1. Web search queries (WebSearch, use current date)

• AI news <Month DD YYYY>
• new AI model release <Month YYYY>
• AI stocks funding round <Month YYYY>
• Nvidia OR Microsoft OR Alphabet OR Meta AI stock move today
• AI acquisition talks <Month YYYY>
• AI regulation bill Congress EU AI Act news <Month YYYY>
• White House AI executive order <Month YYYY>
• outage ChatGPT OR Claude OR Gemini OR AWS OR Azure <dates>
• OpenAI leak OR rumor upcoming model
• Google Gemini leak upcoming model

2. X (x namespace tools)

search_news (max_age_hours=48)

• AI
• AI leak OR rumor upcoming model
• OpenAI / Anthropic / Google Gemini / xAI Grok / Nvidia
• outage (filter for AI/cloud)

search_posts_all queries

• (OpenAI OR Anthropic OR Gemini OR Grok) (down OR outage) -is:retweet
• ("new model" OR "just released" OR "open weights") lang:en -is:retweet
• (leak OR leaked OR "spotted") (GPT OR Claude OR Gemini OR Grok) -is:retweet

Accounts watched

• Labs: @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @GoogleDeepMind, @GoogleAI, @xai, @AIatMeta, @MistralAI, @Alibaba_Qwen, @deepseek_ai, @nvidia, @Microsoft
• Execs: @sama, @DarioAmodei, @sundarpichai, @satyanadella, @demishassabis, @elonmusk
• Reporters/leakers/aggregators: @rohanpaul_ai, @btibor91, @testingcatalog, @legit_api, @kyliebytes, @steph_palazzolo, @ZeffMax
• Outage watch: @OpenAIStatus (if active), @AWSSupport, @googlecloud, @AzureSupport, @CloudflareHelp, @githubstatus

3. Status pages (outage watch)

• https://status.openai.com
• https://status.anthropic.com
• https://status.cloud.google.com
• https://aistudio.google.com/status (Gemini API)
• https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
• https://azure.status.microsoft/status
• https://www.cloudflarestatus.com
• https://www.githubstatus.com
• https://status.x.ai
• https://status.huggingface.co
• Independent monitors: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents , https://tickerr.ai , https://downdetector.com
• More aggregators (added 2026-10-10 outage watch): https://globalcloudstatus.com , https://www.isinternetup.com/outages , https://incidents.fru.dev , https://study8677.github.io/ai-status-hub/
• Note: Anthropic status JSON now lives at https://status.claude.com/api/v2/summary.json ; Statuspage JSON (/api/v2/summary.json) works for OpenAI, Cloudflare, GitHub; GCP at https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents.json ; AWS at https://health.aws.amazon.com/public/currentevents (UTF-16). AWS me-central-1/me-south-1 long-running region outages (since Mar 2026) are known, not new.
• Added 2026-10-12 8:55 PM outage watch: https://status.cursor.com/api/v2/summary.json (Cursor IDE / Cloud Agents / Grok Bot / Origin; Statuspage JSON)
• Added 2026-10-12 11:16 AM outage watch: https://is-down.ai/status/chatgpt/ (live ChatGPT reachability + user-report count, curl-friendly; Downdetector blocks curl), https://www.akamaistatus.com/api/v2/summary.json , https://www.vercel-status.com/api/v2/summary.json
• Rule: only flag 🚨 OUTAGE ALERT if confirmed by an official status page or multiple major outlets and broadly user-impacting.

4. News sites

• TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence)
• The Verge AI, Ars Technica, Wired
• Bloomberg Tech, Reuters Technology, Financial Times, WSJ Tech, CNBC Tech
• The Information
• SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat
• Politico Tech / Congress live updates
• Lab blogs: openai.com/news, anthropic.com/news, blog.google, deepmind.google, ai.meta.com/blog, x.ai/news, nvidia newsroom, Hugging Face blog
• Added 2026-10-11: The Decoder (the-decoder.com), Nextgov "Tech bills of the week", AI Law Tracker federal bills (https://ai-law-tracker.com/federal), OpenAI Help Center (help.openai.com) for Codex/Work changes, DeAI (deai.org) policy coverage, @koltregaskes on X (model sightings)
• Added 2026-10-12: Unite.AI (UK/EU AI policy packages), Help Net Security (Microsoft Foundry / decision-model coverage), FinSMEs (seed/Series financing), Boston Globe TechLab (AI liability law), Arena.ai blog (evaluation/alignment releases), Notes from the Terminal (EU AI Act / banking-agent angle)