AI Briefing

Sources

The source list the agent follows when it writes each briefing.

1. Web search queries (WebSearch, use current date)

Daily sweep

  • AI news <Month DD YYYY>
  • artificial intelligence announced today
  • AI news this week <Month YYYY>

Models and products

  • new AI model release <Month YYYY>
  • open weights model released <Month YYYY>
  • OpenAI OR Anthropic OR Google DeepMind OR xAI OR Meta launches <Month YYYY>
  • Qwen OR DeepSeek OR Kimi OR GLM OR MiniMax new model <Month YYYY>
  • state of the art benchmark new model <Month YYYY>
  • AI API pricing change OR deprecation <Month YYYY>
  • AI agent launch <Month YYYY>
  • OpenAI leak OR rumor upcoming model
  • Google Gemini leak upcoming model
  • Anthropic Claude upcoming model leak OR rumor

Money

  • AI startup funding round <Month YYYY>
  • AI acquisition talks <Month YYYY>
  • Nvidia OR Microsoft OR Alphabet OR Meta OR Amazon OR Oracle AI stock move today
  • AI data center deal gigawatt <Month YYYY>
  • AI chip export controls <Month YYYY>
  • AI IPO filing <Month YYYY>

Policy and legal

  • AI regulation bill Congress <Month YYYY>
  • EU AI Act news <Month YYYY>
  • White House AI executive order <Month YYYY>
  • state AI law signed <Month YYYY>
  • AI lawsuit ruling copyright <Month YYYY>
  • FTC OR DOJ AI investigation <Month YYYY>

Safety, security, research

  • AI safety incident OR jailbreak OR model misuse <Month YYYY>
  • AI security vulnerability prompt injection <Month YYYY>
  • AI research breakthrough paper <Month YYYY>

People

  • AI executive departs OR hired OR poached <Month YYYY>
  • AI lab layoffs OR reorganization <Month YYYY>

Outages

  • outage ChatGPT OR Claude OR Gemini OR AWS OR Azure <dates>

2. X (x namespace tools)

search_news (max_age_hours=48)

  • AI
  • AI leak OR rumor upcoming model
  • OpenAI / Anthropic / Google Gemini / xAI Grok / Meta AI / Nvidia / Microsoft AI
  • DeepSeek / Qwen / Mistral
  • AI funding / AI acquisition
  • AI regulation
  • outage (filter for AI/cloud)

search_posts_all queries

  • (OpenAI OR Anthropic OR Gemini OR Grok) (down OR outage) -is:retweet
  • ("new model" OR "just released" OR "open weights" OR "now available") lang:en -is:retweet
  • (leak OR leaked OR "spotted") (GPT OR Claude OR Gemini OR Grok OR Llama) -is:retweet
  • ("we're releasing" OR "today we're launching" OR "introducing") (model OR agent) from:OpenAI OR from:AnthropicAI OR from:GoogleDeepMind OR from:xai OR from:AIatMeta
  • ("SOTA" OR "state of the art" OR "tops leaderboard") (model OR benchmark) -is:retweet min_faves:200
  • ("raises" OR "Series A" OR "Series B" OR "valuation") AI startup -is:retweet min_faves:100

Accounts watched

  • Labs: @OpenAI, @OpenAIDevs, @AnthropicAI, @claudeai, @GoogleDeepMind, @GoogleAI, @GeminiApp, @xai, @AIatMeta, @MistralAI, @Alibaba_Qwen, @deepseek_ai, @Kimi_Moonshot, @Zai_org, @MiniMax__AI, @nvidia, @Microsoft, @MicrosoftAI, @huggingface, @cohere, @perplexity_ai, @cursor_ai
  • Execs: @sama, @gdb, @DarioAmodei, @sundarpichai, @satyanadella, @demishassabis, @OfficialLoganK, @elonmusk, @mustafasuleyman, @ylecun, @karpathy
  • Reporters: @kyliebytes, @steph_palazzolo, @ZeffMax, @CadeMetz, @alexeheath, @Techmeme
  • Leakers/sightings: @btibor91, @testingcatalog, @legit_api, @koltregaskes, @rohanpaul_ai, @apples_jimmy
  • Research/benchmarks: @lmarena_ai, @ArtificialAnlys, @EpochAIResearch, @_akhaliq (daily papers), @natolambert, @simonw
  • Policy: @AISecurityInst (UK AISI), @NIST, @EU_Commission (AI Office posts)
  • Outage watch: @OpenAIStatus (if active), @AWSSupport, @googlecloud, @AzureSupport, @CloudflareHelp, @githubstatus

