The Best AI Newsletters to Subscribe To
ZarifMost are noise. The ones below are the small set that earns a read. If you're trying to stay current without drowning, start here.
Updated September 16, 2026 — links, cadence, and reasons verified.
Last verified September 16, 2026. Recheck target: monthly. Download OPML (11 available feeds from 17 listed sources). Entries without a verified feed URL are excluded from the import.
I judge newsletters on signal density, opinion, and editing. A newsletter that just repackages press releases is dead weight. The ones below have a point of view, cut what does not matter, and do not waste a morning on the same five GPT headlines you already saw on X.
Start with five
One daily, one research weekly, one builder letter, and One Useful Thing. That is enough for a month.
- The Rundown AI · Daily, Monday–Friday
The most efficient five-minute daily brief: one top story, a handful of hits, and a tool. Start here if you only want one daily.
- TLDR AI · Daily, Monday–Friday
More technical than The Rundown: papers, repos, and engineering posts instead of consumer headlines.
- Import AI · Weekly
Jack Clark's weekly still does the job: a few developments, the paper, and an imagined future. This is what serious people read.
- Latent Space · Daily AINews, weekly essays
The newsletter for people shipping AI products: tooling, agents, evals, and the practice of building.
- One Useful Thing · Every 7–10 days
Ethan Mollick runs experiments, shares prompts, and writes with a teacher's clarity. One writer on how AI changes work.
The directory
Pick by job, not by subscriber count. A daily roundup is a different object from a weekly research letter.
Scroll horizontally to compare the columns.
| Name | Role | Why it is here | Cadence |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rundown AI Not included in OPML | Daily news | The most efficient five-minute daily brief: one top story, a handful of hits, and a tool. Start here if you only want one daily. No RSS or Atom feed was advertised in the checked page HTML. This is a limited discovery check, not proof that no feed exists; the entry is omitted from the import. Source checked September 17, 2026. | Daily, Monday–Friday |
| TLDR AI Not included in OPML | Daily news | More technical than The Rundown: papers, repos, and engineering posts instead of consumer headlines. No RSS or Atom feed was advertised in the checked page HTML. This is a limited discovery check, not proof that no feed exists; the entry is omitted from the import. Source checked September 17, 2026. | Daily, Monday–Friday |
| Superhuman AI Not included in OPML | Daily news | Prompts and tools for people who want to use AI at work, not track the research frontier. No RSS or Atom feed was advertised in the checked page HTML. This is a limited discovery check, not proof that no feed exists; the entry is omitted from the import. Source checked September 17, 2026. | Daily, Monday–Friday |
| Import AI | Weekly research | Jack Clark's weekly still does the job: a few developments, the paper, and an imagined future. This is what serious people read. The checked feed identifies Import AI. Its XML parsed successfully; the activity date is the newest item timestamp supplied by the publisher, not a check of every article's claims. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 7, 2026. | Weekly |
| The Batch Not included in OPML | Weekly research | Andrew Ng's editorial plus short research and business notes, running since 2019 without losing the plot. No RSS or Atom feed was advertised in the checked page HTML. This is a limited discovery check, not proof that no feed exists; the entry is omitted from the import. Source checked September 17, 2026. | Weekly |
| Latent Space | Builder | The newsletter for people shipping AI products: tooling, agents, evals, and the practice of building. The checked feed identifies Latent.Space. Its XML parsed successfully; the activity date is the newest item timestamp supplied by the publisher, not a check of every article's claims. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 17, 2026. | Daily AINews, weekly essays |
| One Useful Thing | Work and learning | Ethan Mollick runs experiments, shares prompts, and writes with a teacher's clarity. One writer on how AI changes work. The checked feed identifies One Useful Thing. Its XML parsed successfully; the activity date is the newest item timestamp supplied by the publisher, not a check of every article's claims. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity August 31, 2026. | Every 7–10 days |
