OPENA 9.1% +0.2pp ANTHR 8.2% −1.0pp GOOGL 5.8% +0.4pp NVIDI 3.2% +1.1pp MICRO 3.2% +1.5pp META 2.6% +0.4pp APPLE 1.5% −0.3pp DEEPS 1.3% +1.0pp US 1.2% −1.2pp AMAZO 1.2% +0.3pp WH 0.9% +0.5pp CLOUD 0.9% +0.5pp SPACE 0.9% +0.7pp MISTR 0.7% +0.2pp
The Pulse24 Count · Standing editionRecounted 21 Aug 2026

Attention is narrowing, and it has changed subject.

The five most-covered subjects now take 29.5% of all named-subject events, against 28.0% in the preceding ninety days. Microsoft alone moved from 1.7% to 3.2%. Over the same span, Product gave up 6.3pp of the cycle while Funding took +7.7pp.

Events counted
5,131
Named subjects
1,806
Categories
17
Months
18

Subjects

Share of named-subject events, trailing 90 days against the 90 before.

Subjects by share of named-subject events, previous versus current 90-day window
SubjectThenNowMovement±pp
Microsoft1.73.2+1.5
Nvidia2.13.2+1.1
DeepSeek0.31.3+1.0
Databricks0.00.7+0.7
SpaceX0.20.9+0.7
White House0.30.9+0.5
Losing ground
United States2.31.2−1.2
Anthropic9.18.2−1.0
Atlassian0.60.0−0.6
Intel1.10.6−0.5
xAI0.70.1−0.5

Categories

Share of all events. Rotation shows here before it shows in headlines.

Categories by share of all events, previous versus current 90-day window
CategoryThenNowMovement±pp
Funding5.012.7+7.7
Investment4.311.8+7.5
Product21.014.7−6.3
Policy14.810.6−4.1
Security8.311.8+3.5
Leadership4.81.9−3.0
OpenSource1.83.9+2.2
Partnership7.04.9−2.1

Gone quiet · Cohere, YouTube, Trump administration — each carried eight or more events in the archive and none in the last ninety days.

Listed vs not · 47.0% of coverage we can classify by listing status goes to companies that are not publicly traded — effectively unchanged from 49.2% the quarter before. OpenAI and Anthropic alone account for 17.2% of every named-subject event in the archive. Listing status is a maintained list, not archive data; it covers 43.2% of named-subject events.

Method

Every figure is a full count of the archive, not a sample. Coverage runs 25 Mar 2025 to 21 Aug 2026.

Shares are reported rather than totals because publishing volume is not constant — 687 events in the current window against 908 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.

Artificial intelligence dominates global headlines as labs face autonomous agent threats, massive infrastructure investments, and rising copyright disputes. Meanwhile, regulators scramble over compute derivatives, security agencies warn of critical industrial cyberattacks, and massive semiconductor realignments accelerate worldwide.

Written 20 Aug 2026 from the last seven days of stories

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