22.4%
Aug 9, 2026 (latest)
FIRMS USING AI (ANY FUNCTION)
percent of U.S. businesses, prior two weeks · 2026–2026 · neither direction is "better" · Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (National file)
17.3%
Nov 16, 2025
22.4%
high · Aug 9, 2026
17.2%
low · Nov 30, 2025
+5.1 pts
since Nov 16, 2025
┊ on the biweekly chart the dashed line marks ChatGPT released (Nov 30, 2022)
Method & caveats. Share of businesses answering yes to "In the last two weeks, did this business use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any of its business functions?" — the BTOS question as reworded from cycle 202524 (collection from November 17, 2025). Census: "Due to a level shift observed in conjunction with the new question wording, the decision was made to create a new time series for the AI questions, beginning with data released on December 4, 2025." Cycles 202521–202523 (October to mid-November 2025) have no estimates; the workbook labels them SHUTDOWN. Dated by the end of each reference period. Annual figure is the average of the year's cycles.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://www.census.gov/hfp/btos/data
- https://www.census.gov/hfp/btos/downloads/National.xlsx
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Employment-And-Jobs
Biweekly data
The publisher's own cadence, every period. The annual table below is derived from these values (annual average); the annual figures are what the almanac pages and the machine-readable exports carry.
| Period | Firms Using AI (Any Function) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2026 | 22.4% | +0.6 pts |
| Jul 26, 2026 | 21.8% | +0.3 pts |
| Jul 12, 2026 | 21.5% | −0.2 pts |
| Jun 28, 2026 | 21.7% | +1.1 pts |
| Jun 14, 2026 | 20.6% | +0.0 pts |
| May 31, 2026 | 20.6% | +0.0 pts |
| May 17, 2026 | 20.6% | +1.1 pts |
| May 3, 2026 | 19.5% | −0.3 pts |
| Apr 19, 2026 | 19.8% | +0.0 pts |
| Apr 5, 2026 | 19.8% | +0.7 pts |
| Mar 22, 2026 | 19.1% | +0.2 pts |
| Mar 8, 2026 | 18.9% | +0.7 pts |
| Feb 22, 2026 | 18.2% | +0.7 pts |
| Feb 8, 2026 | 17.5% | −1.4 pts |
| Jan 25, 2026 | 18.9% | +0.7 pts |
| Jan 11, 2026 | 18.2% | +0.5 pts |
| Dec 28, 2025 | 17.7% | −0.1 pts |
| Dec 14, 2025 | 17.8% | +0.6 pts |
| Nov 30, 2025 | 17.2% | −0.1 pts |
| Nov 16, 2025 | 17.3% | — |
Annual data
| Year | Firms Using AI (Any Function) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19.9% | — |
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