| Ben's Bites | Builder | Weird, useful tools over corporate news. The Friday recap is the lazy-reader option if daily is too much. The official page advertises the checked feed, which identifies Ben's Bites and parses as RSS or Atom. Activity uses the publisher's newest item timestamp. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 17, 2026. | Daily plus Friday recap |
| The Neuron | Daily news | A three-minute daily brief aimed at working professionals who are not engineers. The official page advertises the checked feed, which identifies The Neuron and parses as RSS or Atom. Activity uses the publisher's newest item timestamp. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 17, 2026. | Daily |
| AI Tidbits | Practitioner | Long structured pieces on agents, evals, and coding tools. Closer to a research blog than a news brief. The checked feed identifies AI Tidbits. Its XML parsed successfully; the activity date is the newest item timestamp supplied by the publisher, not a check of every article's claims. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity April 14, 2026. | Irregular; latest checked feed item April 14, 2026 |
| AI Breakfast Not included in OPML | Curated news | Three times a week instead of daily, for people who want curation without inbox load. No RSS or Atom feed was advertised in the checked page HTML. This is a limited discovery check, not proof that no feed exists; the entry is omitted from the import. Source checked September 17, 2026. | Three times a week |
| Last Week in AI | Weekly research | Papers and policy with more depth than the dailies, from the people behind The Gradient. The checked feed identifies Last Week in AI. Its XML parsed successfully; the activity date is the newest item timestamp supplied by the publisher, not a check of every article's claims. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 17, 2026. | Weekly |
| Interconnects | Post-training | Nathan Lambert writes the best open-model and post-training coverage, from inside Ai2. The checked feed identifies Interconnects AI. Its XML parsed successfully; the activity date is the newest item timestamp supplied by the publisher, not a check of every article's claims. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 11, 2026. | One to three times a week |
| The Information Weekend AI Not included in OPML | Industry reporting | Paid scoops on funding, hiring, and strategy. Worth it only if those decisions are your job. A feed could not be verified because the official page check was unavailable. This does not prove the publisher has no feed; the entry is omitted from the import. Source checked September 17, 2026. | Weekly |
| Exponential View | Strategy | Azeem Azhar zooms out to energy, geopolitics, and ten-year horizons instead of launch week. The checked feed identifies Exponential View. Its XML parsed successfully; the activity date is the newest item timestamp supplied by the publisher, not a check of every article's claims. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 17, 2026. | Weekly |
| AlphaSignal | Research roundup | Short technical roundup of models, papers, and GitHub repos. A research-flavored complement to TLDR AI. The official page advertises the checked feed, which identifies AlphaSignal and parses as RSS or Atom. Activity uses the publisher's newest item timestamp. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 17, 2026. | Weekly |
| Lenny's Newsletter | Product | Not an AI newsletter, but the AI product interviews beat most dedicated AI mail. Use the AI episodes. The checked feed identifies Lenny's Newsletter. Its XML parsed successfully; the activity date is the newest item timestamp supplied by the publisher, not a check of every article's claims. Source checked September 17, 2026; recorded activity September 16, 2026. | Two to three times a week |
How to actually read these
Subscribing is free. Reading is the cost. Daily newsletters get a five-minute morning skim. Weekly letters get a Sunday block. If a newsletter goes three weeks without earning a click, unsubscribe.
Most of these have a free archive. Read the last three issues before you subscribe. If two out of three taught you nothing, skip it — no matter how famous the author is.
For the primary sources behind the summaries, use AI blogs and news sites. If you would rather combine trusted sources into one private digest, build a weekly AI article recommendation workflow.
See the change log below for updates to this directory.
Change log
Expanded the OPML to 11 checked feeds from 17 listed sources. Added entry-level feed evidence and explained exclusions; unavailable discovery does not prove a publisher has no feed.
Rechecked exported feeds; corrected or removed unavailable feed URLs. OPML now includes only sources with public feeds.
Moved onto the directory template with start-with-five, per-entry cadence, and an OPML download of the feeds that publish one.