[gxonatano]

If you read indiscriminately from lots of different news sources, bad ones and good ones alike, and you have an iPhone and you do most of your reading on it, this might be useful. But I rarely read news stories which appear in 100 different news outlets, to begin with—they're usually articles which are only on the New York Times: book reviews, commentaries, original data analysis, investigative reporting. The stories that do appear in a few different places are usually syndicated, anyway, from AP or Reuters, so they're virtually identical. Particle appears to be sorting news article groups according to how many different times an event is being reported on, in different news outlets, which to me is the opposite way I want my news sorted. Besides that, I'm fairly picky about where I get my news: I subscribe to certain papers because they've developed good reputations for journalistic integrity, they've won Pulitzer Prizes, and they employ fact checkers. I avoid news sources that don't meet these criteria. Particle seems to lump them all together. Rather than de-noising news, "by using AI to help people understand more, faster," it appears to be introducing noise where there need not be any.