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One fund's AI spend rises a hundredfold in five months and keeps doubling

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One fund now spends a hundred times more on AI than in March and is still doubling monthly, compute inequality in action, while the heaviest users are not coders — Codex use since February grew 108-fold in legal, 41-fold in sales and 24-fold in healthcare.

Reported metric: 100x since March / 108x in legal

Reporting date: 2026-08-25 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 25, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to August 25, 2026

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OpenAI

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The median firm spends $12 per employee on AI while the top 1% spend $7,500

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Welcome to August 25, 2026

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One fund's AI spend rises a hundredfold in five months and keeps doubling
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Reporting date: 2026-08-25
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-25-compute-inequality-in-action
Claim: One fund now spends a hundred times more on AI than in March and is still doubling monthly, compute inequality in action, while the heaviest users are not coders — Codex use since February grew 108-fold in legal, 41-fold in sales and 24-fold in healthcare.
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- Welcome to August 25, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-25-2026
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