Where the news comes from
Every publication the news page reads, grouped by the topic it's filed under — what each one actually is, who it's most useful for, and a link to read it at the source.
111 publications in total; 100 publish a headline feed I can read automatically, and the rest are marked so you know to browse them yourself. The descriptions are mine, from reading each one — where a publication is arguing its own commercial case, it says so.
Compare the AI publications and their free tiers — what each one gives you without paying, side by side.
Showing 111 of 111 publications.
⚖️ Technology & Ethics
50 publicationsBleepingComputer
Free, ad-supported cybersecurity and malware news; good for tracking active threats and reading practical fixes.
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THE DECODER
Free, ad-supported daily AI news covering models, research, business and policy.
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The Verge
Daily technology news for a general readership — products, platforms, and the policy fights around them, written to be readable rather than technical.
Best for: Anyone who wants to keep up with tech without reading trade press.
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Ars Technica
Technology and science reporting that goes to the primary source — the court filing, the paper, the changelog — and separates what is proven from what a company claims.
Best for: Anyone who wants the detail behind a headline, and readers moving into technical work who want to understand how these stories actually break.
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TechCrunch
Startup and funding news: who raised money, who shipped what, who shut down. Heavy on announcements, light on analysis.
Best for: Founders and job seekers tracking which companies are growing or hiring.
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Gizmodo
Consumer technology, AI and science, written for a general reader.
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Futurism
Skeptical daily coverage of AI and science claims. Headlines run hot; the reporting underneath is usually careful.
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Realtime Techpocalypse
Émile P. Torres's insider-turned-critic view of effective altruism, longtermism and the TESCREAL ideologies shaping AI.
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Astral Codex Ten
Scott Alexander's long-form essays on reasoning, research quality and risk. Argumentative by design — it's one person thinking out loud, not reporting.
Best for: Readers who want to think harder about a claim rather than just hear it.
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WIRED
Feature reporting on technology's effect on work, money and rights, usually with named sources and real people in it.
Best for: Readers who prefer one well-reported story to a stream of headlines.
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Tom's Hardware
Hardware testing and specifications — chips, machines, and what they actually cost to run.
Best for: Anyone pricing a machine for AI work or a home lab.
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First Monday
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal on internet research. Academic in tone, free in full, no paywall.
Best for: Students and researchers needing a citable source.
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AI Alignment Forum
Technical discussion of AI safety research, written by researchers for researchers. Dense, and it assumes background.
Best for: People already working in or studying AI safety.
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Palantir Blog
A company blog. Useful for seeing how a defense and data contractor explains itself — read it as advocacy, not reporting.
Best for: Anyone interviewing there, or studying how the industry argues its case.
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String Literal (Yael Grauer)
An independent security and privacy journalist's own site, covering surveillance, testing and consumer protection.
Best for: Readers who want privacy reporting from outside a big newsroom.
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The Keyword (Google)
Google's own announcements blog. First-hand on what their products do, and an interested party on whether that's good.
Best for: Anyone using Google's tools who wants the source announcement.
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SSRN Working Paper Journals
Pre-publication research papers across economics, law and management, posted by their authors before peer review.
Best for: Researchers and anyone who wants the underlying paper, not a summary.
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Alan Turing Institute Blog
The UK's national institute for data science and AI, writing up its own research and public-interest projects.
Best for: Readers who want research-grounded writing on AI in public services.
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LessWrong
The forum where Eliezer Yudkowsky and the AI-risk community argue in public.
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Marcus on AI (Gary Marcus)
A consistent critic of AI capability claims — argument, not reporting.
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AI Futures Project
Daniel Kokotajlo's group, behind the AI 2027 forecast.
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Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Vilas Dhar's foundation on AI and the public interest — a funder making its own case.
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NVIDIA Blog
Where Jensen Huang's keynotes and addresses are written up — the company's own account.
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The Official Microsoft Blog
Satya Nadella and colleagues on AI policy — a company arguing its own case.
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DAIR Institute
No public feed — read Timnit Gebru's institute on their site.
