The Best AI Newsletters to Read in 2027
21 AI newsletters grouped by reader, with who writes them, how often they publish, prices and the latest issue, checked on 30 October 2026. Stopped newsletters are listed separately.
Every newsletter in the five groups below sent a new issue in October 2026. We checked each one's archive or feed on 30 October 2026 and noted the date and subject of its latest issue. Newsletters that have been quiet for months moved to a separate table at the end. The groups are by reader: people who want daily news, people who follow research, engineers who build with AI, business readers, and people who track AI policy. Inside each group, the newsletters are not ranked.
How we checked
- Latest issue: the newest post in the newsletter's archive or feed on 30 October 2026. Each one is linked so you can read it.
- How often: the gaps between the last eight or so issues, or the schedule the publisher states.
- Price: the US price on the newsletter's subscription page. "Free" means the regular issues cost nothing.
- Subscribers: we give a number only when the publisher states it on its own site. We could not check these numbers ourselves.
Daily AI news newsletters
These four send a short summary of the day's AI news, usually with a few tool tips. All four are free.
| Newsletter | Who writes it | How often and price | Latest issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rundown AI[1] 3.5 million+ readers, per its site | Founded by Rowan Cheung[2] | Every weekday, plus a Sunday edition; free | 29 Oct 2026: Google's Gemini 4 Carbon benchmark results, a weekly teaching column and a Canva tutorial |
| TLDR AI[3] 1.1 million readers, per its site | TLDR | Every weekday[4]; free | 29 Oct 2026: Gemini 4 Carbon, NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and an essay on AI benchmarks, with each story summarised in a few sentences |
| Superhuman AI[5] | Founded by Zain Kahn[2] | Every day, with weekend specials on Saturday and Sunday; free[6] | 29 Oct 2026: Apple's touchscreen MacBook and Gemini 4 Carbon |
| The Neuron[7] | The Neuron team | A daily email, plus a daily "everything that happened in AI today" digest on its site; free[6] | 29 Oct 2026: New York's new limits on AI chatbots for children |
The issues we opened from The Rundown AI and TLDR AI each carried a sponsored section headed "Together with" and the sponsor's name, so part of each issue is advertising.
The daily newsletters also overlap a lot. On 29 October 2026, The Rundown AI, TLDR AI and Superhuman AI all covered Google's Gemini 4 Carbon, and The Neuron published its own report on it. The summaries did not all agree. TLDR AI's one-paragraph summary described Gemini 4 Carbon as a model with better energy efficiency. The Rundown AI described it as a model built for cybersecurity and long-running coding work, first released only to selected cyber defenders. The Neuron's report focused on its ability to find and exploit software flaws.[7]
AI newsletters for research and technical depth
These newsletters explain new models and papers at length. Import AI also covers policy,[2] and each issue of The Batch opens with a letter from Andrew Ng.
| Newsletter | Who writes it | How often and price | Latest issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Import AI[8] 147,000+ subscribers | Jack Clark | Weekly, on Mondays; free, or $10 a month for earlier access to some essays | 26 Oct 2026: Import AI 478 on maths for alignment, the ProgramBench benchmark and recursive self-improvement |
| The Batch[9] | DeepLearning.AI, with a letter from Andrew Ng | Weekly, on Fridays; free | 23 Oct 2026: Meta's Muse Wonder and Spark Open, educational use of ChatGPT, and Reflection's partnership with Nvidia |
| Interconnects[10] 87,000+ subscribers | Nathan Lambert | Several posts a week: essays, a podcast and a roundup of open models; free, or $20 a month for paywalled analysis of frontier models | 28 Oct 2026: Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma |
| Ahead of AI[11] 225,000+ subscribers | Sebastian Raschka | One or two long articles a month; free, or $6 a month for earlier access to some articles | 24 Oct 2026: a video course of more than 11 hours on building reasoning models in Python and PyTorch |
| Last Week in AI[12] 191,000+ subscribers | Andrey Kurenkov and the Last Week in AI team | Its page says weekly, but the last two written issues came out on 30 September and 9 October; free, or $5 a month | 9 Oct 2026: issue #346 on OpenAI's published math proofs and new open-weight models from Mistral and Reflection AI |
Nathan Lambert and Andrew Ng are both on our AI influencers list.
