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How do you guys keep up with AI news?

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feel like everything is moving so fast and there's 100s of news updates every day. how do you guys keep up with everything?

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Pro tip: you just don't have to.

Plough your own furrow; keep your practical knowledge and skills up-to-date as much as you can. But do so aligned with your own goals.

Being up to date with generic "news" is not really that important. Don't allow yourself to think it's bad if you miss a news story. If it is important or significant it will filter down to you.

I'm currently following 3/4 YouTube channels on this Topic, each one with its own core theme: Two Minute Papers (Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér, English), Enkk (Enrico Mensa, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Turin, Italian), Simone Rizzo (Prof. University of Bologna, Italian), and Raffaele Gaito (It's a lighter approach to AI, compared to the previous Channels, Italian). I also follow other channels but none worth mentioning here, since you probably already heard of them.

Then, I occasionally ask Gemini, Claude or Perplexity to do a deep research about Latest AI News, and make a Brief for me. I'm considering making this a daily automatic routine, so I can get this kind of content once a day.

I've noticed that on Reddit news seems to arrive sooner than on other platforms. I follow almost only AI Related Subreddits, and in this way, often I discover news at least a few days before they come out also on other platforms, even YouTube. This surprised me, in the beginning, but now I'm used to this speed of news acknowledgment. When I want to check on the AI news, I just need to open Reddit and refresh my feed.

Also, real interest and curiosity helps in this field, as keeping up with news otherwise seems more like a job than a pleasure. I work with and on AI Agents every day, and it's one of my biggest passions, so I enjoy the "keep-up" process.

In the end, keep in mind that you can't really keep up with All AI news out there, you need to filter what you're really interested in, and try to keep up with it. You don't really need to know every AI news, just the few that touches what you will use and need.

I follow Simon.

https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/

https://github.com/sponsors/simonw

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw

+1. Unless you want to spend a huge amount of time trying to keep up with the state of the art, just follow simonw. The links in the comment above are great.

I listen to The AI Daily Brief: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-daily-brief-art...

I quite like the Zvi Mowshowitz's substack: https://thezvi.substack.com/

He mixes in other stuff you may not care about, and the volume is quite high but I find it an interesting read.

I have an LLM digest it for me and post it all here 5x/day (it's how I found this post): https://ada-blog-seven.vercel.app

n8n pipeline that scrapes industry sources daily, uses an LLM to score each story according to how relevant it is to my particular focus of interest, and sends me a weekly digest on Friday mornings. Could probably do something similar with OpenClaw or scheduled Claude tasks or a bunch of other ways pretty easily.

General old-school way of not being overwhelmed by tech news: just picking stuff up when I need it to solve a real problem. News in general: is it genuinely improving your life to spend time on consuming it? If you cannot name concrete life improvements, cut it out entirely.

I follow Matt Wolfe for the latest on gen AI: https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow Keeping up with everything in AI is impossible.

I focus on a few subjects in specifically, this makes it manageable, AI and libraries, AI and publishing, and AI and energy. Otherwise I would get overwhelmed.

I Just follow those I consider as among of the best in my field, I skipped everything that smells too much marketing and I avoid things like "X thing is dead..".

Hacker News and a RSS subscription for Techmeme is sufficient.

X/Twitter is too irony/vaguepost filled that relying on it for high-signal news actually makes you less informed.

I stopped trying to keep up with everything. I follow a few primary sources and do one weekly catch-up;anything truly important survives the 48-hour filter.

I don't

HackerNew + X and Reddit!

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