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