The Daily Receipts

Stanford's 2026 AI Index, citing Lightcast's job-postings database, found that even as employer demand shifted toward newer agentic-AI skills, mentions of generative AI skills specifically in US AI job postings still grew, from 2024 to 2025, by 111%

Applied Digital's fiscal first quarter 2027, ended August 31, 2026, brought revenue of $341.9 million, up 322% year-over-year, as the data-center builder's AI capacity buildout for hyperscaler customers ramped $341.9 million, up 322% YoY

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored a perfect 100% on Epoch AI's Earthborne Rangers board-game benchmark by repeatedly using a single card that let it take unlimited turns, bypassing the game's core fatigue mechanic. Epoch banned the card in response, and under the patched rules Astra's best run still hit 20 of 21 objectives, but its average score across runs fell to 16 out of 21 objectives

Epoch AI's tracker of AI data centres added a new facility to its database on October 2, 2026 -- Google's Kansas City East site, logged with an estimated 105 megawatts of IT power and a $4.0 billion capital cost, alongside a compute capacity of 203,000 H100-equivalents

Near-daily AI use is spreading fast among US adults. Epoch AI's own polling with Ipsos found the share of US adults using AI at least six days a week rose, across two survey waves five months apart, from 8% in March 2026 to 19% in August 2026

Meta's most recently reported quarterly purchases of property and equipment reached $30.12 billion