Automated MIT AI News Delivery to Discord with Deduplication

Stay ahead of the curve with the latest Artificial Intelligence research from MIT, delivered directly to your Discord server—clean, filtered, and duplicate-free.

This workflow is perfect for AI agencies, researchers, and tech teams who want to stay informed without the noise.

How it works

This workflow runs automatically every day (default 9:00 AM) to:

1. Fetch the official MIT News RSS feed for the "Artificial Intelligence" topic.
2. Filter articles to keep only those published in the last 24 hours.
3. Deduplicate content using an internal n8n Data Table. It checks if the article link has already been sent to prevent spamming old news.
4. Notify your team on Discord with a clean, formatted message including the Title, Author, Date, and Link.

Setup steps

1. Create the Data Table (Mandatory)

This workflow relies on n8n Data Tables to track sent articles. Before running:

1. Go to your n8n Dashboard > Data Tables.
2. Create a new table named: mit_ai_news_sent
3. Add these exact columns:
   • creator (Type: String)
   • title (Type: String)
   • link (Type: String)
   • pubDate (Type: Date)

2. Connect the Table

1. Import this template.
2. Open the orange nodes named "Avoid Duplicated Articles" and "Register New Article".
3. Select the mit_ai_news_sent table you just created from the list.

3. Configure Discord

1. Create a Webhook in your Discord Server (Server Settings > Integrations > Webhooks).
2. Open the "MIT AI Articles" node.
3. Create a new Credential and paste your Webhook URL.