Turn it on
News needs web search enabled (Settings → AI Assistant → Web Search). Then pick topics with the Topics button on the News page. Pick from the suggestions (grouped as World, Tech & Science, Business, Sports, Culture & Life, with a search box to filter them) or add your own ("San Francisco city updates"). An optional Location adds local news. The Sources card on the same page chooses where headlines come from: Google News is on by default, and you can add Bing News or Hacker News. Every topic is fetched from each source you turn on, and a story from a source other than Google News says so in its byline. With more than one source on, the left rail grows a Sources list: click one to see only its stories (on the front page, inside a topic, and in search), and All sources to go back. Headlines refresh when you open News, not in the background.
The News page
News (Cmd+K, then "news") is a single timeline of current headlines for your topics, newest first. Each post shows the source, its topic, and how old it is. The topics rail on the left drills into one topic; "← All news" comes back. Headlines come straight from news feeds; no AI writes them. Stories you have already opened dim. The search box in the header filters the current headlines (the last 48 hours of every followed topic) and your Saved stories by title, source, or topic; it searches what the page holds, not the web.
Clicking a headline opens the reader: the article is fetched and summarized on your Mac, with Open article for the original page and Ask about this to discuss it with the assistant. That chat starts with the article's text itself in context, and when web search is on the assistant also searches for background or newer developments instead of relying on what it remembers. When the AI spots upcoming dates in an article (an event, a deadline), it offers Add to Schedule, checked by you before you rely on it. Under the summary, Related coverage lists a few real links to where the story continues: another outlet on the same story, background, what followed. One web search on the headline finds them, the titles and links are the publishers' own, and the AI only chooses which are worth your time. A row opens here in the reader; the arrow beside it opens the page in your browser. It needs web search on, and it is skipped when it finds nothing.
Any article by its link. Paste a link into the News search box and press Enter (or click Read this link) and the reader opens on it: the page is fetched and summarized on your Mac, and when it will not load (a paywall, a bot wall, a consent wall) coverage of the same story from other sources is searched and summarized instead, labeled as such. The nenva Reader Chrome extension (in the app's source under extension/chrome, loaded unpacked for now) is the same door from the browser: one toolbar button, Alt+Shift+R, or right-click and "Read this page in nenva" hands the tab's address and title to the app; it reads nothing on the page and sends nothing anywhere else.
Save in the reader keeps a story for later. Saved stories are listed under Saved in the topics rail, and they stay there after the headline drops out of the feed, so the reader can open them again days later. The × on a saved row removes it, and your saved list syncs between your Macs.
Catch me up
The assistant can read these headlines too. Ask it "what's the news?" and it summarises your followed topics rather than searching the web. The Morning News routine does the same thing at 7am and posts the digest to your home feed (edit or reschedule it under Manage routines).
Catch me up (on the News page) writes a short AI digest of the current headlines, on your Mac. It needs an AI model set up.
Make it yours
The × on any story means show fewer like this: ranking learns from it, and hidden stories can be restored from the Topics page (the Topics button, or Edit topics in the rail). Stories boosted toward your interests carry a For you label with the reason. Clicks, hides, and ranking all stay on your Mac; the model never chooses or writes the headlines you see.