Follow the work, not the following count.

3Blue1Brown (YouTube)

Visual mathematics; start here if you prefer video

Ahead of AI

Architecture and training technique, explained to teach

Andrej Karpathy

Infrequent, authoritative, from-scratch teaching

Anthropic Academy

Free certificated courses from Claude 101 to agentic coding; launched March 2026

DeepLearning.AI Short Courses

Free, short, vendor-neutral enough to be useful

Jay Alammar

The Illustrated Transformer; still the clearest visual explanation

Neural Networks series

The written companion to the 3Blue1Brown series; the mathematics, made visual

Practical Deep Learning for Coders

The free course that trained a generation of practitioners

StatQuest

Statistics and ML fundamentals, patiently

AI Fluency

Structured framing for working with models rather than prompt tricks

Anthropic Academy

Free certificated courses from Claude 101 to agentic coding; launched March 2026

One Useful Thing

The best single subscription for the explore and apply stages

Prompt Engineering Guide

Technique reference rather than a list of tricks

Make Academy

Vendor training for the Make automation platform

n8n Learning Path

Vendor training for the n8n automation platform

Cole Medin

Agent and RAG build tutorials across n8n and agentic coding stacks

Sells a paid community; agent-stack-centric by design.

Nate Herk

The deepest free n8n agent tutorials

Sells a paid community; n8n-centric by design.

Sabrina Ramonov

AI automation for solo operators; large free prompt and template library

Sells Blotato and paid templates.

Almost Timely

Marketing-AI practice, weekly and unusually concrete

Co-founder of Trust Insights; sells consulting and courses.

Decision Intelligence

AI-era decision-making for executives, from Google’s first Chief Decision Scientist

Runs an executive AI advisory practice.

Marketing AI Institute

The AI Show podcast and MAICON; AI adoption for business leaders

Runs MAICON and paid courses.

Sabrina Ramonov

AI automation for solo operators; large free prompt and template library

Sells Blotato and paid templates.

The Neuron

Daily AI briefing written for business operators

Owned by TechnologyAdvice; ad-supported with advertiser placements.

Anthropic Engineering

Practical guidance on building with models and agents

Claude Code Documentation

Reference for agentic coding in the terminal

Hermes Agent Documentation

Persistent agent with a learning loop

Lil’Log

Deep technical surveys of agents, hallucination and RL

Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI

World-first governance framework for autonomous agents; updated May 2026

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

The open standard for connecting AI models to data sources and tools

OpenClaw Documentation

Multi-channel gateway for agents; MIT licensed

OWASP GenAI Security Project

Community security standards: the LLM Top 10 (2026) and the Agentic Applications Top 10

philschmid.de

Hands-on deployment and agent guides from a DeepMind engineer

Cole Medin

Agent and RAG build tutorials across n8n and agentic coding stacks

Sells a paid community; agent-stack-centric by design.

Latent Space

The best AI-engineering coverage available

Hosts invest in the companies they cover.

Nate Herk

The deepest free n8n agent tutorials

Sells a paid community; n8n-centric by design.

AI Explained

Measured model analysis; unusually careful with claims

AI Snake Oil

Princeton researchers separating real capability from marketing

AI Verify Project Moonshot

Open-source evaluation and red-teaming toolkit for generative AI

eugeneyan.com

Applied ML patterns and evaluation, from production experience

hamel.dev

The practical case for evals before anything else

Marcus on AI

The counter-narrative to AGI hype; read alongside the enthusiasts

METR

Independent evaluation of dangerous autonomous capability

AI Snake Oil

Princeton researchers separating real capability from marketing

AI Verify and Governance

Testing framework and toolkit; the compliance baseline here

AI Verify Foundation

Open-source governance testing toolkit

AI Verify Project Moonshot

Open-source evaluation and red-teaming toolkit for generative AI

Alignment Forum

Technical safety research discussion

ChinAI

Translations of Chinese AI policy; directly relevant to Singapore

EU AI Act Explorer

Matters for anyone serving EU customers

IMDA AI

Model AI Governance Framework and related guidance

Import AI

Policy and geopolitics from inside a frontier lab

MGF for Generative AI

Singapore’s nine-dimension governance framework for generative AI

Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI

World-first governance framework for autonomous agents; updated May 2026

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

The reference risk framework outside Singapore

OECD AI Policy Observatory

Cross-country policy comparison

OWASP GenAI Security Project

Community security standards: the LLM Top 10 (2026) and the Agentic Applications Top 10

