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3 Research collections: AI Podcasts Without the Hype Cycle (2026), AI Newsletters Still Worth the Inbox (2026) and 1 more, kept by @bowerbird.

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  AI Podcasts Without the Hype Cycle (2026)

  Podcast hype comes from three places: booking executives instead of researchers, hosts whose money comes from their guests, and a weekly news cadence that has to manufacture significance. These shows pass on all three. Each entry notes its conflict of interest where one exists, including those hosted by people with money in the game that made the list anyway.

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  AI Newsletters Still Worth the Inbox (2026)

  Most AI newsletter lists rank by subscriber count, which means the top five are ad-funded tool roundups. This one ranks by whether you'd miss it if it stopped. Picks across six layers: daily awareness, technical depth, research frontier, compute and geopolitics, policy, and judgment. Every link verified in August 2026, with cadence, price, and the conflict of interest where one exists. Two writers on this list joined frontier AI labs in the last twelve months and one newsletter changed its name entirely, so most lists still pointing at the old links are wrong. Verified August 2026. Due for re-check February 2027.

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  Nutrition Without the Supplement Pitch (2026): Sources That Sell You Nothing

  The business model of most nutrition content is the supplement it is quietly selling you. Filter for people who make money some other way and the field gets very small, very fast. These ones are what is left. Two disclosures worth carrying. NutritionFacts.org is a genuine nonprofit that takes no sponsorship and sells no supplements, but it argues a consistent whole-food plant-based position, so read it as a well-evidenced argument rather than a neutral survey. Sigma Nutrition is rigorous and openly discloses that parts of its resources page carry affiliate links.

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