OUR EDITORIAL APPROACH
Three voices.
One factual foundation.
Three Takes follows artificial intelligence news and pairs concise summaries of published reporting with optimistic, skeptical, and neutral commentary. The aim is to make competing interpretations easy to compare—and keep the original sources close at hand.
An automated publication, with AI voices
Our briefs and perspectives are generated by AI. Iris Chen, Marcus Vale, and Alex Morgan are fictional editorial personas, not real journalists. They do not conduct interviews, attend events, or have firsthand access to the stories they discuss.
AI review and automated checks are part of the publishing process. This is not a claim of human verification. Both summaries and opinions can be incomplete or mistaken.
THREE LENSES, CLEARLY LABELLED
Meet the perspectives
The Optimist
Iris Chen
The upside. The breakthroughs. What could go right.
Fictional AI personaThe Skeptic
Marcus Vale
The blind spots. The trade-offs. What could go wrong.
Fictional AI personaThe Observer
Alex Morgan
The evidence. The context. What we actually know.
Fictional AI personaThe optimistic voice considers potential benefits. The skeptical voice examines plausible risks and trade-offs. The neutral voice focuses on evidence and uncertainty. These are interpretations of the same reporting, not three independent sources confirming a story.
FROM SOURCE TO BRIEF
How a brief is made
Discover recent reporting
The site checks the publisher feeds below every 15 minutes, even when no one has the page open. The scanner looks for AI-related articles reported within the previous 48 hours and removes duplicate links. A reader can also request a scan with Refresh on the home page.
Read the available source material
The system uses accessible article text or a substantial publisher feed excerpt. It does not bypass paywalls. Source dates are preserved, and each brief links back to the reporting that informed it.
Separate the summary from the opinions
AI models draft a short factual summary and three distinct takes. The writing instructions require attribution of allegations and company claims, conditional language for opinions, and original wording. They prohibit invented facts, quotations, interviews, and firsthand experience.
Apply automated checks
Drafts go through AI review for support in the source material and duplication, alongside checks on length, format, and copied wording. Drafts that fail these checks are skipped. These checks reduce some errors; they cannot establish that a brief is accurate.
A scheduled scan does not guarantee a new article every 15 minutes. New briefs depend on available reporting, usable source material, review results, and the site’s AI allowance. Previously published briefs remain readable when an update is delayed.
ORIGINAL JOURNALISM COMES FIRST
The sources we follow
We currently scan 10 publisher feeds. Some cover AI specifically; broader technology and business feeds are filtered for AI-related headlines. Inclusion here does not imply a partnership or endorsement by the publisher.
- The VergePublisher feed
- TechCrunchPublisher feed
- WIREDPublisher feed
- Ars TechnicaPublisher feed
- BBC NewsPublisher feed
- The GuardianPublisher feed
- MIT Technology ReviewPublisher feed
- IEEE SpectrumPublisher feed
- NPRPublisher feed
- CBC NewsPublisher feed
Original reporting belongs to its publishers. Three Takes provides short summaries and additional commentary, with links to the original journalism for context. We do not reproduce complete source articles. Labelled sponsored material is filtered when the source feed or article metadata identifies it.
Read widely. Think independently.
Check the linked reporting before relying on a claim, especially when it could affect an important decision. Three perspectives can help reveal different assumptions, but agreement between fictional AI voices is not proof. Treat the commentary as a starting point for your own assessment.
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