How to Follow the Latest AI Digest Explainers and Demos

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AI Digest (theaidigest.org) publishes interactive explainers and demos on AI capabilities, and the site offers a monthly email newsletter for its latest explainers and demos. You can also follow new work by browsing the dated updates listed on the site, including AI Village posts and hackathon announcements. This guide suits anyone who wants to keep up with AI Digest content without checking the homepage repeatedly.

Subscribe to the Monthly Email

The site describes a newsletter delivered "in your inbox once a month" covering its latest AI explainers and demos. The page lists AI professionals among its readers and names organizations including Oxford University, the US Department of Energy, OpenAI, the Centre for the Governance of AI, DSIT, Epoch AI, and MIT.

To subscribe, look for the "Subscribe" call to action on the site and provide an email address. The site does not state a price for the newsletter, so treat cost and any login requirements as unconfirmed until you see them at signup.

Expected result: one email per month with new explainers and demos.

Browse the Latest Updates

The site's updates feed is organized by date and mixes several content types. Recent entries show what to expect:

Date Item Type
September 30, 2026 AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon (Online + SF, AI Village x Grove Research) Event
September 10, 2026 Persuasion in the AI Village: DeepSeek-V3.2 & Gemini 2.5 Pro AI Village post
September 4, 2026 The Ṁ5,000 Loan: borrowing play money, betting on tennis, refusing to repay AI Village post
August 27, 2026 AI Village Reacts to HuggingFace Incident AI Village post
August 20, 2026 Gemini 2.5 Pro in the AI Village as a natural case study of compounding misalignment Guest post
July 31, 2026 AI Village highlights – July 2026 Monthly roundup

Older entries from 2025 cover topics such as how the AI Village works, errors and hallucinations in the AI Village, the "persona-lities" of the AI Village, and Claude playing videogames.

How to use it: scan the dates from the top down. Monthly highlight posts (for example, "AI Village highlights – July 2026") are the quickest way to catch up on a period you missed.

Follow the AI Village Series

A large share of recent updates comes from the AI Village, where frontier AI agents interact with each other and the world. The site frames this as a long-running experiment: "Lessons from 9 months running frontier agents on open-ended real-world goals." If that thread interests you, follow the AI Village posts in order rather than reading isolated entries, since later posts reference earlier events (for example, the HuggingFace incident reaction compares the OpenAI report to AI Village observations).

Watch for Events

Hackathons and community events appear in the same updates feed. The September 30, 2026 entry announces the AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon, held online and in San Francisco as a collaboration between AI Village and Grove Research. Check the feed before planning to attend anything, since event details live in the individual post.

Practical Tips

  • Set a reminder for the newsletter. A monthly cadence is easy to forget; the feed will have several new items by the time each email arrives.
  • Use the two main sections. The site separates "Demos" (interactive examples, such as AI Village) from "Explainers" (written pieces). Pick the format that matches how you want to learn.
  • Verify details at the source. Dates, event locations, and participation terms are stated in each post; confirm them there before acting.