How Do I Stay Up to Date with the AI Industry?

Talk to people (not to robots), or at least read their work

October 1, 2025
8 min read
Updated: April 6, 2026
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How do I stay up to date with the AI industry?

**TLDR;** talk to people (not to robots), or at least read their work.

Talking

**Communities created by Glo**

Glo hosts office hours and consults; probably the fastest way to get unblocked

[Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado | TidyCal](https://sanscourier.ai/meet)

A high-signal, low noise Whatsapp private group. DM Glo after joining otherwise you will get removed.

[SansCourier.ai: AI for the people](https://chat.whatsapp.com/JQdVRX9EOW99UWKCb0pQAi?mode=wwt)

**Communities vetted by Glo**

[Cerebral Valley (@cv)](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/cv)

[Leopard.FYI: Professional Network for Women, NB folks & Allies in Tech](https://leopard.fyi)

[SheTO](https://sheto.org)

Reading

**Written by Glo**

[Sanscourier.ai | Gonzalo | Substack](https://sanscourier.substack.com)

**Recommended by Glo**

[AINews | AINews](https://news.smol.ai/)

[The Pragmatic Engineer | Gergely Orosz | Substack](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/)

[Blog](https://cursor.com/blog)

[Simon Willison’s Weblog](https://simonwillison.net/)

[Lenny's Newsletter | Lenny Rachitsky | Substack](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/)

Watching

[How I AI](https://www.youtube.com/@howiaipodcast)

[Andrej Karpathy](https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy)

Listening

[Vox Media: Podcast Network | Pivot](https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot)

[Hard Fork](https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork)

[a16z Podcast | Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/podcasts/a16z-podcast/)

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