[ { "id": "us-jobs", "title": "AI cited in 120,136 announced job cuts", "place": "United States", "lon": -98, "lat": 38, "topic": "Employment", "publisher": "Challenger, Gray & Christmas", "url": "https://www.challengergray.com/blog/job-cuts-fall-in-september-hiring-plans-up-3-over-2025-on-weak-early-seasonal-hiring/", "period": "January–September 2026 · published 1 October 2026", "text": "The outplacement firm records AI as the stated reason for 120,136 announced job cuts by US-based employers in 2026 through September; 3,961 were announced in September.", "limits": "Employer-attributed announced plans, not independently proven AI causation or completed layoffs. US coverage only. Do not add the September figure to the year-to-date figure.", "kind": "Primary statistical release", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "ilo", "title": "One in four jobs potentially exposed to GenAI", "place": "Global evidence · ILO/NASK", "lon": 8, "lat": 47, "topic": "Employment", "publisher": "ILO / NASK", "url": "https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/one-four-jobs-risk-being-transformed-genai-new-ilo%E2%80%93nask-global-index-shows", "period": "2025 occupational-exposure study", "text": "The study estimates potential exposure to generative AI across occupations. It finds job transformation more likely than wholesale replacement.", "limits": "Exposure is not a count of jobs lost. Global study is located near ILO headquarters for navigation, not as a Swiss-only finding.", "kind": "Institutional research", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "gpt-oss", "title": "Open-weight reasoning models", "place": "United States · OpenAI", "lon": -122, "lat": 37, "topic": "Research & models", "publisher": "OpenAI", "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/", "period": "Released 5 August 2025", "text": "OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b under Apache 2.0, enabling local deployment and adaptation.", "limits": "Provider announcement. Benchmark and safety claims need independent evaluation. Open weights do not imply every training resource is open. This is a dated background release.", "kind": "Provider announcement", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence", "Open-weight models" ] }, { "id": "mistral", "title": "Open-frontier model collaboration", "place": "France · Mistral AI", "lon": 2.35, "lat": 48.86, "topic": "Research & models", "publisher": "Mistral AI", "url": "https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-and-nvidia-partner-to-accelerate-open-frontier-models/", "period": "Published 16 March 2026", "text": "Mistral announced collaboration with NVIDIA on open frontier models.", "limits": "Company announcement verifies the announced partnership, not the performance of a future model or the completion of promised work.", "kind": "Provider announcement", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "alphafold", "title": "AI for molecular structure research", "place": "United Kingdom · Google DeepMind", "lon": -0.13, "lat": 51.5, "topic": "Research & models", "publisher": "Google DeepMind", "url": "https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/", "period": "AlphaFold programme · page checked 10 October 2026", "text": "AlphaFold applies machine learning to molecular structure prediction; AlphaFold 3 extends modelling to interactions between molecular types.", "limits": "Research programme, not proof of clinical efficacy. Predictions still need appropriate scientific validation. Provider overview.", "kind": "Research programme", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "india", "title": "IndiaAI public-service programmes", "place": "India", "lon": 77.2, "lat": 28.6, "topic": "National programmes", "publisher": "Government of India · PIB", "url": "https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2291062&lang=1®=1", "period": "Published 29 July 2026", "text": "The IndiaAI Mission describes collaborative roadmaps, innovation challenges and capacity-building for AI-enabled governance and public services.", "limits": "Government account of programmes. Announced plans and implementation outcomes are different measures.", "kind": "Official programme", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "singapore", "title": "National AI strategy and evaluation tools", "place": "Singapore", "lon": 103.8, "lat": 1.35, "topic": "National programmes", "publisher": "Smart Nation Singapore", "url": "https://www.smartnation.gov.sg/initiatives/national-ai-strategy/", "period": "NAIS 2.0 and programme page · checked 10 October 2026", "text": "The strategy covers AI research, government adoption, compute and governance. Project Moonshot is an open-source evaluation toolkit combining benchmarking and red-teaming.", "limits": "Government programme description; does not establish national deployment rates or uniform safety performance.", "kind": "Official programme", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence", "Open-source tools" ] }, { "id": "uk-defence", "title": "Defence AI adoption and RAID taskforce", "place": "United Kingdom", "lon": -2, "lat": 54, "topic": "Military & security", "publisher": "UK Ministry of Defence", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-artificial-intelligence-ai-at-the-heart-of-uk-defence/putting-artificial-intelligence-ai-at-the-heart-of-uk-defence", "period": "Published 10 June 2026", "text": "The Ministry sets out an AI adoption programme and the Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce, with work on intelligence