3. Release trackers and leaderboards (new models, rankings)

  • AI Release Tracker (https://aireleasetracker.com/latest): dated model-release list
  • TestingCatalog (https://www.testingcatalog.com): unannounced model/feature sightings
  • LMArena (https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard) and Arena blog: new entrants, rank changes
  • Artificial Analysis (https://artificialanalysis.ai): independent intelligence/speed/price comparisons for new models
  • Epoch AI (https://epoch.ai/data): benchmarks hub, compute/training trends
  • Hugging Face trending models (https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending) and Daily Papers (https://huggingface.co/papers)
  • OpenRouter rankings (https://openrouter.ai/rankings): what developers are actually using
  • GitHub trending (https://github.com/trending?since=daily): breakout open-source AI repos

4. Lab and platform primary sources

Lab news pages

  • OpenAI: openai.com/news, help.openai.com release notes (ChatGPT/Codex/Work changes)
  • Anthropic: anthropic.com/news, anthropic.com/research
  • Google: blog.google (AI), deepmind.google/discover/blog, developers.googleblog.com
  • Meta: ai.meta.com/blog
  • xAI: x.ai/news
  • Microsoft: blogs.microsoft.com/ai, microsoft.ai/news
  • Amazon: aboutamazon.com/news (AWS/AI), aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning
  • Apple: machinelearning.apple.com, apple.com/newsroom
  • Nvidia: nvidianews.nvidia.com, blogs.nvidia.com
  • Mistral: mistral.ai/news
  • Hugging Face blog: huggingface.co/blog
  • Chinese labs: qwenlm.github.io/blog, api-docs.deepseek.com/news, moonshot.ai / Kimi blog, z.ai blog, minimax.io/news

Developer changelogs (pricing, new endpoints, deprecations)

  • OpenAI: platform.openai.com/docs/changelog, platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations
  • Anthropic: docs.anthropic.com release notes, model deprecations page
  • Google: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog
  • xAI: docs.x.ai release notes
  • GitHub releases for major open projects: vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, transformers

5. News sites

General tech and business

  • Techmeme (techmeme.com): fastest single view of what tech press is covering
  • TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence)
  • The Verge AI, Ars Technica, Wired
  • Bloomberg Tech, Reuters Technology, Financial Times, WSJ Tech, CNBC Tech
  • The Information
  • Axios AI+, Semafor Tech
  • SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Decoder (the-decoder.com)
  • MIT Technology Review (AI)

Regional

  • SCMP Tech, Caixin Global, KrASIA: Chinese labs, chips, export controls
  • Calcalist/Ctech (https://www.calcalistech.com): Israeli AI deals
  • Sifted: European AI startups and funding

Newsletters and analysts (good for context and items press missed)

  • Import AI (jack-clark.net), The Batch (deeplearning.ai/the-batch), Ben's Bites, TLDR AI
  • Simon Willison's weblog (simonwillison.net): hands-on model/tool releases
  • Interconnects (interconnects.ai), Latent Space (latent.space), SemiAnalysis (semianalysis.com, compute/chips)
  • Platformer, Stratechery (headlines only)

Communities (leads only; confirm before using)

  • Hacker News front page (news.ycombinator.com): AI posts with 200+ points
  • Reddit r/LocalLLaMA (open-weights releases), r/MachineLearning, r/singularity (rumors; low trust)

