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# Argentina's top news app was made by two 23 year olds using AI
- URL: https://werd.io/argentinas-top-news-app-was-made-by-two-23-year-olds-using-ai/
- Published: 2026-10-14T17:05:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-14T17:05:34.000Z
- Description: 46% of Argentine adults avoid the news. These 23 year olds vibe coded a solution that's turned into the most popular news app in the country.
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Media, Notable links

Link: [*Two 23-year-olds used AI to create a daily audio briefing. It’s now the top news app in Argentina., by Hanaa' Tameez in Nieman Lab*](https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/two-23-year-olds-used-ai-to-create-a-daily-audio-briefing-its-now-the-top-news-app-in-argentina/)

I think there are several notable things about this story.

The first, most obvious one is that two 23 year olds were able to create a news app that rose to become the top-ranked news app in their country, using AI. There is no way they would have been able to build this with the time, team, and resources at their disposal otherwise. From an engagement perspective, this is a bona-fide AI-in-journalism-distribution success story.

The second is that it’s not a success story for incumbent newsrooms. Clearly, a short, personalized news briefing is something people wanted; every existing newsroom could have built it, at least using their own content, but they didn’t. The gap they left meant that two newcomers could come in with very few resources and gain an audience off the back of existing journalists’ work. The app credits stories in audio and leaves citations in the chat, but my guess is that most people aren’t looking at their screens as they listen to their audio briefing. Very few people will click through; I think these listens won’t translate to pageviews or subscriptions.

The third is that outsiders are clearly much more free to build experiments than existing newsrooms. The latter have the weight of their brands and existing revenue operations to consider. Most outsiders have none of that: nobody expects anything from them, so they’re free to experiment. Most experiments will fail, but some may succeed. Left alone, this represents intermediation that could undermine the connection between newsrooms and their communities. But there’s an opportunity to partner more deeply and represent newsroom needs in the app. And then consider how they can foster an ecosystem with more experimentation, not less.