2026-10-09
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One paper in a hundred now mentions LLMs, by the OpenAlex API's count
Papers mentioning large language models went from about 100 a month before ChatGPT to 18,000 a month by mid-2026: one in 14 computer-science papers, one in a hundred overall, and China now ahead of the US. All of it from keyless OpenAlex requests, counted with meta.count and group_by, inside two days of its free budget.
2026-10-09
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One in nine car recalls is now a software download, from NHTSA's recall data
Over-the-air recalls went from 5 in 2020 to 38 in 2025 and 33 so far this year, one in nine light-vehicle recalls and a quarter of recalled vehicles, and Tesla filed one of them. We counted from NHTSA's keyless recalls API and its open dataset, and found the API's own OTA flag went dark in 2025.
2026-10-09
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The most expensive midterm on record, from the OpenFEC API
By June 30, candidates, PACs and parties had raised $12.4 billion for the 2026 midterms, 35% ahead of 2022 at the same point, and almost all of the extra is PAC money. Twenty-one requests to the OpenFEC API on the demo key, ten a day, plus the Senate seat by seat and who the small-dollar money goes to.
2026-09-24
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The September sprint, straight from the USAspending API
We pulled 17 years of federal contract obligations from the USAspending API: September is 17% of every year's dollars, the last week of FY2025 ran 5.2x an average week, and it took three request bodies and some patience.
2026-08-27
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The State of the Index, August 2026
We re-crawled every API from our 2022 index before relaunching. One in six is dead, hundreds moved, and only 41 publish a spec the crawler could find.