Artificial Intelligence
Models, agents, and the infrastructure shaping intelligent systems at scale.
Insecure Output
45%
Of AI-generated code introduced security flaws across
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The 60-Minute Build: What You Can Ship, and What Breaks
You really can build something working in an hour. Testing across more than 100 models found that 45% of AI-generated code contained security flaws, and the rate has not improved.
Population Leader
64%
Of working-age adults using generative AI in the
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AI Adoption by Country: Why the Rankings Disagree
Every AI adoption ranking says something different because three separate things are called adoption. On population use the US sits 24th at 28.3%, behind the UAE, Singapore and Norway.
Monthly Downloads
52M
Downloads of the leading local model runner, up from
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The Local AI Stack: What Runs on Your Own Machine
Running AI locally is far more popular than most coverage suggests, and the capability gap is entirely task-dependent: small models are close on extraction and far behind on multi-step reasoning.
Short-Task Success
85%
Agent success on OSWorld by June 2026, up from
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From LLMs to Agents: What the Benchmarks Actually Show
AI agents have improved enormously on short tasks and remain poor at long ones. Meanwhile researchers demonstrated that every major agent benchmark could be gamed to near-perfect scores without solving anything.
Deal Value
$2B+
Meta's third-largest acquisition, agreed in roughly ten days
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Meta Bought Manus for Over $2 Billion in Ten Days
Meta acquired Butterfly Effect, developer of the autonomous AI agent Manus, for over $2 billion in December 2025 — its third-largest acquisition ever, after WhatsApp and Scale AI.
Largest Round
$122B
Raised by OpenAI, the biggest private venture round in
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AI Funding: Four Rounds, 65% of All Venture Capital
In a single quarter, four companies raised $188 billion between them — around 65% of all global venture investment. Every other startup in every other sector shared what was left.
Infrastructure
$38B
The largest sector share of AI investment, against
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AI Investment by Sector: Where the $252 Billion Went
Corporate AI investment reached $252.3 billion in 2024. Infrastructure attracts the largest sector share, generative AI accounts for over a fifth of private investment, and the US takes almost all of it.
US Investment
$240.6B
American private AI investment in 2025, roughly
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AI Investment by Country: America Took 83% in 2025
Global private AI investment reached $290.1 billion in 2025, and the United States accounted for $240.6 billion of it. China's $10.4 billion was less than Europe's, and roughly a twenty-third of America's.
2025 Investment
$290.1B
Global private AI investment, up from $15.3B in
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A Decade of AI Investment: The Crash Everyone Forgot
Global private AI investment did not rise smoothly. It peaked at $145.4 billion in 2021, fell for two consecutive years to $92.8 billion, then recovered to $290.1 billion in 2025.