August 2026
Frontier prices hit 2026 lows while capacity stayed rationed, four surveys put receipts on the deploy-vs-outcome gap, and every major lab published an agent-security incident report.
Read the August 2026 edition →State of AI
The state of AI, monthly, with receipts.
A monthly report on where AI actually stands, written for people who run companies rather than people who follow the industry. Each edition covers what shipped and what it costs, what businesses are actually getting out of it, where it broke, the money behind it, the rules taking effect, and what an operator should do about any of it — with every number linked to a primary source.
How this report is made
Three inputs, every month: what actually happened, checked against primary sources; the running notes from real implementation work; and fresh research on prices, adoption data, incidents, and regulation. Claims that can’t be traced to a source get cut, not softened. Charts only carry numbers a primary source stands behind. New editions publish the first weekday of each month.
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