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  "title": "AI News: Epoch AI",
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  "description": "Latest publications from Epoch AI, aggregated by AI News from the official source.",
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      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/inference-performance-index",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/inference-performance-index",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Inference Performance Index: changing the way we measure inference capacity",
      "summary": "Epoch AI's Inference Performance Index, which goes beyond the underestimates of FLOP/s measures and scores chips on memory and communication",
      "date_published": "2026-11-09T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/huawei-horinger-china-compute-gap",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/huawei-horinger-china-compute-gap",
      "title": "Epoch AI: What Huawei’s Horinger data center reveals about China’s compute gap",
      "summary": "Huawei’s AI data center in Horinger, Inner Mongolia, uses Ascend chips and has an estimated AI computing capacity that is just 7% that of the world’s largest AI data center, SpaceX’s Colossus 2 in Tennessee.",
      "date_published": "2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/tpu-production-doubling",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/tpu-production-doubling",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Broadcom TPU compute shipments doubled from Q2 to Q3 2026, reaching 2 million H100-equivalents",
      "summary": "Broadcom’s shipments of TPU by unit volume increased by about 65% quarter over quarter to roughly 800,000 chips, while compute output doubled, driven by a shift to more powerful chips.",
      "date_published": "2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
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        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/eci-bayesian-methodology",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/eci-bayesian-methodology",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Updating the Epoch Capabilities Index methodology to use a Bayesian model",
      "summary": "A Bayesian model gives the ECI better-justified uncertainty estimates and lets us compare models directly.",
      "date_published": "2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z",
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        "Epoch AI"
      ],
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        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/biorxiv-llms-vs-ai-tools",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/biorxiv-llms-vs-ai-tools",
      "title": "Epoch AI: LLM use is acknowledged almost as often as specialized AI tools in biology preprints",
      "summary": "17% of biology preprints acknowledge LLM use, nearly matching specialized tools like AlphaFold. Epoch AI analyzes trends in AI acknowledgment in research.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-30T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
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        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/open-weight-models-patch-gap",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/open-weight-models-patch-gap",
      "title": "Epoch AI: AI can turn security fixes into working exploits before users receive an update",
      "summary": "GLM 5.3 turned published-but-unshipped Firefox security fixes into working one-click exploits for six releases, at roughly $1,000 each.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-29T21:40:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-computing-capacity-additions-doubling",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-computing-capacity-additions-doubling",
      "title": "Epoch AI: New global AI computing capacity is doubling every 9 months",
      "summary": "The computing power of AI chips sold each quarter has grown about 2.5× per year since 2024, down from a surge in 2023.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/latest/introducing-the-ai-chip-imports-explorer",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/latest/introducing-the-ai-chip-imports-explorer",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Introducing the AI Chip Imports explorer",
      "summary": "Our explorer uses customs records to estimate national shares. Since 2022, 72% of AI compute has ended up in the US and about 10% in China, including chips China makes itself.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/open-closed-cyber-eci-gap",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/open-closed-cyber-eci-gap",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Open-weight models trail closed models in cyber capabilities by 6–7 months",
      "summary": "Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 is the top open-weight model on Epoch’s Cyber ECI, scoring where the closed-weight frontier stood 6–7 months earlier.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-16T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/ai-systems-are-improving-rapidly-at-slay-the-spire-and-its-sequel",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/ai-systems-are-improving-rapidly-at-slay-the-spire-and-its-sequel",
      "title": "Epoch AI: AI systems are improving rapidly at Slay the Spire and its sequel",
      "summary": "Months ago, frontier models could barely beat Slay the Spire. Now they win 90%+ at the easiest setting and up to 20% at the hardest. Results from Epoch AI’s new SpireClimb benchmark.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/can-ai-automate-epoch",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/can-ai-automate-epoch",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Can AI automate Epoch?",
      "summary": "Frontier models can handle well-defined tasks reliably, but fail in the more open-ended aspects that prevent full work automation. Explore Epoch AI's Automation Reports: realistic, open-ended tasks taken directly from our work, manually graded by our own standards.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cyber-incidents-flat-since-fable-5",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cyber-incidents-flat-since-fable-5",
      "title": "Epoch AI: US adults are no more likely to face cyber incidents than when Claude Fable 5 launched",