AI newsletters for builders and engineers
These three are written by people who build software with AI tools and test new models and agents themselves.
| Newsletter | Who writes it | How often and price | Latest issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latent Space[13] | swyx and the Latent Space team | Essays two to three times a week, plus a daily AI News briefing; free | 29 Oct 2026: AI News on Gemini 4 Carbon and an article on a visual reasoning benchmark |
| Simon Willison's Newsletter[14] 74,000+ subscribers | Simon Willison | About once a week; free, with no paid tier | 28 Oct 2026: games built with AI coding agents, plus notes on Kimi K3.1 Pro and GPT-6.1 Terra |
| Ben's Bites[15] 117,000+ subscribers | Ben Tossell | Tuesdays and Thursdays; free, with a paid tier that adds a community and direct access to Ben | 29 Oct 2026: "AI is overwhelming and I'm doing it wrong" |
Latent Space started in 2022 as swyx's newsletter about the new field of AI engineering. It now also runs a podcast and the weekly LLM Paper Club.[13] Simon Willison and swyx are both on our AI influencers list, and the practical guide to LLM agents covers many of the tools they write about.
AI newsletters for business and strategy
These newsletters explain what AI means for companies, jobs and the economy. Most publish less often than the daily newsletters, but each issue is longer.
| Newsletter | Who writes it | How often and price | Latest issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Useful Thing[16] 492,000+ subscribers | Ethan Mollick, Wharton professor | One to three posts a month; free; the $10-a-month tier is a way to support the newsletter and adds no extra posts | 20 Oct 2026: "30 Months on the Exponential (in Charts)", published on the day his new book came out |
| Exponential View[17] 168,000+ subscribers | Azeem Azhar | A weekly Sunday issue plus data posts and essays during the week; free selected essays, or $19 a month for exclusive deep dives and forecasts | 29 Oct 2026: why Microsoft is cutting staff while its margins are high |
| Big Technology[18] 156,000+ subscribers | Alex Kantrowitz | About twice a week; free public posts, or $5 a month for subscriber-only posts | 29 Oct 2026: an interview with Horizon3 CEO Snehal Antani on AI and cybersecurity |
| Understanding AI[19] 350,000+ subscribers | Timothy B. Lee, Kai Williams and other writers | One or two posts a week; free, or $8.75 a month for subscriber-only posts | 29 Oct 2026: what the 421-page Anthropic S-1 filing shows about its finances |
| AI as Normal Technology[20] 90,000+ subscribers | Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor | Two or three posts a month; free | 19 Oct 2026: a new paper on how AI agents are evaluated |
AI as Normal Technology was previously called AI Snake Oil, and its old aisnakeoil.com address now redirects to normaltech.ai. Ethan Mollick and Azeem Azhar are also on our list of AI in business influencers.
AI newsletters on policy and safety
These newsletters follow AI regulation, safety research and the politics around AI companies. Import AI, in the research group above, covers policy too.
| Newsletter | Who writes it | How often and price | Latest issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transformer[21] 19,000+ subscribers | Shakeel Hashim and other reporters | Several posts a week, including a Transformer Weekly roundup; free | 27 Oct 2026: whether Anthropic's governance after its IPO will protect its safety mission |
| AI Safety Newsletter[22] 53,000+ subscribers | Center for AI Safety | Every two weeks, on Tuesdays; free, and written for readers without a technical background | 27 Oct 2026: AISN #84 on AI-driven cybersecurity threats |
| The EU AI Act Newsletter[23] 60,000+ subscribers | Risto Uuk | Every two weeks, plus an interview podcast; free, with a paid option at $8 a month | 20 Oct 2026: issue #113 on a special meeting about loss of control, the AI Office's investigation of OpenAI and Anthropic, and the first harmonised AI Act standard |
| ChinAI[24] 33,000+ subscribers | Jeffrey Ding | Weekly, on Mondays; free; the $9-a-month tier is a way to support the writer and adds no subscriber-only posts | 26 Oct 2026: ChinAI #379, "Chinese AI only makes trash TV?" |
AI newsletters that paused or stopped
These newsletters still appear on many lists of AI newsletters, but none of them has published in the last six months.
