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AI Weekly keeps both archives on its homepage: the Previous Issues list links to all 641 back issues, and The Editor's Blog collects the editors' standalone analysis posts. Both are reachable from the main navigation without any visible login step. The current issue sits at the top of the page under Latest Issue, so you can read the newest briefing first and then work backward through the archive.

Past issues: what the archive contains

The Previous Issues section on aiweekly.co is a running list of every published briefing, with the most recent ones shown first and a link to the full set ("All 641 issues →"). Each entry is a numbered issue with a headline that summarizes its lead story.

Examples from the visible list:

The Latest Issue block shows the same format for the current edition, including a short summary of the week's theme. For #533, that summary frames the week of September 22–28 around hidden human handoffs inside supposedly automated agent calls — a contractor answering a call, a reviewer seeing a prompt or image, a monitor flagging an agent before a person did.

If you want to follow a specific thread over time, the issue numbers are the practical index: pick the topic, then scan the numbered headlines for repeats.

The Editor's Blog: what it adds beyond the issues

The Editor's Blog is a separate stream of posts written by the editors rather than a ranked news digest. The visible post titles are technical and specific, for example:

• "RIDE Exceeds Its RL Teacher on All Four Tested Pairs in On-Policy Distillation"
• "$267M SPAC Deal Anchored to AI-Accelerated Cyber Threats"
• "Yandex/Together AI: Training-Free AsyncLLM Runs 8 Parallel Coroutines at 552 tok/s on 9B"
• "Nine Frontier LLMs Average 26.7% Pass Rate on Auto-Built Real-Deployment Agent Benchmarks"

These read as analysis of individual results or deals rather than a daily ranking, so the blog is the place to go when you want the editors' reasoning on one narrow result instead of the day's overall ordering.

Other sections worth knowing

The same page carries two more recurring features that are easy to confuse with the archives:

• AI News Today / Live Alerts — a running feed of individual stories with source links and timestamps (for example, a Google Gemini 4 Argon alert attributed to blog.google, or a CoreWeave item from convergedigest.com). Each alert shows a relative time such as "7h ago."
• AI Attention This Week — a weekly index drawn from "11 years of coverage," tracking fastest risers, most-covered entities, biggest fallers, and the dominant theme. The visible snapshot lists Jobs as fastest riser (+113% story volume), OpenAI as most covered (in 17 of the last 20 issues), NVIDIA as biggest faller (−40%), and Tools & capabilities as the dominant theme (47 of 327 tracked stories).

How to actually get there

1. Open aiweekly.co.
2. For back issues, scroll to Previous Issues and click through the numbered list, or use the "All 641 issues →" link to see the full set.
3. For editor analysis, go to The Editor's Blog and use "All posts →" to browse the complete list.
4. For the newest briefing, read the Latest Issue block at the top before dropping into the archive.

Practical notes and limits

• The page describes the briefing as read by "54,000+ professionals" and shows a subscribe prompt, but the visible material does not state a price, a paywall, or a login requirement for the archives. Treat archive access as unconfirmed rather than assumed free.
• Issue numbering and the "All 641 issues" count are the most reliable way to tell how far back the archive goes; the page does not list a start date for the blog.
• Timestamps on the page are inconsistent in the source (the latest issue is dated 2026-09-28 while a live alert footer reads Oct 1, 2026), so use issue numbers rather than dates when you need a stable reference.

AI Weekly updates its news feed throughout the day and publishes a numbered briefing issue on a regular cadence — the site's archive shows 641 issues to date, with issue #533 dated September 22–28, 2026. You can subscribe to the briefing by email; the site describes it as "The AI briefing 54,000+ professionals read" and labels it "Free, 3x" (the truncated text suggests a three-times-per-week send, though the page evidence doesn't complete that phrase). The site also lists a "subscribe" pricing signal, meaning a subscription path exists, but no price or payment details are shown in the available page evidence.

