About

A tech watch that writes itself.

JD News is the daily tech watch of Jérôme Ducret, data and AI engineer. Every edition, a blog and a podcast, covers what moved in data, AI and cloud infrastructure, explained for engineers who want the mechanism, not the press release.

Nobody writes it by hand. A pipeline I built reads the news, picks the stories, researches them, writes, checks, illustrates, records and publishes, from Tuesday to Saturday, before breakfast. I work on the pipeline, not on the editions.

How an edition is made

1. Reading. A list of tech blogs, newsletters and release feeds is collected overnight.
2. Choosing. A ranking model scores every article, groups duplicates and picks the edition's stories, with no more than two from the same feed.
3. Researching. Each story gets a web search and its primary pages, read in full, so the writing does not rest on a summary.
4. Writing and checking. The articles are written, then every factual claim is checked against the full source pages; what cannot be backed up is removed. A reviewer pass then reads the whole edition.
5. Illustrating. The source's own image when there is one, an infographic for detailed stories, and explainer animations or videos.
6. Recording. The podcast script is written and voiced. Jérôme and Sydney, the two hosts, are synthetic voices, and the voice track is cleaned up for a closer, studio sound.
7. Publishing. The edition lands on this site, the episode in the podcast feed, and the blog is translated into French.

What to keep in mind

The editions are written by AI and published without a human read. The checks catch a lot, not everything. Every story links its sources: go to them before relying on a detail.

Ways to read and listen

• Podcast: on Apple Podcasts or any app with the RSS feed.
• Search: press ⌘K or / on the home page. The search runs in your browser; your queries stay on your device.
• With your own agent: every edition has a plain-text version and an index at /llms.txt, and the “Read with agent” button hands an edition to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
• In French: the globe button switches the site and the editions to French.
• Aloud: the speaker button in a story reads it from the passage on screen, turning the pages as it goes. The voice is made on your device.

Built with

• Anthropic
• Google Gemini
• Desert Ant Labs
• Gradium Phonon
• GitHub

The code is open: the pipeline and this site.

Stories are read aloud in your browser by Phonon, Gradium's on-device text-to-speech: Phonon 31m in English (Apache 2.0) and Phonon 40m French in French (CC BY-NC 4.0, used here non-commercially). The text never leaves your device.

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