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Updated Jan 2026
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The AI content explosion is overwhelming. There are 100+ newsletters, dozens of podcasts, countless YouTube channels. This dashboard curates the best, with a focus on signal over noise. Pick 2-3 newsletters, 1-2 podcasts, and follow the right people on X.

How to Navigate This

We've tagged sources as "Essential" (everyone should follow), "Premium" (paid but worth it), and "Technical" (for developers/researchers). Start with the essentials, then add based on your needs.

Newsletters

The Rundown AI
Essential
600K+ subscribers
Daily AI news digest. Fast, comprehensive, accessible. Best for staying current with minimal time investment.
One Useful Thing
Essential
Ethan Mollick
Wharton professor exploring AI in work and education. Thoughtful, practical, grounded in research.
AI Snake Oil
Essential
Narayanan & Kapoor
Critical perspective on AI claims. Best for cutting through hype with academic rigor.
Import AI
Technical
Jack Clark (Anthropic)
Weekly deep dives on research and policy. Technical but accessible. From an Anthropic co-founder.

Podcasts

Lex Fridman Podcast
Essential
2-4 hour deep dives with AI leaders. Interviewed everyone from Altman to Hinton. Long-form conversations that reveal how key figures actually think.
Dwarkesh Podcast
Essential
Technical depth on AI progress. Excellent interviews with researchers. Best for understanding the technical landscape.
Latent Space
Technical
AI engineering focus. Great for practitioners building with AI. Technical but practical.
No Priors
VC Perspective
a16z's AI podcast. Investment and startup focus. Good for business/VC perspective on AI.

YouTube

Andrej Karpathy
Essential
500K+ subscribers
Former Tesla AI lead. Technical tutorials that are actually good. "Let's build GPT" has millions of views.
Two Minute Papers
Research
1.5M+ subscribers
Research paper explainers. Enthusiastic, accessible. Good for staying current on academic progress.
Matt Wolfe
Tools
700K+ subscribers
AI tool reviews and tutorials. Practical, demo-heavy. Good for discovering new tools.
AI Explained
Analysis
400K+ subscribers
In-depth analysis of AI developments. Thoughtful takes on progress and implications.

Research Sources

arXiv (cs.AI, cs.LG)
Essential
Where papers drop first. Follow cs.AI and cs.LG categories. High volume, but where news breaks.
Hugging Face Papers
Curated
Curated daily selection of notable papers. Lower volume than raw arXiv, community-ranked.
Papers With Code
Technical
Papers linked to implementations. Essential for practitioners who want to run code.
Stanford HAI
Policy
AI Index Report and policy research. Gold standard for annual state-of-AI data.

✓ Recommended Stack

Daily: The Rundown AI or TLDR AI
Weekly: One Useful Thing + AI Snake Oil
Podcasts: Lex Fridman + Dwarkesh
YouTube: Karpathy for technical depth
X: @karpathy @ylecun @emollick
Research: HuggingFace Papers daily digest

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