Daily AI news digest · LLMs, agents, industry
The signal in the AI noise.
Know what your peers will be talking about next week. A two-minute morning read on AI news, filtered by ten years in the field — frontier LLMs, AI agents, LLM evaluation, and the industry. No repetition, no filler.
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Most AI news commentary comes from analysts who have never used the tech, or from founders selling their own. This sits in between — ten years of hands-on AI work, turned into a daily AI news digest for the rest of us. Covering LLM releases, AI agents, evaluation, and the industry moves that matter.
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Filtered, not collected.
A hundred things read so a few land in your inbox — the ones that actually change something for how we work and live.
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Plain English, not jargon.
Translated out of AI-speak. What just happened, in words your non-technical friends would understand.
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What matters, not what is loud.
Most of the daily AI noise will not touch your life. I spend time on the parts that will, and explain how.
Common questions about AI Field Notes.
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What is AI Field Notes?
A daily AI news digest covering LLM releases, AI agents, LLM evaluation, and AI industry moves. Each issue is human-reviewed by Michael Nemtsev. Every story has the facts, a short read on what it means, and a plain-language “so what” block.
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How often is it published?
Every weekday morning. One short email, roughly two minutes to read, free to subscribe. Past issues live at the digest archive with permanent dated permalinks.
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What topics does it cover?
Four core topics: AI agents news, AI model releases, LLM evaluation, and AI industry news — funding, regulation, labor, and chips.
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Who curates it?
Michael Nemtsev — Head of Cloud & AI for APAC at EPAM Systems. Twenty-five years in tech; fourteen at Microsoft leading the AI practice across Asia-Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, still in the IDE most weeks prototyping with Claude, GPT, and Gemini.
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Is it free?
Yes. Free to subscribe, free to read, delivered via Substack. One email a day, unsubscribe in one click. No tracking on the site itself.
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How is this different from other AI newsletters?
Most AI newsletters are either breathless hype or aggregated headlines. This one sits between analyst commentary that has never used the tech and founder pieces that sell their own — filtered from around fifteen daily candidates down to the few that actually shift something, by someone who has spent fifteen years building AI in production.
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