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How We Use AI

Updated October 28, 2026

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Version 2026.10.28.3

  • How much will companies spend checking AI agents' work?: a new section, "In security operations", covers a16z's October 28 survey of 100 CISOs at large companies: how far AI agents already reach into their systems, and how many still want a person to approve what the agents do.

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Version 2026.10.28.2

  • Every page: the footer now shows the site's version and the date it was updated, with a link to this page.
  • What changed: this page is new. It lists every release, and each one stays online at its own address, so a citation keeps pointing at what it cited.

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Version 2026.10.28

  • Big tech capex tracker: Microsoft's July to September 2026 quarter is added, from its 10-Q filed October 28. Additions to property and equipment were $39.4 billion, up 103% from $19.4 billion a year earlier. Alphabet and Amazon hadn't filed for the quarter yet.
  • Get the data: the big tech capex file includes Microsoft's new quarter.
  • How much will companies spend checking AI agents' work?: a new section, "Judgment calls", covers Anthropic's October 27 study of experts who followed an AI agent's lean.

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Version 2026.10.25

  • How We Use AI went live with 15 pages: the home page; eight question and data pages, including the big tech capex tracker; the Spend and tokens hub; the blog; and About our data, Get the data, How to cite and Conflict of interest.
  • Get the data: a members-only research pack (sign in with a UX Magazine membership) and two data files, big tech capex (CSV) and the Census business survey's AI-use series (JSON).

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