How I track new AI model drops without refreshing five changelogs

Changelogs and pricing pages ship the model. Your feed just argues about it later. I used to treat AI Twitter like a release channel. Bad idea. The timeline is commentary. The drop is usually a quiet line on a docs page. Last month a new model ID showed up on an API pricing table before anyone I follow wrote a thread. I was not clever. That URL was already on a watch. The feed still spent the afternoon debating vibes. What belongs in a real brief When a lab ships, I want five boring facts: The model name and the ID your code will call Price per million tokens (input and output) Context window and any rate-limit changes Deprecations or aliases that reroute old names Where it lives (API only, chat app, open weights, or all three) A launch blog is optional. Those five lines are the brief. Where the news actually appears Social posts trail the docs. I keep pages, not accounts. OpenAI: API changelog, deprecations, pricing. Anthropic: news, platform release notes, pricing. Google: Gemini API changelog and pricing. Open weight: Hugging Face org pages I actually deploy from. Discord is faster for some open-weight labs. Fine. I still want the model card and the price before I rewrite a prompt. Monday rituals die by Tuesday I tried opening three changelogs every Monday. Skim. Close tabs. Feel responsible. It works until a midweek price cut or a silent alias change. Then you learn from an invoice spike or a broken eval. Google Alerts on "new GPT" or "Claude release" is noise. You get essays, not the SKU. Screenshot watchers catch layout shifts on marketing pages. Sometimes useful. I usually need the sentence that changed on the pricing table. What I leave running I paste the docs URLs I already trust into a website change alert and ask for a one-line brief: new models, price cuts, deprecations, alias moves. AyeWatch is what I use for that. Free Preview is $0 (3 topics, 6 lifetime runs). Pro is $9 a month. When something fires, I get a short summary, open the page, and copy the