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Long-form, original research and analysis. Where the Indexes hold sourced statistics, Reports tell the story behind them — in-depth series, model and policy analysis, and breaking developments, each primary-sourced and dated.

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01 · PRIMARY SOURCES ONLY
Every figure links to a study, company filing, or official dataset — and is dated.
02 · RATED FOR CONFIDENCE
We flag how solid each number is and whether it’s still current.
03 · UPDATED AS DATA RELEASES
Reports are revised when new primary data lands, not left to go stale.
Report series

Real-World AI Use Cases

Eight in-depth reports on where AI makes high-stakes calls possible — medicine, fusion, fraud, law, and more. AI assists; a human decides.

8-part series →

The Dark Side of AI

A 14-part series on deepfake fraud, AI cybercrime, bias, surveillance, and synthetic abuse — with the numbers, the year-over-year trends, and the 2030 forecast.

14 reports + 2030 forecast →
Latest reports
NEW · AUG 18

What a $500B AI Data Center Actually Costs

A 10GW campus on a former Ohio uranium site, costed layer by layer — and why two thirds of the bill goes to one supplier who also guarantees the debt.

NEW · AUG 18

Off the Books: Who Owns AI’s Data Centers

BlackRock funds own 80% of Meta’s $14.3B El Paso campus — but Meta kept sole tenancy and every operational lever. The second such deal in ten months.

NEW · AUG 18

AI Workslop: Work That Looks Right and Isn’t

40% of US desk workers received it in one month. Each incident costs nearly two hours — and the cost lands on the reader, not the sender.

NEW · JUN 23

OpenAI Raises $122B at an $852B Valuation

Silicon Valley’s largest round — backed by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank — and what the Amazon contingency signals about an IPO.

NEW · JUN 23

Washington’s AI Turn: EO 14409 & the GAAIA

Two federal moves in three days — a pro-innovation executive order and the bipartisan Great American AI Act discussion draft.

NEW · JUN 23

The Frontier Reshuffle: Gemini 3.5 & MAI

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash and Microsoft’s seven in-house MAI models — speed, agents, and cutting OpenAI reliance.

NEW · JUN 23

Deloitte’s State of AI 2026: The Guardrail Gap

74% expect to use AI agents by 2027, but only 21% have mature agentic governance. Agents are scaling faster than the guardrails.

Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman

The first state-led lawsuit naming OpenAI and its CEO — over ChatGPT safety claims. What the June 1, 2026 complaint actually alleges.

Anthropic Files Confidentially for an IPO

A confirmed June 1, 2026 draft S-1 to the SEC — and a reported ~$965B valuation. What’s confirmed vs. reported.

The EU AI Act Goes Fully Live

What changes on August 2, 2026 — high-risk obligations, transparency rules, and the May 2026 amendments.

Claude Fable 5: Pulled in Under a Week

Anthropic’s most capable model launched June 9, 2026 — then the US government forced it offline via export controls.

The Dark Side of LLMs & AI Agents

Hallucination, prompt injection, and autonomous agents acting badly — with the adoption trend and forecast.

The Dark Side of AI in Numbers

Year-over-year trends across deepfake fraud, AI cybercrime, and synthetic abuse — plus the 2030 forecast.

AI-Generated Content Statistics 2026

How much of the text, code, images, audio, and video we consume is now AI-made — with year-over-year trends.

LLM Token Price Index 2026

How fast AI inference costs are falling — roughly 10× a year at a fixed capability level.

IN PRODUCTION

More original reports are being researched now: the AI Bubble Tracker, AI Energy & Water per Query, the AI Incident Log, AI Provenance & Detection, and AI Productivity by Profession.

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The Indexes cover the most important sourced AI data points for 2026 — every figure linked to its primary source.

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