LLM-Powered News Digest for the Banking Sector

Added Nov 2025 3 design docs

Professionals in banking are expected to stay on top of rate decisions, policy shifts, mergers, and market developments, but few have time to read dozens of articles a day. A concise daily digest that condenses the headlines into a few readable paragraphs is far more practical, and producing one automatically is an ideal introduction to applied language models. The intern builds a summarization pipeline in python that accepts pasted or uploaded banking news headlines and short articles, groups related items, and generates an easy-to-understand digest using openai models. The summarization workflow is organized with langgraph, giving the process explicit stages for collection, grouping, generation, and formatting, while an agentic-ai layer coordinates how items flow between those stages and retries or refines weak summaries. The output is a clean text digest that highlights what happened and why it matters to the sector. By the end, the intern understands news aggregation, prompt design for faithful summarization, and multi-step workflow orchestration, and can demonstrate a practical generative AI tool aimed at a real communication need in financial services.

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