Acknowledgments of AI use in arXiv math preprints rose from 4% in April 2026 to 25% in August, with 6% crediting AI with a substantial research contribution.

Epoch AI's analysis of trade data finds a pattern consistent with $3B worth of chips smuggled to China via Malaysia. China recorded $3.8B of server imports from Malaysia in 2024–25; Malaysia recorded only $0.6B of exports.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) with a score of 166, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 164 and GPT-5.6 Sol at 162. Its Math-ECI of 170 sets a new record, but on software engineering benchmarks its SWE-ECI of 164 still lags behind Fable 5.1's 167.

The share of US adults using AI at least 6 days a week rose from 8% in March 2026 to 19% in August 2026, according to Epoch AI/Ipsos polling.

Since mid-2024, the record for the largest AI data center by IT power capacity has doubled every ten months. Epoch AI's analysis of frontier data center power trends through 2028.

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

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.

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.

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.