How Pollar is made

We don't send reporters. We read what newsrooms across Europe have already published and summarise it with AI. This page shows how that works and where your data goes.

Europe today · Meteosat, EUMETSATOct 13 · 14:00 UTC
events a day
166
sources behind a typical event
7
publishers cited in 30 days
241
languages for every event
4
images generated by AI
0

Last 30 days, counted from our database every hour.

From many articles to one event

Follow today's example. Each name is an article from a different newsroom.

2 articles, one eventEngland beat Greece3-1 in World Cupplayoff first legPeople and linksDates and weekdaysNothing lost in translationSomething new to sayENPLDEFR1,234 corrections recorded in 90 daysThe Guardianinews.co.uk

We read what is already published

We collect articles from more than 270 newsrooms in 12 markets. People choose that list. No algorithm adds a source on its own.

Who
People choose, machines fetch
Where
Our servers, EU

X-ray an event

Today's example, as published. Turn on the x-ray to see what AI wrote, what we checked and where each part comes from.

Photo: inews.co.uk

AI-generated

Lionesses win 3-1 in Greece but Greek goal keeps World Cup playoff open

Stanway, Le Tissier and Russo put England in control in Heraklion, with the second leg in Leicester on Tuesday still to decide the tie.

In the text: Sarina Wiegman, England coach who had the chance to iron out problem positions in the first leg

Goals in England's 3-1 win over Greece

  1. 39th minuteGeorgia Stanway scores for England
  2. 63rd minuteMaya Le Tissier scores her first England goal
  3. 67th minuteAlessia Russo scores for England
  4. 77th minuteGreece pulls one back, credited to Calliste Brookshire by inews
Published Oct 9, 09:13 PMCorrections: 0Also in PL · DE · FR
Open the event

Where what you type goes

Reading an article sends nothing about you to any AI provider. Some features do send what you type. Pick one to see its route. A solid line is the normal route, a dashed one the fallback when the main provider does not answer.

  1. You

    phone or browser

  2. Pollar serversEU

    Hetzner

  3. Google Vertex AIEU

    EU regions, via an EU gateway

  4. Fallback · Microsoft AzureEU

    Sweden, via an EU gateway

What is sent
Your description of what you want to read, without your email or account identifiers
How long it is kept
In your settings until you delete it
Consent
Yes, asked the first time you save
Processed in
EU

Who does what

We don't pretend a person reads every line. This is how the work is split.

TaskAIPeople
Choosing sources
Grouping articles into events
Writing
Checks before publishing
Translation
Correcting mistakes
Sports editorial decisions
Pollar Originals
Photos (by publishers, not us)
Voices in audio

does it shared

Synthetic voices

Article audio, the brief, explainers and Pollar Sounds are read by voices generated by AI. We send the voice provider the text to be read.

Nothing about you goes with it, with one exception: a Radar audio briefing is built from the topics you watch, so their text reaches the voice provider (ElevenLabs, in the US).

What we don't do

  • We don't generate images.

    Every photo comes from a publisher and carries its name.

  • We don't send what you read to AI.

    Opening an article fetches finished text from our servers.

  • We don't train models.

    We have never trained or fine-tuned a model, on your data or anyone else's.

  • We don't write without sources.

    Every event links to the articles it was built from.

  • We don't put a name on AI text.

    AI text is labelled. Pollar Originals are written by people, and that is labelled too.

  • We don't pretend to be infallible.

    We fix mistakes and show corrections under the event.

Who processes what

Companies and regions. We don't publish which model does which step: that changes often and is how we compete.

Writing, translating, the daily brief

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI (also via Microsoft Azure), DeepSeek models run by cloud providers

EU and US

Recognising people and places

Our own servers

EU

Synthetic voice

ElevenLabs

US

Your feed preferences, follow suggestions, Radar topics

Google Cloud Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure and AWS Bedrock (Frankfurt), EU regions, providers with zero data retention

EU

Pollar Chat, search

Anthropic, OpenAI, Cohere

US

Gateways between us and AI providers

OpenRouter (US); Requesty Ltd (UK), EU gateway in Frankfurt, which stores no prompts or outputs

EU and US

Our servers and database

Hetzner

EU

Check it yourself

Every event, its sources and its corrections are public through our MCP server. Fetch today's example yourself, or ask your AI assistant.

curl -s https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call",
       "params":{"name":"get_event","arguments":{
         "slug":"lionesses-win-3-1-in-greece","locale":"en"}}}'

Changes

When a provider or a place of processing changes, we note it here with the date.

  1. 13 Oct 2026Member translations and Radar translations are processed by AI models in the EU. Chat and search requests that still go through OpenRouter may only reach providers that do not train on them.
  2. 13 Oct 2026This page now shows live numbers, today's example and the route of each feature.
  3. 13 Oct 2026Feed preferences, follow suggestions and Radar topics are processed by AI models in the EU.
  4. 13 Oct 2026Polish translations and the main daily brief are processed in the EU. If that service fails, public news text may go to providers outside the EU.
  5. 12 Oct 2026Correction notices appear under events.

Report a mistake

AI can get a date or a number wrong. Write to contact@pollar.news with a link to the event. We read every report.

Satellite images: contains modified EUMETSAT Meteosat data 2026. Each frame is at least an hour old.