AI publications and what they cost

What you get free: Émile Torres's critiques of longtermism and TESCREAL, mostly free.

Worth knowing: Some posts are for paying subscribers.

Émile P. Torres's insider-turned-critic view of effective altruism, longtermism and the TESCREAL ideologies shaping AI.

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What you get free: Most long essays are free and stay in the open archive.

Worth knowing: Hidden open threads and some posts are subscriber-only.

Scott Alexander on reasoning, research and risk.

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What you get free: Regular critical commentary, free to read.

Worth knowing: Some posts and comment threads are for paying subscribers.

A consistent critic of AI capability claims — argument, not reporting.

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What you get free: Podcast episodes and most write-ups, free.

Worth knowing: Some posts and event access are subscriber-only.

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What you get free: The whole weekly issue, free, with paper summaries and commentary.

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What you get free: Long technical explainers land free in your inbox.

Worth knowing: Occasional extras are held for paying subscribers.

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What you get free: Full engineering write-ups, no signup.

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What you get free: Free issues on working alongside AI.

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What you get free: Every post, in full, plus a free feed. No subscription exists.

Hands-on notes from someone who actually runs the tools and shows his working.

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What you get free: All posts free to read; the paid option is a tip jar, not a gate.

A professor testing AI on real work tasks and reporting what happened.

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What you get free: The main analysis posts are free; the archive is open.

Worth knowing: Some deeper pieces and interviews are subscriber-only.

Open-model training and policy analysis. Free posts, with some subscriber-only ones.

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What you get free: The full weekly news roundup, free, plus a podcast.

Weekly roundup of the news you may have missed.

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What you get free: The essays two Princeton researchers are known for, free.

Worth knowing: A few posts are subscriber-only; the book is a paid product.

Two Princeton researchers separating what AI can do from what it is sold as.

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What you get free: Very long weekly AI roundups, all free.

Worth knowing: Strong safety-focused opinions, stated openly rather than hidden.

Very long weekly AI roundups from a safety-focused writer with strong opinions.

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What you get free: All articles free, ad-supported.

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What you get free: A daily five-minute digest with links out, free.

Worth knowing: Ad-supported; sponsored items sit inside the digest.

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What you get free: A daily list of new AI tools and links, free.

Worth knowing: Ad-supported, and tool listings can be promotional.

No public feed — read the archive on their site.

No public feed — read this one on its own site.

What you get free: A handful of articles a month, plus free newsletters.

Worth knowing: Past the limit it asks you to subscribe.

Reported AI coverage that checks claims against evidence. Some articles hit a paywall after a few free reads.

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What you get free: Daily AI news, free to read in full.

Fast daily AI news, free to read.

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What you get free: Industry news, free to read.

Worth knowing: Vendor-friendly tone in places; it sells events and sponsorship.

Industry news site — expect a vendor-friendly tone alongside the reporting.

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What you get free: High-volume release and paper summaries, free.

Worth knowing: Some posts are sponsored; check the original source before quoting.

High-volume summaries of new models and papers. Useful for spotting releases; verify details at the source.

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What you get free: Articles free to read; the newsletter is free.

Worth knowing: Published by a professional body that also sells memberships.

Engineering-minded AI coverage from the IEEE.

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What you get free: UK national institute posts and reports, free.

No public feed — read it on their site.

No public feed — read this one on its own site.

What you get free: Forecasting write-ups and scenarios, free.

Worth knowing: Advocacy-adjacent: it argues a view about how AI will go.

Daniel Kokotajlo's group, behind the AI 2027 forecast.

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What you get free: Research and commentary on AI harms, free.

No public feed — read Timnit Gebru's institute on their site.

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What you get free: Data, reports and dashboards on AI progress, all free.

No public feed — read their benchmarking and trends work on their site.

No public feed — read this one on its own site.

What you get free: Model and research announcements, free.

Worth knowing: The company's own account of its own results.

Gemini and research announcements from the company itself — its own account of its own work.

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What you get free: Technical write-ups from Google's research teams, free.

Worth knowing: Google describing Google's own work.

Technical write-ups from Google's research teams.

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What you get free: Papers and notes, free, no signup.

Worth knowing: Apple publishing Apple's work.

Apple's own research papers and notes.

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What you get free: University research explained by the researchers, free.

University research explained by the people who did it.

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What you get free: MIT's reporting on its own labs, free.

Worth knowing: An institution covering itself.

MIT's own reporting on work coming out of its labs.

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What you get free: Google's product and AI announcements, free.

Worth knowing: Corporate communications.

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What you get free: Hardware and AI posts, free.

Worth knowing: NVIDIA sells the chips these stories are about.

Where Jensen Huang's keynotes and addresses are written up — the company's own account.

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What you get free: Product and policy announcements, free.

Worth knowing: Corporate communications.

Satya Nadella and colleagues on AI policy — a company arguing its own case.

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What you get free: Announcements and model notes, free.

Worth knowing: Marketing and product news from the company itself.

ChatGPT announcements straight from the company — its own account of its own work.

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What you get free: Open-weight model releases and notes, free.

Worth knowing: Company announcements.

Le Chat and open-weight model releases, announced by the company itself.

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What you get free: Tutorials and model write-ups, free, and most tooling is open source.

Worth knowing: It also sells hosting and compute.

Open-model releases and hands-on write-ups from the community and the company.

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What you get free: Model releases, safety posts and policy positions, free.

Worth knowing: The company's own framing of its own safety work.

Claude announcements from Anthropic's own site. Anthropic publishes no feed of its own, so these headlines come through Google News' index of anthropic.com; every link opens their original post.

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What you get free: Llama and research announcements, free.

Worth knowing: Meta on Meta.

Llama and Meta AI announcements. Meta publishes no feed for this blog, so these headlines come through Google News' index of ai.meta.com; every link opens their original post.

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What you get free: Grok and model announcements, free.

Worth knowing: Company announcements, read here through a news search rather than a native feed.

Grok announcements from xAI's own news page. xAI publishes no feed, so these headlines come through Google News' index of x.ai/news; every link opens their original post.

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What you get free: Model launch posts and research notes, free to read.

Worth knowing: A startup writing about its own models; the speed and accuracy claims are theirs, not independently tested.

Posts about their System One models and the RLCD training method. TypeSafe publishes no feed of its own, so these headlines come through Google News' index of typesafe.ai; every link opens their original post. It's a company blog, so treat the performance claims as theirs until someone tests them.

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What you get free: Model releases and technical reports, free.

Worth knowing: The company's own claims about its own models.

No public feed — their releases are posted on their developer site.

No public feed — read this one on its own site.

What you get free: Build-it walkthroughs, free to read.

Worth knowing: Each walkthrough runs on paid AWS services.

Build-it write-ups from AWS — practical, and also marketing for AWS services.

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What you get free: All research posts free to read; writing there is invite-based.

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What you get free: Every post and comment, free; posting needs a free account.

Worth knowing: A community with its own strong assumptions about AI risk.

The forum where Eliezer Yudkowsky and the AI-risk community argue in public.

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What you get free: Some articles are free; the rest sit behind Medium's meter.

Worth knowing: Quality varies by author — it's a contributor publication.

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What you get free: Everything free under an open license.

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What you get free: Tutorials and news free to read.

Worth knowing: A paid membership removes ads; the writing stays free.

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What you get free: Essays and researcher interviews, free.

Longer essays and interviews from AI researchers.

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