12 hours ago
- GitHub AI activity surged: new repositories up 79.2%, pull requests up 138.8%, issues up 146.8%.
- Jobs in call centres dropped 7.3%, newspaper publishers down 6.3%, and AI-exposed industries now represent 0.8% of all jobs.
- AI-related package downloads skyrocketed: openai on npm up 428.2%, on PyPI up 472.3%; anthropic on PyPI up 704.8%.
- AI research dominates: cs.AI papers up 32.9%, deep learning papers up 118.4%, and LLM in titles up 112.9%.
- Stack Overflow questions plummeted 72% overall, while Wikipedia edits rose 20% and unique devices declined 13.9%.
- AI crawlers now make up 5.8% of HTTP requests, with ClaudeBot accounting for 19.8% of AI-bot traffic.
- Hugging Face models saw massive downloads: Whisper large-v3 reached 129M, DeepSeek-R1 27.6M, FLUX.1 dev 30.7M.