- The site, the app and the emails we send are now available in Portuguese, our ninth language, written in Brazilian Portuguese.
- Your newsletters could already be written in Portuguese. Now everything around them is too: the editor, your alerts, the support chat and the pages your subscribers see.
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The banana in numbers, and the odds on the Cavendish
- The Panama Disease Tracker now shows how much of the fruit the world grows and eats, how little of it is exported, and who grows and buys the most, with the biggest growers marked where TR4 has been found (avos.news/panama-disease-tracker).
- A new chart gives our own estimate of which banana leads world exports in 2035, 2050 and 2075, with the reasoning beside it. No one has published odds on this, so it's labelled as a judgement rather than a measurement.
- Every tracker's globe now sits on white.
The Panama Disease Tracker
- A new free tracker follows Tropical Race 4, the strain of the banana fungus now killing the Cavendish (avos.news/panama-disease-tracker): every country and territory on EPPO's list with the year it was first found, on a globe with a player that runs the spread year by year.
- See what it means for the trade: how much of the world's banana exports ship from countries where the fungus has been found, the places worst hit so far, 20 years of banana prices and the latest headlines.
- And the history behind it: how the same fungus wiped out the Gros Michel, the banana everyone ate until the 1950s, and why this time there is no replacement waiting.
- In all eight languages, and on avos.news/trackers. Set up an alert for when TR4 reaches a new country from the page.
Sections catch the day's biggest stories
- Sections built on our topic sources (World, Technology, Business and the rest) now weigh many more of the day's stories before picking yours, so what you get comes from the whole field, not just the first few headlines.
- The day's biggest stories now reach every section they belong to. A major security story makes your Technology section even when the news files it under Business.
Match a website, research papers and company news
- Match a website: paste your website in a newsletter's settings and its theme takes on your brand's colors and font, with a preview before you save. The AI editor can do it too.
- New feed, Research papers: new studies on a topic from arXiv and PubMed, each with its abstract. Free.
- New feed, Company news: news mainly about one listed company or fund, by its ticker (NVDA, AAPL). Free.
- Security newsletters and alerts can follow CISA's list of actively exploited vulnerabilities, for every vendor or just one: ask the AI editor or the alerts chat.
Rate each issue from 1 to 5
- Your issues now end with "How would you rate today's issue?" Tap a number from 1 to 5 right in the email.
- A short page opens on avos.news. For a low score it asks what went wrong, for a 3 what would make it a 5, and for a 4 or 5 what you liked. It's all optional, and you can change your answer there.
- If something in an issue was wrong, pick "Something was wrong" and tell us what. We check every report.
- The AI editor sees your ratings. When they point at a problem, it suggests a fix, and changes nothing until you say so.
- People you share a newsletter with, and a publisher's subscribers, can rate it too. You see their ratings and notes on each issue's page and in the Publisher tab, never who wrote them. Turn it off with "Ask readers to rate issues" in the Audience or Publisher tab.
Funding rounds, podcast search, Fed odds and YouTube transcripts
- New feed, Funding rounds: startup and venture rounds as they're announced, for a sector ("fintech") or a company or investor, each with its amount, stage and investors.
- New feed, Podcast search: what was said on podcasts about a topic, with the passages where it came up.
- Alerts can watch both ("tell me when a competitor raises money"). Each is priced per run, shown next to the field; a search that finds nothing, or fails, isn't charged.
- Financial sections and price alerts can follow the market's odds of a Fed hike or cut at the next meeting, from CME FedWatch.
- YouTube sections now read what is said in each video, not just its description.
- New official feeds in the directory, from USGS earthquakes and the FDA to the Fed, the ECB and arXiv, and the AI editor can follow a US company's SEC filings.
Natural disasters, live
- A new free tracker follows natural disasters around the world as they happen (avos.news/disaster-tracker): earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods, volcanoes, wildfires and droughts on one live globe, with the alert level GDACS (the United Nations and European Commission's alert system) gives each one.
- Pick any event to fly the globe to it and see its size, dates and the source's own report. Cyclones show their track, and Atlantic and Pacific storms carry the National Hurricane Center's latest advisory: category, wind, pressure and movement.
- The month's orange and red alerts, the week's earthquakes from the USGS on one chart (the strongest and the significant ones listed), and the floods, wildfires and droughts happening now.
- In all eight languages, and on avos.news/trackers alongside the market boards, El Niño and the outbreak trackers. Set up an alert for any of it from the page.