      "summary": "June and September polls from Epoch AI/Ipsos show no detectable increase in the share of US adults experiencing cyber incidents",
      "date_published": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/ebr-bench-update",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/ebr-bench-update",
      "title": "Epoch AI: EBR-bench update",
      "summary": "Updates on EBR-bench, Epoch AI’s benchmark that tests models’ ability to learn from experience. GPT-6 Astra hit a perfect score on over half its EBR-bench attempts by exploiting one overpowered card, which we now ban. Plus multi-agent scaffold results.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/innovationeval",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/innovationeval",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Can AI automate AI R&D yet?",
      "summary": "Early evidence from InnovationEval: No",
      "date_published": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/china-us-semiconductor-supply-chain-exposure",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/china-us-semiconductor-supply-chain-exposure",
      "title": "Epoch AI: China is more exposed to semiconductor supply-chain disruptions than the US",
      "summary": "China is 2.7× as exposed to semiconductor supply shocks as the US, Epoch AI estimates. Epoch traces chips through input-output tables to model the impact of a Taiwan shock and decoupling.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/how-do-chinese-ai-companies-make-money",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/how-do-chinese-ai-companies-make-money",
      "title": "Epoch AI: How do Chinese AI companies make money?",
      "summary": "China's six leading AI firms earn about 10% of OpenAI and Anthropic's combined AI revenue. Epoch AI examines their five revenue streams: consumer apps, model access, enterprise and government solutions, licensing fees, and indirect monetization through cloud and advertising.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/openai-coding-agent-spending",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/openai-coding-agent-spending",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Coding-agent spending by OpenAI researchers is doubling roughly every month",
      "summary": "OpenAI researchers’ coding-agent usage, valued at API prices, has recently been doubling roughly every month, according to breakpoint fits.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-05T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/estimating-the-agent-population",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/estimating-the-agent-population",
      "title": "Epoch AI: How many AI agents could run on the AI chips shipped through 2027?",
      "summary": "Memory shipped through 2027 could run 33–171 million concurrent frontier-model agents, or billions using efficient open models. Epoch AI estimates inference capacity from HBM supply, serving benchmarks, and agent-hour costs.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://epoch.ai/latest/introducing-the-chatgpt-usage-explorer",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/latest/introducing-the-chatgpt-usage-explorer",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Introducing the ChatGPT usage explorer",
      "summary": "Median monthly messages per active user rose from 14 in 2023 to 36 in 2025, and the top 10% of users sent 63% of all prompts. Epoch AI's ChatGPT usage explorer draws on 8.3 million messages from 5,000 US YouGov panelists.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/furniture-assembly",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/furniture-assembly",
      "title": "Epoch AI: AI has improved significantly at reasoning about IKEA furniture assembly",
      "summary": "AI model scores on Epoch AI's IKEA furniture assembly benchmark jumped from 28% to 80% in 10 months, with open-weight models trailing closed-weight models by about 7 months. Epoch AI's test of visual and spatial reasoning across 60 photos from three furniture builds.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought",
      "title": "Epoch AI: The plunging price of thought",
      "summary": "Epoch AI measures how fast the cost of a given level of AI performance is falling across five benchmarks covering math, science and games of skill: about 47% per quarter, or 13x per year, since 2023, faster than electricity, compute, batteries or DNA sequencing ever fell.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/math-preprints-disclosed-ai-use",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/math-preprints-disclosed-ai-use",
      "title": "Epoch AI: In August, 25% of math preprints acknowledged AI use, up from 4% in April",
      "summary": "Acknowledgments of AI use in arXiv math preprints rose from 4% in April 2026 to 25% in August, with 6% crediting AI with a substantial research contribution.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/malaysia-china-chip-smuggling",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/malaysia-china-chip-smuggling",
      "title": "Epoch AI: Trade data is consistent with more than $3 billion of chips smuggled into China via Malaysia",
      "summary": "Epoch AI's analysis of trade data finds a pattern consistent with $3B worth of chips smuggled to China via Malaysia. China recorded $3.8B of server imports from Malaysia in 2024–25; Malaysia recorded only $0.6B of exports.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "research",
        "Epoch AI"
      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/astra-eci-breakdown",
      "url": "https://epoch.ai/data-insights/astra-eci-breakdown",
      "title": "Epoch AI: GPT-6 Astra leads on math benchmarks, but not on software engineering",
      "summary": "OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) with a score of 166, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 164 and GPT-5.6 Sol at 162. Its Math-ECI of 170 sets a new record, but on software engineering benchmarks its SWE-ECI of 164 still lags behind Fable 5.1's 167.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z",
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        "research",
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      ],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Epoch AI"
        }
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