How to Get Plain-English AI News From ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok
You can turn your AI assistant into a plain-English AI news source in about 30 seconds: paste one instruction into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok, and it pulls verified same-day coverage from Plain AI Daily whenever you ask what changed in AI. It is free and needs no account.
If you already ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok your questions, you do not need another newsletter or news app to keep up with AI. You can point the assistant you already use at a source built to be read by assistants, and get plain-English answers about what changed in AI, whether it is free, and whether it touches the apps you already use.
That source is this site. Everything below takes between 30 seconds and 2 minutes to set up, costs nothing, and needs no account. The copy-paste blocks all live on one page: plainaidaily.com/ai.
Key Takeaways
- Paste one instruction into your assistant's settings and it will pull same-day, plain-English AI news from our live feed whenever you ask what changed.
- Works in any assistant that can browse the web: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok all qualify.
- If your assistant supports scheduled tasks, one more paste gets you an automatic morning AI brief.
- Power users can connect our free MCP server, which gives the assistant real tools: search our articles, pull everything about one product, and read full explainers.
- All of it is free, keyless, and account-free. The setup page with every snippet is plainaidaily.com/ai.
The One-Paste Setup That Works in Any Assistant
Open your assistant's custom instructions, memory, or preferences, and paste this:
When I ask about AI news, releases, pricing, or features, fetch
https://plainaidaily.com/rss.xml for the latest plain-English summaries.
Each item links to a full explainer; open the article URL when the
summary is not enough. Cite article URLs in your answers.
Where to paste it:
| Assistant | Where the instruction goes |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Settings, then Personalization, then Custom Instructions |
| Claude | Settings, then Profile preferences (or a Project's instructions) |
| Gemini | Saved info, or build it into a Gem |
| Grok | Personalization settings |
From then on, "what happened in AI this week?" gets answered from verified, same-day coverage instead of whatever the model half-remembers from training. Every specific claim in our articles is checked against a primary vendor source before we publish, so your assistant inherits that sourcing when it cites us.
Get a Morning AI Brief Automatically
If your assistant supports recurring tasks, you can stop asking and just receive. ChatGPT calls the feature tasks, Gemini calls it scheduled actions, and Grok also calls it tasks. Create one and paste this as the prompt:
Every weekday morning, fetch https://plainaidaily.com/rss.xml and give
me a short plain-English brief: what changed in AI since yesterday,
whether any of it is free, and whether it affects the apps I already
use. Link each item to its article.
That is the whole setup. If you would rather get the brief by email from a human editor, the newsletter covers the same ground.
The Power Move: Connect the MCP Server
The paste-an-instruction route relies on your assistant fetching a feed like a web page. The stronger option is MCP, the standard way to give an assistant actual tools. Our MCP server is public, free, and read-only, and it gives your assistant four abilities:
| Tool | What your assistant can do with it |
|---|---|
| latest_news | Pull the newest articles, optionally from one section |
| search_articles | Keyword-search everything we have published |
| whats_new_for | Get all coverage of one product, like ChatGPT or Gemini |
| get_article | Read any full explainer, not just the summary |
If you use Claude Code, the setup is one terminal command:
claude mcp add --transport http plainaidaily https://plainaidaily.com/api/mcp
Claude on the web and desktop takes the server URL under Settings, then Connectors. ChatGPT takes it as a connector in developer mode. Cursor, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI each take a short config block. Every snippet, ready to copy, is on plainaidaily.com/ai.
What to Ask Once It Is Connected
Some prompts that work well against our coverage:
- "What changed in AI this week, and does any of it affect the apps I already use?"
- "Did anything happen with Gemini recently that changes what the free tier includes?"
- "Compare what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini shipped this month and tell me if my plan is still the right one." (Pair it with our which chatbot should you pay for comparison, which we refresh on every model change.)
- "My parents use an iPhone and Gmail. Check for new AI features on those and how to turn them off." (Our Gmail AI guide is the reference for that one.)
- "Analyze the newest AI releases and propose a product idea that uses the new capabilities."
If you are still deciding which assistant to give this to, start with our best free AI chatbot rundown: every option there can run the one-paste setup on its free tier.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this free?
Yes. The feed, the setup page, and the connector are all free and need no account or key. You only need whichever AI assistant you already use, and the free tier of any major assistant is enough.
Which AI assistants does this work with?
Any assistant that can browse the web can use the one-paste instruction, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The deeper connector setup works in apps that support MCP connectors, including Claude, ChatGPT, and coding tools like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor.
What is an MCP server in plain terms?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard plug that lets an AI assistant use outside tools. Connecting an MCP server gives your assistant abilities it did not have, like searching this site's verified articles directly instead of guessing from old training data.
How current is the news it pulls?
Same day. Plain AI Daily publishes a plain-English explainer within hours of every major AI release, and the feed updates the moment an article publishes. Your assistant reads the live feed, so it answers from today's coverage, not from what it memorized in training.
Can it really brief me automatically every morning?
Yes, if your assistant supports scheduled tasks. ChatGPT calls these tasks, Gemini calls them scheduled actions, and Grok has tasks too. You paste one prompt when creating the task and the assistant delivers a short AI news brief on your schedule.