> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://usefulai.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Best AI Blogs to Read in 2026

export const publications = [
  {
    "slug": "simon-willison-blog",
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/simon-willison-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Hands-on experiments with LLMs and developer tools",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "9 posts/month",
      "AI developer practitioner blog"
    ],
    "about": "Simon Willison publishes frequent notes, experiments, and explainers based on direct use of language models and developer tools.",
    "take": "This is one of the most useful practitioner feeds for understanding what new AI tools actually do, with reproducible examples and careful sourcing. It also includes non-AI software notes, but the signal remains high.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 Release with Claude Fable",
        "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/5/sqlite-utils-fable/",
        "date": "2026-07-05"
      },
      {
        "title": "shot-scraper 1.10 video recording feature",
        "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/shot-scraper-video/",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "mit-tech-review-blog",
    "name": "MIT Technology Review (AI)",
    "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/mit-tech-review-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Reported analysis of AI capabilities and consequences",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "19 posts/month",
      "Technology analysis publication"
    ],
    "about": "MIT Technology Review's AI section combines reported news, analysis, and explainers about model development and AI's wider consequences.",
    "take": "It is one of the stronger general sources for connecting technical developments to policy and social impact. Some content is sponsored or access-limited, so the article label and provenance matter.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Operational Excellence with AI Process Frameworks",
        "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1140045/achieving-operational-excellence-with-ai/",
        "date": "2026-07-02"
      },
      {
        "title": "LLM Groupthink and Springboards' Alternative",
        "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/01/1140003/llms-are-stuck-in-a-groupthink-rut-this-startup-is-trying-to-get-them-out/",
        "date": "2026-07-01"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "404-media-blog",
    "name": "404 Media",
    "url": "https://404media.co",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/404-media-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Investigative reporting on how technology affects people",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "21 posts/month",
      "Independent technology publication"
    ],
    "about": "404 Media is an independent, journalist-owned publication founded by Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.",
    "take": "Its AI reporting is strongest when a technology story needs original sourcing, accountability, or a view of the people affected by it. It is not an AI-only publication, so follow it for investigations rather than comprehensive launch coverage.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Supreme Court, Private Jet, AI Television Stories",
        "url": "https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet/",
        "date": "2026-07-03"
      },
      {
        "title": "Companies Throttle Employee AI Use Over Rising Costs",
        "url": "https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/",
        "date": "2026-07-02"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "ars-technica-ai-blog",
    "name": "Ars Technica AI",
    "url": "https://arstechnica.com/ai/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/ars-technica-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Technically informed reporting on AI products and policy",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "58 posts/month",
      "Technology news publication"
    ],
    "about": "Ars Technica's AI section applies the publication's technical reporting style to model releases, products, policy, and the computing infrastructure behind AI.",
    "take": "It is a dependable general AI news source when technical context matters, especially for security and infrastructure. The section is busy, so the best value comes from its reported explainers rather than reading every update.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "OpenAI offers US 5% stake in Trump administration talks",
        "url": "https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/openai-floats-giving-us-5-stake-to-win-over-ai-haters/",
        "date": "2026-07-02"
      },
      {
        "title": "Privacy Advocates Warn FTC Against Ending X Audits",
        "url": "https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/musks-x-poses-serious-risk-to-americans-privacy-advocates-warn-ftc/",
        "date": "2026-07-02"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "wired-ai-blog",
    "name": "WIRED AI",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/wired-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Reported AI stories across technology, science, and society",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "64 posts/month",
      "Technology and culture publication"
    ],
    "about": "WIRED's AI coverage combines industry reporting with science, security, politics, culture, and longer investigations.",
    "take": "It is strongest on reported features and stories that connect technical systems to people and institutions. Much content is paywalled, and the category mixes quick news with deeper work, so format matters.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Stall Early",
