AIpocalypse Now
AIpocalypse Now was a daily news aggregator that scored each story 1 to 10 on a doom scale. It pulled headlines from across the industry, ranked them by severity, and published a single-page digest. This archive freezes the homepage as it last stood. The project continues as a weekly newsletter.
What problem does it solve?
Keeping up with industry news is exhausting. Hundreds of articles land every day, most of them hype, some of them genuinely consequential. AIpocalypse Now filtered the noise into a single daily digest and scored each story so readers could tell at a glance whether the day was business as usual or something worth paying attention to.
How it works
An automated pipeline collected headlines from major outlets and industry sources, evaluated each one for severity through the doom-scoring framework, and published the results as a clean single-page digest. No infinite scroll, no comment sections, no recommended content. Just the day’s stories, ranked.
What survives here is that homepage, frozen where it last stood. The doom scores, the ticker, and the story cards are the real thing from the day of capture. None of the links lead anywhere now.
Whom it’s for
Anyone following the tech industry who wanted a quick daily read instead of trawling a dozen newsletters and feeds. The daily format is retired. The doom-scored idea now lives as a weekly newsletter, skeptical by design, that keeps the scoring and adds the tools worth actually using.
Tech
Built with Astro, server-rendered, with an automated collection and scoring pipeline behind it. Now a static archive hosted under ozgur.ca.
Frequently asked questions
What is AIpocalypse Now?
A daily news aggregator that scored each story 1 to 10 on a doom scale, giving readers a quick sense of how significant the day's developments were. This is its archive.
Is it still updated?
No. The daily site is archived. The concept continues as a weekly newsletter, doom-scored and skeptical, with the tools worth actually using.
What did the doom score mean?
Each story was rated 1 to 10 through the AIpocalypse Risk-Weighting Framework, bucketed into four bands from calm to existential. A per-story rating, not a forecast.
Was it free?
Yes. No signup, no paywall.