Are there any alerting bots that can monitor news, summarize changes, and send scheduled updates?

Yes — there are several classes of alerting bots/tools that can do this, depending on how “news,” “summarize,” and “scheduled updates” you want them to work.

Common options

1. News monitoring + digests

These track sources you specify and send periodic summaries:

• Feedly (with AI features)
• Inoreader
• Google Alerts + digest delivery
• Talkwalker Alerts
• Visualping / Distill.io for page-change monitoring

2. Slack/Discord/Telegram bots

If you want updates in chat:

• Slack bots via RSS integrations or custom workflows
• Discord RSS bots
• Telegram bots built for RSS/news alerts
• Zapier / Make automations to send scheduled summaries

3. AI summarization pipelines

For “summarize changes” specifically, you usually combine:

• a source monitor,
• a change detector,
• an LLM summarizer,
• a scheduler.

Examples:

• n8n
• Zapier
• Make
• Custom scripts using RSS/API + OpenAI/other LLMs

What to look for

A good solution should support:

• source monitoring: RSS, webpages, APIs, keywords
• change detection: new article, updated article, page diff
• summarization: concise bullet summaries
• scheduling: hourly/daily/weekly digests
• delivery channel: email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, webhook

Best “out of the box” picks

• Feedly if you want news discovery and AI summaries
• Inoreader if you want strong RSS monitoring and digests
• Visualping/Distill.io if you want website change alerts
• n8n/Zapier if you want custom scheduled summarized updates

If you want, I can recommend the best option for your exact use case, like:

• news sites only
• website change monitoring
• crypto/finance/news
• Slack/Discord/Telegram delivery
• fully automated AI summaries