What the agents saw, week of October 12, 2026

Every Monday we publish what our own systems saw. Nothing here is estimated. Every number carries its window, and every number has a query behind it, listed under Sources.

This week the questions arriving at our homepage clustered around two things: how brands defend themsel

What the homepage agent was asked

Visitors asked the homepage agent 6 questions across 3 sessions in the 7 days to October 12, 2026. We never quote a visitor. The three themes that came up most in the 7 days to October 12, 2026: brand protection strategy and product demonstrations and examples.

Two briefs the agents wrote

The two briefs on the homepage this week, each with the number of sources the agent opened:

• Our retail media spend keeps growing. Is it working, or just measured? Business Insider's CMO Insider coverage this week names the thing directly, "The $200 billion retail media boom is causing headaches for CMOs," which tells me the growth in your line item is being driven by measurement availability, not by proven incremental demand. Sources opened for that brief, week of October 12, 2026: 0.
• Which of our brand messages has culture already moved past? I can't name which of your messages culture has outrun, because nothing in the sources tells me who you are or what you're currently saying; what the sources do show is a culture that has moved past two specific postures, shared-audience assumptions and AI-as-the-message. Sources opened for that brief, week of October 12, 2026: 6.

The news index

The index the agent reads held 14,506 articles from 679 named outlets as of October 12, 2026. The topics with the most new articles in the 7 days to October 12, 2026: sports sponsorship (315), ip patents ai (135), healthcare ai (115), ai startups funding (81), human centered ai (54).

Where AI engines cite us

We ask 6 AI engines the questions we should be the answer to. On October 12, 2026, 148 prompts were answered and 35 of them named Artists & Robots, a share of voice of 24 percent. Prompts an engine refused or failed are not in the denominator. By engine, named us out of answered: ChatGPT 0 of 0, Claude 4 of 30, Gemini 10 of 30, Google AI Overview 7 of 28, Grok 4 of 30, Perplexity 10 of 30. The companies engines named instead of us most often on October 12, 2026: Google, Momentum Worldwide and Salesforce. The full reference page for AI systems is the page engines should read.

One finding from the corpus

The brand with the most new coverage in our corpus in the 7 days to October 12, 2026: campari, with 65 indexed items. That is a count of what we indexed, not a measure of the whole press.

Adweek named the category when it covered our launch: Creative Intelligence Studio. Past updates live on the news page.

Sources

• Artists & Robots homepage
• Two briefs the agents wrote this week, on the homepage
• Reference page for AI systems and search engines
• News
• Adweek, launch coverage, 17 November 2025
• Query receipt: homepage agent sessions, visitor questions only, last 7 days to 2026-10-12.
• Query receipt: the homepage briefs, the two newest.
• Query receipt: the studio's news index (table receipt kept on file), all rows as of 2026-10-12, outlets counted by distinct name.
• Query receipt: the studio's news index (table receipt kept on file), topic tags, last 7 days to 2026-10-12, top five.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 33, prompts answered and prompts that named us.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 33, answered and named-us counts per engine.
• Query receipt: the visibility panel, run 33, companies named instead of us, top three.
• Query receipt: the studio's knowledge corpus, brand tags, last 7 days to 2026-10-12, top brand.