Twin founders launch Alaska News with AI agent Walter to cover local news

Twins Lee and Lucas Brown, founders of Tune, launched the Alaska News platform, where AI agent Walter generates local news from public documents. Since the start of the year the agent has written more than 4,500 items using Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI models, under human editing.

• AI agent Walter has written over 4,500 news items since early 2026
• Platform uses Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI models
• Each story links to verifiable primary sources
• Project is reader-funded without corporate or algorithmic incentives