Top AI Newsletters of 2025

Apr 01, 2025

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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).
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This article will simply be a list of Newsletters I recommend broadly in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning and its implications on society, culture, business, technology, geopolitics and the future.
For this year’s edition includes some non pure-AI writers due to their special contribution to the domain (including product, investing, macro, geopolitics, China Tech and so forth).
Do note: The ordering of this list reflects my target audience of General AI enthusiasts, not specifically software engineers or those in machine learning and is thus skewed to general and casual readers.

🎓 If you want to learn about AI, you might in short, want to read these people.

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Dylan Patel may have left Substack, but that’s more a credit to his success than anything else. His deep dives are still very much followed in understanding AI at the intersection of semiconductors, Nvidia, datacenters, AI Infrastructure and AI chips.
Dylan Patel is Chief Analyst and founder of SemiAnalysis, a boutique research and consulting firm focused on semiconductors and data center infrastructure. He’s basically the world’s biggest AI hardware nerd.
His Newsletter brings him hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars worth of of leads to his boutique consulting business. Not hard to argue that he’s the current 2025 GOAT of Semiconductor AI analysis.

Ethan Mollick is an AI evangelist who specializes in studying the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation, and the effects of AI on work and education.
Featured Piece: 15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
His pieces are often short, easy to read and appear to be for a general audience. He leads Wharton Interactive, an initiative aimed at democratizing education through the use of technologies like games and simulations, particularly leveraging AI to enhance learning experiences.

Sebastian Raschka is an acclaimed author, and expert in machine learning, recognized for his substantial contributions to academia and industry.
Ahead of AI is among the most accessible Newsletters on machine learning papers and LLMs in the world.
Featured Piece: The State of LLM Reasoning Models

Peter Yang increasingly talks about AI in his work related to product management and creator economy innovations. I didn’t used to consider him an AI voice but now I do.
His AI Track section on his Newsletter has gotten very interesting. Featured Piece: 24 AI Tools Ranked from Essential to Forgettable for 2025
He has legit Product Management experience in Silicon Valley and companies like Roblox, Reddit, Twitch and Twitter. He usually stays at a company for around two years, so I’m curious to see where he goes next after Roblox.

Timothy B. Lee is a prominent journalist and writer who specializes in technology, economics, and public policy. Although it’s his journalism around AI that I find most compelling.
Featured Piece: Driverless trucks are coming and unions aren’t happy about it
His coverage of the autonomous vehicle space is great and he’s able to put things into layman terms for a wider general audience.

Brian Merchant is a tech journalist, author, and commentator, with a focus on the implications of AI, technology, and automation on society. (Formerly L.A. Times)
Featured Piece: The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back.
Recently going full-time as a publication manager, “Blood in the Machine” is actually the name of his 2023 Book. He hosts Systems Crash_ podcast with
Paris Marx
of Disconnect Newsletter.

This list continues in some depth and is an on-going project. Audio version for paid readers below.

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