        "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-unionization-talks-are-off-to-a-rocky-start/",
        "date": "2026-07-03"
      },
      {
        "title": "Cursor Platform Independence After SpaceX Acquisition",
        "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/can-cursor-remain-an-open-platform-inside-of-spacex/",
        "date": "2026-07-02"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "the-register-ai-blog",
    "name": "The Register (AI/ML)",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/software/ai_ml/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/the-register-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Skeptical reporting on AI products and enterprise technology",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "4 posts/month",
      "Enterprise technology publication"
    ],
    "about": "The Register's AI and machine-learning coverage reports on products, enterprise deployments, policy, and failures with a deliberately skeptical voice.",
    "take": "It is a useful counterweight to launch coverage and often foregrounds operational risks or questionable claims. The tone is part of the product, so separate its framing from the underlying reported facts.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Godot Engine AI Ban Vibe Coded Contributions",
        "url": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/01/godot-says-bye-bye-ai-bans-vibe-coded-contributions/5265344",
        "date": "2026-07-01"
      },
      {
        "title": "Microsoft Develops Bot Filtering for Teams Meetings",
        "url": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/30/microsoft-builds-a-bouncer-to-keep-bots-out-of-teams-meetings/5264199",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "techcrunch-ai-blog",
    "name": "TechCrunch AI",
    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/techcrunch-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "AI startups, products, funding, and company news",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "145 posts/month",
      "Technology industry publication"
    ],
    "about": "TechCrunch's AI section reports on startups, funding, products, and strategic moves across the AI industry.",
    "take": "It is a useful high-volume source for company and financing news, particularly early-stage startups. The volume is too high for unfiltered reading, and technical claims should be checked against primary sources.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Google Commercial Depicts Declaration of Independence with AI",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/new-google-commercial-imagines-a-declaration-of-independence-written-with-help-from-ai/",
        "date": "2026-07-04"
      },
      {
        "title": "Midjourney Seeks Hollywood Studios AI Usage Disclosure",
        "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/midjourney-wants-hollywood-studios-to-reveal-the-details-of-their-ai-usage/",
        "date": "2026-07-04"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "rest-of-world-blog",
    "name": "Rest of World",
    "url": "https://restofworld.org",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/rest-of-world-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Technology's impact outside Western markets",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "10 posts/month",
      "Global technology publication"
    ],
    "about": "Rest of World is a nonprofit publication reporting on technology's impact beyond the Western markets that dominate mainstream technology coverage.",
    "take": "It provides geographic and labor context that most AI publications lack, particularly around data work and local adoption. AI is one part of its remit, so follow it for perspective rather than release completeness.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "India Tests Open-Source Offline AI Alternative",
        "url": "https://restofworld.org/2026/india-bhashini-open-source-offline-ai-hackathon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feeds",
        "date": "2026-07-02"
      },
      {
        "title": "World Cup AI Systems Depend on Global Data Workers",
        "url": "https://restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup-ai-data-workers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feeds",
        "date": "2026-06-23"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "cset-georgetown-blog",
    "name": "CSET Georgetown",
    "url": "https://cset.georgetown.edu",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/cset-georgetown-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Evidence-based analysis of AI and national security",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "3 posts/month",
      "Security and technology policy center"
    ],
    "about": "Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology publishes nonpartisan, data-driven research at the intersection of technology and national security.",
    "take": "CSET is a high-value source for policy questions that require data, institutional context, or analysis of China and semiconductors. It publishes more slowly than news outlets, but its reports are better suited to informing decisions.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "FLARE-AI Platform Enables Crowdsourced AI Harm Reporting",
        "url": "https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/you-can-now-sound-the-alarm-on-ai-behaving-badly/",
        "date": "2026-07-01"
      },
      {
        "title": "Trump AI Restrictions Enable China Gap Closure",
        "url": "https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/trump-administrations-ai-crackdown-opens-door-for-china-to-close-gap/",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "techpolicy-press-blog",
    "name": "TechPolicy.Press",
    "url": "https://techpolicy.press",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/techpolicy-press-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Technology governance, democracy, and accountability",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "29 posts/month",
