For trading & prediction-market research0 topics· MCP + REST API· no key required

The news layer for AI agents.

Give your agents the news behind the market. Track equities and crypto, see what changed, and bring source-linked headlines into your trading and prediction-market research. Connect through MCP or API for a concise update when new stories appear, or a clear answer when nothing changed.

Free public access. No API key required. Open source.

one request, right now
curl -s "https://www.newsbeat.dev/api/v2/stories?beat_id=b_7883c6d63df4"
Connect your agent Explore live newsSource
newsbeat — your agent asks, newsbeat answerslive headlines
NEWSBEAT·Awaiting the next ingestion cycle.
your agent{"task": "due diligence on Nvidia China exposure"}free
→ topicb_bb964843350e · NVIDIAready
askhas this moved since I last looked?check
answermoved · 3 new stories · citednew stories
awaitingLoading the latest headlines. Explore the terminal for topic status.system
read-only · publicMCP + APIconnecting…
2,000+
Equities and cryptos tracked
0
Seat licences required
≤8
Stories per answer, ready for your agent
15m
How often every topic is re-checked

2,000+ equities and cryptos · loading live status

Coverage includes
ReutersBloombergThe Associated PressFinancial TimesThe Wall Street JournalCNBCThe EconomistBBC NewsNikkei AsiaAl JazeeraSouth China Morning PostTechCrunchThe VergeArs TechnicaWiredCoinDeskCointelegraphThe BlockDecryptBlockworksDL NewsUnchainedThe DefiantBitcoin MagazineProtos
What you get

Give every decision current context.

Track the companies and crypto assets that matter to your strategy. Get a compact set of new headlines, with sources and timestamps, ready for research, alerts, and market analysis.

NVIDIA3 new
published06:41Z
indexed06:43Z

Know what changed

Get new stories since your last check, so your agent can focus on the latest developments.

a question, not a feed
pack · b_bb964843350e3 of 8
ranked by publication time

Keep context compact

Up to eight stories per answer, ready to fit into your agent's research and analysis workflow.

≤8 stories
scheduled checksyour cadence
nothing changeda useful answer

Check on your schedule

Let your agent ask regularly. A clear answer when nothing changed is useful too.

keep the latest cursor
Reuterscited
headline · source · timestamp
no bodyarticle link

Follow the source

Every item includes a headline, publisher, timestamp, and link so you can investigate further.

link on every item
pricingfree early access
public readsno key required

Start building for free

Public news reads are free during early access. Connect your agent without an API key or credit card.

free early access
RESTtoolsMCP
one payload shapesame handlers

Connect to your stack

Use REST, OpenAI-compatible tools, or MCP to bring news into the agents you already run.

REST · tools · MCP
Trading & prediction markets

Keep your agent watching the market.

From a stock watchlist to a crypto thesis or a Polymarket research workflow, give your agent a repeatable way to check the news.

Follow the stories behind your watchlist.

Follow relevant companies and assets, collect new headlines, and carry the sources into your analysis. Combine NewsBeat with your market data and probability models to investigate what changed—and whether it changes your view.

  • Check your watchlist on a schedule that fits your workflow
  • Bring source-linked headlines into your research
  • Nothing changed is a useful answer too
  • Store the latest cursor so your next check picks up where you left off
example agent loop · one topicread-only
06:00 wakecheck NVIDIAcheck
06:00 nothingnothing moved · cursor heldcheck
06:30 wakethree new stories · sources includednew stories
06:30 citeReuters · published 06:21 · indexed 06:28cited
06:31 writememo to the desk, link onlyno bodies
your watchlistyour schedulesource-linked updates
How it works

Choose your topics. Connect your agent. Stay informed.

Choose what matters, ask what changed, and bring the answer into your workflow.

1

Pick your topics

Choose from 2,000+ equities and cryptos. Each has a stable ID your agent can keep in its watchlist.

2,000+ topics
2

Your agent asks what changed

It sends the topic and the cursor from last time. The answer is either nothing moved, or a short pack of what did.

two possible answers
3

Bring the news into your workflow

Carry new headlines and their sources into research, alerts, and market analysis. Store the latest cursor for the next check.

research · alerts · analysis

Follow the quickstart

Free early access

Start free. Build with your agent.

