A live updating list of good ai podcasts and newsletters by swyx. Please feel free to PR your additions and I'll take a look.

> this ended up being the best list — [Andrew Chen](https://twitter.com/andrewchen/status/1642626083962130432?s=46&t=90xQ8sGy63D2OtiaoGJuww)

PublishedFeb 23, 2026

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A live updating list of good ai podcasts and newsletters by swyx. Please feel free to PR your additions and I'll take a look.

this ended up being the best list — Andrew Chen

here are some great podcasts that cover AI in unique & interesting ways - Lex Fridman

Podcasts

some of these are on youtube too, i dont really bother separating them. ⭐ represents particular faves, ask me IRL

Researchers & Specialists
- The Gradient (Daniel Bashir) - great practitioner interviews
- Practical AI (Dan Whitenack) - good weekly conversations, a bit enterprisey
- This Week in Machine Learning/AI (Sam Charrington) - one of the longest running practitioner interview shows
- Machine Learning Street Talk (Tim Scarfe) - great backlog of safety/philosophy researcher interviews
- Deep Papers (Arize AI staff) - deep dives on today’s seminal AI papers and research.
- The Retort and Interconnects Audio (Nathan Lambert) - Topical coverage from a RLHF researcher and an AI ethicist (new)
News/Youtubers
- ⭐ Last Week in AI- quite long news recap but very consistent and well organized
- ⭐Yannic Kilcher - paper reviews and news recaps. less frequent these days.
- ⭐ Sasha Rush - commentary on new models and log of talks from one of the most influential professors in the field.
- ⭐ AI Brief - NLW bringing his recap skills over from the crypto world. daily news coverage, quality video. (We have done cross pods)
- ⭐ ThursdAI by @altryne - Twitter Spaces at least once a week on all the top AI news, esp good interviews with OSS innovators. Frequent collaborator with Latent Space eg on Dev Day and Axolotl
- ⭐ AI Explained - short, nontechnical news recaps (NOT available as podcast... all the above are)
- AI & I - Dan Shipper/Every.to - generic less-technical founder interview pod with nevertheless some good technical gets
- Dwarkesh Podcast - not AI focused but AI heavy, some very heavy hitters. The new Lex fridman!
- Behind the Craft - Peter Yang. lots of practical ai
- Around the Prompt with Logan Kilpatrick/Nolan Fortman - new pod from Gemini AI Product Lead
- Samuel Albanie professor with a youtube explaining papers. new but good
- Eye on AI - Weekly analysis at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry. (less technical but great guest backlog)
- AI Jason, Matthew Berman and AI Search - short explainer videos of AI Engineering related projects and news
- Julia Turc
- smaller creators worth noting: Algorithmic Simplicity (explanations of archs), Umar Jamil (standard concept teaching channel, very technical) and Daniel Bourke (livestream paper replication), Efficient NLP (good short paper/technique explainers), Trelis Research, McKay Wrigley
- /r/LocalLlama list has 23 recommendations
Companies
- The DeepMind Podcast - from GDM
- The Cognitive Revolution - Nathan Labenz - great new pod
- Gradient Dissent - Weights and Biases - Lukas is a great host. Recently taken over to Caryn Marooney.
- Robot Brains - Pieter Abbeel - decent backlog
- Generally Intelligent - Kanjun Qiu - very cerebral/RL focused. now dormant.
- Weaviate Podcast - good technical discussions
- NLP Highlights by the Allen Institute (infrequent but good pre 2020 backlog. Check episode 36)
- High Agency - Raza Habib (HumanLoop) - new
VCs
- ⭐ No Priors - Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- Training Data - Sequoia
- Barrchives - Barr at Amplify
- Unsupervised Learning - Redpoint
- MAD podcast - Matt Turck
Mine :) https://latent.space/

Newsletters

Leaders
- ⭐ Andrew Ng's The Batch picks 3 things each week and summarizes approachably
- ⭐ Jack Clark's Import AI focused more on policy given Jack's role, but has great coverage of the top news
- ⭐️ Sebastian Raschka Ahead of AI deeply technical recaps deep dives
- Arvind Narayanan AI Snake Oil - "to dispel hype, remove misconceptions, and clarify the limits of AI."
Commentators/ML Eng's
- ⭐️ Nathan Lambert's Interconnects https://www.interconnects.ai/ is high quality
- ⭐️ Semi Analysis https://www.semianalysis.com/p/ai-server-cost-analysis-memory-is (but expensive. listen to our pod with him)
- Alan Thompson's Life Architect https://lifearchitect.substack.com (note his credentials sus)
- Bradley Metrock (Deepgram) https://thisweekinvoice.substack.com/
- Carlos's Data Machina https://datamachina.substack.com/
- Davis Blalock Arxiv roundup https://dblalock.substack.com/
- Elvis Saravia's NLP Newsletter - paper recap
- https://www.supervised.news/ is new but promising quality
- https://nextword.substack.com/ is new but promising quality
- https://www.aitidbits.ai/about is new but promising quality
- PulseMCP (official MCP registry) https://www.pulsemcp.com/newsletter
infrequent but great when they post
- https://eugeneyan.com/writing/
- https://lilianweng.github.io/
Aggregators
- AImodels.fyi (Mike Young) - Free summaries of all AI/ML papers published on arXiv each day, ranked by popularity. Also covers models on Replicate and HuggingFace.
- Emergent Mind (trending arXiv ML/AI papers with GPT-4-generated summaries and links to social media discussions) - see also Karpathy's arxiv-sanity
- Amplify/Sarah Catanzaro's PTK https://www.amplifypartners.com/projects-to-know
- Ben's Bites https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/
- TheSequence https://thesequence.substack.com/about
- Rachel Woods' The AI Exchange https://theaiexchange.beehiiv.com/
- Lior's AlphaSignal https://alphasignal.ai/
- Rowan Cheung's Rundown AI https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bot Eat Brain https://www.boteatbrain.com/
- https://codingwithintelligence.com/ (new but promising)
- https://www.neatprompts.com/subscribe (recommended by Software Defined Talk #428)
- https://generallyintelligent.substack.com/ (daily bitesize news)
- TLDR AI https://tldr.tech/ai (daily aggregator with focus on research and big tech)
Mine :) https://latent.space/ has a monthly news recap, but i am also incubating a daily one

other lists i like

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