Sources
The publications, labs, archives, communities, and channels behind our coverage. Every story links back to the primary material it relies on — this is the full registry of what we monitor.
Frontier labs7
- AWS Machine Learning Blogaws.amazon.com
Cloud ML infrastructure, foundation models, and distributed training systems.
- Google DeepMinddeepmind.google
AI research and scientific applications.
- Google Keyword (AI)blog.google
Official AI research breakthroughs, Gemini updates, and model releases from Google.
- MIT AI Newsnews.mit.edu
Campus research news on artificial intelligence from MIT.
- Microsoft Research AImicrosoft.com
Frontier research in foundation models, reasoning, and multi-agent systems.
- Nature Machine Learningnature.com
Peer-reviewed scientific breakthroughs across neural networks and machine intelligence.
- OpenAI Newsopenai.com
Model releases, product updates, and research.
Research & writing46
- AI Snake Oil (Princeton)aisnakeoil.com
Critical analyses of AI capabilities vs claims by Princeton researchers Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.
- Alignment Forumalignmentforum.org
Technical research, mathematical formalisms, and discussions on AI safety and alignment.
- Andrej Karpathykarpathy.ai
Engineering notes, neural networks, and educational deep dives.
- ArXiv CS.AIarxiv.org
Open preprints in artificial intelligence from arXiv.
Open preprints in computation and language from arXiv.
- ArXiv CS.LG (Machine Learning)arxiv.org
Open preprints in machine learning from arXiv.
- Ars Technica AIarstechnica.com
In-depth technical reporting on generative models, compute, and AI policy.
- Astral Codex Ten (AI)astralcodexten.com
Long-form essays analyzing frontier AI progress, reasoning models, and existential risk.
- Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)bair.berkeley.edu
Academic AI research and foundational breakthroughs from UC Berkeley.
- Center for AI Safetysafe.ai
Empirical research benchmarks, safety metrics, and risk evaluations from CAIS.
- Chip Huyenhuyenchip.com
Machine learning systems design, post-training, and AI application engineering.
- EleutherAI Blogblog.eleuther.ai
Non-profit research collective advancing open-science foundation models and interpretability.
- Eugene Yaneugeneyan.com
Applied ML systems, LLM patterns, evals, and production architectures.
- Georgetown CSETcset.georgetown.edu
Data-driven research on AI governance, compute supply chains, and safety policy.
- Hamel Husainhamel.dev
Pragmatic, anti-hype guides to fine-tuning, evals, and shipping LLMs.
- Hugging Face Bloghuggingface.co
Open-source models, datasets, and tools.
- IEEE Spectrum AIspectrum.ieee.org
Engineering and computing breakthroughs from the global IEEE engineering community.
- Jack Clark (Import AI)importai.substack.com
Weekly technical reviews of AI research papers, compute, and policy.
- Jacob Steinhardt (Bounded Regret)bounded-regret.ghost.io
Foundational essays on machine learning safety, forecasting, and alignment from UC Berkeley.
- Jay Alammarjalammar.github.io
Visual and intuitive explainers for transformers, LLMs, and neural networks.
- Johann Rehberger (Embrace The Red)embracethered.com
Offensive security research, prompt injection, and LLM red-teaming.
- Last Week in AIlastweekin.ai
Weekly curated synthesis of significant research papers, industry releases, and policy news.
- Latent Spacelatent.space
Technical newsletter and podcast covering AI engineering and agents.
- Lilian Weng (Lil'Log)lilianweng.github.io
In-depth literature reviews on reasoning, agents, safety, and foundation models.
- MIT Technology Review AItechnologyreview.com
Rigorous journalism analyzing the technical, social, and commercial impact of AI.
- Marcus on AI (Gary Marcus)garymarcus.substack.com
Skeptical analysis of generative AI limitations, reasoning failures, and neurosymbolic alternatives.
- Max Woolf (minimaxir)minimaxir.com
Experiments, benchmarks, and creative engineering with generative models.
- Mitchell Hashimotomitchellh.com
Explorations in local LLM inference, Claude Code, and developer workflows.
- Nathan Lambert (Interconnects)interconnects.ai
RLHF, reasoning models, post-training, and open-weight model analysis.
- One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)oneusefulthing.org
Empirical experiments and real-world observations on working with generative AI.
- Replicate Blogreplicate.com
Open-source machine learning models, inference performance, and developer patterns.
- Sebastian Raschkasebastianraschka.com
Architectural deep-dives, PyTorch implementations, and foundation model benchmarks.
- SemiAnalysissemianalysis.com
Detailed teardowns of AI accelerators, semiconductor nodes, datacenter clusters, and compute costs.
- Simon Willisonsimonwillison.net
Hands-on LLM engineering, prompt injection research, and developer tools.
- Simon Willison (Bluesky)bsky.app
Hands-on LLM engineering notes and links from Simon Willison.
- Synced Reviewsyncedreview.com
Global artificial intelligence news, technical breakthroughs, and paper reviews.
- TechCrunch AItechcrunch.com
Startup and industry coverage of artificial intelligence.
- The Gradientthegradient.pub
Rigorous essays and perspectives written by AI researchers and practitioners.
- The Verge (AI)theverge.com
Technology news and analysis.
- Tim Dettmerstimdettmers.com
Quantization research (QLoRA, bitsandbytes), GPU hardware, and memory bandwidth.
- Together AI Blogtogether.ai
Inference acceleration, distributed training kernels, and open-weight model deployment.
- Understanding AIunderstandingai.org
Timothy B. Lee's deep-dive explanations of how modern AI systems actually work.
- Vicki Boykisvickiboykis.com
Practical systems engineering, embeddings, and data architectures.
- Weaviate Blogweaviate.io
Vector databases, semantic retrieval, RAG architectures, and multimodal embeddings.
- Wired AIwired.com
Authoritative reporting on artificial intelligence, hardware, and industry shifts.
- fast.aifast.ai
Practical deep learning research and democratization of AI.
Communities4
- Hacker News (AI Discussions)news.ycombinator.com
Technical discussion. Comments are opinion, not verified reporting.
- Reddit r/LocalLLaMAreddit.com
Open-weight models, local inference runtimes, and quantization engineering discussions.
- Reddit r/MachineLearningreddit.com
Community discussion, paper announcements, and practitioner debates. Requires primary corroboration.
Official announcements from OpenAI on X.