# AI News Sources Reference

## Model Releases & Lab Updates

### OpenAI
- **Blog**: https://openai.com/blog/
- **Research**: https://openai.com/research/
- **Search queries**: "GPT-5 release", "OpenAI model update", "ChatGPT features"
- **Priority**: Critical (weekly check)

### Anthropic
- **Blog**: https://www.anthropic.com/news
- **Research**: https://www.anthropic.com/research
- **Search queries**: "Claude 4 release", "Anthropic research", "Claude features"
- **Priority**: Critical (weekly check)

### Google DeepMind
- **Blog**: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/
- **Research**: https://deepmind.google/research/publications/
- **Search queries**: "Gemini update", "DeepMind breakthrough", "Google AI"
- **Priority**: High (weekly check)

### Meta AI
- **Blog**: https://ai.meta.com/blog/
- **Research**: https://ai.meta.com/research/
- **Search queries**: "Llama 4", "Meta AI release", "PyTorch updates"
- **Priority**: High (weekly check)

### Other Major Labs
- **Cohere**: https://cohere.com/blog
- **Mistral AI**: https://mistral.ai/news/
- **Stability AI**: https://stability.ai/news
- **Hugging Face**: https://huggingface.co/blog

## Research Papers

### arXiv
- **cs.AI** (Artificial Intelligence): http://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent
- **cs.CL** (Computation and Language): http://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/recent
- **cs.LG** (Machine Learning): http://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent
- **Search patterns**: "large language models", "multimodal AI", "agent architectures"

### Conference Proceedings
- **NeurIPS**: https://neurips.cc/
- **ICML**: https://icml.cc/
- **ACL**: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/
- **ICLR**: https://iclr.cc/

## Tools & Frameworks

### GitHub Trending
- **AI/ML**: https://github.com/trending/python?since=weekly (filter: ML/AI tags)
- **Search**: "AI agents", "LLM frameworks", "MCP servers"
- **Priority**: Medium (bi-weekly check)

### Framework Releases
- **LangChain**: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/releases
- **LlamaIndex**: https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases
- **CrewAI**: https://github.com/joaomdmoura/crewAI/releases
- **AutoGPT**: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT/releases

### MCP Ecosystem
- **Official servers**: https://github.com/orgs/modelcontextprotocol/repositories
- **Community**: Search "MCP server" on GitHub
- **Search queries**: "new MCP server", "model context protocol"

## Enterprise AI & Production

### Gartner
- **AI Reports**: https://www.gartner.com/en/artificial-intelligence
- **Search**: "Gartner AI predictions", "enterprise AI trends"
- **Priority**: Low (monthly check)

### Production AI Case Studies
- **AWS AI Blog**: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/
- **Google Cloud Blog**: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning
- **Azure AI Blog**: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tag/azure-ai/

### MLOps Platforms
- **Weights & Biases**: https://wandb.ai/site/articles
- **MLflow**: https://mlflow.org/blog
- **Neptune.ai**: https://neptune.ai/blog

## News Aggregators

### Hacker News
- **AI submissions**: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search "AI", "LLM", "GPT")
- **Search queries**: "AI breakthrough", "model release"
- **Check**: Daily for breaking news

### Reddit
- **r/LocalLLaMA**: Local LLM community
- **r/MachineLearning**: ML research
- **r/ArtificialIntelligence**: General AI
- **Check**: 2-3x per week

### Twitter/X (Key Accounts)
- @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @GoogleAI
- @ylecun (Yann LeCun - Meta AI)
- @karpathy (Andrej Karpathy)
- @sama (Sam Altman - OpenAI)
- @darioamodei (Dario Amodei - Anthropic)

## WebSearch Query Templates

### Weekly Newsletter Queries
```
1. "AI model release 2026"
2. "agentic AI developments this week"
3. "LLM architecture breakthrough"
4. "production AI case study"
5. "MCP server new launch"
6. "AI agent frameworks update"
7. "enterprise AI adoption"
8. "multimodal AI research"
```

### Daily Brief Queries
```
1. "AI news today"
2. "latest AI announcement"
3. "model update release"
```

### Topic-Specific Queries
```
Agentic Systems: "AI agent architecture", "multi-agent orchestration", "autonomous agents production"
Vision Models: "vision language models", "multimodal AI", "image understanding breakthrough"
Production RAG: "RAG architecture", "retrieval augmented generation production", "vector database optimization"
```

## Source Priority Matrix

**Critical (Check Weekly):**
- OpenAI blog/research
- Anthropic blog/research
- Google DeepMind major announcements

**High (Check Weekly):**
- Meta AI releases
- arXiv cs.AI/CL (filtered)
- GitHub trending AI

**Medium (Check Bi-weekly):**
- Other major labs (Cohere, Mistral, Stability)
- Framework releases (LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- MCP ecosystem

**Low (Check Monthly):**
- Gartner reports
- Enterprise case studies
- MLOps platform blogs

## Search Strategy

1. **Run broad queries first** to identify trending topics
2. **Deep dive** into top 3-5 trending topics
3. **Cross-reference** with FrankX research hub
4. **Verify** claims against official sources
5. **Extract** actionable insights for architects

## Content Filtering

**Include:**
- Major model releases or updates
- Architectural breakthroughs
- Production-ready tools/frameworks
- Significant research with code
- Enterprise adoption patterns

**Exclude:**
- Hype without substance
- Vaporware announcements
- Incremental minor updates
- Academic papers without practical implications
- Consumer AI gadget news

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**Last Updated**: 2026-02-16
**Maintained By**: AI Architect Newsletter System
