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.

What these charts can and can't tell you: they measure attention, not opinion or impact. Search values are relative (0–100), not counts. We never fill in a missing source.

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.

super intelligenceAI regulationAI executive orderAI policyAI bill
025507510024 Jun9 Jul24 Jul8 Aug23 Aug7 Sep24 Sepsuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligenceAI regulationAI executive orderAI executive orderAI executive orderAI executive orderAI policyAI bill

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.

artificial intelligencesuper intelligenceAI regulationAI executive orderAI policy
025507510024 Jun9 Jul24 Jul8 Aug23 Aug7 Sep24 Separtificial intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligencesuper intelligenceAI regulationAI executive orderAI executive orderAI executive orderAI executive orderAI policy

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.

superintelligence (42 stories)super intelligence (9 stories)AI regulation (23 stories)AI executive order (1 stories)AI policy (38 stories)AI safety (102 stories)
02.254.56.75926 Jun11 Jul26 Jul10 Aug25 Aug9 Sep24 Sepsuperintelligence (42 stories)super intelligence (9 stories)AI regulation (23 stories)AI executive order (1 stories)AI policy (38 stories)AI safety (102 stories)

Most-upvoted stories in these 90 days

DateStoryPoints
30 Jul 2026GCC steering committee announces AI policy357discussion
17 Sep 2026AI safety is mostly a sex cult329discussion
29 Jun 2026Tidal AI Policy308discussion
17 Aug 2026On AI regulation and messaging250discussion
19 Sep 2026AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult75discussion
3 Sep 2026Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI62discussion
9 Sep 2026I Don't Want to Interact with Stochastic Parrots58discussion
2 Sep 2026AI Policy52discussion
3 Sep 2026OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts40discussion
18 Aug 2026Superpowers, Not Superintelligence35discussion
23 Sep 2026Stanford violated AI policy after race-swapping students in ad33discussion
17 Sep 2026OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents33discussion

Share of online news coverage

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Federal Register documents per week

From the US AI Policy Tracker build of 2026-09-24 17:23 UTC. Week starts Monday.

all documents mentioning AImainly about AI
03.256.59.751322 Jun6 Jul20 Jul3 Aug17 Aug31 Aug21 Sepall documents mentioning AImainly about AI
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