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1430 articles decelerating

AI has appeared in 1,430 articles since 2018-01. Coverage peaked in 2026Q2 with 1460 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta.

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1,430
mentions
Velocity
-66.4%
growth rate
Acceleration
-0.945
velocity change
Sources
264
publications
The Meter Switched Off
On May 28, Amazon shut down the AI-usage leaderboard it had spent eighteen months building, conceding that "use AI" was never the goal. The same day, Anthropic ...
The Verification Tax
On the day Pope Leo XIV called for AI to be "disarmed," three separate stories showed where the harm actually lives: fabricated citations in medical journals up...
The Transfer
Meta laid off 8,000 and moved 7,000 into AI units the same week — a net headcount cut near 1,000 reported as a 10% reduction. On the same day, Nvidia booked $75...
Lower-Value Human Capital
On May 19, two companies eliminated 16,000 workers to deploy AI while one lab paid $100M for 20 researchers and Anthropic landed an OpenAI co-founder. The same ...
The Token Meter
Amazon set weekly AI usage targets so its workforce would actually use the tools the company had bought. Eighteen weeks later, employees have built a tool whose...

Coverage Timeline

2026-08-02
Business Insider 3 related

Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed

2026-08-01
Financial Times 4 related

Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5%

Ecommerce giant has roughly 5% stake in AI lab after equity deal  —  Amazon has completed a $50bn investment in OpenAI …

Business Insider 3 related

Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed

- Harmony raised a $34 million seed round led by Lightspeed to automate workplace requests.  — Its cofounders sold their last startup to Cisco for $500 million.

2026-07-31
Financial Times 3 related

Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5%

Ecommerce giant has roughly 5% stake in AI lab after equity deal  —  Amazon has completed a $50bn investment in OpenAI …

TechCrunch 6 related

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal

2026-07-30
TechCrunch 5 related

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal

CNBC 10 related

Sources: Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings; the fund grew to as big as $45B at the start of July before big losses took hold

David Faber /CNBC:NEW

Bloomberg 9 related

London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022

Cloud provider Nscale agreed to acquire software startup Anyscale to help customers use AI computing power more efficiently.

2026-07-28
TechCrunch 3 related

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $400 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services.

2026-07-26
Bloomberg 15 related

Samsung announces a $200B+ contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products

Samsung Electronics Co. won a contract worth more than $200 billion to make chips for Broadcom Inc., as the companies race to win a larger share of the AI infrastructure market.

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AI has appeared in 15,205 tech news articles since January 2015, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any... and Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new.... Frequently covered alongside Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, and TechCrunch. Coverage has shifted toward funding themes and away from consumer.

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2025Q2enterprise +5pts
2026Q3research +7pts

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