July 31, 2025: Goodbye old format, Hello new site!

AI Updates web-page launch --> https://glia.ca/AI-updates/

Jul 31, 2025

TLDR;

The extending digital narrative list of links now has a new automated home at https://glia.ca/AI-updates/ It may eventually become an automated newsletter, or repost weekly as a summary to this Substack, but for now it's simply a web page that will update almost in real-time.

Thank you to the subscribers to this substack.

As many of you may have noticed, I haven't made any posts in July 2025, and that's because, after two years of doing thorough posts every single week, I was exhausted, and the amount of work was increasing. So, bye-bye weekly AI-research substack.

Hello to AI Updates web-page

Here’s a screenshot:

The AI Updates page is generated almost automatically. I save a link in my browser, tag it, it goes to Pinboard. From there, IFTTT picks it up and sends it to a Google Sheet. From Google Sheets, a PHP script reads it and inserts it into an SQLite database. The web page finds the newest entries and displays them. It will continue expanding over time to become a complete repository that can be combined with all the previous data in order to perhaps eventually train some sort of model at the end of this process in 2027.

The current version of the web page was coded with Gemini in July 2025. It can be sorted by tags. It is searchable. View modes: headline or description.

Why stop now?

Exhaustion.
The rate of change is increasing.
Innumerable AI influencers cover similar terrain.
It is time-prohibitive to manually sort & format articles.
The exponential scale of AI research precludes continuing.
I came up with a better plan: automate the process.

History-Stats

I sent out my first list of links in March 10, 2023, and after a month or so settled into a steady weekly rhythm.

2+ years
136 posts
2000+ pages

Background: Rate of Change in AI Research Publications

A July 11, 2025, Science Advances article entitled China tops the world in artificial intelligence publications, database analysis reveals (The country also leads in patent filings and the number of AI researchers) : “the number of AI-related research papers has grown from less than 8500 published in 2000 to more than 57,000 in 2024. In 2000, China-based scholars produced just 671 AI papers, but in 2024 their 23,695 AI-related publications topped the combined output of the United States (6378), the United Kingdom (2747), and the European Union (10,055).” This will only accelerate. At an interdisciplinary level the numbers are far higher.

A few External Re-Sources (as of July 2025)

The Conversation published approx 2 articles per day on AI in the first week of July.
ArXiv published approx 250 new research articles on AI every 5 days (50 per day).
Cell magazine published 82 peer-reviewed articles that use AI in the first 2 weeks of July (6 per day)
Nature published 50 peer-reviewed articles in 2 days in mid July (25 per day)
HuggingFace features 108 papers in 2 weeks in July (approx 8 per day)
Hacker News features a continuously community-upvoted list of tech news that often surfaces AI
Phys.org is an astonishing resource of science, aggregated with clear synthesis articles each with a citation link (which is helpful and often not included on news sites trying to keep people in their silos).

AINews is an excellent repository with fastidious (AI-generated?) summaries and a superb newsletter. It exceeds the quality of anything I could produce alone → but it does not venture too far into the applied science side.
Machine Learning & AI News on TechExplore lists over 60 articles on AI in 15 days of July (4 per day)
SemiAnalysis: extraordinary deep dives, authentic industry research (even the free version)
Ben’s Bites (free newsletter has morsels of info)
AI Frontiers : academic articles
The Salt - Curated AI (tech)
The Rundown AI
Curious Refuge (AI film)
Halim Madi’s Newsletter (artistic insights)
ByteByteGo Newsletter
One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) (commentary)

Xtending Digital Narrative (Jhave's Ai links)

Ready for more?