What to Read & Watch
The reading (and watching) list for serious AI operators.
The Signal — our own brief — plus the newsletters, X accounts, posts, and videos our council members actually read and watch. Free to start. Members unlock paid monthly deep-dives and the full curated list.
The Signal
The Signal — our weekly AI brief.
The Signal is our free weekly note on what's actually moving in AI for operators. Paid monthly editions go deeper, with field reports from our experts and the playbooks they're running.
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Newsletters
The best AI newsletters.
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The Rundown AI
therundown.ai
Daily 5-minute briefing on the most important AI news, tools, and use cases. Best starting point for execs.
Ben's Bites
bensbites.com
Short, opinionated daily roundup of practical AI launches and what they actually mean for builders.
Import AI
jack-clark.net
Jack Clark's weekly deep-dive on frontier research, policy, and what's coming next. The thinking exec's read.
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Become a Member — $99/moX Accounts
The best AI accounts on X.
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Ethan Mollick
@emollick
Wharton professor running live experiments on how AI changes knowledge work. The single best follow for non-technical execs.
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy
Former Tesla / OpenAI. Explains the frontier in plain language better than anyone else building it.
swyx
@swyx
Maps the AI engineering landscape in real time. If something matters in the dev stack, swyx posted it first.
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Become a Member — $99/moHall of Fame
The most highly rated posts and most watched videos.
The handful of pieces of content our network keeps coming back to. First three of each are free , the rest unlocks with membership.
Top Posts
Hall of Fame , posts.
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The Bitter Lesson
Rich Sutton , incompleteideas.net
The single most-cited essay on why compute and scale keep winning. Required reading before any AI strategy meeting.
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Ethan Mollick , One Useful Thing
The most practical framework for executives on how to actually integrate LLMs into knowledge work.
GPT-4 Technical Report — what it actually means
Latent Space , latent.space
Plain-English breakdown of the capabilities jump and what it changed for product teams.
Top Videos
Hall of Fame , videos.
Showing 3 of 6 free. The rest are members-only.
Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code
Andrej Karpathy , YouTube
The single best video on how transformers actually work. Watch it once and you'll never be confused in a vendor pitch again.
Intro to Large Language Models
Andrej Karpathy , YouTube
The one-hour primer to send to your board before your next AI strategy session.
State of GPT
Andrej Karpathy (Microsoft Build) , YouTube
How models are actually trained and used in production. Still the clearest talk on the full pipeline.
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