State of the blog, mid-2026

Interconnects · 4 weeks ago

The author of Interconnects, a technical AI newsletter, is pursuing a full-time career in the non-profit sector while maintaining the blog as a side project focused on frontier AI ecosystem development and open science. The publication has 70,000 subscribers with approximately 900 paying subscribers, and the author has set a goal of reaching 1,000 paid subscribers by summer 2026. Going forward, the blog will paywall all comments to prevent AI-generated spam, increase the proportion of paywalled articles to improve financial sustainability, and expand in-person events for its core technical audience.