How to Get Daily AI News as a Product Owner — Without Doomscrolling

What you'll build

Here's the problem with AI newsletters: they're written for everyone, which means they're written for no one. You ship a specific product, on a specific stack, in a specific market — and the digest in your inbox knows none of that.

MorningMail flips this around. You write one short instruction, the way you'd brief a research assistant — and every morning an AI agent searches the web fresh and writes the email itself, implications spelled out, primary sources linked. It doesn't forward links that match keywords, like Google Alerts does. It reads, then writes.

And your prompt carries your context permanently. Tell it once that you build on LLM APIs for EU customers, and every edition is filtered through exactly that. A generic newsletter can never know that a Gemini price cut matters more to you than a robotics demo. Your prompt does.

Step by step: from zero to your first edition

The whole setup takes about two minutes. And every screenshot below comes straight from the real product — nothing is mocked up.

1. Step 1 Open morningmail.ai

   Head over to morningmail.ai. You'll see a sample edition and the Compose button — that's your entry point. Nothing to install; everything runs in the browser.

   

2. Step 2 Create your free account

   Sign up with your Google account. Every new account comes with a free first edition built in — so you can send yourself a real email before paying a cent.

   

3. Step 3 Create your first template

   A template is the blueprint of your email: name, delivery time, recipients, and your content sections. Click "New template" and the builder opens with a live preview right next to the editor. Everything saves automatically — there is no save button to forget.

   

4. Step 4 Add a news section

   Click "Add section +" and pick "News topic". You'll see six starters — real, editable prompts for a city, a sports club, a company, a tech topic, a professional field, and a personal interest. Pick one, and you're thirty seconds away from a working brief.

   

5. Step 5 Make it yours: AI product management

   Here's the whole trick: in the section picker, choose the "Professional brief" starter and type AI product management into the highlighted field. Watch the card while you type — the prompt rewrites itself live around your input, so you see exactly what the agent will be asked every morning. No hidden magic.

   The starter is deliberately opinionated: the top three stories, written for someone already working in the field, with regulation, M&A, and new entrants prioritised — every claim cited. I'd still sharpen it with one line about your product, for example: "My product is a B2B SaaS on AWS; flag anything that changes cost, latency, or EU compliance." That one sentence does more than any filter ever will.

   

   The exact prompt your section starts with

   Top three stories shaping AI product management today, written for someone who already works in the industry: regulation, M&A, new entrants, notable filings, and any precedent worth pulling. Cite the trade publication (e.g. trade press, government source, court docket) directly so I can follow up.

6. Step 6 Set your delivery time and send yourself a test

   Almost there! Choose when the email should arrive and add your address as a recipient. Hit "Send test" — your first edition is free — and check your inbox. If something reads off, tweak the prompt and send again. Then flip the template to Active. Congratulations — you've just built your own morning brief!

   

Get more out of your brief

Write the prompt like a job description, not a search query

"AI news" gets you a wire feed. "Report what changed for teams building on LLM APIs: releases, pricing, deprecations" gets you an analyst. Talk to the agent the way you'd brief a smart intern — it follows instructions.

Add your product context once, benefit every day

One sentence of standing context — your domain, your stack, your market — changes everything downstream. "We ship a customer-support product on Anthropic models for EU mid-market clients" quietly filters every edition through what actually affects you. Write it once and forget it's there.

Ask for implications, not just headlines

Add "one sentence per story on why it matters for product decisions" to your prompt. That second sentence is the whole difference between a feed and a brief — it's the thinking you'd otherwise do on the train.

Stack sections into one email

Your template isn't limited to one topic. I add a calendar section for today's meetings and a TLDR section that boils everything down to three bullets at the top. One email, whole morning covered.

Tune length and tone to your reading time

Every section has its own length and tone settings. Brief runs long? Switch the section to short and bullets. Forwarding it to your team? Neutral reads better than chatty.

Good sources to anchor your brief on

The agent searches the open web every morning and cites where it read things. These are the sources I'd point it at in your prompt:

• OpenAI, Anthropic & Google DeepMind blogs — The primary sources for model releases, API changes, and pricing. Announcements land here before the press coverage — your brief links straight to them.
• Hacker News — The fastest signal for what practitioners actually adopt. A good brief cites it for traction, not for hot takes.
• Lenny's Newsletter — The reference for how product teams integrate AI features in practice. It's weekly — your daily brief fills the gap between issues.
• The Verge — AI section — Reliable consumer-side coverage: product launches, policy fights, and the user-facing angle your roadmap eventually meets.
• arXiv (cs.AI / cs.CL) — Where capability jumps show up first, months before productisation. Include it if your product sits close to the model layer.
• EU Digital Strategy news — The official source for AI Act guidance and enforcement — the regulatory input that turns into compliance tickets on your board.

Frequently asked questions

What does it cost?

Your first edition is completely free — no credit card required. After that, sending runs on credits: each section in your email costs a few credits depending on the AI model tier it uses, and credits never expire. A short daily brief comes to a handful of credits each morning.

How is this different from Google Alerts?

Honestly — it's a different category. Google Alerts forwards links whose text matches your keywords; the reading, deduplicating, and judging stays with you. A MorningMail brief is written: the agent searches fresh sources every morning, discards the noise, and composes a short email with the implications spelled out and the primary sources linked. You read a memo, not a link list.

Can I get the brief in German or another language?

Yes — write your prompt in the language you want the brief in, and the agent answers in that language. The interface itself is available in English and German.

What if the brief misses a story I cared about?

It happens — and the fix takes ten seconds. The prompt is yours: name the gap explicitly, like "always include API pricing changes, even minor ones." The agent re-reads its instructions every morning, so the correction applies from the next edition.

Can I share the brief with my team?

Yes — templates support multiple recipients, so your whole product trio can get the same morning email. And if your section turns out great, you can share it to the public community gallery so others can subscribe to it.