Best Tech & AI News Sources
The 14 tech & ai publishers Alto monitors, with 24,035 stories indexed between them. Counts and cadence are live, not a hand-maintained list.
Technology journalism sits closer to its subject than most beats — access to launches and executives is a working asset, which shapes what gets written and how sharply. That makes the outlets with no such relationship to protect disproportionately valuable, particularly on censorship, surveillance, and platform moderation, where the companies involved are also the distribution channel for the coverage.
Tech & AI publishers on Alto
Hacker News
Top stories from Hacker News.
MIT Technology Review
Emerging technology and AI.
How to read across tech & ai sources
Notice the difference between a product story and a power story. Launch coverage is largely reprinted from a briefing; antitrust, moderation, and security reporting is where the work is. On any AI claim, look for a benchmark or a paper rather than a demo.
Listing a publisher here means Alto monitors its feed consistently — it is not an endorsement of its reporting, and the views in any aggregated story are the publisher's own. See Methodology for how sources are selected and Editorial Standards for the policies behind it.
Tech & AI Sources — Frequently Asked Questions
- What are the best sources for AI news?
- A mix: research-literate outlets for capability claims, business press for funding and competition, and independent writers for the moderation and surveillance angles the platforms would rather not amplify. Alto's Tech desk aggregates across all three.
- Where can I read about Big Tech censorship?
- Alto runs a dedicated Censorship desk for deplatforming, moderation, and free-speech reporting, separate from general tech news.