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44% of US firms using AI report it augmenting workers' existing tasks rather than replacing them, versus just 5% reporting AI substituting tasks outright, according to Census Bureau research on business AI adoption 44%

The Census Bureau's Business Trends and Outlook Survey found AI adoption climbing fastest among big employers: as of May 2026, 37% of firms with 250+ employees used AI vs 32% for 100-249 employees and under 20% for the smallest firms

55% of U.S. workers say they have used AI on the job for at least one of 11 listed tasks, and among those who used it in the past week, 31% said it saved them one to two hours of work, per the Census Bureau's March 2026 Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey 55% of U.S. workers have used AI on the job, Census Bureau survey finds

ChatGPT was estimated to have reached 100 million monthly users roughly two months after launch

A UC Berkeley, Sao Paulo and Stanford study of 141 countries found that national Claude usage rises 12x for every 0.10-point increase in a country's AI exposure score, based on Anthropic's Economic Index data for February 2026 Claude usage rises 12x per +0.10 rise in national AI exposure

Salesforce brands its whole product line around AI agents and reports separately what customers actually pay for them. In the quarter to 30 April 2026, on total revenue of $11.13 billion, that came to $1.2 billion of Agentforce annual recurring revenue, up 205% year on year

Salesforce brands its whole product line around AI agents and reports separately what customers actually pay for them. In the quarter to 31 July 2026, Agentforce annual recurring revenue exceeded $1.5 billion in Agentforce ARR, up over 240% year-over-year

Epoch AI and Ipsos asked 1,106 employed US adults in July 2026 whether AI had taken over work they used to hand to another person. Reporting that AI now handles at least one task they previously passed to a coworker or contractor: one in five US workers

Alphabet told investors in its second-quarter 2026 results that Gemini models now process 22 billion API tokens a minute, and that the Gemini app has reached 950 million monthly active users

Microsoft told investors in April 2026 that its AI business had reached an annual run rate of $37 billion

Stanford's AI Index reports that organisational AI adoption kept climbing in 2025, reaching 88% of surveyed organisations

ServiceNow sells AI as an add-on to the workflow software companies already run, and reports separately what customers pay for it. Agentic deployments rose ninefold in nine months, and in the second quarter of 2026 ServiceNow AI reached $1 billion in annual contract value

Tesla's driver-assistance software is one of the few AI products consumers pay for directly, and the company discloses the subscriber count every quarter. At the end of the second quarter of 2026 it reported 1.48 million active FSD subscriptions, up 56% in a year

Stanford's AI Index found the United States trailing most of the world's advanced economies on population-level AI adoption. Citing Microsoft AI Economy Institute telemetry for the second half of 2025, the index ranked the US 24th out of the top 30 economies worldwide, with an AI usage rate of 28.3% of Americans, still in the bottom half of the global ranking

Across US businesses surveyed between December 2025 and May 2026, AI use ran between 17% and 20% — and even among firms with 250 or more employees, only 37% reported using AI

Generative AI reached 53% adoption in three years, faster than the personal computer or the internet — but unevenly: Singapore sits at 61% and the UAE at 64%, while Stanford's AI Index finds the US is 24th for generative AI adoption, at 28.3%