Real-time news monitoring is the discipline of tracking breaking events as they evolve, identifying narrative shifts as they happen, and producing updates that remain usable under uncertainty. The practical difference between Grok 4.1 and ChatGPT 5.2 is not “who is smarter,” but how each system behaves when the information environment is unstable, incomplete, and changing minute by minute. The right choice depends on whether the workflow optimizes for early signal detection