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Daily EU news digest
Eight stories per edition, selected from hundreds of European sources and written to be read in five minutes. TO BRIEF is a daily news digest that respects your time and shows its sources.
What a daily news digest is
A daily news digest is a different way to stay informed: instead of an endless scroll of front pages, alerts and repetition, you read one small, carefully selected set of stories once a day. At TO BRIEF that means eight articles per edition — not eighty. Selection is half the work: the system reads hundreds of articles from across Europe every day and keeps only what genuinely changes the picture.
Europe has a particular problem that a digest solves well: decisions made in Brussels, Frankfurt or a neighbouring capital affect you directly, yet most of us consume news inside national silos. Each digest story is written with that cross-border lens — what happened, how the same story reads in different countries, and why it matters beyond one border.
Every story is written from scratch with context and continuity: what led here, why it is happening now, what follows. We do not republish press releases and we do not chase clicks. The goal is that after five minutes you have the complete picture — not just more headlines.
The digest is published daily, and nothing disappears: the archive keeps every previous edition, day by day, so a missed morning costs you nothing.
How the digest is made
TO BRIEF is a newspaper written by artificial intelligence — stated plainly, not buried in the small print. The production line starts from same-day news feeds across European countries: the system detects which stories appear in multiple independent sources, opens research questions, and gathers material before the first sentence is written.
Each article then passes through a second model that re-reads it as a sceptic: claims, numbers and characterisations are checked before the text reaches you. The sources of every article are visible inside the article itself — you can always see where a claim came from and judge it yourself.
There is no prospective human review of each article before it is published, and we disclose that on every page. Whatever gets corrected, gets corrected in the open: there is a public corrections trail and a clear way to report an error. The whole production line is documented step by step on our methodology page.
Who is behind TO BRIEF
TO BRIEF was created by two technologists who go by their first names, Nikos and Vasilis — one works in AI privacy, the other in software engineering and cybersecurity. Their story, and the experiment of a newspaper without journalists, was covered by WIRED Greece.
Behind the product stands a registered company with public filings, a full transparency page, and a declared policy on the use of artificial intelligence. You will not find invented "editors-in-chief" — you will find an honest description of how the system works and who is responsible for it.
What you will find in every article
Every digest article has the same steady structure: what happened, the context that explains it, why you should care, and its sources. Most carry a timeline of how the story developed, and an audio edition for the hours when reading is not an option. If something is corrected after publication, the correction is noted on the article itself — errors are not silently erased.
The digest is an edition, not a feed: it has a beginning and an end, like a newspaper. You read it, you close it, you get on with your day — and tomorrow the next one is waiting. Below are today’s stories, exactly as published in the latest edition.
Today's stories
- Romunija sestrelila dva drona, Litva izgubila sled
Dva incidenta na vzhodnem robu Nata sta razkrila različne vrzeli v javno dostopnih podatkih. Romunski F-16 so nad romunskimi vodami uničili dva drona iz družine Geran, a Bukarešta ni ugotovila, kdo ju je izstrelil. V Litvi lovci zveze NATO zaradi megle niso mogli prepoznati objekta; domnevni ostanki so poškodovali avtomobil, litovsko in poljsko poročilo o njegovi poti pa si nasprotujeta.
- Eksplozija drona v Litvi, sporna opozorila
Dron je eksplodiral nad cesto v litovskem okrožju Pasvalys in poškodoval mimo vozeči avtomobil, vendar ni bilo ranjenih. Lovska letala Nata so vzletela, a piloti zaradi oblakov in megle objekta niso mogli prepoznati. Litva in Poljska navajata različni različici njegove poti, ukazi o tem, katera območja v Litvi so prejela opozorila, pa še niso objavljeni.
- Trumpov plinski predlog trči ob prepoved EU
Po poročanju časnika The New York Times so Trumpovi odposlanci kot spodbudo za mir omenjali ponovni zagon tranzita ruskega plina prek Ukrajine. Pravo EU že prepoveduje nove pogodbe za ruski plin, zadnje dolgoročne pogodbe za dobavo po plinovodih pa se iztečejo do septembra 2027. V predlogu ni navedeno, kdo bi plin kupil ali kdaj bi se tranzit obnovil; za njegovo izvedbo bi morala Evropa spremeniti zakonodajo.
- ZDA obnovile raketna opozorila za Ukrajino
Ukrajina po besedah Zelenskega znova prejema ameriška opozorila pred izstrelitvijo balističnih raket, potem ko je njihov tok za tri dni zastal; razlog za prekinitev ostaja neznan. Opozorila civilistom in enotam zračne obrambe dajo nekaj minut za pripravo. Evropske obveščevalne informacije so v tem času še naprej prihajale v Kijev, vendar Evropa nima primerljivega satelitskega sistema za zaznavanje izstrelitev raket.
- Francoski trgovci čakajo na pogoje odškodnin
Macron je obljubil pomoč, potem ko je plenjenje po ocenah prizadelo 1,500 podjetij, vendar trgovci še vedno ne poznajo zneska odškodnine, pogojev upravičenosti ali datuma izplačila. Krizni sestanek predsednika vlade Sébastiena Lecornuja 19. oktobra bi lahko določil te pogoje. Njegova vlada mora odgovoriti tudi na širše nezadovoljstvo, ki je botrovalo večinoma mirnim protestom, med drugim na sporni proračun.
- EU daje prednost satelitom, ZDA grozijo
Washington grozi s povračilnimi ukrepi, medtem ko Bruselj razmišlja, da bi podjetjem pod nadzorom EU namenil prednost pri polovici komercialnega spektra za neposredno povezavo satelitov z običajnimi telefoni. Predlog Evropske komisije bi še vedno dopuščal tuje ponudnike, kompromis Sveta pa bi evropsko prednost spremenil v nezavezujoče priporočilo. Evropski parlament in države članice se morajo o pravilih dogovoriti pred iztekom sedanjih licenc maja 2027.
- Google odgovarja za lažne obtožbe umetne inteligence
Nemški zdravnik je dosegel sodno prepoved treh odgovorov v AI Mode, ki so napačno trdili, da je bil obsojen zaradi spolne prisile. Google jih ni hotel odstraniti, čeprav so ga opozorili, da se navedba nanaša na drugega moškega. Dve nemški sodišči sta zdaj Google spoznali za odgovornega za trditve, ki jih je sestavila njegova umetna inteligenca, vendar nobena od sodb ne določa, kakšne so njegove obveznosti po vsej Evropi.
- Sledi finske elektronike vodijo do ruske vojaške industrije
Yle je izsledil prodajo elektronike v vrednosti skoraj 30 milijonov evrov, ki sta jo dva finska državljana opravila podjetjem, ki oskrbujejo rusko vojaško industrijo. Ameriški organi so glavnega dobavitelja že uvrstili na črni seznam, vendar to samo po sebi ne dokazuje kršitve prava EU. Finski preiskovalci bi za ugotovitev, ali je nadzorovano blago doseglo Rusijo, potrebovali manjkajoče številke modelov komponent in evidence pošiljk.
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