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AI News Observatory

A reproducible view of what our verified AI news archive actually contains. Every number below is recalculated from stable canonical stories and their recorded primary evidence.

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Updated October 19, 2026 at 6:47 AM UTCData through 2026-10-19CC BY 4.0

Canonical stories
3185
Last 7 days
263
Last 30 days
1564
Source domains
1017

Shape of the archive

What the archive contains

Image coverage3184 stories with a recorded story image
Updated stories350 canonical stories carry a development history
Source concentrationShare of stories citing the five most-used source domains

Stories published per day

Last 30 days · UTC
2026-09-20: 37 stories09/202026-09-21: 46 stories2026-09-22: 44 stories2026-09-23: 43 stories09/232026-09-24: 52 stories2026-09-25: 106 stories2026-09-26: 98 stories09/262026-09-27: 94 stories2026-09-28: 104 stories2026-09-29: 87 stories09/292026-09-30: 94 stories2026-10-01: 114 stories1142026-10-02: 35 stories10/022026-10-03: 35 stories2026-10-04: 32 stories2026-10-05: 34 stories10/052026-10-06: 34 stories2026-10-07: 35 stories2026-10-08: 36 stories10/082026-10-09: 37 stories2026-10-10: 33 stories2026-10-11: 36 stories10/112026-10-12: 34 stories2026-10-13: 34 stories2026-10-14: 35 stories10/142026-10-15: 36 stories2026-10-16: 44 stories2026-10-17: 41 stories10/172026-10-18: 39 stories2026-10-19: 9 stories
Days without a published story are omitted from the dataset rather than drawn as zero.

Top source domains

Stories citing
  • arxiv.org429
  • scmp.com56
  • techcrunch.com53
  • theguardian.com51
  • bloomberg.com49
  • finance.biggo.com41
  • biz.chosun.com40
  • cnbc.com36

Stories by category

All time
  • Industry735
  • Policy720
  • Innovation642
  • Product542
  • Security359
  • Enterprise161
  • Media18
  • Breaking8

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Quotable findings

  1. 01
    “AI Understanding's verified archive contains 3185 canonical AI news stories from 1017 distinct source domains as of 2026-10-19.”

    — AI Understanding AI News Observatory, updated 2026-10-19

  2. 02
    “1564 stories were published in the latest 30-day window in AI Understanding's archive.”

    — AI Understanding AI News Observatory, updated 2026-10-19

  3. 03
    “350 canonical stories include a visible development history rather than a separate near-duplicate URL.”

    — AI Understanding AI News Observatory, updated 2026-10-19

  4. 04
    “Policy is the largest tracked topic in the archive with 757 matching stories; topic labels overlap.”

    — AI Understanding AI News Observatory, updated 2026-10-19

  5. 05
    “100% of archived stories have a story-specific image recorded.”

    — AI Understanding AI News Observatory, updated 2026-10-19

Topics

Topic comparison

Rules-based topics overlap; do not add rows together.

TopicAll stories7 days30 daysSource domainsUpdated URLs
Policy7575948642197
Research7183217419626
Safety4974425725162
Models4863121819660
Chips3092815717043
OpenAI3011416417350
Anthropic2462915314041
Nvidia16514739729
Google AI14711849928
Microsoft827505713
Meta AI25511184
xAI1417142

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What this dataset can and cannot show

It describes AI Understanding’s archive—not the entire AI industry. Source-domain counts reflect recorded primary evidence URLs. Topic labels are reproducible rules, not a subjective ranking. Publication volume is not a measure of importance or market size. Review the methodology and record-level JSON before using a statistic.

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