Substacks recommended by James Wang

Recommended by James Wang

AI Proem provides reports and analyses on global AI x infrastructure, AI innovation, Physical AI, and big-tech AI. With a focus on U.S.-China.

AI Health Uncut

By Sergei

Brutally honest insights from a healthcare AI founder on digital health, AI models & health AI investments, drawn from personal experiences, mistakes, successes & unique perspectives. An all-in authentic original research.

Angry, brutal, but truthful perspectives on AI in healthcare from someone who’s been in it

- James Wang

Society's Backend

By Logan Thorneloe

Machine learning for software engineers: learn, build, and understand AI.

Accessible tech deep dives and commentary from a smart Google ML engineer. It’s often important to get under the hood for newer concepts in AI, and this newsletter helps with that.

- James Wang

Supervised

By Matthew Lynley

Covering innovation and emerging technology in big data and AI.

Smart technical journalist who digs into AI and big data. Accessible and incisive.

- James Wang

Artificial Intelligence Made Simple

By Devansh

Covering the implications of important ideas in AI from all angles- technical, social, and economic. Read in over 180 countries. Sister Publication to Tech Made Simple

arg min

By Ben Recht

arg min: a blog of minimum value. on the history, foundations, and validity of "optimally" automated decision making.

A fascinating deep dive on both the technical underpinnings but also philosophical questions around AI and automated decisions. Fair warning: it's technically heavy, but good.

- James Wang

The Palindrome

By Tivadar

Mathematics for engineers, scientists, and other curious minds. Explaining things like your teachers should have, but probably never did.

Clear, comforting math to build intuition on ML concepts. Well, maybe not everyone feels that way, but I do.

- James Wang

Simon Willison’s Newsletter

AI, LLMs, web engineering, open source, data science, Datasette, SQLite, Python and more

Co-creator of Django and overall smart engineer explores topics in AI in a hands-on way—an important perspective in keeping up with what's going on.

- James Wang

The Chip Letter

By Babbage

Computer history and architecture

Excellent analysis of both history (highly recommend archives) and analysis of current events in the semiconductor industry.

- James Wang

Davis Summarizes Papers

By Davis Blalock

I go through all the machine learning arXiv submissions each week and summarize 10 to 20 of my favorites. Free forever and read by thousands of ML researchers and practitioners.

ML scientist who summarizes important papers in the field. Highly suggested, especially given how fast the field moves.

- James Wang

The Discourse Lounge

By Darrell Owens

I analyze politics, housing affordability, transportation, culture and urban living. Mostly focused in the Bay Area but not exclusively.

Incisive thoughts and analysis on Bay Area politics, especially on housing and race.

- James Wang

AI Supremacy

By Michael Spencer

News at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, technology and business including Op-Eds, research summaries, guest contributions and valuable info about A.I. startups.

One of the most comprehensive and wide-ranging newsletters on AI in Substack—if you're looking for a firehose of information in this incredibly fast-moving field, it's hard to find anything that's a better bang-for-your-buck.

- James Wang

The FinanceTLDR Newsletter

By FinanceTLDR

❤️ of Wealth + ❤️ of Writing. FinanceTLDR is not a financial cure-all. What I can promise you, however, is my full and unbridled curiosity for how our financial system works.

Interesting, incisive summaries of financial going-ons. Great deep dives for those who don’t speak high finance natively as well!

- James Wang

A Letter from Paul

By Paul Podolsky

Practical, jargon-free description of what is going on in international affairs and financial markets that ties directly to my asset allocation, with full transparency into my wins and losses.

Ex-Bridgewater (so, former colleague)'s excellent review of macroeconomics and the world. He's also a great writer and the overviews are actually literary—which is hard to do on the topic.

- James Wang

Interconnects

By Nathan Lambert

The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors on Wednesday mornings.

Insightful commentary and deep-dive analysis of often-ignored areas of AI. Also, great newsletter name after one of the most important parts of the AI hardware stack.

- James Wang

ChinaTalk

By Jordan Schneider

Deep coverage of technology, China, and US policy. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers.

Great insight and overview of a wide range of topics about China, US, technology, and more. Both accessible and in-depth, which is hard to do on the subject.

- James Wang