Newsletters

Email survives because it's async and curated. Tagged by focus and cadence.

Research-focused

The Batch (DeepLearning.AI): deeplearning.ai/the-batch. Weekly. Andrew Ng's curated research and industry digest; measured tone, works for beginners and busy pros.
Import AI (Jack Clark): jack-clark.net. Weekly. Policy, research, and a short sci-fi vignette. Covers where frontier capability meets governance.
Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka): magazine.sebastianraschka.com. Roughly monthly. Technical explainers of LLM training and architecture papers. 🔄
Interconnects (Nathan Lambert): interconnects.ai. ~Weekly. Post-training, RLHF, and open-model strategy analysis. Covers how models are actually trained now.

daily.dev: daily.dev. Frequent. "Where developers discover what's next." A personalized developer feed that aggregates the best engineering and AI posts, releases, and discussions from across the web into one place; also a browser new-tab, web, and mobile app.
The Rundown AI: therundown.ai. Daily. Broad, fast, consumer-and-builder mix. Context around releases.
Ben's Bites: bensbites.com. Daily/weekly. Builder-flavored roundup with a startup and tooling lean.
Last Week in AI: lastweekin.ai. Weekly. Thorough roundup of the week's research and industry news. Pairs with the podcast.

Latent Space (swyx & team): latent.space. Weekly-ish. Essays, benchmarks, and interviews for AI engineers. Pairs with the podcast (Podcasts & YouTube).
Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz): newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com. Weekly. Software engineering broadly, with growing coverage of how AI is reshaping engineering orgs and workflows.

One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick): oneusefulthing.org. ~Weekly. A Wharton professor's practical, experiment-driven take on using AI for real work. One of the most-read applied-AI newsletters.
Stratechery (Ben Thompson): stratechery.com. ~Daily (paid). Strategy analysis of the AI platform wars.
The Neuron: theneurondaily.com. Daily. Business-and-culture angle on AI, lightweight and readable.
Exponential View (Azeem Azhar): exponentialview.co. Weekly. Macro analysis of AI's economic and societal impact; a step back from the news cycle.

SemiAnalysis (Dylan Patel): semianalysis.com. Weekly, plus deep dives. The definitive source on AI chips, datacenter and GPU economics, and the supply chain. Where the compute layer gets reported. 🔄