Use tools for gathering news information

Last updated: June 9, 2025

When you need to stay informed about the latest developments—whether for company-specific updates or broader industry trends—several specialized tools are available to help you gather and summarize news efficiently.

1. Get all news developments on companies

What it is: The Get all news developments on companies tool is a tool that retrieves structured, event-based summaries of major news developments that affect specific companies. It focuses on noteworthy events rather than general articles.

What it’s for: Use this when you want a high-level summary of significant company events, especially to understand stock movement, business developments, or company-level changes over a certain period.

Example: "What major news has affected Microsoft in the past month?"

Key features:

  • Delivers structured summaries rather than just headlines

  • Designed for clarity—focuses on events, not noise

  • Takes a list of stock tickers via stock_ids

  • Customizable date range (defaults to the past week)

  • Doesn’t support future dates—only past and current developments

2. Get latest company news

What it is:The Get latest company news tool is a comprehensive news aggregation tool for companies that combines both web search results and structured news events for up-to-date coverage.

What it’s for:Ideal when you need real-time and complete news for one or more companies—perfect for updates, briefings, or portfolio monitoring.

Example: "Get me the latest news about Tesla and SpaceX."

Key features:

  • Combines web-based headlines with structured event summaries

  • Accepts multiple stock_ids

  • Can focus on specific topics (e.g., “earnings,” “product launches”)

  • Date range customization available

  • Optionally includes structured developments (get_developments)

  • Results are automatically summarized for quick reading

3. Get news and web pages for topics

What it is: The Get news and web pages for topics tool is a topic-based discovery tool that finds news articles and relevant web content on general subjects, not tied to specific companies.

What it’s for: Use this when researching broader themes, industry movements, or macroeconomic trends, rather than individual businesses.

Example: "Find information about renewable energy trends in 2023."

Key features:

  • Accepts one or more topics for broader or niche coverage

  • Combines news articles with related web search results

  • Date range filtering available

  • Optional limit on articles per topic (max_num_articles_per_topic)

  • Automatically summarizes content for ease of use

  • Supports compound topics (e.g., “AI and cybersecurity”)