AIHOT — Chinese AI News, Trending Topics, and Daily Briefing Query Skill

Skill Overview

AIHOT is an agent skill that uses the public API of aihot.news to provide real-time access to Chinese AI news, current trending-topic rankings, and daily AI briefings. It is anonymous and read-only, requires no API key, and answers solely based on the content actually returned by the API. It will not use training-memory knowledge to present old news as “real-time results.”

Use Cases

1. Daily AI updates: Ask “What’s happening in AI today?” and receive key editor-selected items within a 24-hour or 7-day time window. Each item includes its source, Beijing time, a one- or two-sentence plain-language summary, and a recommendation rationale—enabling you to catch up on the day’s highlights in just a few minutes.
2. Tracking major trending events: To understand the background and development of a major AI event, first view the current trending-topic ranking (up to 10 entries with rankings), then explore event details for a reverse-chronological reporting timeline, an AI-generated overview, and a one-sentence update on the latest developments.
3. Targeted news searches: Search by company, product, or topic keywords, or browse recent updates by categories such as models, products, papers, industries, and techniques. If no results are found in the curated pool, the search automatically expands to the full pool and tries again, helping avoid missing obscure items.

Core Features

1. Curated Chinese AI news queries: Based on editor-selected items returned by the service for 24-hour or 7-day time windows, sorted by default according to the collection timeline (consistent with the aihot.news website). It directly provides Chinese briefings that ordinary readers can understand, rather than raw JSON or debugging information.
2. AI trending rankings and event timelines: Displays up to 10 of the current hottest events in ranked order. For trending items with event links, users can further retrieve a reporting timeline, an AI-generated overview that evolves with the event and explicitly marks contradictions, and the latest developments.
3. Daily AI briefings: Directly retrieves the latest issue or the fixed daily briefing for a specified date. Daily briefings are separate from rolling time-window queries, clearly distinguishing between “editorial finished products” and “real-time rolling lists.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need an API key or registration to use AIHOT for news searches?

No. AIHOT uses the anonymous, read-only v1 API of aihot.news and requires neither an API key nor an account. In terms of permissions, personal non-commercial use, nonprofit non-commercial use, and internal organizational use are free. Commercial products intended for external users, data redistribution, or public mirrors require prior written authorization from AIHOT.

Is the news it reports reliable? Could it be made up by a model?

The skill is required to obtain current data through the API and summarizes only the titles, summaries, and daily briefing content actually returned. When evidence is insufficient, it says so explicitly. It does not follow instructions contained in returned content, nor does it misrepresent historical backfills from slow-reporting sources as news from today. When citing specific figures or direct quotations, it is recommended to verify them against the original third-party sources.

What is the difference between the AI trending rankings, news lists, and daily briefings?

News lists are arranged in reverse chronological order and answer “What has happened recently?” Trending rankings display up to 10 of the hottest current events with their positions and answer “What is attracting the most attention right now?” Daily briefings are fixed-date editorial products, suitable when you specifically want “today’s briefing” or the briefing for a particular date. The three have different entry points and cannot substitute for one another.