Who we follow in AI
Keeping up with agent engineering means reading maybe thirty places, most of which publish nothing for a month and then something that changes your architecture. This is the full list we read for you, checked four times a day, with the duplicates removed when the same release lands in several of them.
47 sources, 3,880 stories collected so far. Everything on the news hub comes from here.
Labs and model providers
They announce the releases first. Everything downstream is a retelling, usually a day later and usually shorter.
- Anthropic36 stories, latest Aug 25, 2026
Model launches, safety work and company news, straight from the lab.
- Anthropic Engineering23 stories, latest Jun 6, 2026
How Anthropic builds with Claude: agent design, tool use, evaluation.
- OpenAI770 stories, latest Sep 14, 2026
Releases, system cards and product notes from OpenAI.
- Mistral AI57 stories, latest Sep 10, 2026
Open-weight and commercial model releases out of Paris.
- Google AI15 stories, latest Sep 14, 2026
Google's own account of what it shipped across its AI products.
- Google DeepMind75 stories, latest Sep 15, 2026
Research announcements and model releases from DeepMind.
- Liquid AI48 stories, latest Aug 24, 2026
The LFM family: small models built to run on the device in front of you.
- Pleias13 stories, latest Jun 24, 2026
Open models and datasets trained on permissively licensed text.
- Gradium25 stories, latest Sep 9, 2026
Low-latency speech models, and the latency work that makes them usable.
- Fastino21 stories, latest Sep 3, 2026
Task-specific small models, and what they cost to run.
- Fastino Research7 stories, latest May 1, 2026
Fastino's papers on small-model training and extraction.
- LMSYS57 stories, latest Sep 10, 2026
Chatbot Arena, SGLang, and the evaluation work around both.
- Distil Labs31 stories, latest Sep 2, 2026
Distilling large models into small ones you can own outright.
- Arcee AI47 stories, latest Aug 13, 2026
Open-weight small models and the merging techniques behind them.
- Ai226 stories, latest Sep 9, 2026
Olmo, Tulu, and the fully open research stack underneath them.
- EleutherAI29 stories, latest Apr 15, 2026
Open research on interpretability, training and evaluation.
- Answer.AI12 stories, latest Aug 19, 2026
Practical research from the lab Jeremy Howard co-founded.
- Apple Machine Learning Research29 stories, latest Sep 11, 2026
Apple's published research, much of it about running models on device.
- METR54 stories, latest Aug 26, 2026
Independent evaluation of frontier model capability and autonomy.
- White Circle2 stories, latest Jun 28, 2026
Benchmarks for guardrails and automated red-teaming of deployed models.
- Berkeley AI Research9 stories, latest Jul 29, 2026
Berkeley's AI research blog, written by the authors themselves.
- Microsoft Research11 stories, latest Aug 31, 2026
Research announcements from across Microsoft's labs.
- HumanLayer9 stories, latest Aug 12, 2026
Context engineering and harness design for coding agents.
- Cognition32 stories, latest Sep 11, 2026
Building and measuring autonomous coding agents, from the Devin team.
- Letta39 stories, latest Aug 17, 2026
Memory for agents that learn, from the team behind MemGPT.
- Prime Intellect34 stories, latest Aug 28, 2026
Open reinforcement learning at scale: environments, verifiers, prime-rl.
Serving, tooling and platforms
How the models actually get run: inference engines, agent frameworks, and the performance work nobody else writes up.
- Google Developers61 stories, latest Sep 15, 2026
Developer-facing posts on Gemini APIs, tooling and agent frameworks.
- vLLM65 stories, latest Sep 15, 2026
The open-source serving engine, and the release notes that come with it.
- Baseten60 stories, latest Sep 11, 2026
Inference performance engineering, written up in public.
- Fireworks AI57 stories, latest Sep 14, 2026
Serving, fine-tuning and function calling on hosted open models.
- FlexAI8 stories, latest Jul 2, 2026
Sizing, benchmarking and running inference across mixed GPU fleets.
- Ollama57 stories, latest Aug 31, 2026
Running models on your own machine, and which ones just landed.
- Adaptive ML32 stories, latest Jun 30, 2026
Post-training with reinforcement learning, written for people doing it.
- Modular76 stories, latest Aug 18, 2026
MAX, Mojo, and the argument for rebuilding the inference stack.
- BoundaryML38 stories, latest Sep 11, 2026
Structured outputs, schema-aligned parsing and function calling.
- turbopuffer16 stories, latest Sep 4, 2026
Search and retrieval engineering, down to the object store.
- Pydantic25 stories, latest Sep 9, 2026
Pydantic AI and Logfire: typed agents, and evaluating them.
- LangChain157 stories, latest Sep 15, 2026
Agent framework releases and the evaluation practice around LangSmith.
- Mixedbread22 stories, latest Aug 14, 2026
Embedding and reranking models, plus how they measure retrieval.
- NVIDIA Developer135 stories, latest Sep 15, 2026
Kernel-level and deployment notes from the people who make the hardware.
- Together AI103 stories, latest Sep 11, 2026
Open-model serving and fine-tuning, with the inference research behind it.
- Hugging Face566 stories, latest Sep 15, 2026
The community blog: releases, recipes and model cards worth reading.
People writing in the open
Individuals with no press office, explaining what changed and why it matters. Often the only readable account of a technique.
- Interconnects19 stories, latest Sep 11, 2026
Nathan Lambert on post-training, RLHF and the open model ecosystem.
- Sebastian Raschka23 stories, latest Sep 9, 2026
Sebastian Raschka on LLM architecture and training, from first principles.
- Lil'Log37 stories, latest Jul 4, 2026
Lilian Weng's long-form explainers on agents, safety and reinforcement learning.
Where everything else surfaces
The wide nets. Noisy by nature, so both are filtered hard before anything reaches the hub.
- arXiv cs.AI789 stories, latest Sep 15, 2026
New cs.AI and cs.CL preprints, filtered down to agent work.
- Hacker News23 stories, latest Sep 14, 2026
What engineers are arguing about, filtered to agents and LLMs.
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