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A plain-language look at where AI is today — research highlights, news, and signals curated for public understanding.
Signal scoreboard
- Total signals
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- New this week
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- Featured
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- Leading country
- United States
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Research
The 2026 AI Index Report
Stanford HAI's flagship annual benchmarking report — nine chapters covering research output, technical performance, responsible AI, economics, science, medicine...
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Research
Home — AI Now Institute
AI Now is an independent research institute producing expert analysis of AI in the public interest — landscape reports on AI market concentration, policy toolki...
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Research United States
Artificial Intelligence
Brookings Institution's AI topic page — nonpartisan policy research and commentary covering AI in criminal justice, US-China competition, labour markets and reg...
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Research
Artificial intelligence — MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review's AI topic hub — ongoing reporting on frontier models, industry shifts and societal impact, paired with The Algorithm newsletter aimed at...
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Research United States
Ai2: Truly Open Breakthrough AI
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is a Seattle-based nonprofit research institute releasing fully-open language and multimodal models (OLMo, Tülu, Molmo) along w...
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Research United Kingdom
Research Programme on AI, Government and Policy
Oxford Internet Institute research programme (Oct 2021 to Oct 2026) focused on how AI intersects with governance — legislative responses like the EU AI Act, AI...
Trend heatmap
Signal density across six categories over the last 8 ISO weeks. Each cell links to the matching AI Pulse slice.
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| Industry |
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| Consumer |
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1 | 4 |
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| Safety |
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| Global |
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Counts are the number of trend observations per category per ISO week. Colour intensity encodes the total momentum sum for that cell relative to the hottest cell in the matrix. Green is positive, red is cooling, neutral grey is zero; the count number in every cell ensures the signal is readable without colour.
Policy signals catch up with the labs
Policymakers moved faster than usual this week — three new guidance documents landed alongside ongoing safety-testing frameworks. The headline is less any single rule and more the pattern: regulators are starting to name specific evaluation criteria rather than asking labs to self-attest.
Editor's note: this is early progress, not a mature regime. Read each document alongside the consultative drafts it replaces before drawing conclusions about where enforcement will actually bite.
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Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2026
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Editor's note: The EU AI Act general-purpose rules take effect, which will impact consumers by providing clearer guidelines on AI usage. Editor's note: Voice-cloning scam reports s...
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Apr 6 – Apr 12, 2026
AI in review: Apr 6 – Apr 12
Editor's note: The NIST AI Risk Management Framework explainer highlights the importance of proactive safeguards in AI development. Editor's note: Safety research funding surges af...