We now tell you when a feed stops working
- Avos checks the RSS feeds in your sections and alerts every day. When one stops working, its section's settings say so, with the date it last worked, so you can swap it for another from the feed directory or remove it. A feed that still answers but hasn't posted for two months is marked too.
- If the feed is in a newsletter or alert that's running, you get one email about it, with a link straight to the section.
- The AI editor sees the same check: open the chat and it will offer to find a working feed for you.
European newspapers in the feed directory
- The feed directory, where you search for a site when you add an RSS feed, now has the main newspapers, broadcasters and business titles in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Greek and Indonesian: NZZ, Handelsblatt, Die Welt, Der Standard, Le Figaro, Les Echos, L'Équipe, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Rzeczpospolita, ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ, Tempo and more, plus regional Swiss papers such as the Basler Zeitung and bz Basel.
- Entertainment and creative trade titles too: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, DPReview, CineD and MusicRadar.
- The AI editor searches the same directory, so when you ask for one of these it now adds the right feed instead of guessing its address.
- Feeds with a stray "&" in them, such as L'Équipe's, are now read correctly. A section built on one was coming out empty.
X search, and Grok for AI sections
- A new feed, X search, follows what people on X are posting about a topic, not just one account: "reactions to the Fed rate decision", say. Add it to a news section from Add feed, or ask the AI editor for a section that follows the conversation on X. Each post comes with its text, linked to the post.
- Alerts can watch an X search too: tell the alerts chat, or add it in the form. Like web and AI searches, it runs on the alert's slower schedule for costly feeds.
- The AI editor and the alerts chat can check what X is saying while they research, when you ask or when it helps decide a section.
- An X search costs more than other feeds, and the editor shows its price next to the topic. A search that finds nothing, or fails, isn't charged.
- AI sections can now write with Grok 4.7 or Grok 4.3: pick it in the section's model setting.
Drag sections into place, and empty lines that stay
- Reorder your sections by dragging them: in the editor, open Sections > Selected and drag a section by its handle. The arrows are gone, and the AI editor still moves sections when you ask.
- Text sections keep your empty lines. Enter starts a new line, a blank line starts a new paragraph, and each further blank line adds an empty line.
<br>on a line of its own does the same, in a Text section or in an AI section whose prompt asks for it. - Paragraphs in AI sections are spaced like Text sections, in the editor's preview, the app and the email alike. The preview used to run them together.
- "View online" works when your email is forwarded: the reader sees the issue's public page if the newsletter is shared, or a clear page saying the issue is private instead of an empty one.
- Templates open in a preview: click one on the home page or in the gallery to read its sample issue, switch to another from the books down the side, and start from it in one click. A template's own page looks the same.
- A new pricing page: the three plans side by side, what a month of credits buys across newsletters, alerts, the AI editor and Anchor Mode, and answers to more questions, from what an editor message is to what alerts use.
- The El Niño Tracker's card on the trackers page now shows its own chart, this El Niño against the great ones, instead of a second globe.
- Section settings are easier to read: one "Add feed" button lists every kind of feed and what it reads, and the options most sections never need sit under "Advanced settings". Adding a section uses the same form as editing one.
- Every issue now ends with a short note: for information only, not investment advice, and AI generated.
Images in AI sections
- An AI section can now generate an image every time it runs: a map of today's hotspots, a banner for the day, a tarot card. Turn on Image generation in the section's settings, describe what to draw, and the section's own text is added as context. Or ask the AI editor.
- Pick the shape (landscape, square or portrait), the quality and whether the image sits above or below the text. The settings show what one image costs.
- Images appear in the email, on the web and in the app. If an image can't be made, the section still goes out, and you aren't charged for the image.
- Image generation is on Plus and Pro.
Avos News in italiano
- The site, the app and the emails we send are now available in Italian, our eighth language.
- Reading in Italian, the pricing page starts on prices for Italy, in euros.
- We also reviewed every other language and fixed more than 500 translation mistakes, from wrong meanings to awkward grammar, across the site, the app and the emails.
Credit packs are now for Plus and Pro
- One-time credit packs now top up Plus and Pro plans only. A pack only ever added credits, never a plan's features, and on Starter the smaller pack cost the same as a month of Plus, which comes with those credits every month plus Anchor Mode, model choice and more newsletters.
- On Starter, Settings > Subscription now shows the Plus offer where the packs used to be, and the out-of-credits messages say "Upgrade" instead of "Top up".
