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The AI Slop Report 2026
40 percent of 1,150 desk workers received AI workslop in a month, near two hours and $186 per incident.
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Topics
The same record, sorted into fourteen topics by one published keyword rule per topic that anyone can re-run by hand. An item can sit in several topics, and coverage by country and language has its own page: the world view. Counts cover the last seven days and refresh with the collector.
Biggest share change, last 24 hours
ChipsGeneral AI excluded
30.2%of the last 24 hours
23.4%of the last 7 days
+6.8points
2,059 items in 24 hours · 8,246 this week, by the published ruleOpen topic →
28,621
items sorted, last 7 days
14 of 14
topics with coverage this week
General AI
busiest topic
4,626
sources
61
languages
110
countries
All fourteen, by items this week
Items per week, last 12 weeks
Weeks in orange are live collection since Sep 14; grey weeks are archive backfill. 26,948 items in the week to Nov 12.
Who covers AI most this week
When the week's coverage publishes, US Eastern
Where it is written
Every number is computed from the items in view against the published rules. The rules, verbatim.
Snapshot 2026-11-12, updated Nov 12, 7:24 AM EST.
10,989items this week
General AI
Broad AI developments that do not match a more specific topic.
37items this weekSlop
AI generated filler: synthetic articles, spam content, low effort media, and the fight against it.
827items this weekPower & Datacenters
The buildout: campuses, gigawatts, grid strain, cooling, and where the compute physically lives.
2,643items this weekIndustry Deals
The money: rounds, valuations, acquisitions, partnerships, and public market moves.
1,424items this weekSafety & Risk
The risk conversation: safety research, warnings, incidents, and the argument about all three. This lane feeds the Coverage Intensity Index.
1,045items this weekModel Releases & Benchmarks
New models, capabilities, evals, and how the labs stack up.
3,088items this weekPolicy & Regulation
What governments do: bills, rules, enforcement, and the lobbying around them.
97items this weekPrivacy
Personal data, surveillance, and what AI systems know about people.
952items this weekSecurity
Offense and defense: breaches, AI-assisted attacks, model exploits, and espionage.
4,484items this weekEconomy
Jobs, wages, productivity, inference costs, markets and the AI trade, and what AI does to the numbers.
143items this weekOpen vs Closed Source
Open weights against closed labs: licenses, releases, and the argument over who gets the technology.
867items this weekRobotics & World Models
Embodied AI: humanoids, world models, autonomous vehicles, and machines in physical space.
8,246items this weekChips
Silicon and supply: GPUs, custom accelerators, fabs, and export controls.
379items this weekEvents
The circuit: developer days, summits, conferences, and what gets announced on stage.
The exact rule behind every topic is printed on the technique page. A headline that matches no rule still appears on the wire, whatever the model guessed about it.
12Research
Research from Paciva, filed by topic
6 reports Paciva has published, gathered here with the topic each was filed under. They reach 4 of the 14 topics on this page; the other 10 have none yet. Paciva also publishes this Monitor; that interest is disclosed on the masthead.
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The Graymail Economy Report 2026
The annual benchmark on graymail and inbound noise: over 361.6 billion daily messages, and $12,796 per employee per year.
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Model Releases & Benchmarks
The State of Agents 2026
A review of 20 agent offerings across 200 evidence cells found 7 documented expansions in what agents are trusted to do.
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Privacy
Privacy Follows Capability
Privacy risk grows with what an AI can see, remember, infer, connect to, and do. A framework for routing tasks by sensitivity and authority.
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Economy
The Collaboration Tax 2026
Most of the workday is not the job. How the best teams cut the coordination overhead between the work.
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Economy
The Resource Abundance Paradox
88 percent of organizations use AI. 6 percent get real value from it. The gap, measured, and what closes it.
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