Catching Up on AI Without the Firehose

The pace of AI development has gotten so fast that stepping away for two weeks means missing entire feature categories. How do you stay informed without drowning in the firehose? This episode recommends four curated sources — Jack Clark's Import AI, Andrew Ng's The Batch, Stanford HAI's AI Index Report, and the AI Breakdown podcast — that filter noise into signal. Plus a practical strategy: subscribe to weekly sources and consume them monthly for the best balance of timeliness and perspective.