6:00a.m. Central
Monday–Friday
Daily AI news scan
Finds fresh signals, avoids recent repeats, writes the daily briefing, syncs the archive, and publishes the site.
Transparent by design
Behind the signalHuman direction × AI execution
How the signal
gets made.
AIGTC Daily Signal is not assembled by a conventional newsroom. It is a small, purpose-built publishing system that connects AI research and synthesis to a scheduled task, a structured archive, and this website.
Follow the workflow ↓The short version
The site is both a publication and a pipeline.
Craig Van Slyke defined the editorial purpose, beats, exclusions, voice, and quality rules. OpenAI Codex carries out the recurring research and drafting work, turns the resulting files into site-ready data, and publishes the refreshed site on a schedule.
From sources to site
Four connected steps
Each run creates a durable briefing first. The website is a presentation layer built from those source documents.
- 01
Scan
On weekday mornings, a scheduled Codex task searches current reporting, research, lab announcements, and higher-education sources. It checks the previous seven days of briefings to reduce repetition.
- 02
Select and synthesize
The task filters for developments that matter to AI Goes to College: teaching, learning, cognition, assessment, model capabilities, and the changing first rung of professional work. It writes a dated Markdown briefing with links to original sources.
- 03
Assemble
A site-sync step reads the daily briefings and weekly syntheses, extracts dates, sections, excerpts, and reading times, then connects each weekly synthesis to its matching daily scans.
- 04
Publish
The site is rebuilt, checked for errors, and published as the final step of the scheduled task. That is why a new briefing can move from research to the public archive without a separate manual upload.
The scheduled tasks
Two rhythms, one archive.
6:00a.m. Central
Sunday
Weekly synthesis
Looks across the completed week, develops larger patterns and implications, adds the synthesis to the archive, and republishes the site.
Who does what
Direction stays human. Production is largely automated.
Craig sets the editorial frame
- Defines what counts as signal for the AIGTC audience
- Sets the beats, exclusions, voice, and quality rules
- Maintains the workflow and remains responsible for the publication
Codex executes the recurring workflow
- Finds, filters, and organizes candidate sources
- Drafts summaries, interpretations, and weekly syntheses
- Updates the archive and publishes refreshed site versions
AI
Disclosure
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The briefings are AI-generated and publication is automated.
OpenAI Codex performs the research, selection, summarization, synthesis, and much of the writing on this site under editorial instructions created by Craig Van Slyke. Because the workflow publishes automatically, an item may appear before Craig has personally reviewed it.
AI systems can misread a source, flatten nuance, overstate a finding, or omit useful context. Links are included so readers can inspect the original material. For consequential academic, policy, or professional decisions, treat the original source as authoritative rather than this summary.
Editorial guardrails
What the automation is told to value
Signal over volume. Slow news days should produce short briefings, not filler.
Original sources. Research papers, institutional policies, and first-party announcements are preferred when available.
A clear AIGTC angle. An item stays only if it has a concrete implication for teaching, learning, cognition, work, or institutional practice.
No hidden certainty. Uncertainty should be named specifically, and linked sources remain the record readers should trust.