Attention is narrowing, and it has changed subject.
The five most-covered subjects now take 25.4% of all named-subject events, against 29.6% in the preceding ninety days. Nvidia alone moved from 2.1% to 3.9%. Over the same span, Product gave up 7.7pp of the cycle while Funding took +8.3pp.
- Events counted
- 5,352
- Named subjects
- 1,901
- Categories
- 17
- Months
- 19
Subjects
Share of named-subject events, trailing 90 days against the 90 before.
| Subject | Then | Now | Movement | ±pp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | 2.1 | 3.9 | +1.7 | |
| Amazon | 0.3 | 1.2 | +1.0 | |
| DeepSeek | 0.6 | 1.2 | +0.7 | |
| Databricks | 0.0 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| CXMT | 0.0 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| SpaceX | 0.3 | 0.9 | +0.6 | |
| Losing ground | ||||
| 6.8 | 4.5 | −2.3 | ||
| Anthropic | 8.5 | 6.8 | −1.7 | |
| Apple | 2.0 | 0.9 | −1.1 | |
| Meta | 3.0 | 2.0 | −1.0 | |
| OpenAI | 8.9 | 8.2 | −0.7 | |
Categories
Share of all events. Rotation shows here before it shows in headlines.
| Category | Then | Now | Movement | ±pp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding | 6.1 | 14.4 | +8.3 | |
| Product | 21.4 | 13.8 | −7.7 | |
| Investment | 5.6 | 12.6 | +7.0 | |
| Release | 9.0 | 4.2 | −4.8 | |
| Research | 13.5 | 10.5 | −3.0 | |
| Leadership | 3.7 | 1.2 | −2.4 | |
| Security | 9.9 | 11.6 | +1.8 | |
| Restructure | 2.1 | 0.7 | −1.4 |
Gone quiet · Cohere, Trump administration, TikTok — each carried eight or more events in the archive and none in the last ninety days.
Listed vs not · 47.2% of coverage we can classify by listing status goes to companies that are not publicly traded — effectively unchanged from 46.9% the quarter before. OpenAI and Anthropic alone account for 15.0% of every named-subject event in the archive. Listing status is a maintained list, not archive data; it covers 37.9% of named-subject events.
Method
Every figure is a full count of the archive, not a sample. Coverage runs 25 Mar 2025 to 08 Sept 2026.
Shares are reported rather than totals because publishing volume is not constant — 807 events in the current window against 710 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.
Global artificial intelligence momentum surges alongside rising regulatory scrutiny. Massive infrastructure investments and advanced frontier model deployments contrast sharply with pressing security breaches, copyright lawsuits, and legal challenges over automated labor pricing, reflecting an industry racing ahead while grappling with governance and safety.
Written 08 Sept 2026 from the last seven days of stories