AI News Pulse
How much attention AI policy gets, day by day: Google searches, Hacker News stories, online news coverage and official Federal Register documents. Built from public sources and updated daily. Last update: 2026-09-24 17:23 UTC.
Google searches for AI policy terms (US, last 90 days)
0–100 on one shared scale; 100 = the busiest day of any term in this chart. Source: Google Trends, fetched 2026-09-24 17:23 UTC (the last day is partial). Open in Google Trends.
The same terms next to “artificial intelligence”
Shows how small policy searches are next to general AI interest. Source: Google Trends, fetched 2026-09-24 17:23 UTC (the last day is partial). Open in Google Trends.
Hacker News stories per day
Stories whose title or text contains each exact phrase. Source: HN Search API (Algolia), fetched 2026-09-24 17:23 UTC.
Most-upvoted stories in these 90 days
| Date | Story | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jul 2026 | GCC steering committee announces AI policy | 357 | discussion |
| 17 Sep 2026 | AI safety is mostly a sex cult | 329 | discussion |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Tidal AI Policy | 308 | discussion |
| 17 Aug 2026 | On AI regulation and messaging | 250 | discussion |
| 19 Sep 2026 | AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult | 75 | discussion |
| 3 Sep 2026 | Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI | 62 | discussion |
| 9 Sep 2026 | I Don't Want to Interact with Stochastic Parrots | 58 | discussion |
| 2 Sep 2026 | AI Policy | 52 | discussion |
| 3 Sep 2026 | OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts | 40 | discussion |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Superpowers, Not Superintelligence | 35 | discussion |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Stanford violated AI policy after race-swapping students in ad | 33 | discussion |
| 17 Sep 2026 | OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents | 33 | discussion |
Share of online news coverage
GDELT rate-limited this build, so there is no news-volume series today. The next daily build retries.
Federal Register documents per week
From the US AI Policy Tracker build of 2026-09-24 17:23 UTC. Week starts Monday.
- Swellmeter: Google Trends API: rising/falling verdicts, related and breakout searches, daily trend alerts for any term.
- Keyfern: What people type around a topic: autocomplete ideas from Google, YouTube, Bing and Amazon.
- Inkpluck: Article links or RSS feeds to clean text, Markdown and metadata (free demo; Apify launch queued).
- US AI Policy Tracker and its free dataset.