The directory
The AI resources actually worth following
The internet has ten thousand AI newsletters. These are the 51 we'd point a colleague to — official lab blogs, the best digests, serious journalism, research hubs, channels, and communities.
🧪 Official AI labs
OpenAI News
openai.com
Product launches, research and company announcements from OpenAI.
Anthropic News
anthropic.com
Claude releases, research and safety work straight from Anthropic.
Google DeepMind Blog
deepmind.google
Research breakthroughs and Gemini updates from Google DeepMind.
Google AI Blog
blog.google
How Google ships AI across Search, Workspace and Android.
Meta AI Blog
ai.meta.com
Llama models, open research and AI products from Meta.
Microsoft AI Blog
blogs.microsoft.com
Copilot, Azure AI and enterprise AI news from Microsoft.
NVIDIA Blog
blogs.nvidia.com
The hardware side of AI — GPUs, inference and industry deployments.
Hugging Face Blog
huggingface.co
Open-source models, datasets and hands-on ML engineering posts.
Mistral AI News
mistral.ai
Releases from Europe's leading open-weight model lab.
Stability AI News
stability.ai
Image, video and audio generation model releases.
📰 News media
MIT Technology Review — AI
technologyreview.com
Deep, trustworthy reporting on where AI is actually heading.
The Verge — AI
theverge.com
Consumer-angle coverage of AI products and industry news.
TechCrunch — AI
techcrunch.com
Startup funding, launches and AI industry moves.
VentureBeat — AI
venturebeat.com
Enterprise AI adoption, tooling and platform coverage.
Wired — AI
wired.com
Culture, security and society angles on the AI wave.
Ars Technica — AI
arstechnica.com
Technically literate reporting and analysis on AI.
IEEE Spectrum — AI
spectrum.ieee.org
The engineering profession's view of AI progress.
Reuters — AI
reuters.com
Global wire coverage of AI business, policy and regulation.
🔬 Research
arXiv — Artificial Intelligence
arxiv.org
The preprint firehose — where new AI research appears first.
arXiv — Machine Learning
arxiv.org
Machine-learning preprints, updated daily.
Papers with Code
paperswithcode.com
Research papers paired with code and leaderboards.
Anthropic Research
anthropic.com
Interpretability, alignment and frontier-model research.
OpenAI Research
openai.com
Research publications behind the GPT model family.
Distill (archive)
distill.pub
Beautifully visual explanations of ML concepts — an evergreen archive.
The Gradient
thegradient.pub
Accessible essays and perspectives on AI research.
🎙️ Video & podcasts
Two Minute Papers
youtube.com
Joyful short explainers of new AI research papers.
Lex Fridman Podcast
youtube.com
Long-form conversations with the people building AI.
AI Explained
youtube.com
Careful, fast coverage of frontier model releases and evals.
Matt Wolfe
youtube.com
Weekly tours of new AI tools you can actually use.
Fireship
youtube.com
High-speed, high-humor takes on AI and developer tech.
Hard Fork
nytimes.com
The New York Times' weekly podcast on AI and the future of tech.
No Priors
youtube.com
Investor-side interviews with AI founders and researchers.
The Cognitive Revolution
cognitiverevolution.ai
Nathan Labenz's interviews on how AI changes every industry.
🌍 Communities
Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
Where AI news breaks and gets argued about first.
r/MachineLearning
reddit.com
The research-grade machine-learning community on Reddit.
r/artificial
reddit.com
General AI news and discussion for a broad audience.
Hugging Face Forums
discuss.huggingface.co
Practical help with open-source models and libraries.
LessWrong — AI
lesswrong.com
Long-form community writing on AI progress and alignment.
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