



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.

The share of working days on which OpenAI's Codex collaborators merged very-high-effort code rose from about 2% in Q2 2025 to about 8% in Q2 2026.

Notable organizations disclosed ~1,300 high- and critical-severity CVEs in June 2026, roughly 3.5× the pre-Mythos monthly record. Epoch AI's breakdown of vulnerability disclosures following Anthropic's Project Glasswing.

GPT-4 topped Epoch's Capabilities Index (ECI) for roughly a year after its March 2023 release — no model since has led for as long. The second-longest reign, by o1, lasted barely three months.

Aggregate cash capex across Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle is on track to overtake operating cash flow in Q3 2026. Epoch AI's breakdown of how hyperscalers are financing the AI buildout.

Since Colossus 1 launched in August 2024, the record for the largest AI data center has doubled every seven months. Epoch AI's breakdown of single-site compute capacity trends through 2028.

Investment spending on AI data centers, hardware, and networking together amounted to 1.4% of US GDP in Q1 2026, up from 0.7% — a rapid rise driven by AI infrastructure that has made the buildout a leading driver of growth in US private investment.