The Ultimate Guide to 100 Best AI Newsletters on Substack in 2025

Discover the top AI newsletters curated through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity research - ranked by subscriber count with personal recommendations.

All the best reading on AI, right here, on Substack.

Let me level with you: This isn’t THE ultimate guide of AI publications on Substack. It’s MY ultimate guide, and frankly, that’s probably better than whatever algorithmic fever dream you’d get elsewhere.

I went full nerd on this. I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity (using their research features) to cough up their best AI-focused Substack recommendations. I combined those with my own subscriptions, then did what any obsessive would do—crawled through the “Recommended” sections of many publications. The result is—quite coincidentally—exactly 100 AI-focused newsletters that don’t suck.

Note: I deliberately ignored Substack’s bestseller lists. Sure, some popular newsletters are missing, but that’s only because none of the AIs—or any of the publications I surveyed—bothered to recommend them. Not my problem. This approach actually left room for some deserving underdogs at the bottom of the list, which is refreshing in a world where follower count often trumps substance.

For the ranking of these 100 publications, I relied on Substack’s own subscriber numbers. (Twelve additional newsletters don’t publish their stats—you’ll find those on a separate list.)

About those stars (⭐)? For three months, I tracked every Substack post I shared. Yes, I stray somewhat across the spectrum, so deal with it. The number of stars reflects my share count—basically my personal stamp of “this didn’t waste my time.” The entries marked with 🆕? Those are newcomers (new to me, at least) that I plan to follow from now on.

The complete overview is exclusively for paying subscribers. You know, the people who actually fund this kind of obsessive research. Thank you

Per-Egill Frostmann

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Jordi Beringues

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Ela

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Southern Whisper & Co.

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Rudiger Wolf

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Michael Massengill

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Thomas Dworschak

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Karsten Uhlig

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Angel Luis Lozano Sánchez

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Florian Wolf

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Glenn Lamming

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Pascal

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Valerie Wilmus

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Claudius Malue

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Alain Vanderbeke MotivAtWork

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Marcel Simonette

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Thiago Brant

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Ernesto

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Naresh Selvarasu

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Henrik Schürmann

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Bruno Monteiro

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Anthony Akins

, and everyone else who bought me a coffee! ☕

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Got any idea how much work it was to make this list? Hint: a lot! If you want to enjoy the full, unclipped version, I kindly ask you pay for one of the cappuccinos I needed while doing all this work. Guess what? A one-month fee for my newsletter is exactly the price of a medium latte at my favorite coffee bar. Isn’t that coincidence? 🙏🏻☕😀

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Enjoy the rabbit hole. 🐰

Jurgen

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100 Best AI Newsletters on Substack

1. One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

2. AI Supremacy (Michael Spencer) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

3. Artificial Intelligence Made Simple (Devansch) ⭐

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21. Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) 🆕

