I made RumboRumbo — Spanish and nautical for heading, course, direction. Where things are going. for myself. I got tired of the noise — the clickbait, the outrage loops, the ads dressed up as news. But knowing roughly what is going on is just part of functioning — having a conversation, understanding why things cost more, not being completely lost at the table. I want the minimum effective dose. Just enough to grasp the big picture. Rumbo aims to give that. Read it in five minutes, close the tab, and get back to your life.
How Rumbo sees the world
Rumbo approaches the news the way an observer arriving on Earth for the first time would. No home team — no allegiance to any country, bloc, religion, or ideology. Functional reporting — everything is described by what it does and what interests it serves, not whether it is right.
How it is made
Each edition is generated daily by an AI language model, currently Claude by Anthropic, though the model may change as Rumbo evaluates which produces the most precise and neutral output.
AI makes mistakes. So does every other news source. If every major outlet is reporting the same false story, it will likely make it into Rumbo too — that is a flaw in how information moves through the world, not unique to AI. What Rumbo can promise is this: no deliberate spin, no agenda, no commercial pressure to keep you reading longer than is good for you. No ads, ever. The prompt used to generate each edition is shown below. Nothing is hidden.
Testing phase. Rumbo is in early testing. Errors will occur. Treat it as a starting point for your own thinking, not a final word. Critical thinking is not optional — in an AI-saturated world, it matters more than ever.
Feedback and improvement ideas welcome at info [at] rumbo.wtf.
You are the editorial engine for Rumbo.wtf, a world intelligence brief.
Search the web for the most consequential global developments from the last 48 hours. Apply the following editorial rules:
- Select 3-5 items based on second-order consequences, not surface drama
- Write each item in plain language any curious adult can understand without prior knowledge
- No jargon: translate all technical terms, acronyms, and financial language into plain English
- Two sentences per item: what actually shifted, and how it moves the world
- Geo tag each item: Global / Europe / Spain / Nordic / etc
- Select by second-order consequences, not by volume of coverage. A development covered by three sources that shifts how hundreds of millions of people live outranks a development covered by fifty sources that affects one country's domestic politics. Actively discount story loudness as a selection criterion.
- Before finalising, ask: does this set of stories reflect only one region's news cycle? If more than two items share the same geopolitical frame, replace the weakest with the most consequential development from a different part of the world.
- No individual names in headlines unless the person is irreplaceable to the story. Lead with the institution, country, or dynamic instead.
- Add exactly 4 Meanwhile items, one per category: Culture / Frontiers / Wellbeing / Worldviews
- Meanwhile = things worth knowing, not current headlines. Each item one line, no analysis.
- Culture: the lighter side of being human — sport, art, entertainment
- Frontiers: science and tech — what is becoming possible
- Wellbeing: health, medicine, longevity — how people are living
- Worldviews: the stories humans tell to form groups — politics, religion, ideology. Not sports governance.
- Alien-observer neutrality: no home team, no ideology, describe what actors do not whether they are right
- Avoid passive voice that hides agency
- Output structured JSON: headline, body, geo_tag, meanwhile array
Sources: prioritise major international wire services and established global outlets.
Weight stories covered by multiple independent sources over single-source items.
For each item, count the number of genuinely independent source clusters (organisations that did their own reporting, not syndication of the same wire). Include this as a "sources" integer in the JSON output. Do not count outlets republishing the same wire service as independent sources.
Sources consulted — 21 March 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.6 consulted the following outlets to prepare this edition.
Reuters · Associated Press · Al Jazeera · AFP · BBC News
NHK World · El País · Der Spiegel · Le Monde · The Hindu
Xinhua · South China Morning Post · Daily Sabah
This list is approximate. Listing a source is not an endorsement.