AI Pulse — 72 Editions Analysed

01 · Category Breakdown

Where the AI story lived

Total items per category across all 72 editions — revealing which domains you judged most significant over 17 months.

Total items per category (all editions)

Share of total coverage

02 · Volume Over Time

Items per edition with a 4-week moving average. The rise from ~22 items to 30-40 reflects both expanding scope and the accelerating pace of AI news.

Items per edition + 4-week moving average

03 · Category Trends

Click any category to show or hide it. Smoothed with a 4-week rolling average to reveal genuine signals through weekly noise.

4-week rolling average items per category per edition

Productivity and Efficiency was consistently the dominant category and grew further in late 2025, reflecting the shift from AI experimentation to operational deployment.
Regulation and Compliance surged from mid-2025, tracking EU AI Act implementation, UK AI governance announcements, and growing enterprise risk concerns.
Innovation and Collaboration expanded significantly from Q2 2025, mirroring the explosion of agentic AI and multi-model workflows.
Cyber Security spiked in autumn 2025, coinciding with a series of high-profile AI-enabled attack disclosures.
Sustainability remained relatively flat throughout — suggesting it never achieved the prominence its importance warrants, despite growing data centre energy concerns.
The DeepSeek week (Feb 2025) and the Paris AI Action Summit (Feb 2025) both show as visible spikes — moments when a single story dominated the news cycle.