#28. Weekly AI For Newsroom Roundup. Do we still need RSS in AI era?

Hello, this is Sergei!

A couple of weeks ago I connected AI For Newsroom to Google Search Console to better understand how people actually discover the website. And one thing surprised me a lot: one of the biggest search queries leading readers to the project is “AI news RSS feed” and related searches.

But while building the CMS dashboard for AI For Newsroom, I noticed something interesting: many news organizations, blogs, newsletters, and even modern publishing platforms either hide their RSS feeds or don’t provide them at all. And I can understand why. RSS is still one of the easiest ways to systematically access and parse content — including for AI training.

Still, I genuinely love RSS. It remains one of the very few ways to consume information without recommendation algorithms deciding what you should read. It gives control back to the reader. No engagement optimization, no endless feed manipulation — just direct access to sources you choose yourself. And maybe, paradoxically, the AI era could bring RSS back.

As AI-generated content keeps flooding platforms, curated direct-source consumption may become more valuable again. Not because RSS is nostalgic technology, but because it is predictable, open, lightweight, and machine-readable in a good way. AI systems themselves work better with structured feeds than with endlessly changing web interfaces full of ads, popups, and scripts.

I can easily see a future where personal AI assistants use RSS as one of their primary ways to monitor trusted sources, summarize information, detect patterns, and build highly personalized (but not bubbled!) news environments. In that world, RSS may stop being a “legacy format” and become infrastructure again.

So yes — I still believe RSS matters. That's why we have our own RSS feeds. See all of them here and select what you need most.