Streams kept by the Monstream team. Follow them as they are, or fork one and make it yours.
The week’s most important papers on large language models: reasoning, agents, evaluation and alignment — with real results, not position pieces.
The state of startup funding each week: deal volume, valuations, round sizes and where the money is going — with the numbers.
Practical, tested advice for founders on fundraising, pricing, hiring, sales and finding product-market fit — from Lenny’s, YC, Elad Gil, SaaStr and Not Boring.
The week’s best writing from a16z, Sequoia, YC, Greylock, Founders Fund and the investors founders actually read: theses, frameworks and hard-won advice.
Laws, rules and official guidance on artificial intelligence: the EU AI Act, US federal and state action, the UK and China.
Photography as an art: exhibitions, photobooks, prizes and photographers to know — light on gear reviews.
The shows worth a trip, opening this month in New York, London, Paris and Berlin — reviewed, not just announced.
The week in art in one issue: the exhibitions that matter, museum news, the market and the debates — from the art press, not press releases.
New exoplanets and what we learn about them: discoveries, atmospheres and habitability, from JWST and the surveys.
New robotics papers with experiments on physical robots: manipulation, locomotion and robot learning.
The strongest posts on ethresear.ch and from the Ethereum Foundation: scaling, data availability, proposer-builder separation, MEV, cryptography and economics.
What was decided on All Core Devs and the other protocol calls: what goes into the next fork, testnet dates and open disagreements — one issue a week.
The week on Ethereum: protocol upgrades, core dev decisions, client releases, layer 2s and research — what changed on the network, not the price.
Research on how DeFi works and breaks: MEV, AMM design, lending risk, oracle security and mechanism design — papers and serious forum posts with real analysis.
The week in decentralized finance: protocol launches and upgrades, governance decisions, exploits, stablecoins and regulation — without price talk.
Each month: national elections and referendums held, their results, and the ones coming up.
The week at Westminster: government decisions, legislation, votes and leadership — from the news, not the commentariat.
What actually happened in Washington this week: bills that moved, executive actions, court rulings and votes — reported, not argued.
The money side of sport: media rights, team sales and valuations, sponsorship deals, leagues and investors.
Every Monday during the season: the race, the standings, upgrades that worked, penalties and the driver market — without the gossip.
The week in European football: the results that mattered, title and relegation races, injuries and the stories behind them.
The buildings, interiors and objects worth knowing about this week, from Dezeen, designboom and ArchDaily.
Startups at the meeting of AI and crypto: decentralized compute, onchain agents, verifiable inference and data markets — funding, launches and research.
One issue a week for people building in web3: the rounds that closed, the launches that mattered and what the leading funds are writing about.
Trusted execution environments and confidential AI: GPU and CPU enclaves, attestation, attacks and real deployments.
Zero-knowledge proof systems and zkVMs: new SNARKs and STARKs, folding schemes, prover performance and deployments.
Research on training and running models without exposing data: differential privacy, federated learning, secure inference and multi-party computation for ML.
New fully homomorphic encryption research: schemes, bootstrapping, hardware acceleration and encrypted machine learning — with benchmarks, not just ideas.
Progress in quantum hardware and error correction — experiments on real devices, not just proposals.
CRISPR, base and prime editing: clinical trial readouts, regulatory decisions and the research that moves the field.
New quantitative finance research with out-of-sample results: trading, portfolio construction, risk and market microstructure.