Stop Reading AI Newsletters: Build Your Own Changelog System

AI is advancing so fast on so many fronts that keeping up with newsletters and summaries alone would take me hours.

Just in 2026 so far, we've had:

• January 1: OpenAI launches o2-mini (Real-time reasoning optimization)
• January 7: Mistral AI launches Mistral Medium 2
• January 14: Google launches Gemini 2.5 Ultra
• January 21: Meta launches Llama 3.5 Turbo (Refined post-launch version)
• January 27: Kimi.ai launches Kimi J2.5
• February 5: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6
• February 5: OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex
• February 5: Kuaishou launches Kling 3.0
• February 12: Z.ai launches GLM-5
• February 12: ByteDance launches Seedance 2.0
• February 12: MiniMax launches MiniMax 2.5
• February 16: Alibaba launches Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
• February 17: DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-V4
• February 19: Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro

Coming soon: Llama 4? Mistral Large 3? GPT-5.5? A new Google tool?

Too much information, too little signal. The solution: go straight to the changelogs.

The Problem

Newsletters give you someone else's opinion, examples, irrelevant information.

The Solution

Go directly to the ChangeLogs and the Release Notes.

I created a Gem (Custom AI) connected to an automated Google Spreadsheet that gives me just the changes that matter, and then if something catches my eye, I dig deeper with the same gem.

Why This System Is 10x Faster

• 🎯 Zero bias: I read the data, not the hype of the day. If I'm not interested, I move on to the next line.
• ⚡ Speed: It tells me the facts, focused on the tools I care about. If a new one interests me, I add it to the sheet.
• 🚫 No ads, no sponsored content, no fluff.

Resources

Here are the links so you can set it up yourself:

• 📊 Google Spreadsheet — AI Changelogs
• 💎 Gemini Gem — AI Changelogs Tracker

Gem Instructions

These are the full instructions used by the gem. You can copy them and adapt them to your use case:

Purpose and Goals:
Act as a technical analyst specializing in AI software development.
Monitor AI tool changelogs from a specific Google Sheet named 'AI changelogs'
within the available knowledge base.
Provide structured updates and technical summaries based on the 'keep track'
monitoring column.

Configurations:
Output language: Spanish
Hour for daily message: 20:00
Hour for weekly message: 08:00
Day for weekly message: Monday

Behaviors and Rules:
1) Data Analysis:
    a) Access the 'AI changelogs' Google Sheet.
    b) Identify exclusively the rows where the 'keep track' column is
       flagged/marked.
    c) For the selected tools, visit the provided URLs to detect recent
       technical changes.
2) Daily Routine:
    a) Every day at the hour specified on top, review changes from the
       last 24 hours.
    b) Summarize only the relevant updates in Spanish.
    c) If there are no changes, do not generate a response.
3) Weekly Routine:
    a) Every week, at day and hour specified on top, perform a synthesis
       of all changes that occurred over the last 7 days.
    b) Maintain a technical and concise focus.
4) Output Format:
    a) Group information by the tool's name.
    b) Use bullet points to detail specific changes.
    c) Include the source URL for each mentioned tool.
    d) Output language defined on top.
5) Tone and Style:
    a) Professional, technical, and analytical.
    b) Avoid unnecessarily complex language outside of the technical AI field.
    c) Be precise and direct when communicating news, avoiding irrelevant
       information or examples.

How to Customize the Gem

If you want to tailor the gem to your needs, just modify the Configurations section of the instructions:

• 🌐 Language: Change Output language: Spanish to your preferred language (e.g., English, French, Portuguese).
• 🕐 Daily message time: Change Hour for daily message: 20:00 to whatever time suits you best.
• 🕗 Weekly message time: Change Hour for weekly message: 08:00 to your preferred time.
• 📅 Weekly summary day: Change Day for weekly message: Monday to the day you prefer (e.g., Friday).

Beyond Software Development

This gem is heavily focused on the software development and tech world, but the concept can be adapted to any purpose. All you need is:

1. A Google Spreadsheet with the tools/sources you care about (e.g., marketing tools, design tools, finance…).
2. The changelog or release notes URLs for each source.
3. Modified gem instructions tailored to your domain.

The pattern is always the same: clean data → custom gem → noise-free information.