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5.4
/10
Busier than 64% of weeks
AI is moving at a running pace this week — pay attention.
Cisco deployed MyAgent across 90,000 employees as a named-customer deployment of enterprise agentic AI. Deployment drove most of the signal at 7.8/10 — above normal.
↘ Trend: easing, driven by Deployment
Splits — what moved
Labor
1.3
↓ well below normal
Deploy
7.8
↑ above normal
Reg
7.7
↑ well above normal
Markets
6.0
— on pace
Capability
7.0
↑ above normal
Pace history — last 12 weeks
What drove this week
Week of Aug 31, 2026
Deploy Cisco Deploys MyAgent Across 90,000 Employees to Advance Enterprise Agentic AI [1] high
Capability Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 released with improved coding and 75% cheaper cache reads [1][2][3] high
Markets South Korea proposes record $597 billion 2027 budget to supercharge AI investment [1][2][3] high
Deploy UKG's CIO says HR tech is AI's next big bet with 387 AI tools and over 12,000 agents launched [1] high
Reg The Fight for Serious AI Regulation Just Won a Big Victory in Massachusetts [1] medium
Labor How China's AI race axes jobs, forcing workers into low-paid roles [1] medium
New capabilities
Week of Aug 31, 2026
Google Search using Gemini 3.8 Flash in AI Mode [1] high
ChatGPT for Healthcare integrates Epic and public health data sources [1] high
Claude upgrades computer use to run in background on Mac [1] high
Anthropic launches Claude agent blueprints for retail and commerce automation [1][2][3] high
Google Gemini in Gmail becomes best search feature [1] medium
Google DeepMind evolving Gemini from chatbot to AI agent [1] medium
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Is the pace changing?
Mar
5.0
60th
Apr
6.3
93rd
May
6.4
100th
Jun
5.7
80th
Jul
5.9
87th
Aug
4.7
partial
5 of the last 6 months were in the Running or Sprinting zone. Sustained elevation since Mar.
Model Releases
wk Aug 31
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic
Gemini 3.8 Flash Google
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber Google
Muse Spark 1.3 Meta
wk Aug 24
Bel OpenAI
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Google
Muse Glimmer Meta
Qwen 3.8-Flash Alibaba
wk Aug 17
V4-Flash-Vision-Exp DeepSeek
wk Aug 10
Grok 4.6 xAI
Gemini 3.7 Flash Google
wk Aug 3
Qwen 3.8-Max Alibaba
wk Jul 27
Gemini 3.6 Flash Google
DeepSeek bargain model DeepSeek
wk Jul 20
Qwen Alibaba
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic
wk Jul 13
Qwen 3.8 Alibaba
wk Jul 6
Muse Spark 1.1 Meta
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic
GPT-5.6 OpenAI
Grok 4.5 xAI
wk Jun 29
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic
wk Jun 15
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 xAI
wk Jun 1
Qwen3 Alibaba
Gemma 4 12B Google
Grok Imagine 1.5 xAI
wk May 25
Gemini 3.5 Flash Low Google
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic
wk May 18
Gemini 3.5 Flash Google
Gemini Omni Google
Qwen 3.7-Max Alibaba
Qwen 3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash Alibaba
wk May 4
GPT-5.5-Cyber OpenAI
GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI
wk Apr 27
Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral
Grok 4.3 xAI
wk Apr 20
DeepSeek V4 DeepSeek
GPT-5.5 OpenAI
wk Apr 13
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic
wk Apr 6
Muse Spark Meta
Gemini Nano 4 Google
wk Mar 30
Gemma 4 Google
Qwen 3.6-Plus Alibaba
wk Mar 16
Mistral Small 4 Mistral
wk Mar 2
GPT-5.4 OpenAI
GPT-5.3 Instant OpenAI
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google
Grok 4.20 xAI
wk Feb 23
Qwen 3.5-Medium Alibaba
wk Feb 16
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google
Qwen 3.5 Alibaba
wk Feb 2
GPT-5.3-Codex OpenAI
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic
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