What “source-backed” means
Each news bulletin begins with web search. Mochi looks for established, accountable publishers and uses direct, canonical HTTPS pages for individual written news or analysis articles. A source must materially support a distinct point in the spoken script.
Homepages, topic and search pages, social posts, videos, programmes, PDFs, feeds, press-release aggregators and tracking links do not qualify as bulletin sources.
More than one publisher when reporting allows
Mochi aims for at least two independently reported stories and returns two to four direct article links from different publishers when suitable reporting is available. If only one sound article is available, it writes a complete one-story flash instead of padding the edition with weak material.
Freshness without fake urgency
Mochi prefers reporting from the previous 72 hours. If that is too thin, it expands to seven days and then, when necessary, to a relevant report from the previous 14 days. It does not call a bulletin “breaking”, “just in” or “live”, and it does not invent local detail merely to make a story feel close.
Claims stay inside the evidence
The spoken script may use only facts the selected articles materially support. It must not add unsupported causes, implications, quotations, urgency, dates or location details. Listener interests guide story selection; they are not a quota, and a quiet topic is not filled with weaker material.
Sources are visible, not read aloud
The bulletin itself is speech-first prose. URLs, domain names and citation markers stay out of the audio. The finished edition shows the article titles, publishers and links underneath so the listener can inspect the reporting directly.
Weather is handled differently
Weather updates come from Open-Meteo forecast data for the exact place selected in the weather search. Mochi does not turn an approximate news location into a precise forecast and does not invent conditions when the forecast response is incomplete.
Corrections and limitations
Briefings are generated for the listener and are not published as a permanent news archive. A source can be wrong, reporting can change, and generated summaries can still make mistakes. Follow the linked reporting before relying on a bulletin for an important decision.
Mochi does not yet operate a public corrections inbox. During the private MVP, systematic errors are handled by tightening the source and writing constraints; a public corrections route and changelog are required before a wider release.