      "Nonprofit technology policy publication"
    ],
    "about": "Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community publication focused on technology, democracy, and public policy.",
    "take": "It is valuable for detailed policy arguments and perspectives from researchers and practitioners, especially where AI intersects with rights and institutions. It publishes both reporting and opinion, so format and author context matter.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "GLAAD AI Framework LGBTQ Representation Safety",
        "url": "https://www.techpolicy.press/glaad-maps-where-ai-fails-lgbtq-people-and-how-to-fix-it/",
        "date": "2026-07-05"
      },
      {
        "title": "Truth Campaign for AI Era Public Education",
        "url": "https://www.techpolicy.press/why-we-need-a-truth-campaign-for-the-ai-era/",
        "date": "2026-07-02"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "ai-now-institute-blog",
    "name": "AI Now Institute",
    "url": "https://ainowinstitute.org/publications",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/ai-now-institute-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Research on AI power, accountability, and public policy",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "3 posts/month",
      "Technology policy research institute"
    ],
    "about": "AI Now Institute publishes policy research focused on the concentration of power and the social consequences of AI systems.",
    "take": "This is a strong source for structural and policy analysis that does not begin from a product-launch frame. The output is less frequent than a news publication, but the research is more durable and worth reading in full.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "AI Now Senior Fellow Global Programs Hiring",
        "url": "https://ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-now-is-hiring-a-senior-fellow-global-programs",
        "date": "2026-06-16"
      },
      {
        "title": "Sarah Myers West Senate Banking Committee Testimony AI",
        "url": "https://ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-now-co-executive-director-sarah-myers-west-testifies-before-senate-banking-committee",
        "date": "2026-06-16"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "chip-huyen-blog",
    "name": "Chip Huyen",
    "url": "https://huyenchip.com",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/chip-huyen-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Designing and operating production AI systems",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "0 posts/month",
      "AI engineering practitioner blog"
    ],
    "about": "Chip Huyen writes long-form technical guides about building AI systems and bringing machine learning into production.",
    "take": "The archive is a strong learning resource because it connects research ideas to production constraints and clear system design. New posts are infrequent, so this is better treated as a reference library than an updates feed.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications",
        "url": "https://huyenchip.com//2025/01/16/ai-engineering-pitfalls.html",
        "date": "2025-01-16"
      },
      {
        "title": "Agents: Overview, Tools, and Planning",
        "url": "https://huyenchip.com//2025/01/07/agents.html",
        "date": "2025-01-07"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "lilian-weng-blog",
    "name": "Lilian Weng",
    "url": "https://lilianweng.github.io",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/lilian-weng-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Deep technical syntheses of machine learning research",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "0 posts/month",
      "AI research learning notes"
    ],
    "about": "Lilian Weng publishes extensive learning notes that synthesize research literature into clear technical explanations.",
    "take": "The blog is unusually durable and authoritative for understanding a topic from first principles, with strong diagrams and references. New posts are rare, so it belongs in a reference set rather than a daily updates list.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Scaling Laws, Carefully",
        "url": "https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-06-24-scaling-laws/",
        "date": "2026-06-24"
      },
      {
        "title": "Test-Time Compute and Chain-of-Thought Reasoning",
        "url": "https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2025-05-01-thinking/",
        "date": "2025-05-01"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "hamel-husain-blog",
    "name": "Hamel Husain",
    "url": "https://hamel.dev",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/hamel-husain-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Practical evaluation and AI engineering methods",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "1 posts/month",
      "Applied AI engineering blog"
    ],
    "about": "Hamel Husain publishes practitioner notes about applied AI engineering, with a particular focus on evaluations and building reliable LLM products.",
    "take": "The posts are valuable because they translate hands-on consulting and experimentation into specific methods rather than generic advice. Publishing is occasional, but the evaluation material is highly actionable.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Hard to Eval Is a Product Smell",
        "url": "https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/eval-smell/",
        "date": "2026-06-29"
      },
      {
        "title": "Data Scientist Role Evolution with Foundation Model APIs",
        "url": "https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/revenge/",
        "date": "2026-03-26"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  }
];

