Sep 14, 2026 - Business
Axios C-Suite: Who to follow on X to make sense of AI
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I believe that mainstream media is only marginally useful for understanding AI.
- I'm going one giant step further: You need an X AI-only feed to truly keep up with this new tech, model advancements, business moves and political posturing.
- To me, X is 1000x more timely and relevant than the New York Times or the Washington Post on this topic.
I've compiled a useful list of more than a dozen people to follow on X to keep tabs on various biz-related AI angles.
- Once you've followed the list, tap your profile picture at the top left of your phone screen.
- Select "Lists," then scroll down to "Your Lists." Make sure the pushpin next to my list is filled in.
- Now, it'll appear at the top of your feed on the home tab, alongside "For you," "Following" and any other lists you've pinned.
Here are all the voices I've included and why ...
The live wire:
- @kimmonismus — Chubby: The fastest way to know what AI X is buzzing about: demos, leaks, lab quotes and rumors, often hours before they hit the press.
- @AndrewCurran_ — Andrew Curran: A master narrator of AI's daily chaos, connecting lab breadcrumbs, leaks and model chatter into an early read on what matters and what's coming next.
- @scaling01 — Lisan al Gaib: An anonymous, very technical AI obsessive who separates hype from reality on which models are getting smarter, cheaper and faster.
Putting AI to work:
- @levie — Aaron Levie: The Box CEO thinks in public about how AI will rewire companies, from everyday workflows to the software they buy.
- @simonw — Simon Willison: The launch-day reality check: he tests new models immediately and figures out what they can actually do.
- @emollick — Ethan Mollick: The best guide to how AI is changing work, from which jobs get reshaped to what tasks bosses should hand off to machines.
Inside the labs:
- @tszzl — Roon: A pseudonymous OpenAI researcher who thinks out loud, often deeply, about AI progress, risk and the arguments consuming the labs building it.
- @deanwball — Dean Ball: Former Trump White House AI adviser now inside OpenAI, writing about how the most powerful systems collide with government — and what the labs should do before Congress does.
- @jackclarkSF — Jack Clark: An Anthropic co-founder and former journalist who translates frontier AI into sharp thinking about what it could mean for the economy, society and power.
Money and power:
- @firstadopter — Tae Kim: The Jensen whisperer: author of "The Nvidia Way" and a sharp, often bullish guide to the chips, compute and spending powering the AI boom.
- @GavinSBaker — Gavin Baker: Plugged-in investor with a sweeping, bullish view of the AI boom, connecting models, data centers, capital spending and adoption into one big business thesis.
- @dwarkesh_sp — Dwarkesh Patel: His influential podcast pairs rare access to AI's most powerful figures with the technical fluency to challenge them on their own turf.
Safety and skepticism:
- @GaryMarcus — Gary Marcus: AI's most persistent skeptic, quick to challenge inflated claims about what the technology can do and whether the latest "breakthrough" deserves the label.
- @TheZvi — Zvi Mowshowitz: Reads almost everything in AI and relentlessly sorts the important from the ephemeral, with a strong focus on the fastest-moving risks.
- @AlexBores — Alex Bores: A New York lawmaker who translates thorny AI policy fights into political language, helping Washington catch up to a technology moving far faster than government.
Disclaimer: Yes, the platform can sometimes be a hot mess and push a lot of nonsense or misinformation — BUT these sources are reliably interesting or newsy.
- Axios' Zachary Basu, Andrew Kay and David Adkins contributed reporting.
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