What "updated" means on aiweekly.co

The site runs two different update cycles, and it helps to keep them separate:

The page evidence shows a "Live Alerts" block with individual stories stamped "7h ago" and "2h ago," plus an overall "Updated 2h ago" marker and a "7810 stories tracked" counter. That confirms the feed is refreshed continuously rather than once a week. The briefing itself is the slower layer: issues are numbered sequentially and the latest shown is #533, covering September 22–28, 2026.

How to subscribe

The site exposes a subscribe path, but the page evidence doesn't include the form fields, confirmation flow, or any pricing page. Based on what's documented:

1. Look for the subscribe call-to-action tied to the line "The AI briefing 54,000+ professionals read."
2. Enter your email to receive the briefing.
3. Expect the send to follow the briefing cadence (the "3x" label points to roughly three emails per week), not the live feed's all-day rhythm.

If you only want the ranked headlines, the live feed and the "All live stories" link are readable without subscribing. If you want the editorial issue — the ranked-and-explained format — that's what the subscription delivers.

What you get in each issue

Each numbered issue leads with a single ranked story and a plain-English explanation. Issue #533's framing is representative: the week's theme wasn't that agents got more capable, but that their "hidden handoffs became visible" — automated calls reaching contractors, prompts reaching reviewers, monitors catching agents before people did. The issue closes by pointing to the AI Weekly Who's Who census and a practical question about who knows when an agent crosses a boundary.

Previous issues follow the same pattern, e.g. #531 "AI labs shipped agents before agreeing how to report failures" and #530 "Why AI's leaders are asking to slow down."

Common points of confusion

• Feed vs. briefing. Seeing "Updated 2h ago" doesn't mean a new numbered issue shipped — that's the live feed. New issues arrive on the weekly cadence.
• Free vs. paid. The page calls the briefing free and shows a "subscribe" signal, but no pricing page or payment platform appears in the evidence. Don't assume a paid tier exists, and don't assume everything behind subscribe is free either — the evidence only supports "free" for the briefing as described.
• Archive depth. "All 641 issues" is the full back catalog, so you can read past themes without subscribing.

Who this fits

Subscribe if you want one ranked, explained digest a few times a week and value the editorial ranking over raw volume. Skip the subscription and just use the live feed if you need same-day headlines and source links, or if you're tracking a specific entity through the weekly Index movers.

AI Weekly ranks AI news by significance and explains each item in plain English, then packages the result into a daily feed and a weekly briefing. If you want a filtered view of AI news rather than a raw firehose, the site's core promise is that someone has already decided what matters most and written it up so a non-specialist can follow it. The ranking is editorial, not algorithmic: the site describes its output as "the most important artificial intelligence news, ranked by significance and explained in plain English," updated throughout the day.

The three layers of the product

AI Weekly's coverage is organized into three distinct layers, each serving a different reading habit.

The daily feed answers "what happened." The weekly issue answers "what did it mean." The Index answers "what is the field paying attention to over time."

How ranking works in practice

Ranking is expressed through ordering and through the Index's quantitative signals. The Index tracks story volume per entity and compares it week over week, which produces directional labels rather than a single leaderboard. From the site's own weekly snapshot:

• Fastest riser: Jobs, up 113% in story volume versus the prior week (17 tracked stories vs. 8).
• Most covered: OpenAI, appearing in 17 of the last 20 issues with 62 tracked stories that week.
• Biggest fall: NVIDIA, down 40% in story volume (15 tracked stories vs. 25).
• Dominant theme: Tools & capabilities, accounting for 47 of 327 tracked stories that week.

These figures show the ranking logic: an entity's position reflects how much coverage it generated relative to its own recent baseline, not just its absolute size. A smaller topic with a sharp week-over-week jump can outrank a larger one that had a quiet week.