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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
No public feed — read Marc Andreessen's essays on their site. An investor arguing its own case.
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AI Snake Oil
Two Princeton researchers separating what AI can do from what it is sold as.
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Don't Worry About the Vase
Very long weekly AI roundups from a safety-focused writer with strong opinions.
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404 Media
Journalist-owned reporting on technology, platforms and privacy. Some articles are members-only.
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TechRadar
High-volume consumer technology news; carries affiliate links.
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The Markup
A non-profit newsroom that investigates algorithms by testing them — buying the data, running the tool, and publishing the method so anyone can repeat it. Now part of CalMatters. Free to read, and licensed so other outlets can republish it.
Best for: Anyone who wants proof rather than opinion about what a system did, and anyone who needs a worked example of how to show it.
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ProPublica
Non-profit investigative journalism, funded by donations and published free. Most of it is not about AI; it is here because its investigations into scoring and surveillance systems are the benchmark for this kind of work.
Best for: Readers who want documents and data behind a claim, not a summary of a press release.
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EFF Deeplinks
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's own blog on privacy, surveillance and the court cases around them. It is a legal advocacy organization arguing its side — well sourced, and not neutral.
Best for: Anyone tracking digital rights cases, and anyone who wants the civil-liberties argument stated clearly.
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AlgorithmWatch
A European non-profit that follows automated decisions affecting people — benefits, policing, hiring and platform ranking — and the rules being written about them.
Best for: Readers who want the EU picture, which usually arrives before anyone else's rules do.
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Access Now
A global digital rights organization documenting internet shutdowns, spyware and surveillance. Advocacy, stated openly, and often first to the evidence.
Best for: Anyone whose interest in this goes beyond the US and Europe.
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EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center)
A privacy research and litigation center. Its value is the paperwork: complaints filed, regulator actions, and what consumer privacy law actually says. The feed mixes its own work with a round-up of other outlets' stories.
Best for: Anyone who wants the filing behind a privacy headline.
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AI Now Institute
Research on the economics and concentration of the AI industry. It argues a clear position against that concentration and publishes its reasoning in full, which makes it arguable rather than merely assertive.
Best for: Readers interested in who owns this technology, not just what it can do.
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Data & Society
An independent research institute publishing on automated systems in work, welfare and policing. Reports rather than news, so it moves slowly and rewards the read.
Best for: Anyone who wants depth on how these systems land in institutions.
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Rest of World
Non-profit reporting on technology outside the US and Europe — gig work, delivery platforms, payments and surveillance in the places where most users actually are.
Best for: Anyone whose picture of this industry is currently Silicon Valley shaped.
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Krebs on Security
One reporter's long-running investigations into breaches, data brokers and online fraud, usually published before the companies involved disclose anything.
Best for: Anyone working in or moving into security, and anyone who wants early warning of a breach.
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The Conversation — Technology (US)
Academics writing up their own research in plain language with journalists editing. Free to read and republish, and every piece names the author's university and funding.
Best for: Readers who want the researcher's own explanation rather than a reporter's paraphrase.
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Civics of Technology
Curriculum, book club and events are free; they also sell merchandise and offer paid professional development. Openly critical in stance, which is the point, so pair it with a source that argues the other way if you are writing policy.
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The Agent Stack
Free to subscribe, over 2,000 readers; written for people who build software, not for beginners. Substack publications can add paid-only posts at any time, so check the top of a post before counting on it.
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DEV Community
Free to read and free to post, no subscription. Quality varies a lot because anyone can publish, so check dates and test code before relying on it.
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Entrackr
Free to read and ad-supported, with a paid newsletter sold alongside it. Coverage is India-first, so treat it as a regional source, not a global one.
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Technology.org
Volume is high and much of it is rewritten from university press releases, so treat it as a tip sheet: find the story here, then click through to the original announcement before you repeat any figure.
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KDnuggets
Strongest on hands-on tutorials, weakest on product roundups — several posts carry affiliate links to courses, so treat recommendations as suggestions rather than independent verdicts.
