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Following the Field
Where to read the news yourself, rather than a snapshot that is stale by Tuesday.
Where to start
This is a list of places to follow, not a news page. A static site cannot carry headlines honestly — they are stale within days and the page starts lying about how current it is. Pick two or three and subscribe. The primary sources at the top of each group announce things first; everything else is commentary on them.
AI — primary sources6
Where announcements actually appear, before anyone writes about them.
- Anthropic NewsStart hereFree
Model releases, research and policy positions from the makers of Claude.
- OpenAI NewsStart hereFree
Announcements, research posts and product changes for GPT and the surrounding platform.
- Google DeepMind BlogStart hereFree
Research announcements including the Gemini line and the scientific work.
- Mistral AI NewsStart hereFree
Model releases and research from the largest European lab, much of it open-weights.
- Microsoft AI BlogStart hereFree
Copilot across the product range, plus the Azure AI platform announcements.
- Hugging Face BlogCoreFree
The open-model ecosystem: new releases, fine-tuning techniques and honest benchmarks.
AI — analysis worth reading4
- Import AICoreFree
Weekly, technical, and unusually good at separating a result from a press release.
- The BatchStart hereFree
Andrew Ng’s weekly summary. The best single newsletter if you want one and only one.
- Simon Willison’s WeblogCoreFree
Hands-on notes on what these models can and cannot do, by someone who actually tries them.
- AI Index ReportCoreFree
The annual measured account of the field: capability, cost, investment, policy. Numbers rather than narrative.
Hardware and chips4
- PhoronixCoreFree
Linux hardware and benchmarking, published daily and taken seriously.
- Chips and CheeseAdvancedFree
Independent microarchitecture analysis with original benchmarking.
- Tom’s HardwareStart hereFree
Broad consumer hardware coverage. Fast, and best read alongside something more rigorous.
- The RegisterStart hereFree
Enterprise IT and infrastructure news with a working scepticism about vendor claims.
Engineering and security4
- Hacker NewsStart hereFree
The default front page for the industry. The comments are frequently better than the links.
- LobstersCoreFree
Smaller, tagged and more technical than Hacker News, with noticeably less noise.
- CISA Cybersecurity AdvisoriesCoreFree
Government advisories on what is being actively exploited. Subscribe if you run anything in production.
- NCSC Threat ReportsStart hereFree
Weekly threat reporting written to be understood by people who are not security specialists.
About this list
18 resources, checked automatically every week so dead links do not sit here unnoticed. Nothing on this page is sponsored and none of these links pay us — which is the only reason a recommendation on it is worth anything. Every link goes to the original source, and we take nothing with you when you leave.