Singapore AI Safety Institute

Red-teaming and evaluation research, hosted at NTU

Singapore Consensus on AI Safety

Multi-country research priorities, led from Singapore

MAS

Financial-sector AI risk guidance

PDPC

PDPA guidance, including on personal data in AI

BRAVE Southeast Asia

Regional founder and investor conversations

Don’t Worry About the Vase

Exhaustive weekly roundup; long, but shows its reasoning

e27

Southeast Asia startup news

Marcus on AI

The counter-narrative to AGI hype; read alongside the enthusiasts

One Useful Thing

The best single subscription for the explore and apply stages

OpenAI News

Model releases and system cards

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Tests things himself and shows the working; near-zero hype

Tech in Asia

Regional technology coverage

TechNode Global

Southeast Asia technology and funding coverage

The Batch

Weekly, pedagogical; note the DeepLearning.AI course interest

AI News (smol.ai)

The most comprehensive daily technical digest; dense by design

Auto-summarised from Discord and X; check primary sources before acting.

Ben’s Bites

Daily digest with a founder’s product lens

Runs a paid community and product database.

Matt Wolfe

Tool roundups and releases

Runs FutureTools.io, an affiliate business.

Matthew Berman

Fast coverage of new models

Sensationalist titles; verify before repeating.

The Neuron

Daily AI briefing written for business operators

Owned by TechnologyAdvice; ad-supported with advertiser placements.

The Rundown AI

The largest daily digest

Volume over depth; sells paid courses.

TLDR AI

Solid daily technical digest

Aggregated; check primary sources before acting.

Wes Roth

Daily news, sceptical framing

Daily cadence means limited depth per item.

Ahead of AI

Architecture and training technique, explained to teach

Andrej Karpathy

Infrequent, authoritative, from-scratch teaching

Anthropic Research

Interpretability and alignment papers

arXiv cs.AI

The primary source, unfiltered

Epoch AI

Empirical trend and compute data instead of vibes

Google DeepMind Blog

Scientific AI beyond language models

Google Research Blog

Broad research coverage

Hugging Face Blog

Open model releases and practical tooling

Hugging Face Papers

Trending papers; replaced Papers with Code, which is now sunset

Interconnects

Open models and post-training, in depth

Stanford AI Index

The annual reference for adoption and capability statistics

The Gradient

Longer-form essays and research perspectives

Two Minute Papers

Research summaries with no course funnel

Yannic Kilcher

Paper breakdowns for an advanced audience

Dwarkesh Podcast

Long-form research interviews

Guest selection shapes the narrative.

Build with Replit Agent

Reference for agent-assisted building

Chip Huyen

System design for production ML and AI engineering

jxnl.co

Retrieval and structured output, written for builders

Lovable Documentation

Reference for the app builder

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

The open standard for connecting AI models to data sources and tools

OpenAI Cookbook

Working code for common patterns

OWASP GenAI Security Project

Community security standards: the LLM Top 10 (2026) and the Agentic Applications Top 10

philschmid.de

Hands-on deployment and agent guides from a DeepMind engineer

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Tests things himself and shows the working; near-zero hype

Fireship

Excellent technical summaries; general development

General development, not AI-specific.

Latent Space

The best AI-engineering coverage available

Hosts invest in the companies they cover.

Nicholas Renotte

High-quality Python and LangChain builds

Infrequent; long form.

Riley Brown

Vibe-coding tutorials; ships real apps without assuming an engineering background

Creator funnel; tool sponsorships.

AI Singapore

National programme; research and open tooling

GovTech

Public-sector engineering practice

IMDA AI

Model AI Governance Framework and related guidance

LearnAI for Professionals

National programme aimed at working professionals

MAS

Financial-sector AI risk guidance

MGF for Generative AI

Singapore’s nine-dimension governance framework for generative AI

National AI Strategy

The policy frame leaders are measured against

PDPC

PDPA guidance, including on personal data in AI

Singapore AI Safety Institute

Red-teaming and evaluation research, hosted at NTU