Who to Follow in AI: Useful Accounts and Newsletters
A short list beats a long one. We picked accounts and newsletters that publish practical or primary information. Every X account below was confirmed to exist on October 12, 2026.
Official product accounts
- @xai: xAI’s official account; announcements for Grok and related products.
- @grok: Grok’s official account.
- @cursor_ai: Cursor’s official account, for AI-assisted coding updates.
Builders and educators
- @karpathy: Andrej Karpathy; clear explanations of how AI models work.
- @AndrewYNg: Andrew Ng; AI education and practical perspective.
- @simonw: Simon Willison; hands-on experiments with AI tools, documented on his blog simonwillison.net.
- @poteto: Lauren Tan; agent-driven engineering workflows. See her profile.
- @swyx: swyx; AI engineering community and the Latent Space podcast.
- @jackclarkSF: Jack Clark; writes the Import AI newsletter.
Newsletters
- Import AI by Jack Clark: weekly research-focused roundup. TODO owner: confirm current URL before publishing.
- The Batch by DeepLearning.AI (Andrew Ng): weekly AI news and analysis. TODO owner: confirm URL.
- Ben’s Bites (@bensbites): AI tools and news for builders. TODO owner: confirm URL.
- Latent Space (swyx and co-host): AI engineering newsletter/podcast. TODO owner: confirm URL.
How we choose
Practical or primary information, a track record of corrections when wrong, and no pure hype. Suggest an account via the contact page.