export const companies = [
  {
    "slug": "openai-news-blog",
    "name": "OpenAI News",
    "url": "https://openai.com/news/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/openai-news-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Official OpenAI products, research, and company updates",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "45 posts/month",
      "AI lab news and research feed"
    ],
    "about": "OpenAI's official news feed publishes product and model launches, research, safety updates, policy positions, and company announcements.",
    "take": "It is the authoritative first stop for OpenAI release details and the company's own documentation. The high volume mixes major launches with customer and corporate stories, and independent evaluation is still necessary.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "ChatGPT adoption expanded globally",
        "url": "https://openai.com/index/how-chatgpt-adoption-has-expanded/",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      },
      {
        "title": "GeneBench-Pro Case Studies and Benchmark Questions",
        "url": "https://openai.com/index/genebench-pro/case-studies/",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "anthropic-blog",
    "name": "Anthropic Blog",
    "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/anthropic-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Official Anthropic research, products, and company updates",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "12 posts/month",
      "AI lab blog"
    ],
    "about": "Anthropic's official news feed publishes model and product announcements alongside safety research, policy positions, and company updates.",
    "take": "It is the primary source for what Anthropic released and how the company frames its safety work. Read it for first-party facts, then use independent sources for comparative performance and external scrutiny.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Fable 5 Cyber Safeguards and Jailbreak Severity Framework",
        "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-safeguards-jailbreak-framework",
        "date": "2026-07-02"
      },
      {
        "title": "Claude Science AI Workbench for Scientists",
        "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-science-ai-workbench",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "deepmind-blog",
    "name": "Google DeepMind",
    "url": "https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/deepmind-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Official Google DeepMind research and lab updates",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "7 posts/month",
      "AI research lab blog"
    ],
    "about": "Google DeepMind's blog publishes first-party explanations of the lab's research, models, scientific applications, and institutional partnerships.",
    "take": "It is an essential primary source for DeepMind work and often provides accessible context around technical papers. As a company publication, it explains the lab's framing well but does not replace independent evaluation.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Securing Internal Systems Against Misaligned AI Agents",
        "url": "https://deepmind.google/blog/securing-the-future-of-ai-agents/",
        "date": "2026-06-18"
      },
      {
        "title": "UK AI Planning Prototype Aims to Halve Application",
        "url": "https://deepmind.google/blog/unlocking-uk-house-building-with-ai-accelerated-planning/",
        "date": "2026-06-16"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "huggingface-blog",
    "name": "Hugging Face Blog",
    "url": "https://huggingface.co/blog",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/huggingface-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Models, datasets, tooling, and open AI research",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "41 posts/month",
      "Open-source AI platform blog"
    ],
    "about": "Hugging Face's blog combines company announcements with technical posts from staff, researchers, and the open-source AI community.",
    "take": "It is one of the broadest practical sources for open models and tooling, and many posts include runnable code or artifacts. Contributor quality varies, so distinguish original technical work from promotional announcements.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Hugging Face Cerebras Gemma 4 Real-Time Voice AI",
        "url": "https://huggingface.co/blog/cerebras-gemma4-voice-ai",
        "date": "2026-07-01"
      },
      {
        "title": "ScarfBench: AI Agents Enterprise Java Framework Migration",
        "url": "https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-research/scarfbench",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "microsoft-research-blog",
    "name": "Microsoft Research Blog",
    "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/microsoft-research-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Official Microsoft research across AI and computing",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "4 posts/month",
      "Corporate research blog"
    ],
    "about": "Microsoft Research's blog provides explanations and perspectives from the company's researchers across AI, computing, science, and human-centered technology.",
    "take": "It is useful for substantive research context and often links work to papers or open artifacts. Because the domain spans all of Microsoft and the blog covers more than AI, neither its traffic nor every post should be treated as an AI-specific signal.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "SkillOpt: Agent Skills as Trainable Parameters",
        "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/skillopt-agent-skills-as-trainable-parameters/",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      },
      {
        "title": "Memora: Harmonic Memory Representation for AI Agents",
        "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/memora-a-harmonic-memory-representation-balancing-abstraction-and-specificity/",
        "date": "2026-06-29"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "meta-ai-blog",
    "name": "Meta AI Blog",
    "url": "https://ai.meta.com/blog/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/meta-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Official Meta AI research and model updates",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "1 posts/month",
      "Corporate AI research blog"
    ],
    "about": "Meta AI's official blog covers the company's models, research results, safety work, and applications across Meta products.",
    "take": "It is the primary source for Meta's own AI research and release framing, particularly open-model work. Publishing is relatively infrequent, and independent sources remain necessary for comparative evaluation.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "Brain2Qwerty v2 Non-Invasive Brain-to-Text Decoding",
        "url": "https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain2qwerty-brain-ai-human-communication/",
        "date": "2026-06-29"
      },
      {
        "title": "Muse Spark: Multimodal Reasoning Model Scaling",
        "url": "https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/",
        "date": "2026-04-07"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "google-research-blog",
    "name": "Google Research",
    "url": "https://research.google/blog/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/google-research-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Official explanations of Google research",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "7 posts/month",
      "Corporate research blog"
    ],
    "about": "Google Research's blog explains papers, models, datasets, and applications produced across Google's research organization.",
    "take": "It is a useful first-party bridge between papers and practical implications, especially across domains beyond generative AI. The breadth is a strength, but readers looking only for product launches will find it more research-oriented.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "TabFM: Zero-shot Foundation Model for Tabular Data",
        "url": "https://research.google/blog/introducing-tabfm-a-zero-shot-foundation-model-for-tabular-data/",
        "date": "2026-06-30"
      },
      {
        "title": "Accelerating Gemini Nano with Frozen Multi-Token Prediction",
        "url": "https://research.google/blog/accelerating-gemini-nano-models-on-pixel-with-frozen-multi-token-prediction/",
        "date": "2026-06-26"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  },
  {
    "slug": "bair-blog",
    "name": "Berkeley AI Research",
    "url": "https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/bair-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Berkeley AI research explained by its authors",
    "metric": null,
    "facts": [
      "1 posts/month",
      "Academic research lab blog"
    ],
    "about": "The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research blog lets BAIR researchers explain new papers, methods, and lab work in an accessible format.",
    "take": "It is valuable for research explanations written close to the original work, particularly when a paper needs more context than its abstract provides. Publishing is infrequent, but the posts tend to remain useful.",
    "highlights": [
      {
        "title": "BAIR 2026 PhD Graduate Showcase",
        "url": "https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/07/01/grads-2026/",
        "date": "2026-07-01"
      },
      {
        "title": "Adaptive Parallel Reasoning in Efficient Inference Scaling",
        "url": "https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/05/08/adaptive-parallel-reasoning/",
        "date": "2026-05-08"
      }
    ],
    "platforms": [

