How Pollar is made

We don't send reporters. We read what newsrooms across Europe have already published and summarise it with AI. This page shows how that works and where your data goes.

Europe today · Meteosat, EUMETSATOct 16 · 15:00 UTC
events a day
179
sources behind a typical event
7
publishers cited in 30 days
243
languages for every event
4

Last 30 days, counted from our database every hour.

From many articles to one event

Follow today's example. Each name is an article from a different newsroom.

8 articles, one eventMSCI downgrade threatsends Jakarta indexdown over 11%People and linksDates and weekdaysNothing lost in translationSomething new to sayENPLDEFR1,234 corrections recorded in 90 daysWirtschafts WocheHandelsblattLesEchos.frThe New York TimesBloomberg Business

We read what is already published

We collect articles from nearly 200 newsrooms in 12 markets. People choose that list. No algorithm adds a source on its own.

Who
People choose, machines fetch
Where
Our servers, EU

X-ray an event

Today's example, as published. Turn on the x-ray to see what AI wrote, what we checked and where each part comes from.

AI-generated illustration

AI-generated

MSCI proposes stand-alone downgrade for Indonesia as Jakarta index plunges 11%

MSCI has launched a consultation on moving Indonesia to stand-alone status, which would remove it from all of its indexes. Jakarta's IDX Composite fell about 11% on Friday, 16 October, its sharpest one-day drop since January 1998.

In the text: Gary Tan, Portfolio manager in charge of emerging equities at Allspring Global Investments in Singapore

Key dates in MSCI's Indonesia review

  1. 2026-01A possible downgrade of Indonesia's market status is first on the table
  2. 2026-10-15MSCI launches a consultation on moving Indonesia to stand-alone status
  3. 2026-10-16IDX Composite falls about 11%, trading is halted and the drop is the sharpest since 1998
  4. 2027-06MSCI's final decision is due by the end of June
Published Oct 16, 04:47 PMCorrections: 0Also in PL · DE · FR
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Where what you type goes

Reading an article sends nothing about you to any AI provider. Some features do send what you type. Pick one to see its route. A solid line is the normal route, a dashed one the fallback when the main provider does not answer.

  1. You

    phone or browser

  2. Pollar serversEU

    Hetzner

  3. Google Vertex AIEU

    EU regions, via an EU gateway

  4. Fallback · Microsoft AzureEU

    Sweden, via an EU gateway

What is sent
Your description of what you want to read, without your email or account identifiers
How long it is kept
In your settings until you delete it
Consent
Yes, asked the first time you save
Processed in
EU

Who does what

We don't pretend a person reads every line. This is how the work is split.

TaskAIPeople
Choosing sources
Grouping articles into events
Writing
Checks before publishing
Translation
Correcting mistakes
Sports editorial decisions
Pollar Originals
Choosing photos (freely licensed) and AI illustrations
Voices in audio

does it shared

Synthetic voices

Article audio, the brief, explainers and Pollar Sounds are read by voices generated by AI. We send the voice provider the text to be read.

Nothing about you goes with it, with one exception: a Radar audio briefing is built from the topics you watch, so their text reaches the voice provider (ElevenLabs, in the US).

What we don't do

  • We don't generate photos of events.

    We take photos from Wikimedia Commons and from public institutions’ official photo services, always with the author and licence. We don’t copy publishers’ photos. Some events show an AI-generated illustration of the topic instead, never of a real person or event. It is always captioned “AI-generated illustration”. There is no mark on the image itself, and the file records it in its XMP metadata (DigitalSourceType).

  • We don't send what you read to AI.

    Opening an article fetches finished text from our servers.

  • We don't train models.

    We have never trained or fine-tuned a model, on your data or anyone else's.

  • We don't write without sources.

    Every event links to the articles it was built from.

  • We don't put a name on AI text.

    AI text is labelled. Pollar Originals are written by people, and that is labelled too.

  • We don't pretend to be infallible.

    We fix mistakes and show corrections under the event.

Who processes what

Companies and regions. We don't publish which model does which step: that changes often and is how we compete.

Writing, translating, the daily brief

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI (also via Microsoft Azure), DeepSeek models run by cloud providers

EU and US

Recognising people and places

Our own servers

EU

Synthetic voice

ElevenLabs

US

Your feed preferences, follow suggestions, Radar topics

Google Cloud Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure, AWS Bedrock (Frankfurt) and Cloudflare Workers AI (Radar decisions), EU regions, providers with zero data retention

EU

Pollar Chat, search

Anthropic, OpenAI, Cohere

US

Gateways between us and AI providers

OpenRouter (US); Requesty Ltd (UK), EU gateway in Frankfurt, which stores no prompts or outputs

EU and US

Our servers and database

Hetzner

EU

Check it yourself

Every event, its sources and its corrections are public through our MCP server. Fetch today's example yourself, or ask your AI assistant.

curl -s https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call",
       "params":{"name":"get_event","arguments":{
         "slug":"indonesia-stocks-plunge-on-msci","locale":"en"}}}'

Changes

When a provider or a place of processing changes, we note it here with the date.

  1. 13 Oct 2026Member translations and Radar translations are processed by AI models in the EU. Chat and search requests that still go through OpenRouter may only reach providers that do not train on them.
  2. 13 Oct 2026This page now shows live numbers, today's example and the route of each feature.
  3. 13 Oct 2026Feed preferences, follow suggestions and Radar topics are processed by AI models in the EU.
  4. 13 Oct 2026Polish translations and the main daily brief are processed in the EU. If that service fails, public news text may go to providers outside the EU.
  5. 12 Oct 2026Correction notices appear under events.

Report a mistake

AI can get a date or a number wrong. Write to contact@pollar.news with a link to the event. We read every report.

Satellite images: contains modified EUMETSAT Meteosat data 2026. Each frame is at least an hour old.