6. Money and markets

  • Crunchbase News (news.crunchbase.com), FinSMEs (seed/Series rounds), PitchBook news
  • SEC EDGAR full-text search (https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/) for 8-Ks, S-1s and big AI contracts
  • Exa market pages (https://exa.ai/library/markets/stock/NVDA) and Invested Alpha (https://investedalpha.com): daily AI megacap closes
  • Earnings calendar: NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, META, AMZN, ORCL, AVGO, TSM, AMD, CRWV; flag AI capex numbers on earnings days
  • CoinDesk business: crypto miners converting to AI data centers
  • IMF GFSR (https://www.imf.org/en/publications/gfsr): AI-market risk policy

7. Policy, legal, government

US federal

  • Politico Tech / Congress live updates, Nextgov "Tech bills of the week"
  • congress.gov (search "artificial intelligence", latest actions)
  • Federal Register (federalregister.gov, topic: artificial intelligence): rules, EOs, RFIs
  • whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions
  • NIST / CAISI (nist.gov/caisi), Commerce BIS (bis.gov) for chip export rules
  • FTC press releases (ftc.gov/news-events)
  • AI Law Tracker federal bills (https://ai-law-tracker.com/federal)

US states

  • IAPP US State AI Governance Legislation Tracker (iapp.org)
  • Boston Globe TechLab (AI liability law)

EU, UK, international

  • EU AI Office (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, AI Act news), Euractiv Tech
  • UK AI Security Institute (aisi.gov.uk), gov.uk DSIT announcements
  • Unite.AI (UK/EU AI policy packages), Notes from the Terminal (EU AI Act / banking-agent angle), DeAI (deai.org)
  • OECD.AI policy observatory (oecd.ai)

Courts

  • CourtListener (courtlistener.com) for AI copyright and liability cases (NYT v. OpenAI, authors v. Anthropic/Meta, etc.)
  • Law360 / The Verge legal coverage

8. Safety, security, research

  • arXiv cs.AI / cs.CL / cs.LG new submissions (arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new): skim titles for lab papers only
  • Lab safety/alignment posts: anthropic.com/research, openai.com/safety, deepmind.google safety blog, METR (metr.org), Apollo Research, UK AISI evaluations
  • AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai)
  • Help Net Security, The Register, BleepingComputer: AI security incidents, prompt injection, data leaks

9. Status pages (outage watch)

  • Rule: only flag 🚨 OUTAGE ALERT if confirmed by an official status page or multiple major outlets and broadly user-impacting.

Official status pages

  • OpenAI: https://status.openai.com (Statuspage JSON: /api/v2/summary.json)
  • Anthropic: https://status.claude.com/api/v2/summary.json (status.anthropic.com redirects here)
  • Google Cloud: https://status.cloud.google.com (JSON: /incidents.json)
  • Gemini API: https://aistudio.google.com/status
  • AWS: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status (JSON: https://health.aws.amazon.com/public/currentevents, UTF-16)
  • Azure: https://azure.status.microsoft/status
  • Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com (Statuspage JSON)
  • GitHub: https://www.githubstatus.com (Statuspage JSON)
  • xAI: https://status.x.ai
  • Hugging Face: https://status.huggingface.co
  • Cursor (IDE / Cloud Agents / Grok Bot / Origin): https://status.cursor.com/api/v2/summary.json
  • Akamai: https://www.akamaistatus.com/api/v2/summary.json
  • Vercel: https://www.vercel-status.com/api/v2/summary.json

Independent monitors

  • llmlatency: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents and daily pages https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/YYYY-MM-DD
  • is-down.ai: https://is-down.ai/status/chatgpt/ (live ChatGPT reachability + user-report count; curl-friendly)
  • Downdetector (https://downdetector.com; blocks curl, use search results)
  • tickerr.ai, globalcloudstatus.com, isinternetup.com/outages, incidents.fru.dev, study8677.github.io/ai-status-hub
  • Chasms daily outage brief (https://www.chasms.com/blog/): outage recaps

Known, not new

  • AWS me-central-1 / me-south-1 long-running region outages (since Mar 2026)