Artificial intelligence is advancing at a rocket's pace, and every year the field looks fundamentally different than the year before. It's often difficult to keep up with all the news and exciting results. The best way I've found is to follow the machine learning community on Twitter. Keeping track of advancements in AI is not only fun but will also help in interviews by demonstrating to hiring managers your investment in the field. To get you started following the machine learning community, here's a fairly extensive list of AI researchers and pioneers I'm following.