Staying on top of AI, without drowning in it.

AI Above the Cut exists to make one thing simple: keeping executives on top of what's happening in AI. The field moves fast and the feed never stops — so instead of chasing every headline, we do the reading for you and surface only what actually matters.

Why we exist

AI is a fast-changing world, and most coverage is built for clicks, not decisions. Leaders don't need another firehose of launches and hot takes — they need to know what changed this week, why it matters, and what to do or watch next. That's the whole job of this brief.

Who we track

Rather than react to whoever is loudest, we follow a fixed roster of the field's highest-signal thinkers — researchers, lab leaders, and operators — and read their primary work each week: the paper, the post, the talk, the filing.

• Andrew Ng — practical AI
• Andrej Karpathy — frontier research
• Fei-Fei Li — world models
• Demis Hassabis — AGI direction
• Yann LeCun — research / LLM critique
• Dario Amodei — safety & scaling
• Geoffrey Hinton — long-term implications
• Ethan Mollick — AI at work
• Cassie Kozyrkov — enterprise adoption
• Erik Brynjolfsson — the economics of AI

…plus high-signal interpreters, the official lab feeds, and the primary research and regulator sources (arXiv, the FDA, ARPA-H, the Federal Register, EUR-Lex).

How we curate it

Every Sunday we read the week's output from that roster and distill it into two speeds: a 4-minute Quick Hits skim of what actually happened, then a longer Synthesis that connects the moves, takes a position, and links straight to the primary work. Quality over hype — we point you to the source, not the noise around it, and we flag anything that isn't confirmed.