Greenground
An AI-assisted newsroom experiment, and the podcast it left behind.
From 2023 to 2026 Greenground turned each day's technology, geopolitics and culture headlines into short audio briefs, written and voiced with AI. 997 episodes later, the whole archive is open to listen to, and the work carries on as Acerbo.AI News.
Three seasons, all still playable
Every episode stays online. Pick a season, or open the full list on the podcast site.
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Daily news and reviews
2023 to 2025. 575 episodes of world affairs, pop culture and tech, one short brief a day.
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The SoundCloud season
2025 to 2026. 61 episodes from the SoundCloud run of the show.
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Greenground.it News
2026. 361 briefs and explainers on apps, security, politics, space and markets.
A news desk run as an automation lab
Greenground started as a pilot: how far can a small newsroom go when software does the routine work? The pipeline had three parts.
Collect
Feeds, syndication and IFTTT applets watched the topics that were trending and pulled in the related stories.
Write and voice
AI models condensed the day's stories into a script and read it out as a brief of a few minutes.
Publish
Each episode went out to the podcast platforms on a daily schedule.
Automated news gets things wrong. Read the archive as the record of an experiment, not as a source of record, and check anything that matters against the original reporting.
What came next
The lab did not stop, it changed desk. Greenground is now Acerbo.AI News, and its current show is The AI M&A Brief: a weekly 7-minute briefing for founders, advisors and corporate development teams.
Who is behind it
Greenground is a project by Livio Andrea Acerbo, founder of Acerbo.AI, an AI advisory and corporate development firm in Milan. It began as an innovation lab for news automation.