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, 4,123 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.
- Anthropic39 stories, latest Sep 23, 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.
- OpenAI789 stories, latest Sep 24, 2026
Releases, system cards and product notes from OpenAI.
- Mistral AI58 stories, latest Sep 16, 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 DeepMind77 stories, latest Sep 24, 2026
Research announcements and model releases from DeepMind.
- Liquid AI49 stories, latest Sep 23, 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.
- Fastino22 stories, latest Sep 24, 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.
- LMSYS59 stories, latest Sep 16, 2026
Chatbot Arena, SGLang, and the evaluation work around both.
- Distil Labs32 stories, latest Sep 22, 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.
- Ai227 stories, latest Sep 17, 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 Research37 stories, latest Sep 24, 2026
Apple's published research, much of it about running models on device.
- METR55 stories, latest Sep 22, 2026
Independent evaluation of frontier model capability and autonomy.
- White Circle3 stories, latest Sep 21, 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 Research12 stories, latest Sep 23, 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 Intellect35 stories, latest Sep 21, 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 Developers66 stories, latest Sep 24, 2026
Developer-facing posts on Gemini APIs, tooling and agent frameworks.
- vLLM70 stories, latest Sep 24, 2026
The open-source serving engine, and the release notes that come with it.
- Baseten63 stories, latest Sep 24, 2026
Inference performance engineering, written up in public.
- Fireworks AI75 stories, latest Sep 23, 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.
- Modular77 stories, latest Sep 17, 2026
MAX, Mojo, and the argument for rebuilding the inference stack.
- BoundaryML39 stories, latest Sep 20, 2026
Structured outputs, schema-aligned parsing and function calling.
- turbopuffer16 stories, latest Sep 4, 2026
Search and retrieval engineering, down to the object store.
- Pydantic26 stories, latest Sep 23, 2026
Pydantic AI and Logfire: typed agents, and evaluating them.
- LangChain169 stories, latest Sep 25, 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 Developer150 stories, latest Sep 24, 2026
Kernel-level and deployment notes from the people who make the hardware.
- Together AI107 stories, latest Sep 23, 2026
Open-model serving and fine-tuning, with the inference research behind it.
- Hugging Face572 stories, latest Sep 24, 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.AI916 stories, latest Sep 24, 2026
New cs.AI and cs.CL preprints, filtered down to agent work.
- Hacker News25 stories, latest Sep 22, 2026
What engineers are arguing about, filtered to agents and LLMs.
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