Industry pulse
Month by month, counted from every daily briefing: where the news was, who was in it, and what changed for good. Recomputed on every build from the archive — nothing here is entered by hand.
Sep 2026
Figures as of Oct 5, 2026, 10:29 UTC
Each month in one line
- Sep 2026 · 304 stories in 29 briefings — Model releases led with 20% of stories; OpenAI was mentioned in 23%.
- Aug 2026 · 365 stories in 31 briefings — Research worth reading led with 20% of stories; Anthropic was mentioned in 18%.
- Jul 2026 · 111 stories in 27 briefings — Coding agents led with 23% of stories; Anthropic was mentioned in 42%.
- Jun 2026 · 84 stories in 29 briefings — Model releases led with 39% of stories; Anthropic was mentioned in 55%.
Where the news was
Share of each month's stories by topic area. Shares rather than counts: the briefing format changed in late July 2026 and roughly tripled the stories per day, which would otherwise read as a surge in the industry.
| Area | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model releases | 39% | 23% | 13% | 20% |
| Coding agents | 36% | 23% | 15% | 14% |
| MCP | 4% | 7% | 7% | 9% |
| Agent frameworks & interop | – | 7% | 11% | 9% |
| AI-assisted SDLC | 12% | 5% | 9% | 8% |
| AI cost tracking & telemetry | 10% | 12% | 9% | 9% |
| Practice & craft | – | 11% | 14% | 15% |
| Teaching & learning | – | – | 1% | 3% |
| Research worth reading | – | 12% | 20% | 14% |
- under 5%
- 5–10%
- 10–15%
- 15–20%
- 20–30%
- 30% or more
Who was in the news
Share of each month's stories that mention a vendor or one of its products (Claude counts for Anthropic, Copilot for GitHub). A story can mention several vendors, so columns don't add to 100%. The twelve vendors with the largest share overall.
| Vendor | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 55% | 42% | 18% | 20% |
| OpenAI | 23% | 29% | 15% | 23% |
| GitHub | 24% | 16% | 11% | 14% |
| Microsoft | 23% | 12% | 5% | 8% |
| 7% | 15% | 9% | 11% | |
| AWS | 10% | 7% | 7% | 8% |
| Cursor | 5% | 5% | 4% | 4% |
| Hugging Face | 1% | 5% | 3% | 4% |
| Alibaba | 1% | 4% | 4% | 2% |
| NVIDIA | 4% | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| xAI | 4% | 4% | 2% | 1% |
| DeepSeek | 4% | 2% | 3% | 2% |
- under 5%
- 5–10%
- 10–15%
- 15–20%
- 20–30%
- 30% or more
What the record logged
Counts from the record, by the month each thing happened.
| Month | Retirements announced | Cutoffs that landed | Advisories disclosed | Model price changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Jul 2026 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Aug 2026 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
| Sep 2026 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 10 |
How it's counted: a story is a top-level item under a topic section of a daily briefing; the watch list and weekly recaps are left out. Months with fewer than 7 briefings are not shown. Record events come from entries dated in that month.