How explanation works

Each item is rewritten so the significance is stated up front rather than buried in technical detail. The weekly issue goes further by naming the underlying pattern behind the week's stories. Issue #533, for example, frames the September 22–28 period not as "agents got more capable" but as hidden handoffs becoming visible — automated calls reaching human contractors, private prompts reaching reviewers, monitors detecting agents before a person could stop them, and app flaws inheriting every permission a user had granted. That reframing is the explanation layer: it converts a list of incidents into one question readers can carry forward.

The site also surfaces live alerts with source attribution and timestamps, so a reader can see both the headline and where it came from — for example, an alert attributed to blog.google posted 7 hours earlier, or one attributed to convergedigest.com posted 2 hours earlier.

What you get and what it costs

The briefing is described as read by "54,000+ professionals" and as "Free, 3x" per week. The site shows a subscribe option, which is the only pricing-related signal present; no paid tier, price, or login requirement is stated. Treat the free weekly briefing as the documented offer and check the subscribe flow directly if you need to confirm current terms.

How to use it

1. For a daily scan: read AI News Today, which is ordered by significance so the top items are the ones the editors judged most consequential.
2. For a weekly reset: read the Latest Issue, which names the week's dominant story and explains why it mattered. Issue numbering (currently in the 530s, with 641 issues archived) lets you go back to any prior week.
3. For trend tracking: check the AI Weekly Index for risers, fallers, most-covered entities, and the dominant theme, then use the entity dashboard to follow a specific company or topic over time.
4. For breaking items: watch the Live Alerts feed, which pairs each headline with its source and how long ago it was posted.

Where this approach fits and where it doesn't

This format suits readers who want a curated, significance-ranked digest and are willing to accept editorial judgment in exchange for not scanning everything themselves. It is less suited to readers who need primary sources, full technical detail, or comprehensive coverage of a niche — the ranking deliberately discards most of what is published. If your goal is to track one specific model, paper, or company exhaustively, the Index and entity pages are a better entry point than the ranked feed.

AI Weekly (aiweekly.co) is an AI news site that ranks the day's most important artificial intelligence stories by significance and explains them in plain English, with updates throughout the day. It is aimed at professionals who want a filtered briefing rather than a raw feed: the site says its briefing is read by 54,000+ professionals and describes the newsletter as free. Coverage spans AI models, agents, funding, policy, and research.

What you'll find on the site

The homepage is organized around a few recurring sections rather than a single article stream:

• AI News Today — the most important stories of the day, ranked by significance and explained in plain English, updated throughout the day.
• Latest Issue — the current numbered edition of the briefing (the page shows issue #533, dated 2026-09-28).
• Previous Issues — an archive; the page states there are 641 issues in total.
• Live Alerts — short, timestamped alerts linking out to original sources (for example, alerts attributed to blog.google, convergedigest.com, foxnews.com, and thenextweb.com).
• AI Attention This Week — a weekly index showing which entities and themes gained or lost coverage volume.
• The Editor's Blog — posts on specific research and industry items.
• Learning AI — a listed section for educational content.

How the ranking and "explained" framing works

The core editorial claim is prioritization: stories are ordered by significance rather than chronology, and each is summarized in plain English. The site also publishes a weekly synthesis. In issue #533, the framing was that the week's story wasn't simply that agents became more capable, but that their hidden handoffs became visible — an automated call could reach a contractor, a prompt or image could reach a reviewer, and a monitor could detect an agent before a person stopped it. That example shows the editorial approach: take a cluster of separate stories and extract one practical question from them.

The weekly index

The AI Attention This Week section tracks story volume by entity and theme, which is useful if you want to see where coverage is concentrating rather than read individual items. In the snapshot shown on the page:

The page also notes 7,810 stories tracked and links to a full dashboard and an index of 113 entities.

Who it's for

If you need a short, ranked read on AI developments — models, agents, funding, policy, research — and you want the summary rather than the primary sources, this format fits. If you need original reporting, primary documents, or deep technical detail, the Live Alerts and Editor's Blog link out to the underlying sources, so treat AI Weekly as a filter and entry point rather than a replacement.