- Credits you already bought stay in your reserve and keep working on any plan.
- Reserve credits (credit packs, sign-up and referral bonuses) stay valid for a year from the day they're added, as the pricing page says. The oldest are used first. Settings > Usage shows when the next ones expire, and we email you about a month before.
Start tracking from any tracker
- "Start tracking for free" on every tracker page takes you to a sign-up page with that tracker beside the form: an outbreak's latest events, or a board's numbers.
- Once you've signed up (or logged in), the alert for that tracker opens already filled in, for example "Tell me when Ebola reaches a new country or its weekly cases rise again." Adjust it and create it in one step. From the Macroboard, it's a Monday economy brief instead.
- The sign-up and log-in pages have a new look, in line with the home page, with what readers say about Avos beside them.
Economic indicators in your sections and alerts
- New: alerts on US economic data. Set a price alert on an indicator, such as "Inflation comes in above 4.5%" or "the yield curve goes below 0", and you hear about it when a new reading crosses your level. Choose "Economic indicator" in the alert form, or just describe it.
- The indicators you can alert on are the Fed funds rate, the 2- and 10-year Treasury yields, the yield curve, inflation, unemployment, jobs added, GDP growth, retail sales and durable goods, read exactly as the Macroboard (avos.news/economic-indicators) shows them.
- Fixed: economic indicators added to a financial section now appear in the newsletter you receive. Before, they showed in the preview but were left out of the sent issue.
- Indicators in sections are now the twelve US figures on the Macroboard, measured the same way: the Fed funds rate, Treasury yields and the yield curve, inflation, oil, unemployment, jobs added, GDP growth, retail sales, durable goods and the national debt.
- Each one shows the period it is for and how it moved since the reading before, in its own terms: a rate's change in points, jobs in thousands, the debt in dollars.
Crypto, stocks and the economy on split-flap boards
- Three new free trackers, drawn as an old split-flap station board: the Cryptoboard (avos.news/crypto-tracker), the Stockboard (avos.news/stock-tracker) and the Macroboard (avos.news/economic-indicators).
- The Cryptoboard lists the top 100 coins by market cap from CoinGecko, with prices every minute, the day's gainers and losers, and what's trending.
- The Stockboard lists the 100 largest US-listed companies, with prices as of the last close, the day's gainers and losers, the most traded, and the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow.
- The Macroboard shows the US economy's key numbers: rates, inflation, oil, jobs, growth and the national debt (from the Treasury's Debt to the Penny, every business day), with ten years of history each.
- Each board ends with the other two, so you can move between them.
- Click any row for its price history, and turn any coin or stock into an Avos alert: an email when it crosses your line or moves a set share in a day.
El Niño, week by week
- A new free tracker follows El Niño week by week from NOAA (avos.news/el-nino-tracker): its alert status, its strength on NOAA's official index against the 1982-83 record, NOAA's forecast and its chance of a record.
- See how this El Niño compares with 1982-83, 1997-98, 2015-16 and 2023-24, and why headlines quote a bigger number than NOAA's official index.
- Where it hits: reefs under heat stress on a live globe, El Niño's usual effects region by region, daily global air and sea temperatures, and the crop prices El Niño tends to move.
- In all seven languages, and on avos.news/trackers alongside the market boards and the outbreak trackers.
Live outbreak trackers
- New free trackers at avos.news/trackers. The Outbreak Tracker puts Ebola, plague, bird flu, mpox, cholera and measles on a live globe, with a page for each outbreak.
- Each page shows the hotspots and their figures, the trend, a timeline of what changed with its sources, and how the disease spreads.
- Avos refreshes the trackers every six hours from WHO outbreak news, ECDC and trusted health and news outlets, in all seven languages.
- Want to know the moment something changes? Build your own tracker: an Avos alert emails you when an outbreak reaches a new country or its numbers jump.
Open to everyone, and a new home page
- Avos is open to everyone: sign up for free, no invite or waitlist. An invite code, if you have one, still adds bonus credits.
- A new home page, in all seven languages, shows how Avos builds your briefing, from the sentence you type to the issue in your inbox.
- Play the noise game on the home page: beat the target score to unlock a bonus code for extra credits when you sign up. The terms are on the Legal page.
- Questions while you look around? The "Ask AI" button in the FAQ opens the support chat.
Follow YouTube channels
- A News section or an alert can now follow a YouTube channel. Add its @handle or paste the channel's link in the section's feeds, or ask the editor to add it.