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Dark Reading
Free to read. One of the longest-running security news sites; useful if security is part of your work or your beat.
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Protos
News source added to the Technology & Ethics feed. Coverage focuses on crypto, tech companies and financial investigations. Articles are free to read; the site may carry advertising or sponsorship. Feed: https://protos.com/feed/
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The Information
Honest warning: this one breaks the site's 100%-free rule. Almost everything is behind a paid subscription — you can read headlines and the opening lines, and a few free briefings, but full articles need a paying account. Added at my request as a reporting source; treat it as a headline tracker rather than something you can read end to end.
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✨ AI & Assistive Tools
36 publicationsXDA Developers
Hands-on write-ups of software and hardware, including plenty of head-to-head AI tool comparisons.
Best for: People choosing between tools and wanting someone to have tried both.
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Towards Data Science
A large community publication of data science and machine learning tutorials. Quality varies by author — read the byline.
Best for: Self-taught analysts and engineers looking for worked examples.
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TLDR AI
A short daily digest of AI news, links only, a couple of lines each.
Best for: Anyone who wants five minutes a day rather than a reading list.
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Latent Space
Interviews and essays on how AI products are actually built, from the engineering side.
Best for: Engineers and product people building with models.
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Import AI
Jack Clark's weekly summary of AI research papers and policy, with a note on why each matters.
Best for: Readers who want research and policy in one weekly sitting.
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Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)
Careful technical explainers on how models are trained and evaluated, from a machine learning researcher and author.
Best for: Learners going past the surface of how models work.
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Chip Huyen's Blog
Engineering notes on putting machine learning systems into production, from someone who has done it repeatedly.
Best for: Anyone moving from notebooks to a system that has to keep running.
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Opensource.com
Practical open-source articles — tools, licenses and community, aimed at people getting started.
Best for: Newcomers to open source and career changers building a portfolio.
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It's FOSS
Linux and free-software tutorials, written step by step for people who aren't sysadmins.
Best for: Anyone learning Linux on their own machine.
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AI Can't Beat Me!
A working writer testing where AI tools help and where they fall over, with the receipts.
Best for: Freelancers and creatives deciding what to hand over to a tool.
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OpenAI News
ChatGPT announcements straight from the company — its own account of its own work.
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Mistral AI Blog
Le Chat and open-weight model releases, announced by the company itself.
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Hugging Face Blog
Open-model releases and hands-on write-ups from the community and the company.
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Superpower Daily
A daily roundup of new AI tools and releases. Volume over judgment — treat it as a shortlist to check yourself.
Best for: People who want to know what launched this week.
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Anthropic News
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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Meta AI Blog
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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Epoch AI
No public feed — read their benchmarking and trends work on their site.
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xAI News
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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TypeSafe AI Blog
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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DeepSeek News
No public feed — their releases are posted on their developer site.
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MIT Technology Review — AI
Reported AI coverage that checks claims against evidence. Some articles hit a paywall after a few free reads.
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Google DeepMind Blog
Gemini and research announcements from the company itself — its own account of its own work.
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Google Research Blog
Technical write-ups from Google's research teams.
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The Decoder
Fast daily AI news, free to read.
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AI News
Industry news site — expect a vendor-friendly tone alongside the reporting.
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MarkTechPost
High-volume summaries of new models and papers. Useful for spotting releases; verify details at the source.
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Simon Willison's Weblog
Hands-on notes from someone who actually runs the tools and shows his working.
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One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)
A professor testing AI on real work tasks and reporting what happened.
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Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)
Open-model training and policy analysis. Free posts, with some subscriber-only ones.
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Last Week in AI
Weekly roundup of the news you may have missed.
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The Gradient
Longer essays and interviews from AI researchers.
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IEEE Spectrum — AI
Engineering-minded AI coverage from the IEEE.
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Apple Machine Learning Research
Apple's own research papers and notes.
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AWS Machine Learning Blog
Build-it write-ups from AWS — practical, and also marketing for AWS services.
