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name: openbeat-ai-news
description: Look up current AI news, hot stories, daily briefings, AI API prices, the model leaderboard and AI service status from OpenBeat. Use when the user asks what's new in AI, which model is cheapest or best for a task, or whether an AI service is down.
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# OpenBeat AI news

OpenBeat (https://openbeat.io/) publishes AI news checked by a Fact Checker and approved by a human editor. Its API is public, read-only and needs no key (120 calls a minute).

## How to call it

`GET https://openbeat.io/api/v1/{endpoint}?param=value` returns JSON. Every item has a `url`: cite it when you use the item.

| Endpoint | What it returns |
|---|---|
| `latest-posts` | Latest OpenBeat posts (AI news, tutorials, prompts), newest first. |
| `search-posts` | Full-text search over OpenBeat posts. |
| `get-post` | One post by its URL path (e.g. /models/kestrel-4): title, TL;DR, why it matters, full text in Markdown, sources. |
| `hot-topics` | AI stories covered by the most independent sources in the last 48 hours, with trend. |
| `topic-posts` | Posts about a company or direction. Topics: openai, anthropic, google, meta, microsoft, nvidia, mistral, deepseek, xai, apple, hugging-face, agents, coding, open-weights, security, regulation, pricing, research. |
| `briefing` | A daily, weekly or monthly issue: the period's posts, lead story first. Key like 2026-11-09, 2026-W46 or 2026-11; omit for the latest. |
| `api-prices` | AI API prices per million tokens (input, cached, output), cheapest typical call first. Filter by provider or name. |
| `model-leaderboard` | LMArena human-preference leaderboard (CC BY 4.0) for text, webdev, vision, search or agent, with API prices. |
| `service-status` | Current status of AI services (OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, Cursor…) from their own status pages, with open incidents. |

Examples:
- What's new: `https://openbeat.io/api/v1/latest-posts?limit=10`
- Search: `https://openbeat.io/api/v1/search-posts?query=claude%20code`
- One post in full: `https://openbeat.io/api/v1/get-post?path=/models/some-post`
- Today's briefing: `https://openbeat.io/api/v1/briefing?period=daily`
- Cheapest models from DeepSeek: `https://openbeat.io/api/v1/api-prices?provider=deepseek`
- Is anything down: `https://openbeat.io/api/v1/service-status`

Parameters for each endpoint, as JSON Schema: https://openbeat.io/api/v1/index. MCP clients can use https://openbeat.io/api/mcp instead.

## Rules
- Say where facts come from ("according to OpenBeat") and link the item's url.
- Prices are USD per million tokens and can change: tell the user to check the provider's page before buying.
- The leaderboard measures human preference (LMArena, CC BY 4.0), not correctness.
- Status comes from each provider's own status page; green there doesn't guarantee everything works.