What are the best newsletters about AI, data and tech?

The site follows a growing list of them, with podcasts and YouTube channels beside them: independent writers such as Import AI, Interconnects, Latent Space, One Useful Thing, The Pragmatic Engineer, Stratechery, Data Engineering Weekly and SemiAnalysis, and company newsletters such as The Batch from DeepLearning.AI, TLDR and dbt Labs’ Analytics Engineering Roundup. The table ranks them by how often they really send an issue, measured from their own archives.

Which of them are free and which are paid?

Each newsletter shows Free, Free and paid, or Paid. For Substack newsletters it is measured every week from the public archive: the share of the latest 12 issues that are for paying subscribers only. For the others it comes from the subscribe page. A newsletter that goes paid or free shows up on the Changes page.

How often does each newsletter send?

Cadence is measured, not taken from the sign-up page: issues a month over the last six months, or over the days the archive covers when it holds less. Active means an issue in the last 45 days, paused 45 to 120 days, stopped longer than that.

Can I follow all of them in a feed reader?

Yes. The newsletters page has a Download OPML link (newsletters.fru.dev/newsletters.opml) that Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Reeder and most readers import in one step, and newsletters.fru.dev/rss.xml carries every new issue from every newsletter in one feed.

Do you copy the issues?

No. The site keeps only each issue’s title, date and link, from the newsletter’s own public feed or archive. Every row links to the original, where the author decides what is free to read.

A newsletter is missing or something is wrong. How do I fix it?

Every newsletter page has Suggest a correction, and the newsletters page has Suggest a missing newsletter. Each suggestion is checked against the newsletter before anything changes.

Data, AI and tech newsletters worth reading

Today120 issues

AlphaSignal AI and agents

Getting Pharma AI Agents to the Right Answer by Fixing the Data and Semantic Layers - with Richard Knoche of Flatiron Health

Linear Digressions AI and agents

20VC: Mistral CEO on Why Energy Is Not the Bottleneck to AI | Why OpenAI and Anthropic Will Come for Your Business | The Future of the Inference Market | Are Chinese Open-Source Models Truly Safe?

The Peterman Pod AI and agents

Ship It Conversations: Ryan Packer of BambooHR on Why CTOs Are Coding Again, Building a Software Factory, AI Straining CI/CD, Protecting HR Data, Mid-Career and Junior Engineers, and Why Every Engineer Gets a Team of Agents

Decoder with Nilay Patel AI and agents

Most activeby issues in the last 90 days

AlphaSignal

A newsletter, mostly on AI and agents.

149 a weekFree

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LessWrong

A newsletter, mostly on AI and agents.

64 a weekFree

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Sifu Yik's Substack

Sifu Yik's AI Tips & News. Access 10,000 + viral image and video prompts. 30+ hour of training. I'll send you a free gift once you’re ready to subscribe.

Sifu Yik Chan · 48 a weekFree

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