THE DAILY RECEIPTS
Edition of 8 October 2026
This edition's sourced facts, the last close and the stock of the day — exactly as they were mailed.
BLS projects the computing infrastructure, data processing and web-hosting industry will grow 25.1% and add 120,400 new jobs from 2025 to 2035, crediting accelerated AI adoption as the driver 120,400 new AI-driven jobs
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Claude Opus 5.5, released 22 September 2026, took the top spot on Epoch AI's Capabilities Index with a score of 167 out of 257 tracked models, narrowly ahead of GPT-6 Astra, though the margin falls within the models' statistical uncertainty Claude Opus 5.5: #1 of 257 models
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The median OpenAI researcher's daily coding-agent usage, valued at API prices, rose from under $1 in January 2026 to $601 by mid-August 2026, with usage recently doubling roughly every month, Epoch AI finds $601/day coding-agent usage
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Combined capital expenditure by Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Alphabet is projected to exceed $800 billion in 2026, surpassing the five companies' combined operating cash flow for the first time, a new NBER working paper on financing the AI buildout finds $800B 2026 hyperscaler capex
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TrendForce has raised its 2026 AI server shipment growth forecast to nearly 31% year-over-year, up from an earlier 28% estimate, as combined capex from the nine largest cloud service providers is projected to exceed $886.7 billion 31% AI server shipment growth
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