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Most AI use at work happens on free plans, except in science and tech
Data Insight
Aug. 14, 2026
Most AI use at work happens on free plans, except in science and tech

Epoch AI/Ipsos survey: 67% of AI-using workers in computer, engineering, and science jobs use employer-provided AI.

By Amreeta Das and Caroline Falkman Olsson

9 big questions benchmarks can help answer
Newsletter
Aug. 14, 2026
9 big questions benchmarks can help answer

A good benchmark asks more than just “can AI do this specific task?”

By Greg Burnham

The performance per dollar of AI chips purchased each quarter has grown by an average of 49% per year
Data Insight
Aug. 13, 2026
The performance per dollar of AI chips purchased each quarter has grown by an average of 49% per year

Since 2023, the average dollar spent on AI chips each quarter has yielded about 49% more performance each year in constant 2025 dollars, doubling every 1.7 years as spending shifts to each new chip generation.

By Venkat Somala

Will financing bottleneck AI compute? An Anthropic case study
Newsletter
Aug. 12, 2026
Will financing bottleneck AI compute? An Anthropic case study

Why Anthropic's buildout suggests that financing is unlikely to be the immediate blocker to frontier AI compute growth.

By Campbell Hutcheson

AI at work: how AI is changing everyday job tasks
Report
Aug. 6, 2026
AI at work: how AI is changing everyday job tasks

One in five US workers say AI now does work they once handed to a coworker or contractor, per a new Epoch AI/Ipsos survey of 1,106 employed adults.

By Caroline Falkman Olsson, Yafah Edelman, and Amreeta Das

Disclosed CVEs: July Reached 5× the Pre-Mythos Record
Data Insight
Jul. 31, 2026
Disclosed CVEs: July Reached 5× the Pre-Mythos Record

Notable organizations disclosed ~2,500 high- and critical-severity CVEs in July 2026, about 5× the pre-Mythos monthly record. Epoch AI's updated breakdown of vulnerability disclosures following Anthropic's Project Glasswing.

By Luke Emberson

Will parallelization limits delay an intelligence explosion?
Report
Jul. 29, 2026
Will parallelization limits delay an intelligence explosion?

Even with automated AI R&D producing millions of virtual researchers, progress may be capped by our ability to divide, coordinate, and recombine their work. Epoch AI on why parallelization technology is a missing parameter in intelligence explosion models.

By Phil Trammell

OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face — should we have seen it coming?
Newsletter
Jul. 22, 2026
OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face — should we have seen it coming?

Expert assessments and cyber benchmarks led us to expect that frontier models were capable of executing this kind of cyberattack

By Alexander Barry

AI detectors rarely flag human writing, but sometimes miss AI text imitating real authors
Data Insight
Jul. 15, 2026
AI detectors rarely flag human writing, but sometimes miss AI text imitating real authors

We tested Pangram, GPTZero, and Originality.ai on human and AI text. All three caught nearly every passage written from a simple prompt, but missed roughly one in five passages imitating a specific author's style.

By Jaeho Lee

Topic Overview: AI Energy Use
Topic Overview
Jul. 14, 2026
Topic Overview: AI Energy Use

AI compute draws tens of gigawatts globally—comparable to New York state—yet a single chatbot query uses less than a microwave in 10 seconds. Epoch AI's guide to AI energy use, from training to inference to local grid impacts.

By Nikita Ostrovsky