    ]
  }
];

export const otherFeeds = [
  {
    "slug": "the-information-blog",
    "name": "The Information",
    "url": "https://www.theinformation.com",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/the-information-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Original reporting on AI companies and markets"
  },
  {
    "slug": "nyt-ai-blog",
    "name": "New York Times AI",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/artificial-intelligence",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/nyt-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Reported stories about AI's public and economic effects"
  },
  {
    "slug": "bbc-ai-blog",
    "name": "BBC AI",
    "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/ce1qrvleleqt",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/bbc-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Broad public-interest reporting on AI"
  },
  {
    "slug": "guardian-ai-blog",
    "name": "The Guardian AI",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/guardian-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Public-interest reporting and commentary on AI"
  },
  {
    "slug": "cnbc-tech-blog",
    "name": "CNBC Technology",
    "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/cnbc-tech-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "AI companies, markets, and investment"
  },
  {
    "slug": "ft-ai-blog",
    "name": "Financial Times AI",
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/artificial-intelligence",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/ft-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "AI business, markets, and policy analysis"
  },
  {
    "slug": "wsj-tech-blog",
    "name": "Wall Street Journal Tech",
    "url": "https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/wsj-tech-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "AI companies, markets, and enterprise strategy"
  },
  {
    "slug": "economist-ai-blog",
    "name": "The Economist AI",
    "url": "https://www.economist.com/topics/artificial-intelligence",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/economist-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "AI economics, policy, and geopolitical analysis"
  },
  {
    "slug": "the-verge-ai-blog",
    "name": "The Verge AI",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/the-verge-ai-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "AI products, platforms, and their cultural impact"
  },
  {
    "slug": "venturebeat-blog",
    "name": "VentureBeat",
    "url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/venturebeat-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Enterprise AI strategy and industry news"
  },
  {
    "slug": "towards-data-science-blog",
    "name": "Towards Data Science",
    "url": "https://towardsdatascience.com",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/towards-data-science-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Applied data science and AI tutorials"
  },
  {
    "slug": "kdnuggets-blog",
    "name": "KDnuggets",
    "url": "https://www.kdnuggets.com",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/kdnuggets-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Tutorials and explainers for AI practitioners"
  },
  {
    "slug": "the-decoder-blog",
    "name": "The Decoder",
    "url": "https://the-decoder.com",
    "image": "/images/feeds/blogs/the-decoder-blog.png",
    "bestFor": "Rapid coverage of models, products, and research"
  }
];

export const BestForChip = ({ children }) => (
  <span className="inline-flex min-w-0 max-w-full items-center rounded bg-emerald-50 px-1.5 py-[2px] dark:bg-emerald-500/10">
    <span className="truncate text-xs font-medium leading-4 text-emerald-700 dark:text-emerald-400">{children}</span>
  </span>
);

export const Metric = ({ item }) => item.metric ? (
  <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 text-[13px] leading-5 uai-ink-muted">
    <span className="tabular-nums uai-ink-strong">{item.metric}</span>