Practical notes

• Cost: the page describes the briefing as free and uses "subscribe" language; it does not list pricing tiers or payment platforms, so paid options aren't documented here.
• Cadence: news updates throughout the day, plus a numbered weekly issue.
• Archive: 641 issues are listed, which makes it usable for looking back at how a topic was covered over time.
• Language: English.

AI Weekly's Live Alerts and AI Attention sections serve two different jobs on the same page. Live Alerts is a running feed of individual news items, each with a headline, a source link, and a timestamp. AI Attention is a weekly aggregate that shows which people, companies, and themes gained or lost coverage volume compared with the previous week. If you want to know what just happened, read Live Alerts. If you want to know what the week as a whole was about, read AI Attention.

Live Alerts: a timestamped feed of individual stories

Live Alerts appears under a "Live Alerts" heading and lists current stories with a numeric ranking, a headline, the originating source, and how long ago it was posted. The page evidence shows entries such as:

• 38 — "Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, cyber defenders get first crack" — ALERT, blog.google, 7h ago
• 28 — "CoreWeave launches Vera Rubin NVL72 with Cognition as first customer" — ALERT, convergedigest.com, 2h ago
• 30 — "Musk, Luckey, Gingrich to lead Pentagon's 120-day Meridian war study" — ALERT, foxnews.com, 7h ago
• 31 — "OpenAI blames Moonshot-linked users for reasoning-extraction campaign" — ALERT, thenextweb.com, 8h ago
• 25 — "Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra on intelligence, hallucinates far less" — artificialanalysis.ai, 2h ago

Two things are worth noting about how this list works. First, the numbers on the left are not a chronological order — a story ranked 38 can sit above one ranked 28, and timestamps run 7h, 2h, 7h, 8h, 2h. The ranking reflects significance rather than recency, consistent with the site's stated approach of ranking news "by significance and explained in plain English." Second, each alert carries the original publisher as its source, so the feed functions as a pointer to primary reporting rather than a replacement for it. A "All live stories →" link sits at the end of the visible list.

The page also reports that it tracks 7,810 stories and was last updated 2026-09-28, with the live section showing "Updated 2h ago" at the time captured. That combination tells you the feed is refreshed through the day while the broader story count accumulates over a longer window.

AI Attention: a weekly view of who and what is rising

AI Attention is explicitly framed as coming "From the AI Weekly Index — what 11 years of coverage says about this week," and it is marked "Updated weekly." Instead of individual stories, it surfaces four signals:

The design choice here is that every figure is given as a comparison, not a standalone count. "62 tracked stories" means little on its own; "in 17 of the last 20 issues" tells you OpenAI's presence is near-constant. Likewise, NVIDIA's 15 stories would look like heavy coverage in isolation — the -40% against 25 the prior week is what makes it a decline signal. The dominant theme uses the same logic, expressing 47 stories as a share of 327 tracked that week.

The section links out to a "Full dashboard →" and "All 113 entities →," so the four visible signals are a summary of a larger index rather than the whole dataset.

How the two sections work together

The pairing is deliberate. Live Alerts answers "what is happening right now" at the level of a single story and a single source. AI Attention answers "what does this week look like in aggregate" at the level of entities and themes, using an index the site says spans 11 years of coverage.

A practical way to use them together: scan Live Alerts for anything that affects you today, then check AI Attention to see whether that story is an isolated event or part of a trend. If a company appears in Live Alerts and also shows up as the fastest riser, the coverage volume confirms it is not a one-off. If a topic dominates Live Alerts but does not appear in the dominant theme, it may be a short burst rather than a sustained shift.

What these sections do not tell you

Neither section provides full articles on the page — Live Alerts gives headlines and source links, and AI Attention gives index figures. The page also references a separate briefing ("The AI briefing 54,000+ professionals read") and a "Latest Issue" numbered #533, which are distinct from the two sections described here. The page evidence includes a "subscribe" keyword signal but no pricing links or payment platforms, so subscription terms and cost are not established by the available material; check the site directly before assuming any access terms.