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Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Blog
University research explained by the people who did it.
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MIT News — Artificial Intelligence
MIT's own reporting on work coming out of its labs.
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📈 Career & Professional Optimization
10 publicationsThe Pragmatic Engineer
Gergely Orosz on how software companies really work inside — pay, levels, hiring and layoffs.
Best for: Engineers negotiating or planning a move.
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Lenny's Newsletter
Product management practice and career advice, mostly from interviews with people doing the job.
Best for: Product managers and anyone moving into product.
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UX Collective
Design writing on process, research and craft, from a large contributor community.
Best for: Designers and researchers building a portfolio and a vocabulary.
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ITNEXT
Practitioner write-ups on infrastructure, platforms and developer tooling.
Best for: Developers and ops people going deeper on their stack.
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Marker on Medium
Business strategy stories — why a company won, lost or changed course.
Best for: Anyone who learns strategy better through cases than frameworks.
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By Design (Ana Cordera)
A designer writing about working life, craft and staying employable in design.
Best for: Designers early in their career or between roles.
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Greg Brockman's Blog
Personal posts from OpenAI's president on building and hiring. First-hand, and an interested party on the industry.
Best for: Readers curious how the people running AI labs think about work.
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GeeksforGeeks
Programming, computer-science and interview-prep tutorials. It publishes no feed of its own, so headlines come through a Google News site search and arrive in batches rather than continuously.
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Let's Create Careers (Entry Point)
Best for the first few years of a career, where the advice gap is widest — the pieces on networking and on building a portfolio without being a designer are the ones to start with. It is one writer's experience rather than researched guidance, so treat it as a practitioner's notes: take the habits, check any claim about hiring against a source that publishes its numbers.
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Allwork.Space
Read this when you want to know what employers are actually doing about remote and hybrid work before you negotiate for it, or when you are weighing an offer that calls itself flexible. It is written for the workspace industry, so some coverage is trade news about office operators rather than advice for you; take the policy reporting and skip the property pieces.
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🎤 Interview Prep
7 publicationsThe Interview Guys Blog
Straightforward interview preparation — questions, answer structures and follow-up templates.
Best for: Anyone with an interview in the next fortnight.
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interviewing.io Blog
Data from tens of thousands of practice interviews — a company with a product to sell, but it publishes its numbers.
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Glassdoor Blog
Interview and hiring advice from the reviews site.
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Ask a Manager
Alison Green answering real workplace and interview questions from readers.
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The Muse — Career Advice
No public feed — read their interview advice on their site.
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Big Interview Blog
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Indeed Career Guide — Interviewing
No public feed, and the site refuses automated visits — read it directly.
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🚀 Entrepreneurship & Free Tools
6 publicationsCrunchbase News
Funding and deal reporting drawn from Crunchbase's own company data.
Best for: Founders tracking investors, and job seekers tracking funded companies.
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Startup Grind on Medium
Founder stories and startup lessons from a large global community publication.
Best for: First-time founders who want to hear from other first-time founders.
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Start It Up on Medium
Business and self-employment writing from a broad Medium community.
Best for: People starting something alongside a job.
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Sam Altman's Blog
Essays from OpenAI's chief executive on ambition, companies and technology. Written by someone with a direct stake in the outcome.
Best for: Readers who want the primary source on how AI leadership frames its plans.
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Bottom Up by David Sacks
Investor commentary on software businesses and policy, from a venture capitalist and political figure. Openly partisan.
Best for: Founders who want the investor's view, taken with that in mind.
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Calcalist CTech
English-language coverage of Israel's technology industry — funding, hiring and exits.
Best for: Anyone following that market or job-hunting into it.
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🛠️ Marketing & Platform Tools
2 publicationsNet Influencer
Trade reporting on the creator economy: platform payouts, brand deals and tooling.
Best for: Creators and marketers who make money on platforms.
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Social Media Today
Free to read with no paywall, and the daily email is free too. The most reliable way to know a platform changed something before your posts quietly stop working.
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