AI News Sources for 2026
A curated guide to some news sites, blogs, and newsletters about artificial intelligence developments through 2026.
Research & the Frontier
This is where some concepts, jargon, and paradigm shifts originate.
arXiv (cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.CL) - skim titles and look for recurring phrases: “tool use,” “planning,” “self-reflection,” “memory,” “world models.” If the same idea shows up in multiple papers, then it’s a good idea.
BAIR Blog - strong on agents, robotics + LLM hybrids, and grounded evaluation. High signal, minimal hype.
DeepMind Blog - good source for long-horizon reasoning, planning, and “agent-like” framing before it’s popularized.
Builders & Practitioners
This is where techniques become usable.
Lilian Weng’s Blog - deep dives on agents, memory, planning, and evaluation. When people say “the agent loop,” they’re usually paraphrasing her diagrams.
Simon Willison’s Blog - interesting experiments, terminology clarification.
Weights & Biases Blog - excellent for evals, agent benchmarking, prompt + tool debugging. Less hype, more “why this broke.”
Industry & Ecosystem
Might keep you grounded.
The Batch - one of the few newsletters that consistently separates signal from noise. good at trend compression.
SemiAnalysis - useful for understanding compute constraints, model economics.
Community & early signals
Noisy, but useful if you’re disciplined.
r/LocalLLaMA - good place to see what serious tinkerers are running locally: agent frameworks, quantization tradeoffs, tooling hacks.
Latent Space - good ecosystem map. skim, don’t binge.
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