Public reads are free during early access, with no API key or credit card required. The plans below describe future paid access; Stripe checkout is not live.

daily rate
$0.20

Per day for up to fifty tickers, checked on the fifteen-minute refresh schedule. No seat licences.

prepaid · 30 days
$6

Thirty days of access at the same daily rate. A simple starting point for your agent workflow.

prepaid · 90 days
$18

Ninety days of access for agents you run regularly. Same rate, fewer top-ups.

prepaid · 300 days
$60

Three hundred days of access for ongoing market research and monitoring.

View pricing

Why now

Markets move. Keep your agent’s context current.

Your agent needs a way to bring new developments into its analysis. NewsBeat adds repeatable news checks to the data and tools your strategy already uses.

Bring in new developments

Supplement your model’s existing knowledge with news about the companies and assets you follow.

current context

Keep track of what changed

Keep a cursor for each topic. Your next check asks for the stories that appeared since, giving your agent a consistent starting point.

updates since your last check

Built for agent workflows

Use compact, structured answers with sources and timestamps in your prompts, tools, research notes, and alerts.

structured and source-linked
Where we are

Built today. Coming next.

Your tools. Your channels. Your news. Connect through MCP or API today, with more integrations on the way.

Shipped

2,000+ equities and cryptos, refreshed every fifteen minutes. REST API, OpenAI-compatible tools, and hosted MCP, with cursors, briefs, and topic freshness status.

In progress

Publisher URLs instead of Google News redirects, and a lede for items that currently carry only a headline.

Next

Telegram, Discord, and more service integrations, bringing news updates into the places where you research, collaborate, and act. Scheduled watches and push updates are also planned.

Open

The contract, the schemas and the documentation are public. The catalog and the tool definitions need no credential, so you can evaluate before you spend.

Full status and roadmap

Questions

Before you connect.

Five answers here, and the rest on the full FAQ.

What does NewsBeat do?
NewsBeat gives your AI assistant access to recent company and crypto news. Once connected, you can ask “What is happening with Nvidia?” in your own words. Your assistant looks up the coverage and answers with sources you can open.
Do I need to know how to code?
No coding is needed if your assistant lets you add a remote MCP connection. MCP is a way for an AI assistant to use an outside service. Add the NewsBeat address once, then ask questions normally. If your assistant does not offer this connection, you can explore news directly in the NewsBeat terminal.
What can I ask?
Try “What is happening with Nvidia?”, “Give me the latest headlines about Apple”, or “What changed with Bitcoin since our last check?” You can ask about supported US-listed companies and crypto assets. Follow-up checks depend on your assistant retaining the previous check.
Will my agent know when to check the news?
A connected agent can choose NewsBeat when current news would help answer your question, even if you do not mention NewsBeat by name. For example, it can check recent company headlines while researching a business. Add the suggested instruction in our getting-started guide to make that preference clear. Your assistant controls tool selection and may ask you to approve a lookup.
Will it keep watching when I close the chat?
NewsBeat answers when your assistant calls it. It does not keep your chat running or send alerts by itself. Recurring checks need a scheduling feature in your assistant or another workflow that you set up. Dedicated notifications and messaging integrations are still in development.
Open source

MIT licensed. Built to be extended.

All of it is public — the contract, the ingestion worker, the ledger and this site. Three things make it worth an afternoon.

Runs without infrastructure

Clone it and run the tests with no database, no API key and no news provider. The interesting logic is pure by design, so it can be exercised on its own.

npm install && npm test

Small enough to read

Five packages, one API and one worker. The architecture doc is a single page and covers all of it, including why the billing rules live in SQL rather than in the service.

one page of architecture

The catalog is open

2,000+ equities and cryptos covered today, and the list is deliberately open. Proposing a ticker takes an issue and no code at all, which makes it the cheapest real contribution here.

propose a topic
Star it on GitHub Your first pull request

Python or Go SDKs, extra topics, documentation fixes and integration examples are all genuinely useful. There is no CLA.

Give your agent a market to watch.

Choose your topics, connect through MCP or API, and start building with news your agent can use.

Connect your agent Explore live news

The news layer for AI agents · Free public access · Open source