An answer engine for central bank communications.
AskNews answers questions using only what central banks and finance ministries have officially published: policy statements, press conferences, minutes, speeches and outlook reports. The core archive is the Federal Reserve in English and the Bank of Japan in Japanese.
How it answers
Ask
Type in English or Japanese, about a decision, a vote, a forecast or something said at a press conference.
Retrieve
AskNews searches the archive of official releases and transcripts, by words and by meaning, and reads the passages that match.
Cite
Every sentence links to its release. Quotes from video carry a timestamp that opens the player at that moment.
Principles
Sources first
Every claim is tied to an official release. If the archive does not say it, the answer does not either.
Declines outside the archive
Stock picks, market forecasts and general news get a plain note on what is covered, not a guess.
Two languages
Interface and answers in English or Japanese. Releases stay in their original language, marked with a badge; any translated title is labelled.
Data sources and terms
| Source | What is used | Language | Terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Reserve Board | Statements, press conferences (video, captions and transcript), minutes, speeches | EN | U.S. government work, public domain; cited as the source |
| Bank of Japan | Statements, press conferences and their summaries, minutes, Summary of Opinions, Outlook Report, speeches | JA | Reproduction permitted with attribution for non-commercial use; nothing is altered |
| European Central Bank | Press releases | EN | Free use with the ECB cited as the source |
| Bank for International Settlements | Central bankers' speeches (feed descriptions) | EN | Non-commercial redistribution with the BIS cited |
| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis | Releases | EN | U.S. government work, public domain |
| Ministry of Finance, Japan | Press conferences and policy releases | JA | Public Data License 1.0, attribution and a note on processing |
| Financial Services Agency, Japan | Press conferences and releases | JA | Public Data License 1.0, attribution and a note on processing |
| Bank of England | Titles and links only | EN | Terms allow no republishing of excerpts |
AskNews is a non-commercial demonstration. Each source's terms are checked before material is used.
How generated content is labelled
Anything AskNews generates carries the same AI mark. Official text, such as statements, transcripts and report sections, is shown as published and is never rewritten.
AIAI summary
Summaries of releases and the summary line in lists
AIAI brief
Daily and meeting briefs
AIAI title
Meeting titles in the timeline
AIExtracted
Policy decisions extracted from a meeting
AIAI translation
Titles shown in a language other than the original
Code
The archive, retrieval and answer pipeline are open source. github.com/aspirit/asknews