Attention is narrowing, and it has changed subject.
The five most-covered subjects now take 33.5% of all named-subject events, against 27.4% in the preceding ninety days. Microsoft alone moved from 1.6% to 3.9%. Over the same span, Policy gave up 6.0pp of the cycle while Funding took +6.8pp.
- Events counted
- 4,968
- Named subjects
- 1,737
- Categories
- 17
- Months
- 18
Subjects
Share of named-subject events, trailing 90 days against the 90 before.
| Subject | Then | Now | Movement | ±pp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 1.6 | 3.9 | +2.3 | |
| 5.1 | 7.1 | +2.1 | ||
| OpenAI | 8.9 | 10.5 | +1.6 | |
| Meta | 2.0 | 3.2 | +1.2 | |
| DeepSeek | 0.3 | 1.4 | +1.1 | |
| Cloudflare | 0.3 | 1.0 | +0.7 | |
| Losing ground | ||||
| United States | 2.5 | 1.4 | −1.2 | |
| Oracle | 0.6 | 0.0 | −0.6 | |
| xAI | 0.7 | 0.2 | −0.5 | |
| Atlassian | 0.5 | 0.0 | −0.5 | |
| Intel | 1.0 | 0.5 | −0.5 | |
Categories
Share of all events. Rotation shows here before it shows in headlines.
| Category | Then | Now | Movement | ±pp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding | 4.4 | 11.2 | +6.8 | |
| Policy | 16.0 | 10.0 | −6.0 | |
| Security | 7.3 | 11.7 | +4.4 | |
| Product | 20.7 | 17.1 | −3.6 | |
| Investment | 6.6 | 10.0 | +3.4 | |
| OpenSource | 1.6 | 3.6 | +2.0 | |
| Leadership | 4.4 | 2.5 | −1.9 | |
| Partnership | 6.3 | 4.7 | −1.6 |
Gone quiet · Oracle, UK Government, Cohere — each carried eight or more events in the archive and none in the last ninety days.
Listed vs not · 47.3% of coverage we can classify by listing status goes to companies that are not publicly traded — effectively unchanged from 50.0% the quarter before. OpenAI and Anthropic alone account for 19.2% of every named-subject event in the archive. Listing status is a maintained list, not archive data; it covers 47.1% of named-subject events.
Method
Every figure is a full count of the archive, not a sample. Coverage runs 25 Mar 2025 to 09 Aug 2026.
Shares are reported rather than totals because publishing volume is not constant — 590 events in the current window against 1,000 before it. Comparing raw counts across those windows would show a decline everywhere and mean nothing.
Subject labels are normalised onto head entities, so Google DeepMind and Google Cloud count as Google. Generic labels such as “AI” or “Big Tech” are excluded.
The archive, in its own words.
Soaring artificial intelligence infrastructure demand drives massive investments and grid pressures, while autonomous models trigger security alarms through containment breaches. Meanwhile, major tech firms report booming earnings, and global regulators tighten oversight amid escalating data breaches and surging cybersecurity threats.
Written 09 Aug 2026 from the last seven days of stories