# AiScale News Summary

> AiScale News Summary is a paid API for AI agents from agents.aiscale.pro, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Summarizes recent news articles for a given topic, returning structured summaries with source, date, relevance score, and key takeaways.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agents.aiscale.pro/api/v1/news/summary?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/aiscale-news-summary-25371eab
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wVxlkUUo9vjTxKHXpVd6E

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability aiscale-news-summary-25371eab
```

Example prompt: Can you pull me a news summary on electric vehicles — I want the key takeaways, sources, and how relevant each story is?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, structured digest of recent news on a topic with relevance scoring and key takeaways already extracted — ideal for briefings, research, or monitoring a subject without needing to scrape and parse raw articles yourself.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for obscure or misspelled topics — returns empty summary list
- Missing or vague topic query may yield irrelevant or low-relevance results
- Rate limiting or payment failures if x402 payment is not properly handled
- Stale results if news index has not been refreshed recently

## How this service works

AiScale News Summary: Summarizes recent news for a topic. Returns structured summaries with source, date, relevance score, and key takeaways.

## Output

Returns structured news summaries for the queried topic, including the news source, publication date, a relevance score indicating topical closeness, and bullet-point key takeaways extracted from each article.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/aiscale-news-summary-25371eab/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agents.aiscale.pro](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agents.aiscale.pro/llms.txt)