  </span>
) : null;

export const FeedRow = ({ item }) => (
  <a href={item.url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" className="group flex items-center gap-3 px-4 py-3 no-underline transition-colors hover:bg-zinc-50/60 dark:hover:bg-white/[0.02]">
    {item.image && <img src={item.image} alt="" noZoom className="h-10 w-10 shrink-0 rounded-lg object-cover" />}
    <span className="min-w-0 flex-1">
      <span className="flex min-w-0 flex-wrap items-baseline gap-x-1.5">
        <span className="truncate text-sm font-semibold leading-5 uai-ink-strong">{item.name}</span>
        {item.metric && <span aria-hidden="true" className="uai-ink-muted">&#8729;</span>}
        <Metric item={item} />
      </span>
      <span className="block truncate text-[13px] leading-5 uai-ink-body">{item.bestFor}</span>
    </span>
    <span className="mr-1 flex shrink-0 items-center uai-ink-muted"><Icon icon="chevron-right" size={12} color="currentColor" /></span>
  </a>
);

export const FeedList = ({ items, visible = 7, toggleId }) => (
  <div className="not-prose mb-8 overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-zinc-200 bg-white dark:border-white/10 dark:bg-white/[0.03]">
    <div className="divide-y divide-zinc-100 dark:divide-white/5">
      {items.slice(0, visible).map((item) => <FeedRow key={item.slug} item={item} />)}
    </div>
    {items.length > visible && (
      <span>
        <input type="checkbox" id={toggleId} className="fy-more-toggle peer sr-only" />
        <span className="hidden divide-y divide-zinc-100 border-t border-zinc-100 peer-checked:block dark:divide-white/5 dark:border-white/5">
          {items.slice(visible).map((item) => <FeedRow key={item.slug} item={item} />)}
        </span>
        <label htmlFor={toggleId} className="flex w-full cursor-pointer items-center justify-center border-t border-zinc-100 bg-zinc-50/60 px-4 py-2.5 text-[13px] font-medium text-zinc-500 transition-colors hover:text-zinc-800 dark:border-white/5 dark:bg-white/[0.02] dark:text-zinc-400 dark:hover:text-zinc-200">
          <span className="fy-more-open flex items-center gap-1.5">Show {items.length - visible} more blogs <Icon icon="chevron-down" size={14} /></span>
          <span className="fy-more-close items-center gap-1.5">Show less <Icon icon="chevron-up" size={14} /></span>
        </label>
      </span>
    )}
  </div>
);

export const FeedTabs = ({ children }) => (
  <fieldset className="fy-tabs">
    <legend className="sr-only">Feed category</legend>
    {children}
  </fieldset>
);