- The feed shows the channel's name and subscriber count as you add it, so you can tell you picked the right one.
- Each new video is summarized from its description, so your briefing tells you what the video covers. Shorts without a description are skipped.
- Following a channel is free, like an RSS feed.
Follow X accounts, and no repeated stories
- A News section or an alert can now follow an X (formerly Twitter) account. Add its handle in the section's feeds, or ask the editor to add it. When a post shares an article, your briefing summarizes the article itself. Like AI search, an X account costs a little extra each time it runs.
- In alerts, X accounts are checked on the same slower schedule as web and AI searches, and the alerts chat asks before adding one to an alert that's running. If you choose to check them every hour, you'll see how many credits that uses first. A read that fails is never charged.
- The same story no longer shows up twice in one issue. A section whose stories all ran earlier in the issue is left out.
- A section whose article page is unusually large no longer fails to build.
- Feed search leaves out feeds that have stopped working, and more RSS feeds are read correctly.
- The support chat knows your newsletters' schedules and sources, so it can tell you when the next issue goes out and list everything you follow. It also knows what's new in Avos.
- Chat replies no longer show stray codes like "citeturn0…" when the assistant has searched the web.
Anchor Mode on iPhone Safari, and tidier greetings
- Anchor Mode now works in Safari on iPhone.
- A text section, like the greeting at the top of your briefing, no longer leaves an extra gap before the next section. The fix applies on the web, in the app and in the email.
Clearer alert emails and more feeds per section
- News alerts no longer repeat a story they already reported from another outlet.
- Every alert email has its own subject line: the lead headline, plus the date for digests. Gmail stops bundling your alerts into one thread.
- On paid plans a section can read up to 10 feeds; on Starter, up to 5. If you downgrade, your sections keep the feeds they already have.
- Building a section can now take up to 5 minutes, so heavier sections finish instead of timing out.
- Each newsletter keeps its own icon color.
- The Avos seal and footer logo show correctly in Gmail on iPhone.
Tones you can hear, and rankings that keep every story
- Casual, friendly and humorous tones now shape the headlines too, not only the summaries.
- A "top stories" filter now ranks the stories and shows you the best ones, instead of dropping the ones it was unsure about.
- Failed work is never charged. If a chat turn ends in an error, a section comes back unusable or an alert check fails, it costs you no credits.
AI search feeds, quiet sections, and editor requests that finish
- A section can use AI search as one of its feeds: an agent searches the web for your topic every time the issue is built.
- Quiet sections: when nothing new happened in a section's time window, your issue says so instead of padding it with old news. In the editor you can choose to look back 30 days.
- Long requests in the editor now wrap up on time instead of stalling. If the agent runs out of time, a Continue button picks up where it stopped, and your message is saved the moment you send it.
Price alerts that repeat, an alerts chat, and combined alerts
- Price alerts can fire once, or every time the price crosses your level.
- Create and edit an alert by chatting, the same way you build a newsletter. The form is still there if you prefer it.
- Combined alerts mix news conditions with price triggers, and fire when all or any of them match.
- A price level far from today's price now gets a warning before you save it.
Alerts: hear about it the moment something matches
New: Alerts. Point them at news topics or the feeds you trust, describe what you're waiting for, and Avos emails you when a new story matches. News monitoring has the details.
- Price alerts on stocks and crypto, from the same place. More on price alerts.
- Choose how you hear about it: instantly, in a daily digest or in a weekly one.
Avos News in Bahasa Indonesia
- The site, the app and the emails we send are now available in Bahasa Indonesia, our seventh language.
- Prices on the pricing page can show in Indonesian rupiah.
A directory of vetted RSS feeds
- Search a directory of vetted RSS feeds when you build a section, or ask the editor to find the right feed for you.
Newsletter themes
- Pick a theme for your newsletter in its settings, or describe the look you want to the editor and it designs a custom theme for you.
- Your theme applies everywhere you read your briefing, including the email.
Six templates with live sample issues
- Start from a template: The Daily Brief; Tech, AI & Business; Markets & Investing; Crypto; War & Conflict; or Science & Health.
- Each template shows a real, recent issue, so you can read one before you use it.
Avos News speaks six languages
- The site, the app and the emails we send are available in English, German, Spanish, French, Polish and Greek.
- Your briefing itself can be written in any of around 50 languages, and Anchor Mode speaks your newsletter's language.