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The Rundown AI

Daily · 5-minute brief

The biggest one, 2M+ readers.

News plus a "how to actually use this" section. If you keep one daily, keep this.

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Superhuman AI

Daily · 3 minutes

The shorter daily.

Same job as The Rundown, so pick one of the two, not both.

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One Useful Thing

Roughly weekly · what it means for you

Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor, writes every issue himself.

Less "what happened," more "what this changes for your work." The best pick if you are not technical.

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Ben's Bites

The business angle

Ben Tossell, an exited founder turned investor.

Reads AI news through "what would you build with this" and "whose moat just got weaker."

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Import AI

Weekly · go deeper

Frontier research in plain "why this matters" language.

Written by a co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind Claude. The densest one here, so save it for when you want depth.

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