Ria monitoring source landscape

Compiled 2026-10-12 from the Mac Mini (curl with a Mozilla-style user agent, from a residential IP).

Status key:

• VERIFIED: fetched on 2026-10-12, HTTP 200 and the body is XML, Atom, JSON or CSV. "Last item" is the newest timestamp seen in the feed.
• UNVERIFIED: believed to exist but not fetched successfully, or only a web search supports it.
• NONE: no feed exists (or the one tried returned 404 or HTML). A scrape alternative is given.

Cadence is estimated from the last-item dates and typical behaviour, not a guarantee.

Three findings that change the build:

1. Anthropic, xAI, Meta AI, Apollo, UK AISI, US CAISI, Stanford HAI, ILO and Brookings have no working first-party feed (details in the tables). The only workable route is scraping or a community mirror.
2. Reddit allows one unauthenticated .rss fetch per window, and .json is blocked (403). X is pay-per-use only. Nitter-style bridges are dead.
3. LessWrong exposes a working GraphQL endpoint with no auth, so Ria can query it directly instead of using RSS.

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1. AI safety and alignment blogs, forums, labs

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2. Incident trackers

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3. Security of AI

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4. Regulation trackers

United States federal

United States states

EU

EU status as of 2026-10-12, from secondary sources (not primary): the Digital Omnibus was reported adopted 8 July 2026 and published in the Official Journal 24 July 2026 as Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force 27 July. Stand-alone Annex III high-risk obligations move to 2 December 2027 and Annex I product-embedded obligations to 2 August 2028. Article 50 transparency applies from 2 August 2026, with a grace period to 2 December 2026 for marking of systems already on the market. Sources: https://www.gibsondunn.com/eu-ai-act-omnibus-agreement-postponed-high-risk-deadlines-and-other-key-changes/ and https://www.orrick.com/en/Insights/2026/07/EU-AI-Act-Update-Digital-Omnibus-Finalizes-8-Compliance-Changes . Confirm against EUR-Lex before Ria publishes any date.

UK

China

South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Brazil

Cross-region summaries (secondary): https://www.onetrust.com/blog/where-ai-regulation-is-heading-in-2026-a-global-outlook/ and https://axis-intelligence.com/ai-regulation-by-country/ . Global tracker: https://iapp.org/resources/article/global-ai-legislation-tracker/ (page 200, no feed).

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5. arXiv

arXiv publishes a daily RSS per category and a query API. Both VERIFIED 2026-10-12.

Other queries worth adding (same pattern, not individually fetched): abs:%22reward+hacking%22, abs:%22sandbagging%22, abs:%22model+welfare%22, abs:%22prompt+injection%22. Courtesy limit from arXiv's API terms: about one request per 3 seconds (UNVERIFIED this session, recalled from arXiv documentation at https://info.arxiv.org/help/api/tou.html ).

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6. Reddit

Fetched sequentially from this IP with a descriptive User-Agent (macos:ria-monitor:v0.1 (by /u/byronarnao)).

Reading of the limits: unauthenticated .rss works but the response headers show a budget of roughly one request per 40-second window per IP. Ria should fetch at most one subreddit every 60 seconds, rotate subreddits, and cache.

Current Reddit API terms (SECONDARY SOURCES ONLY; the official Reddit Data API Wiki returned 403 to me, so I could not read it): third-party guides report a free tier of 100 queries per minute per OAuth client ID for non-commercial use, averaged over 10 minutes; unauthenticated traffic is either blocked or limited to about 10 per minute; since late 2025 new OAuth clients need manual approval; commercial use needs a separate agreement. These sources disagree on unauthenticated limits and I treat them as UNVERIFIED. Read them at: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/blog/reddit-data-api-2026 and https://prowlo.com/blog/reddit-data-api . Official wiki: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16160319875092-Reddit-Data-API-Wiki (open in a browser, and treat as authoritative).

Recommendation: apply for free OAuth non-commercial access and read via the API, with RSS as a low-volume fallback. Subreddits to watch: r/ControlProblem, r/LocalLLaMA, r/MachineLearning, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, r/OpenAI, r/artificial, r/AlignmentResearch, r/ArtificialSentience (for the consciousness discourse).

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7. Hacker News

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8. YouTube

Feed pattern: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<ID>. yt-dlp and the youtube.com/@handle pages failed from this machine (404 on every handle, search returned nothing), so IDs were checked by fetching the feed and reading the channel title.

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9. Newsletters with public archives

General news feeds, all VERIFIED 200 on 2026-10-12: https://arstechnica.com/ai/feed/ , https://www.theverge.com/rss/ai-artificial-intelligence/index.xml , https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/feed/ , https://www.technologyreview.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/feed , https://www.wired.com/feed/tag/ai/latest/rss , https://www.404media.co/rss/ , https://www.axios.com/feeds/feed.rss (not AI-specific). Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/) is 404 and Politico is blocked by Cloudflare.

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10. X / Twitter

Official pricing (VERIFIED from X's docs page https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing , fetched 2026-10-12): pay-per-usage only, credits bought in the Developer Console, no subscriptions or minimums.

