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Top AI Newsletters of 2025

1 month ago | ai-supremacy.com | Ethan Mollick |Sebastian Raschka |Timothy Lee

This list is not exhaustive but features many of the top AI Newsletters on the internet today. 📚 Some of the factors used in the ranking are total paid subscriptions (this is the main criteria) engagement relative to list size⭐ highlighting emerging writers (also check out the “rising” leaderboards in tech in the app)💭 simply my own personal judgment (while browsing Substack’s Tech and Biz leaderboards & analyzing who is reading who that is a huge Venn diagram in and of itself).
Two years of Artificial Ignorance

Feb 10, 2025 | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo |Logan Thorneloe |Michael Kevin Spencer |Timothy Lee

This week marks the second anniversary of Artificial Ignorance. 2024 was my first full calendar year of biweekly writing, and it felt like I started to find my footing as a writer (creator? Substacker?). At the very least, it does feel like I'm finally developing some good muscle memory for writing on a weekly cadence.
Waymo vs Uber

Jan 27, 2025 | thedriverlessdigest.com | Harry Campbell |Timothy Lee

How is Uber not totally screwed by Waymo? I’ve seen this question in one form or another more times than I can count lately. And it’s not just folks on Twitter; almost everyone who’s taken a Waymo has been blown away by the product. The ride is smooth, the ‘driver’ is safe, and it feels like you’re in the future. There’s a reason why I have a section in each week’s newsletter dedicated to peoples’ first AV rides - Waymo is a magical experience.
Redesigning shift work to improve patient care and well-being [PODCAST]

Jan 17, 2025 | kevinmd.com | Patricia McTiernan |Jim Sholler |Kristan Langdon |Timothy Lee

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join emergency physician Maureen Gibbons as they explore the concept of rethinking shift work in health care. They discuss how distributing shifts among multiple physicians can reduce burnout, enhance job satisfaction, and improve patient outcomes. Learn how aligning schedules with natural energy patterns and prioritizing seamless handoffs can create a healthier, more effective workplace for providers and patients alike.
Ajeya Cotra on AI safety and the future of humanity

Jan 16, 2025 | aisummer.org | Timothy Lee

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:13:23Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Ajeya Cotra works at Open Philanthropy, a leading funder of efforts to combat existential risks from AI. She has led the foundation’s grantmaking on technical research to understand and reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI. She is co-author of Planned Obsolescence, a newsletter about AI futurism and AI alignment.
Jon Askonas on AI policy in the Trump era

Jan 9, 2025 | aisummer.org | Timothy Lee

Jon Askonas, an Assistant Professor of Politics at Catholic University of America, is well connected to conservatives and Republicans in Washington DC. In this December 16 conversation, he talked to Tim and Dean about Silicon Valley’s evolving relationship to the Republican party, who will be involved in AI policy in the second Trump Administration, and what AI policy issues are likely to be be prioritized—he predicts it won’t be existential risk. Timothy B: Lee: So we had an election last month.
Why AI language models choke on too much text

Dec 20, 2024 | technewstube.com | Timothy Lee

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Why AI language models choke on too much text

Dec 20, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Timothy Lee

Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That's not great. Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters. Short words are represented by a single token (like "the" or "it"), whereas larger words may be represented by several tokens (GPT-4o represents "indivisible" with "ind," "iv," and "isible"). When OpenAI released ChatGPT two years ago, it had a memory—known as a context window—of just 8,192 tokens.
Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

Dec 9, 2024 | ai-supremacy.com | Timothy Lee |Michael Spencer

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Few journalists explore how AI works and how it's changing our world in such a lucid and accessible manner as Timothy Lee (Bluesky profile). He reports on AI and the future of the economy and with a computer science masters degree from Princeton writes about topics that concern us all.
How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

Nov 11, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Timothy Lee

"You’ve taken this idea way too far," a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li. During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence. Toward the end of the semester, there was a lecture about neural networks. This was in the fall of 2008, and I got the distinct impression—both from that lecture and the textbook—that neural networks had become a backwater.