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Support WorldBrief
Free to read. Not free to run.
WorldBrief has no ads, no paywall and no investors. It is one person and a system that never stops reading. If it helps you make sense of the world, you can help keep it running.
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Where the money goes
What it takes, every day
- 01
Reading the world's press
247 news outlets from 73 countries, in 14 languages, collected around the clock and kept, so that every event can be traced back to its sources.
- 02
AI processing
Language models sort the headlines, group them into events, attach them to conflicts, write the summaries and translate every page into German. Each step is a paid call to an AI service, and they run all day long.
- 03
Servers and database
The website, the processing pipeline and the database run in the cloud around the clock, and they grow with every month of history they keep.
- 04
Development
New features are built with paid AI coding tools, alongside many hours of my own work.
All of this is paid out of my own pocket today, before I am paid anything for my own time. Donations go first to keeping the site running, then to building what comes next.
What comes next
Where your support takes WorldBrief
The economy under the conflicts
A macro-economic layer: the economic assets that matter most, from shipping lanes and energy to critical minerals, and the risks each conflict puts on them.
The law as it changes
A regulatory layer: the legislation that bears on each conflict and country, taken directly from government websites.
In their own words
Official statements from heads of state, UN envoys and government think tanks, added to each side's account so you can read every position at its source.
And steady improvements across the whole site, week by week.
A thank you
Get the book
Donate $10 or more and I will email you the PDF of my book Citizen's Duty: the method behind WorldBrief, written for people rather than machines.
I send it by hand to the email address of your PayPal account. If you would like it sent somewhere else, write that address in the note with your donation.
Other ways to help
Share a page you found useful with someone who would read it. And tell me when something is wrong: the known issues page lists what I already know about, and anything else can go to max.micheliov@gmail.com.
Thank you for reading.