AskNews is a news data platform that provides access to premium licensed news content from thousands of sources. It offers an API and SDKs for developers to integrate enriched news analytics into applications, a dashboard called Newsplunker for analysts, a publisher program for content monetization, and curated stories with a chat feature for readers. The platform emphasizes high-quality, token-optimized synthetic representations of news for grounding LLM applications, with low latency (under 100ms for optimized calls). It also supports agentic AI workflows via LangChain tools and provides grounded synthetic data for model training.
Key Features
- API with SDKs for integration
- Enriched news analytics
- Synthetic news representations
- Low latency responses
- LangChain Tool and Retriever for agentic AI
- Curated Stories and Chat
- Newsplunker analyst dashboard
- Publisher program for content monetization
Key Benefits
- Access to thousands of licensed news sources including AP, AFP, Forbes, Time, Newsweek, The Telegraph
- Low latency response times under 100ms for optimized calls
- Provides synthetic news representations that retain facts and journalistic integrity
- Offers LangChain tools for easy integration into agentic workflows