Building the Future of News in the Age of AI with Sara Beykpour

About this episode

Sara Beykpour discusses her journey at Twitter and the future of news in the AI era.

On this episode of The Community Exchange Podcast, we welcome Sara Beykpour, Co-Founder and CEO of Particle News. In our discussion, MSG and Sara discuss: — Her 12-year journey at Twitter across Android, Vine, and Periscope — Building during Twitter’s “lightning in a bottle” era of real-time media — Founding Particle and rethinking how news should be consumed in the AI era — Designing a neutral, aggregated news experience with built-in bias transparency — The shift from infinite feeds to structured, fact-based information products — How AI is collapsing product development timelines from months to hours — What AI agents mean for publishing, product velocity, and competitive advantage — Why knowledge work is being redefined as engineers and operators become exponentially more productive

People in this episode

Host: MSG

Guest: Sara Beykpour

Topics covered

• future of news
• AI in media
• product development
• bias transparency
• real-time media
• news consumption

Keywords

• news
• AI
• Twitter
• Particle News
• media
• product development
• bias transparency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Particle News, Twitter

Products: Vine, Periscope

Places: AI

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