Curated by reliability and signal quality. Check primary sources before trusting secondhand reports.
These are first-party — no middleman, no spin. Always check these before reading coverage of a story.
- OpenAI News — model releases, policy, research
- Anthropic News — Claude updates, safety research, policy
- Anthropic Red Team Blog — security and capability research (e.g., Mythos)
- Google DeepMind Blog — Gemini, AlphaFold, robotics
- Google AI Blog — applied research and products
- Meta AI Blog — open models, Muse Spark, Llama
- Microsoft AI Blog — Copilot, Azure AI, enterprise
- xAI Blog — Grok updates
- Mistral Blog — open and enterprise models
- Hugging Face Blog — open-source ecosystem, papers, tools
- Sacra — OpenAI — revenue estimates, valuation, financials
- The Information — best sourced tech financial reporting (paywall)
- Ramp AI Index — monthly verified business-adoption data (which AI vendors companies actually pay for) — highest-signal adoption tracker
Where breakthroughs land before anywhere else — often before peer review.
- arXiv cs.AI (daily) — all AI papers, same day
- arXiv cs.LG (daily) — ML theory and methods
- arXiv cs.CL (daily) — NLP, LLMs, transformers
- arXiv cs.RO (daily) — robotics and embodied AI
- Hugging Face Papers (Trending) — community-curated hot papers
- alphaXiv — arXiv + community discussion and annotation
- Papers With Code — papers + benchmarks + code repos
- Semantic Scholar — citation graphs and related work
Dedicated AI coverage, usually fast and reliable.
- The Batch (deeplearning.ai) — Andrew Ng's weekly, very high signal-to-noise
- Import AI (Jack Clark) — Anthropic co-founder, deep technical, weekly
- TLDR AI — daily digest, quick read, good for headlines
- The Rundown AI — daily newsletter, accessible summaries
- The Decoder — reliable reporting on lab strategy and products
- LLM Stats — AI News — model releases tracker
- Artificial Analysis — benchmarks, pricing comparisons, coding agent evals
- Crescendo AI News — agentic AI coverage + VC deals
- AI and News — breakthroughs and emerging trends
Business angle, policy, enterprise adoption. Useful for context but verify technical claims against primary sources.
- TechCrunch AI — fast, good startup coverage
- The Verge AI — consumer and product angle
- Wired AI — deeper features, societal impact
- MIT Technology Review — rigorous, academic-adjacent
- VentureBeat AI — enterprise AI, fast reporting
- Ars Technica AI — technically literate, good for model analysis
- CNBC Tech — business/financial angle on AI companies
- Fortune Tech — executive moves, company strategy
- Foreign Policy — Tech — geopolitics of AI (China, US policy)
For founder and investor awareness.
- Crunchbase News — funding rounds, deal data
- AI Funding Tracker — dedicated AI startup funding tracker
- Fundraise Insider — AI Startups — curated funded startup lists
- Blog.mean.ceo — startup funding trends by month
- Wellows — AI Startups — ranked lists by valuation and growth
- Y Combinator AI Companies — live list of YC AI startups
- Qubit Capital — AI startup trends — fundraising trend analysis
Where real builders share what actually works.
- Hacker News — best for "Show HN" and "Ask HN" about AI tools
- Reddit r/MachineLearning — research discussion
- Reddit r/LocalLLaMA — open-source models, benchmarks, tricks
- DEV Community AI — practitioner tutorials and workflows
- GitHub Trending — repos blowing up right now
- Stack Overflow Blog — developer surveys, tool usage data
- Simon Willison's Weblog — LLM practical use, tools, security — highest signal for practitioners
Researchers posting live. Fast but requires high noise tolerance.
- @sama — Sam Altman (OpenAI) — product and policy moves
- @darioamodei — Dario Amodei (Anthropic) — safety, frontier capability
- @demishassabis — Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind)
- @ylecun — Yann LeCun (Meta) — open-source and AGI skepticism
- @karpathy — Andrej Karpathy — exceptional clarity, coins "vibe coding"
- @gdb — Greg Brockman (OpenAI)
- @fchollet — François Chollet — ARC-AGI, reasoning benchmarks
- @emollick — Ethan Mollick — practical AI for professionals
- @AndrewYNg — Andrew Ng — education, application layer
- @vboykis — Vicki Boykis — production ML, MLEs in industry
- @simonw — Simon Willison — LLM tools and security
Slower cadence, higher depth. Read on weekends.
- Lilian Weng's Blog — OpenAI safety lead, very deep technical
- Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) — RLHF, alignment, frontier models
- Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka) — applied ML research
- Sebastian Ruder's NLP Newsletter — NLP and LLM research survey
- One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) — AI for professionals, research-backed
- Schneier on Security — AI security analysis from a credible source
- Gwern.net — long-form, extremely high density, speculative but rigorous
- TLDL — AI news with timeline and trend tracking
- SemiAnalysis (Dylan Patel) — deep compute/infra economics and adoption-data analysis (e.g., Claude Code commit-share)
- Stratechery (Ben Thompson) — strategic framing of platform / lab moves (M&A, distribution, business models)
- Latent Space (swyx + Alessio) — practitioner deep dives, leaks, and podcasts with the eng-leads behind frontier products
Checked weekly for market signal.
- GitHub: 2026-AI-College-Jobs — daily updated new-grad and intern AI/ML jobs
- GitHub: 2026-Software-Engineer-New-Grad — SWE new grad list
- newgrad-jobs.com — hourly updated entry-level roles
- Google PhD Early Career AI/ML
- Glassdoor MLE new grad
- Indeed MLE new grad
- startup.jobs ML
- YC AI Companies hiring