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THE DAILY RECEIPTS

The Daily Receipts

Edition of 7 October 2026

This edition's sourced facts, the last close and the stock of the day — exactly as they were mailed.

Today's facts

EnergyPrimary

The EIA says data-center and manufacturing growth is driving US electricity consumption to record levels, and its September 2026 outlook forecasts that commercial-sector electricity sales — the category that includes data centers — will account for 63% of the growth in total US electricity sales in 2026

SourceU.S. EIA·Sep 2026 STEO
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ComputeEstimate

Epoch AI modeled how many AI agents the world's memory-chip supply could run, and estimates that high-bandwidth memory shipped through 2027, once fully deployed to the task, could support as many as 30 to 170 million concurrent frontier-model AI agents

SourceEpoch AI·Oct 2026
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ModelsPrimary

Epoch AI's Capabilities Index puts OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on top overall and sets a record on math benchmarks, but its software-engineering-specific index score trails Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1: SWE-ECI of 167 for Fable 5.1 vs 164 for Astra

SourceEpoch AI·Sep 2026
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LabourPrimary

A new NBER paper tracking recent college graduates (ages 22-25) through CPS microdata found their unemployment rate averaged over June, July and August 2026 was 7.3% — lower than the 7.8% recorded in summer 2024

SourceNBER (Fairlie & Wu)·Summer 2026
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HardwareEstimate

AI servers are soaking up memory supply and squeezing everyone else, TrendForce says, forecasting that conventional DRAM contract prices will rise 10 to 15% quarter-over-quarter in Q4 2026

SourceTrendForce·Q4 2026 forecast
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CapitalPrimary

Alphabet poured capital into AI infrastructure and it shows: Google Cloud revenue grew 82% to $24.8 billion in the second quarter of 2026, while the company's capital expenditure for the same quarter reached $44.9 billion in quarterly capital expenditure

SourceAlphabet Inc.·Q2 2026
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The last close

Mixed — 43 of 72 AI names higher, 29 lower — session 2026-10-06

Stock of the day

CIEN Ciena, +10.8% today, at 431.61
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