APEX News
Headlines with their source and age, separating what is a fact from what is someone's interpretation. "Analysts see pressure" does not mean there is pressure.
A headline is not data
APEX News brings third-party headlines with their source and age, separating what is a fact from what is someone's reading. The difference between the two is half the job.
“The central bank raised rates” is a dated fact. “Analysts see pressure on the sector” is not: it is someone's interpretation, and treating it as information is how a thesis gets built on nothing. APEX classifies them separately and shows you which is which.
Every headline carries its source and its age. A news item without a date does not get in — if it cannot be declared fresh, it cannot be used. One that is too old does not either. And one dated in the future is corrupt data, not breaking news.
Deduplicating paraphrases, not signatures
Outlets do not republish the same headline: they rewrite it. An exact signature does not catch that, so APEX compares by overlap of meaningful words — which is what it takes for the same story told by five outlets not to take five slots of your attention.
Then it ranks by relevance with five declared weights, and applies a hard cut: whatever does not pass the threshold is discarded, and how much was discarded is counted. Without that number, the filter would be a black box and there would be no way to know whether it is swallowing something that mattered.
Third-party text is untrusted input
It is the only part of APEX where text we did not write gets close to the reasoning. It is treated as what it is.
Delimited and with a header that explicitly says these are data, that they do not change APEX's rules and that no decision can be derived from a headline.
It is not “cleaned up” to be quoted anyway: it is neutralized, counted and not used. And the filter is deliberately conservative, because a false positive deletes real news: “Analysts say buy Nvidia” passes intact, and there is a dedicated test to keep it passing.
No APEX decision is derived from a headline. The worst case of a bypassed filter is an odd quote, not an obeyed order. The filter reduces surface; it is not the only layer, and it is not presented as if it were.