Entity

AI

AI — Artificial Intelligence. Computer systems that perform tasks that normally require human intelligence — language, vision, prediction, reasoning.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • N. Korea conducts underwater test of new precision-guided torpedo using AI : KCNA

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • AI agents make 138 million crypto payments as U.S. dominates spending on AI models

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Kamala Harris warns the window for AI safeguards is closing, urges US-China cooperation

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • A Stripe Company Is Bringing Its Wallets to the XRP Ledger, and Ripple Says AI Agents Already Make One in Four Payments on the Network.

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

All 13 events and claims involving AI

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 1,334 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 256 on 26 Sept 2026 (+421%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

27,237 documents · 1,150 publishers · 9% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.088: about 91% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside AI

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

OpenAIChinaAnthropicGoogleNvidiaTrumpUnited StatesMeta
  • OpenAI · 4,626 shared documents
  • China · 3,933 shared documents
  • Anthropic · 3,870 shared documents
  • Google · 3,723 shared documents
  • AI agents · 2,863 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Nvidia · 2,760 shared documents
  • Trump · 2,545 shared documents
  • United States · 2,488 shared documents
  • Europe · 2,327 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Meta · 2,256 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 1,334 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 256 on 26 Sept 2026 (+421%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +355% from 2 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 199 and 1539 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions AI, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about AI yet. Ask about AI

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

On the desk: AI & Compute Desk

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving AI

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • N. Korea conducts underwater test of new precision-guided torpedo using AI : KCNA

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • AI agents make 138 million crypto payments as U.S. dominates spending on AI models

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Kamala Harris warns the window for AI safeguards is closing, urges US-China cooperation

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • A Stripe Company Is Bringing Its Wallets to the XRP Ledger, and Ripple Says AI Agents Already Make One in Four Payments on the Network.

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • IMF raises its forecast for world growth this year but warns of risks from AI boom and debt

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Chatbot startup Character.AI files for bankruptcy, and Disney is first in line for key assets

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Small AI Models May Soon Be Able to Self-Replicate on IoT Devices, Anthropic Warns

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Intel’s Crescent Island AI Server GPU Gets a Name and Specs: Meet the Intel GPU D-Series

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Meta Muse Wonder AI: Meta Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic With Its Most Powerful AI Models Yet

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Sui Foundation invests $30 million in DATA Network as AI data protocol migrates to Sui

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Report: Amazon in talks with AI startup Decart over possible $7B acquisition

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from AI

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

AI

Entity.

Evidence
27,237 documents · 1,150 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 3 Mar 2026, last seen 17 Oct 2026
Measured
9% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
25 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (3)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names AI, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about AI

Markets whose question is about AI or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to AI and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

  • 35.7% Yes

    “Will Alibaba be the third-best Chinese AI company at the end of October 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 17 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “ai” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

  • 25.8% Yes

    “Will Anthropic be the #3 AI Lab at the end of October 2026 (Style Control On)?”

    Polymarket · priced 17 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “ai” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

  • 25.5% Yes

    “Will Anthropic have the best AI model at the end of October 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 17 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “ai” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 7 Oct 2026.

Ask about AIWatch AI

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 17 Oct 2026.