processing, planning and autonomous systems.", "limits": "Official policy and intended work. No verified percentage of military activity using AI is given here. No technical weapons guidance.", "kind": "Official defence policy", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "nato", "title": "Alliance AI strategy", "place": "NATO · multinational", "lon": 4.35, "lat": 50.85, "topic": "Military & security", "publisher": "NATO", "url": "https://nato.int/en/what-we-do/deterrence-and-defence/emerging-and-disruptive-technologies", "period": "Revised AI strategy endorsed July 2024; page checked 10 October 2026", "text": "NATO identifies AI as an emerging technology and sets out alliance-level adoption and responsible-use initiatives.", "limits": "Strategy is not a deployment count. Brussels marker represents the institution, not Belgium alone.", "kind": "Official defence policy", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "uk-australia", "title": "AI security research cooperation", "place": "Australia / United Kingdom", "lon": 149.1, "lat": -35.3, "topic": "Research & models", "publisher": "UK Government", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-australia-pact-on-fast-moving-ai-security-risks", "period": "Published 25 May 2026", "text": "The governments announced cooperation on fast-moving AI security risks and research evaluation.", "limits": "Bilateral research cooperation; do not infer an operational military deployment from security research.", "kind": "Official research cooperation", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "stanford", "title": "AI Index: capabilities, adoption and evidence", "place": "Global research · Stanford HAI", "lon": -121, "lat": 39, "topic": "Research & models", "publisher": "Stanford HAI", "url": "https://hai.stanford.edu/news/inside-the-ai-index-12-takeaways-from-the-2026-report", "period": "2026 AI Index overview · published 13 April 2026", "text": "The annual AI Index brings together evidence on technical capabilities, economic activity, adoption and societal impacts.", "limits": "Metrics differ by source and period. This overview is not a live ranking; consult the underlying report before comparing country totals.", "kind": "Academic synthesis", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "au", "title": "Africa-centric continental AI strategy", "place": "African Union · continental scope", "lon": 38.75, "lat": 9.03, "topic": "National programmes", "publisher": "African Union", "url": "https://au.int/en/documents/20240809/continental-artificial-intelligence-strategy", "period": "Endorsed 18–19 July 2024 · published 9 August 2024", "text": "The African Union strategy calls for coordinated national approaches, regional cooperation and responsible AI supporting development priorities.", "limits": "A continental policy, not evidence that every member state has implemented it. The Addis Ababa marker locates AU headquarters; it does not describe Ethiopia alone.", "kind": "Official continental strategy", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "brazil", "title": "Public-service AI, skills and ethical review", "place": "Brazil", "lon": -47.88, "lat": -15.79, "topic": "National programmes", "publisher": "Brazil · Digital Government Secretariat", "url": "https://www.gov.br/governodigital/pt-br/infraestrutura-nacional-de-dados/inteligencia-artificial-1/", "period": "Programme overview · 2025 indicators and 2026 targets", "text": "Brazil’s AI nucleus supports federal agencies with shared tools, training, innovation projects and ethical self-assessment. Its training programmes align with the Brazilian AI Plan.", "limits": "Government programme account. Targets for 2026 are not verified completed outcomes; the page labels its operational statistics as 2025 data.", "kind": "Official programme", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "china", "title": "International AI cooperation action plan", "place": "China · international cooperation policy", "lon": 116.4, "lat": 39.9, "topic": "National programmes", "publisher": "China · NDRC", "url": "https://www.ndrc.gov.cn/fggz/202607/t20260717_1406573_ext.html", "period": "Published 17 July 2026", "text": "The plan proposes cooperation on data, compute, open-model ecosystems, AI applications, skills, standards and safety governance, including capacity-building for developing countries.", "limits": "Official policy proposals, not verified delivery or international participation. A call for open ecosystems does not establish that a particular model is open-source.", "kind": "Official action plan", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] }, { "id": "wef-jobs", "title": "AI specialist roles among projected growth occupations", "place": "Global employer survey · World Economic Forum", "lon": 6.14, "lat": 46.22, "topic": "Employment", "publisher": "World Economic Forum", "url": "https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/digest/", "period": "Published January 2025 · employer outlook to 2030", "text": "Surveyed employers place AI and machine-learning specialists among the fastest-growing roles in percentage terms for 2025–2030. The report covers over 1,000 employers across 55 economies.", "limits": "Forecasts and employer expectations, not a measured count of jobs already created by AI. Broader job-creation totals in this report include multiple economic trends and cannot be attributed to AI alone. Geneva is an institutional marker.", "kind": "Employer-survey forecast", "checked": "2026-10-10", "access": [ "Public evidence" ] } ]