| Newsletter | Status on 30 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| The Gradient[25] | The latest post came out on 19 February 2026, and the one before it on 22 January 2026. The Gradient announced in November 2024 that it was scaling back. |
| AI Tidbits (Sahar Mor)[26] | The latest post came out on 14 April 2026, and the one before it on 3 December 2025. |
| Davis Summarizes Papers (Davis Blalock)[27] | The latest roundup of machine learning papers came out on 26 August 2024. |
| Data Machina[28] | The latest issue, #262, came out on 23 July 2024. |
How to choose a short reading list
Most readers do well with three newsletters: one daily news newsletter, one weekly newsletter that goes deeper, and one for your own field. For example, an engineer could read TLDR AI, Interconnects and Latent Space, and a manager could read The Rundown AI, One Useful Thing and Exponential View. If you work on compliance, add The EU AI Act Newsletter or Transformer.
Engatica also sends a weekly email on AI agents and LLMs, which you can get from our newsletter page. If you prefer to listen, many of the writers above, including Nathan Lambert and the Latent Space team, also run podcasts.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best AI newsletter?
For daily news, The Rundown AI and TLDR AI are the largest free options. For research, Import AI and Interconnects explain new models and papers at length. For using AI at work, Ethan Mollick's One Useful Thing has the most subscribers of the Substack newsletters on this list.
Which AI newsletter has the most subscribers?
The Rundown AI says it has more than 3.5 million readers, and TLDR AI says it has 1.1 million. Among Substack newsletters, One Useful Thing shows more than 492,000 subscribers. These numbers come from the publishers themselves.
Are AI newsletters free?
Every newsletter on this list has a free tier. Some also sell a paid tier, such as Interconnects at $20 a month and Exponential View at $19 a month. ChinAI's $9-a-month tier adds no subscriber-only posts. The Rundown AI and TLDR AI are free, and their issues carry sponsored sections.
What is the best AI newsletter for developers?
Latent Space covers AI engineering, with essays two to three times a week and a daily AI News briefing. Simon Willison tests new models and agents himself and writes about them about once a week. Sebastian Raschka's Ahead of AI recently published a video course on building reasoning models in Python and PyTorch.
Which AI newsletters cover AI policy and regulation?
Transformer covers the politics around AI companies and regulation. The AI Safety Newsletter from the Center for AI Safety is written for readers without a technical background, and Risto Uuk's EU AI Act Newsletter follows how the EU AI Act is enforced. Jeffrey Ding's ChinAI translates Chinese writing on AI every week.
Which AI newsletters have stopped publishing?
As of 30 October 2026, The Gradient's last post came out on 19 February 2026, and AI Tidbits' last post on 14 April 2026. Davis Summarizes Papers stopped in August 2024 and Data Machina in July 2024.
Sources
- The Rundown AI — therundown.ai, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The best AI newsletters — Zapier, updated October 2026
- TLDR AI — TLDR, checked 30 Oct 2026
- TLDR AI archive — TLDR, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Superhuman AI — superhuman.ai, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The Best AI Newsletters to Subscribe to — DataCamp, June 2026
- Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Can Find and Exploit Software Flaws. Who Gets Access? — The Neuron, 29 Oct 2026
- Import AI subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- About The Batch — DeepLearning.AI, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Interconnects subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Ahead of AI subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Last Week in AI subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- About Latent Space — Latent Space, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Simon Willison's Newsletter subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Ben's Bites subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- One Useful Thing subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Exponential View subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Big Technology subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Understanding AI subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- AI as Normal Technology subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Transformer subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- AI Safety Newsletter subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The EU AI Act Newsletter subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- ChinAI subscription page — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The Gradient archive — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- AI Tidbits archive — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Davis Summarizes Papers archive — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Data Machina archive — Substack, checked 30 Oct 2026