning read, made by machines and directed by a person.
SKYDAY News is a daily news briefing. Each morning it covers six sections: AI & Tech, Geopolitics, UK & Local, Science & Energy, Economics & Markets, and Homelab & Security. It opens with an executive summary called “The big picture”, which connects the stories and asks what they mean together.
Why I built this
Headlines are written to be clicked. Many promise one thing, and halfway through the article you find the reality is something else entirely. A lot of news is built to feed on fear or anger: an accident, a scandal, a stranger's tragedy. It grabs attention, but it changes nothing in my life.
I wanted the opposite: calm, refined news about the things that do shape my life and future. What's happening in geopolitics, and what it means for my finances. Where climate and energy are heading. Which new technologies are worth learning about. No clickbait, no emotional hooks, no noise.
So I built SKYDAY News for myself first. Even the UK & Local section follows that rule: it covers decisions that reach my wallet and my street, such as budgets, taxes and council plans, not crime or accidents.
Why it's public
I put a lot of time and care into building and designing it, and keeping it to myself felt like a waste. So I made it friendlier to read and opened it up. If your interests are close to mine, you're welcome to read along.
What it isn't
It's a personal project, made for me. There's no marketing, no ads and no growth plan, and I'm not competing with anyone. It's also a working demonstration of what AI can do when a person stays in charge.
Software writes every edition. A person decides what it should care about. Paulina Stopa chooses the sources, writes the guidance for each section and sets the rules the writing has to follow. The system then reads the day’s reporting, drafts the articles and checks them before anything is published.
Every claim, sourced
Each article is built from named sources, and each claim links back to the original reporting through numbered citations. If a section can’t be checked against its sources, it isn’t published. We would rather show you less than show you something we can’t back up. Read the sources and make up your own mind.
Read it or hear it
Every story also comes as a short audio conversation between two hosts, so you can listen in the kitchen, on the train or on a run. The hosts don’t read the article aloud. They talk it through, ask each other what it means and pull out the main points. Their voices are synthetic, and the conversation is written from the same sourced material as the article.
What is public and what is not
Editions appear here only once they pass their checks. Older material and test runs stay private to a small group of members. If you can see it on this site, it has been published deliberately.
To learn what works, the site uses anonymous, cookie-free analytics that run on Paulina’s own server; if your browser asks not to be tracked, nothing is counted.
Who is behind it
Paulina StopaAn AI specialist and site reliability engineer based in Leeds.
SKYDAY News is a personal project by Paulina Stopa. She spent nearly a decade looking after a large Unix estate and building automation for it, and before that she founded and ran her own technology company, SKYDAY. She builds and runs AI systems on her own infrastructure “like production”, with versioning, monitoring and human review. This news portal is one of those systems: a working test of whether automated writing can be useful, honest and pleasant to read when a person stays in charge of it.