22. Department of Product (Rich Holmes) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

23. Nate’s Substack (Nate B. Jones) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

24. Agentic AI Weekly🆕

25. EU AI Act Newsletter, The (Risto Uuk) 🆕

26. AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans (Melanie Mitchell)

27. Algorithmic Bridge, The (Alberto Romero) ⭐⭐⭐

28. Platforms, AI, and the Economies of BigTech (Sangeet Paul Choudary) ⭐⭐⭐

29. AI by Hand (Tom Yeh) 🆕

30. AI Safety Newsletter🆕

31. AI Agents Simplified🆕

32. Simon Willison’s Newsletter (Simon Willison) 🆕

33. DiamantAI (Nir Diamant) 🆕

34. Work3 - The Future of Work (Matteo Cellini) ⭐⭐⭐

35. Decision Intelligence (Cassie Kozyrkov) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

36. Don’t Worry About the Vase (Zvi Mowshowitz) 🆕

37. Elevate (Addy Osmani) ⭐⭐⭐

38. Blood in the Machine (Brian Merchant) 🆕

39. Jam with AI (Shirin Khosravi Jam) 🆕

40. AI Opportunity, The (Guillermo Flor) ⭐

41. AI Ethics Brief, The🆕

42. Conspicuous Cognition (Dan Williams) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

43. Maverick Mapmaker, The (Jurgen Appelo)

44. AI Futures Project (Vikram Sreekanti, Joseph E. Gonzalez) 🆕

45. Cosmos Institute⭐

46. Why Try AI (Daniel Nest) 🆕

47. Nuanced Perspective, The (Aishwarya Naresh Reganti) 🆕

48. AI x Education (Lily Lee) 🆕

49. Educating AI (Nick Potkalitsy) 🆕

50. Hyperdimensional (Dean W. Ball) 🆕

51. Designing with AI (Mia Blume)

52. FullStack HR (Johannes Sundlo) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

53. AI Adopters Club (Kamil Banc) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

54. Epoch AI🆕

55. Industrial Intelligence (Nina Schick) 🆕

56. AI Leadership Edge, The⭐

57. AI Disruption (Meng Li) 🆕

58. Digital Leader, The (John Rossman)

59. AI Frontiers🆕

60. AI Agent Architect, The (Chris Tyson) ⭐

61. Enterprise AI Governance (Oliver Patel) 🆕

62. Ollie on Work (Ollie Henderson)

63. Uncharted | Startup growth without the fairytales (Martin) ⭐⭐⭐

64. AI Maker, The (Wyndo) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

65. Second Thoughts (Steve Newman) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

66. AI Policy Perspectives🆕

67. AI Frontier, The🆕

68. Decoding Discontinuity (Raphaëlle d’Ordano) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

69. workfutures.io (Stowe Boyd) ⭐⭐

70. Doing AI Governance (James Kavanagh) 🆕

71. Peter Csathy’s “the brAIn” - real Media & AI intelligence (Peter Csathy) ⭐

72. AI blew my mind (Daria Cupareanu) ⭐⭐⭐

73. Clear-Eyed AI (Steven Adler)

74. AI Realist (Maria Sukhareva) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

75. Weighty Thoughts (James Wang) ⭐⭐⭐

76. Strategy Stack, The (Alex Pawlowski) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

77. AI Monitor, The🆕

78. AI Agent Economy, The (Travis Wright) 🆕

79. Connected Ideas Project, The (Alexander Titus) 🆕

80. AI Central⭐

81. Unhyped AI (Stuart Winter-Tear) ⭐⭐⭐

82. 2nd Order Thinkers (Jing Hu) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

83. ForeWord🆕

84. AI Philosopher, The (Michael Ashley) ⭐⭐⭐

85. Human Playbook, The⭐⭐⭐

86. Shift*Academy (Lee Bryant) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

87. Honest AI (Alberto Chierici) 🆕

88. What Good Is AI? (Kay Stoner) 🆕

89. The Skeptic AI Enthusiast (Rafe Brena) 🆕

90. Utopia in Beta (Isabelle Castro) 🆕

91. Phi / AI⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

92. Engineering Harmony (Alex Jukes)

93. AI for Humanity (Roi Ezra) ⭐⭐

94. Leadership as a Verb (Diamantino Almeida)

95. Futurebraining (Huibert Evekink) ⭐

96. Eff the Algorithm (Katherine Argent)

97. AI Ethics Unwrapped (Miriam Sauter) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

98. Turing Pilgrim, The (Hari Dutt) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

99. Pseudorandom Bits (Mike Stanley)

100. Prompt Is the Novel, The (Kevin Matthews) ⭐⭐⭐

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Got any idea how much work it was to make this list? Hint: a lot! If you want to enjoy the full, unclipped version, I kindly ask you pay for one of the cappuccinos I needed while doing all this work. Guess what? A one-month fee for my newsletter is exactly the price of a medium latte at my favorite coffee bar. Isn’t that coincidence? 🙏🏻☕😀

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Another 12 Great AI Newsletters (unranked)

• AI & Cloud Weekly🆕

• AI Governance, Ethics and Leadership🆕

• AI Policy Bulletin Newsletter🆕

• AI Tidbits (Sarah Mor)

• Brennan McDonald’s Newsletter (Brennan McDonald) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

• Human and Machine (Dario D’Aprile) ⭐

• IRREPLACEABLE with AI (Pascal Bornet)

• Luiza’s Newsletter (Luiza Jarovsky) ⭐⭐⭐

• Obsolete (Garrison Lovely)

• Rami’s Readings (Rami Sayer) 🆕

• Sol of AI, The (Sol Rashidi) 🆕

• Threading the Needle (Anton Leight) 🆕

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