intelligence-radar/watchlist/SOURCES.md

Imported exploration, 2026-09-13. Source claims have not been independently verified by this repository. See integration review.

Watchlist — original outlets and thinkers

Version 0.1 · 13 September 2026

Daily monitoring prefers primary outlets. Commentary is used to find primaries, not as the record.

A. Labs and model builders (primary)

• OpenAI — research, product, preparedness, system cards
• Anthropic — research, alignment, economic index, model cards
• Google DeepMind / Google AI — Gemini, science models, weather/bio
• xAI — Grok model cards and API docs
• Meta Superintelligence Labs / Meta AI — Muse Spark, Llama, research
• Mistral, Cohere
• DeepSeek, Alibaba Qwen, Moonshot Kimi, Z.ai / Zhipu GLM, MiniMax, Tencent Hunyuan, Thinking Machines
• Cognition, Adept-class agent firms, World Labs, Pathway (architecture outliers)

B. Measurement houses (primary for the ledger)

• Artificial Analysis
• Epoch AI (benchmarks, ECI, compute/data trackers)
• ARC Prize
• SWE-bench / Terminal-Bench / OSWorld maintainers
• Stanford HAI AI Index, HELM
• LMSYS / Arena (preference, not task success)
• BenchLM, UnifyBench, and other evidence-tracing boards (secondary corroboration)

C. Science of intelligence (primary)

• arXiv cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.CL, q-bio.NC; Nature / Science / Neuron / Nat. Commun. when they land
• Cognitive science venues (Psychological Science, Cognitive Science, Daedalus intelligence issues)
• NeuroAI programs: Wang-style foundational brain models, connectomics, PFC control
• Tenenbaum / Ganguli / Gonzalez complementary-intelligence lines
• Papers With Code only as an index, not as a source of truth

D. Hardware, systems, energy

• NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC, ASML, Huawei Ascend coverage from primary filings
• Hyperscaler capex letters (MSFT, GOOG, AMZN, META, ORCL)
• National compute plans (US, EU, CN, IN, Gulf)

E. Economy, firms, markets

• Lab blogs + The Information / Semafor / Bloomberg for deal flow (verify)
• Earnings transcripts
• Pricing pages and status dashboards (availability is data)

F. Politics, law, regulation

• Official texts: US executive orders and agency rules, EU AI Act implementing acts, China interim measures, UK AISI / DSIT, OECD, UN
• Court dockets on copyright, product liability, export controls
• Preparedness / safety institute evaluations (US AISI, EU equivalents, independent red teams)

G. Thinkers to read in the original (not the clip)

Keep the list short and rotate. Current standing set:

Builders / research leads: Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Ilya Sutskever, Noam Brown, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark, Sepp Hochreiter, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Fei-Fei Li, Oriol Vinyals, Chelsea Finn, Jim Fan, John Schulman-class post-training leads, Moonshot / DeepSeek / Qwen chief scientists when they publish.

Measurement / forecasting: Epoch AI authors, Artificial Analysis, ARC Prize (Chollet and successors), METR / eval orgs, Ajeya Cotra–class compute forecasts, Stanford HAI index leads.

Cognitive science / NeuroAI: Joshua Tenenbaum, Surya Ganguli, Xiao-Jing Wang, Karl Friston (predictive processing — track influence, do not endorse), Nancy Kanwisher / Ev Fedorenko language-brain line, Anne Collins / Tom Griffiths resource-rational line.

Political economy / law: Jack Clark (Import AI), Helen Toner–class policy, EU and US agency technical staff papers, competition-authority reports.

Public squares (secondary, high noise): X accounts of the above; Hacker News; LessWrong / Alignment Forum only when a primary artifact is linked.

H. Daily scan order (30–40 minutes of model time)

1. Lab blogs + X posts from standing thinkers that link a primary
2. Artificial Analysis / Epoch / ARC / agent-bench leaderboards for deltas
3. arXiv cs.AI/LG frontpage + Nature/Science news
4. Regulator and court feeds
5. Pricing/status/capacity incidents
6. One pass of quality press to catch missed primaries (MIT TR, Ars, The Information, Axios, Semafor, ThursdAI release log)

Reject: product roundups with no source, leaked slides without corroboration, “AGI declared” quotes without a measurement.