export const EntryCard = ({ item }) => (
  <section className="not-prose mb-5 rounded-xl border border-zinc-200 bg-white p-5 shadow-sm dark:border-white/10 dark:bg-white/[0.03]">
    <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
      {item.image && <img src={item.image} alt="" noZoom className="h-12 w-12 shrink-0 rounded-lg object-cover" />}
      <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
        <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2 gap-y-0.5">
          <h2 className="m-0 max-w-full text-xl font-semibold leading-7 tracking-normal">
            <a href={item.url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" className="group inline-flex min-w-0 items-center gap-1.5 no-underline uai-ink-strong">
              <span className="min-w-0 break-words underline-offset-4 group-hover:underline">{item.name}</span>
              <span aria-hidden="true" className="flex shrink-0 text-zinc-400 transition-colors group-hover:text-zinc-900 dark:text-zinc-500 dark:group-hover:text-white"><Icon icon="arrow-up-right" size={12} color="currentColor" /></span>
            </a>
          </h2>
          <BestForChip>{item.bestFor}</BestForChip>
        </div>
        {item.facts.length > 0 && <div className="mt-1 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2 text-[13px] leading-5 uai-ink-muted">
          {item.facts.map((fact, index) => <span key={fact} className="inline-flex items-center gap-x-2">{index > 0 && <span aria-hidden="true">&#8729;</span>}<span>{fact}</span></span>)}
        </div>}
        {item.platforms.length > 0 && <div className="mt-1 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2 text-[13px] leading-5 uai-ink-muted"><span>Listen on</span>{item.platforms.map((platform) => <a key={platform.url} href={platform.url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" className="font-medium uai-ink-strong underline underline-offset-2">{platform.label}</a>)}</div>}
      </div>
    </div>
    <div className="mt-4 text-sm leading-[22px] uai-ink-body">
      <div>{item.about}</div>
      <div className="mt-3">{item.take}</div>
    </div>
    {item.highlights.length > 0 && <div className="mt-4">
      <div className="text-[13px] font-semibold uai-ink-strong">Recent articles</div>
      <div className="mt-1 divide-y divide-zinc-100 dark:divide-white/5">
        {item.highlights.map((highlight) => <a key={highlight.url} href={highlight.url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" className="group flex items-center gap-3 py-2.5 no-underline">
          <span className="shrink-0" style={{ paddingLeft: "2px" }}><Icon icon="file-lines" size={15} color="#52525b" /></span>
          <span className="min-w-0 flex-1 truncate text-sm font-medium leading-5 uai-ink-body">{highlight.title}</span>
          {highlight.meta && <span className="hidden shrink-0 text-xs tabular-nums uai-ink-muted sm:inline">{highlight.meta}</span>}
          <span className="shrink-0 uai-ink-muted"><Icon icon="arrow-up-right" size={11} color="currentColor" /></span>
        </a>)}
      </div>
    </div>}
  </section>
);

export const OtherFeedLine = ({ item }) => (
  <li className="flex items-baseline gap-2.5 text-sm leading-[22px] uai-ink-body">
    <span aria-hidden="true" className="relative -top-0.5 inline-block h-1.5 w-1.5 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-zinc-300 dark:bg-zinc-600" />
    <span>
      {item.image && <img src={item.image} alt="" noZoom className="relative -top-px mr-1 inline h-4 w-4 rounded-sm object-cover" />}
      <a href={item.url} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" className="font-medium uai-ink-strong underline underline-offset-2">{item.name}</a>: {item.bestFor}.
    </span>
  </li>
);

<div className="not-prose -mt-5 mb-8 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2 text-sm text-zinc-800 dark:text-zinc-200" style={{ paddingLeft: "2px" }}>
  <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5"><Icon icon="clock-rotate-left" size={10} color="#27272a" /> Updated <time dateTime="2026-07-12">July 12, 2026</time></span>
</div>

The most useful AI blogs offer something a fast social feed cannot: original reporting, reproducible technical work, careful analysis, or primary research and product documentation.

We separate publications and practitioner-led blogs from company blogs. The first group is better for independent context; company blogs are primary sources for research, releases, and technical guidance from the teams responsible.

## Best AI Blogs

<FeedTabs>
  <input type="radio" id="fy-tab-1" name="fy-tabs" defaultChecked />

  <input type="radio" id="fy-tab-2" name="fy-tabs" />

  <div className="fy-tablist not-prose">
    <label htmlFor="fy-tab-1">Publications</label>
    <label htmlFor="fy-tab-2">Company Blogs</label>
  </div>

  <div className="fy-panel" id="fy-panel-1">
    <FeedList items={publications} visible={7} toggleId="fy-more-1" />

    {publications.map((item) => <EntryCard key={item.slug} item={item} />)}
  </div>

  <div className="fy-panel" id="fy-panel-2">
    <FeedList items={companies} visible={7} toggleId="fy-more-2" />

    {companies.map((item) => <EntryCard key={item.slug} item={item} />)}
  </div>
</FeedTabs>

***

## How to choose

Use independent publications for reporting and criticism, practitioner blogs for hands-on technical judgment, and company blogs for primary documentation. A balanced reading list should include more than one of those perspectives.

***

## Other AI Blogs to Consider

<ul className="not-prose m-0 my-4 flex list-none flex-col gap-2 p-0">
  {otherFeeds.map((item) => <OtherFeedLine key={item.slug} item={item} />)}
</ul>
