Broadcom’s shipments of TPU by unit volume increased by about 65% quarter over quarter to roughly 800,000 chips, while compute output doubled, driven by a shift to more powerful chips.

17% of biology preprints acknowledge LLM use, nearly matching specialized tools like AlphaFold. Epoch AI analyzes trends in AI acknowledgment in research.

The computing power of AI chips sold each quarter has grown about 2.5× per year since 2024, down from a surge in 2023.

Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 is the top open-weight model on Epoch’s Cyber ECI, scoring where the closed-weight frontier stood 6–7 months earlier.

June and September polls from Epoch AI/Ipsos show no detectable increase in the share of US adults experiencing cyber incidents

OpenAI researchers’ coding-agent usage, valued at API prices, has recently been doubling roughly every month, according to breakpoint fits.

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.