• Reads, per resource returned: posts, lists, spaces, communities $0.005; users, DM events, following and followers $0.010; likes, mutes, blocks $0.001; owned reads (your own data) $0.001.
• Writes: post create $0.015; post with URL $0.200; some writes $0.010 or $0.005.
• Cap: 3 million post reads per monthly billing cycle, above that requires Enterprise.
• Optional per-cycle spending limit. Promotions mentioned on the page: $20 credit on adding a card, auto-recharge match up to $50.
• The page does not mention the legacy Basic ($200 per month) or Pro ($5,000 per month) tiers or a free tier. Third-party pricing blogs say new developers cannot get the free tier, Basic subscribers were migrated to pay-per-use around June 2026, Pro was deprecated in August 2026, and Enterprise starts near $42,000 per month. Those claims are UNVERIFIED (https://postproxy.dev/blog/x-api-pricing-2026/ , https://www.outstand.so/blog/x-api-pricing ).

Is read access viable? Yes, for a small curated list. Example: 30 accounts, each checked every 15 minutes, 5 new posts per check is roughly 30 x 96 x 5 = 14,400 resources a day, about $72 per day, too much. Cut to 30 accounts checked hourly with only new posts returned (since_id) and the cost is on the order of a few dollars per day. Use list or search endpoints with since_id, and set a spending limit.

Alternatives, tested 2026-10-12:

Cheapest practical path: follow the same people on Bluesky, and use lab blogs, Zvi and the AI Safety Newsletter for what is said on X, since all three digest it.

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11. Substack pattern, GitHub, Hugging Face, trackers

Substack: any publication exposes https://<name>.substack.com/feed (VERIFIED on importai, thezvi, chinai, promptarmor, eleosai, ai-futures and others above). Custom-domain publications use https://<domain>/feed (transformernews.ai, latent.space, interconnects.ai, oneusefulthing.org, aisnakeoil.com all VERIFIED). Podcast-only Substack feeds use https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/<id>.rss (section 12). Eleos AI's Substack: https://eleosai.substack.com/feed .

GitHub release feeds (pattern https://github.com/<org>/<repo>/releases.atom)

Hugging Face

Model-release and capability trackers

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12. Labor impact, public opinion, consciousness

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13. Podcasts (RSS fetched, all returned 200 and a valid channel with items)

Feed URLs were taken from the Apple iTunes lookup API (https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=...&entity=podcast) and then fetched directly.

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14. Wire these first (ranked)

Ranked by signal per fetch, reliability, and fit for a responsible-AI researcher. Everything below was fetched and returned valid XML or JSON on 2026-10-12.

1. Zvi: https://thezvi.substack.com/feed
2. Alignment Forum curated: https://www.alignmentforum.org/feed.xml?view=curated
3. LessWrong karma-filtered frontpage: https://www.lesswrong.com/feed.xml?view=frontpage-rss&karmaThreshold=50 (plus the GraphQL endpoint for backfill)
4. Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
5. AI Safety Newsletter: https://newsletter.safe.ai/feed
6. OpenAI news: https://openai.com/news/rss.xml
7. Anthropic news and research via the mirrors: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Olshansk/rss-feeds/main/feeds/feed_anthropic_news.xml and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Olshansk/rss-feeds/main/feeds/feed_anthropic_research.xml (add a direct scrape of https://www.anthropic.com/news as a backstop)
8. AI Incident Database: https://incidentdatabase.ai/rss.xml
9. METR: https://metr.org/feed.xml
10. Import AI: https://importai.substack.com/feed
11. Federal Register AI search: https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.rss?conditions%5Bterm%5D=artificial+intelligence
12. Hacker News via Algolia: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query=AI%20safety&tags=story&hitsPerPage=20
13. arXiv API alignment and control queries (section 5), plus https://rss.arxiv.org/atom/cs.CY
14. Palisade Research: https://palisaderesearch.org/feed.xml
15. Transformer: https://www.transformernews.ai/feed

Close runners-up: Google DeepMind blog https://deepmind.google/blog/rss.xml , Redwood https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/feed , GOV.UK AI search https://www.gov.uk/search/all.atom?keywords=artificial+intelligence&order=updated-newest , China Law Translate https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/feed/ , EU AI Act Newsletter https://feeds.type3.audio/eu-ai-act-newsletter.rss , Eleos https://eleosai.substack.com/feed , Pew https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/internet-technology/artificial-intelligence/feed/ .

Known gaps

• Scrape-only (no feed): Anthropic first-party, xAI, Meta AI, Apollo, UK AISI, US CAISI, EU AI Office (AI-specific), AIAAIC, OECD AIM, MIT AI Risk Repository, Stanford HAI, ILO, Gallup, LMArena, Artificial Analysis, CAC, Korea MSIT, Japan Cabinet Office, Singapore IMDA, India, The Batch, Governance AI.
• Not resolved: YouTube channel IDs for ten channels; Brookings feed; Reddit per-subreddit verification beyond two; the official Reddit API terms and the exact unauthenticated limit; primary-source confirmation for Korea, Japan, India, Brazil, and the EU Omnibus dates; whether Brazil URLs are the PL 2338 records.
• Several sites (OpenAI safety pages, x.ai, OECD, WEF, Politico, MeitY, California legislature) return Cloudflare or 403 blocks to curl and need a headless browser.